Ned Richardson-Little, Samuel Merrill, and Leah Arlaud has recently published an article about how the German radical-right populist party the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland) and its politicians have engaged with the public memory of the East German past via Twitter.
DIGSUM will be part of an international and interdisciplinary graduate school in computational social science.
A new DIGSUM research project, on Digital Disinformation, has been approved funding.
Both our centre and our journal, JDSR, now have new homes on Mastodon.
DIGSUM invites you to a workshop with a focus on ethical review of digital research. An invited panel will discuss experiences and dilemmas, as well as good research practices relating to legal and ethical perspectives.
On Friday 2 December, Reuben Binns, Associate Professor of Human Centred Computing, Department of Computing Science, the University of Oxford, will give a talk at Centre for Transdisciplinary AI with the title AI and the Human in the Loophole
The Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR) is currently looking for papers for a special issue on Methodological Developments in Visual Politics and Protest
Lisa Lindqvist has recently published an article with Simon Lindgren examining Twitter discourses on #Metoo, and the network of related industry-specific hashtags that emerged following #Metoo.
DIGSUM researcher Sam Merrill has recently published an article with Nigel Copsey about digital connectivity between USA and UK Antifa groups on Twitter, and the character of the mediated solidarity conveyed by this connectivity.
DIGSUM's Digital Sociology group is looking for a new PhD candidate. The position is fully funded and salaried for four years. Come work with us! More info here.
DIGSUM affiliate Markus Naarttijärvi is a new Professor of Law at Umeå University. Markus is working in the HYDE and Cyborg Politics projects, and is also a founding senior editor of DIGSUM’s Journal of Digital Social Research.
Last week, DIGSUM members participated in a roundtable on The Critical Need for Critical AI Research
Moa Eriksson Krutrök and Mathilda Åkerlund have published new work on digital representations of black victimhood in relation to the Black Lives Matter movement on TikTok.
On Thursday October 13th DIGSUM director, Professor Simon Lindgren, will chair a roundtable on AI in politics at the WASP-HS Community Reference Meeting.
DIGSUM is happy to present the latest issue of The Journal of Digital Social Research, our open access journal. This issue on Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment in Digital Spheres has been curated by guest editors Sara De Vuyst, Evelien Geerts, Ladan Rahbari.
On Thursday the 13th of October Humlab hosts a talk on Imagining communities with ’intelligent’ machines by Associate Professor Katja Valaskivi.
We invite you to the season finale of the #frAIday seminar series, which consists of a panel discussion.
DIGSUM is happy to present a new issue of The Journal of Digital Social Research, our open access journal.
The DIGSUM team wants to extend their warm congratulations to Therese Enarsson, Associate Professor of Law and Chair of DIGSUM’s steering group, who was recently awarded the prestigious Pedagogical Prize by the Umeå University Student Union. Congratulations!
In acute crisis situations, social media can play a crucial role in rapidly disseminating vital information. But there is also a risk that false or outdated facts are spread, causing unwarranted fear or panic. In a new study, DIGSUM members Moa Eriksson Krutrök, Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies, and Simon Lindgren, Professor of Sociology, both at Umeå University, investigated how information about a suspected terrorist attack on the London Underground in 2017 was spread via Twitter.