Samuel Merrill has received funding for a micro-project called Artificial Intelligence and Social Memory: Critical Explorations of AI’s Implications for Societal Remembrance from Umeå University’s Centre for Transdisciplinary AI (TAIGA).
DIGSUM is happy to present a new issue of The Journal of Digital Social Research, our open access journal. Blockchain Scenes is a special issue, edited by guest editors Nathalie Casemajor and William Straw.
Samuel Merrill will receive NordForsk funding for a three-year project involving researchers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland called: PastForward: The political uses of the past in digital discourses about Nordic futures.
Mathilda Åkerlund has recently published an article titled The Sweden paradox: US- far-right fantasies of a dystopian utopia. In this article she analyzes how Sweden has come to be imagined and represented on the websites of US far right organisations.
DIGSUM's Digital Sociology group is looking for a new PhD candidate. The position is fully funded and salaried for four years. The research will be in the area of public opinion dynamics, broadly defined. This includes the study of disinformation and misinformation, and also related phenomena such as conspiracy theories, propaganda, hate speech, and so on. A particular focus for the research is how these forms may occur under societal threats.
On Friday April 21, Martin Berg, Malmö University, will be giving a talk at DIGSUM’s home department, the department of Sociology. Martin is going to talk about “Duct-tape solutionism in public automation: Repairing for emergent futures (that might not come)”.
On Wednesday 26th of April, Kalle Grill, Umeå University, invites to a workshop on AI and human autonomy - Philosophical perspectives
On the 11th of May, Humlab and the Department of Media and Communication studies, will host a talk on How serious and silly comments interactively construct nationalism on Reddit by Tommy Bruhn, University of Copenhagen & Joanna Doona, Lund University
On the 25th of May, Olle Häggström, professor of Mathematical Statistics at Chalmers University of Technology, will visit Umeå University, to give a lecture on large language models, such as ChatGPT, AI risk, and AI alignment.
DIGSUM’s research group in Digital Sociology has recently appointed two new PhD students, Agnes Liminga and Moa Broqvist.
Applications are open for a PhD position within the areas of misinformation and conspiracy ideologies, the commercialisation of the public information infrastructure, the entry of AI technologies into more and more areas, and the increasing distrust of traditionally trusted institutions.
Last year Linköping University’s Institute for Analytical Sociology together with a consortium of partner centres and departments — including DIGSUM — secured funding for an interdisciplinary graduate school in computational social science. The Swedish Interdisciplinary Research School in Computational Social Science is now open and accepting applications for the first cohort of students.
The TAIGA focus area on critical, ethical, legal, and social perspectives on AI (CELS-AI) and Humlab invites any researchers with an interest in the societal implications of AI to a networking event.
On Thursday 16 February, Jenny Sundén, professor of Gender Studies at Södertörns Högskola and Susanna Paasonen, professor of Media studies at Turku University will present their book "Who’s laughing now? Feminist tactics in social media" at Humlab
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.