A new book written by DIGSUM researchers Moa Eriksson Krutrök and Simon Lindgren, titled "Researching Digital Media and Society" was published last week. The book is the result of several years of research, workshops, and PhD courses at our centre, aimed at developing social science research methods for the study of digital media and its societal implications.
The Department of Psychology announces a two-year postdoctoral position for research on interaction between humans and AI, with inspiration from interpersonal psychology, neuroscience, education and robotics.
The Centre for Transdisciplinary AI (TAIGA) at Umeå University, together with the UmArts Research Centre, the Department of Law and Umeå School of Architecture is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence and Spatial Analysis in the Arctic context.
On the 9th of February, TAIGA – Centre for Transdisciplinary AI invites you to a talk on “AI and the written word” held by Thomas Hellström, Umeå University. The talk is a part of TAIGA’s seminar series #frAIday on different perspectives of AI.
Samuel Merrill has received 5,968M SEK in funding for a three-year project called “#NeverForget vs. #NeverHappened: Holocaust Commemoration and Contestation on Social Media”.
On the 1-2nd of February, and with a pre-event on the 31st of January, Humlab and the TAIGA focus area on Critical, Ethical, Legal and Social AI (CELS-AI) will host a trans-disciplinary dialogue about queer perspectives on development and implementations of AI, and what possibilities, constraints and risk, that likely, and possible, AI futures may entail.
On the 1st of December, Tina Askanius and Jullietta Stoencheva from Malmö University will be giving a talk on “The Alternative Influence Network (AIN) of far-right YouTubers in Sweden”.
On the 5th of December, the TAIGA focus area on Critical, Ethical, Legal and Social AI (CELS-AI) and the Department of Law will host a research seminar on the proposal to give the Swedish Security Service a wider mandate to use AI in processing data, including open data from the web, social media etcetera to discover threats.
The book Critical Theory of AI by Sociology professor and DIGSUM director Simon Lindgren is out now. Approaching artificial intelligence from the often overlooked perspective of critical social theory, the book provides a much-needed intervention on how both old and new theories conceptualize the social consequences of AI.
On the 21th of November, Humlab will host a talk on “Studying platforms when platforms restrict access: Methods for critical digital media studies” by Tim Highfield, University of Sheffield.
On the 24th of November, the TAIGA focus area on Education and AI invites you to a talk on “AI literacy – what and for whom?” held by Linda Mannila, University of Helsinki and Linköping University. The talk is a part of TAIGA’s seminar series #frAIday on different perspectives of AI.
On the 10th of November, Astri Moksnes Barbala, Doctor in Sociology and research scientist at SINTEF, will be giving a talk on “Willful subjects in the platform society: Feminist activism and user agency on Instagram”.
Mathilda Åkerlund has received funding for the project “Men who hate women online: A study of the internet as a new arena for the mobilisation of organised gender-based hate”, in which organized forms of misogyny that are expressed in Swedish internet environments will be analyzed. The project will specifically focus on so-called incels.
Umeå University Department of Law and Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University Faculty of Economics and Law in association with the Centre for Transdisciplinary AI (TAIGA) at Umeå University invite you to an online seminar on “AI Generated Works – Emerging Models for Regulating Intellectual Property Rights”.
DIGSUM’s research group in Digital Sociology has recently appointed Felicia Lundstedt as a new PhD student.
On the 17th of November, DIGSUM-member Josef Siljebo at the Department of Education will be defending his doctoral thesis “Leading learning through digitalization in Swedish schools – beyond school leaders?”
The TAIGA focus area on Critical, Ethical, Legal, and Social perspectives on AI (CELS-AI) invites any researchers with an interest in the societal implications of AI to a networking event where you can find common research interests, collaborations, or simply reach out with what you are currently working on.
Welcome to partake in the upcoming conference Advancing Research Communication hosted by Humlab on the 11-13th of December.
On the 22th of September, DIGSUM researcher Markus Naarttijärvi will be giving a talk on ”TAIGA and CELS-AI – Making sense of the word-soup that helps you do AI research as a social scientist”.
On the 19th of September, Anne Kaun, professor at Södertörn University and external member of DIGSUM’s research project Programmable Politics, will be giving a talk at Humlab, titled “On Prisons, Welfare Service Centers, and Public Libraries: Interfaces and Backends of the Digital Welfare State”.