DIGSUM’s research group in digital sociology has recently appointed Kalle Eriksson, who has a background as a doctorate student and board member of DIGSUM, as a new postdoctoral fellow. Kalle holds a doctorate in political science and has written the doctoral thesis “Politicising Automation: Ideas on Work, Technology, and Agency in the Swedish Political Debate”.
The DIGSUM board wants to thank everyone who contributed to our recent symposium, Researching the Digital: Methods, Mess, Myths, Madness, held on 11-12 September 2024.
TAIGA – Centre for Transdisciplinary AI at Umeå University, in collaboration with Bildmuseet and UmArts – Research Centre for Architecture, Design and the Arts at Umeå University, invites everyone interested to a 2-day symposium on 17-18 October 2024 to examine and discuss the role AI plays in both generating new wicked problems to solve, contributing to the wickedness of already existing problems, but also the way AI can contribute to our better understanding of the wicked problems we face and the pathways towards their mitigation.
DIGSUM researcher Moa Eriksson Krutrök has recently published an article with Tom Divon about “Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War”.
The DIGSUM Centre for Digital Research at Umeå University, in collaboration with the Swedish Research Council (VR), invites everyone interested to a 2-day symposium on 11-12 September 2024 to discuss, apply and critique methods for analyzing societal entanglements and consequences of digital technology.
The Department of Sociology at Umeå University is looking for a postdoctoral fellow. The employee will be part of the project "#NeverForget vs. #NeverHappened: Holocaust Commemoration and Contestation on Social Media". The employment is for 2 years and starts on October 1st 2024 or by agreement.
On the 22nd of May, the Data Methods Initiative is hosting a seminar where DIGSUM-researcher Mathilda Åkerlund, Umeå University, will talk about “Methodological flexibility in the context of far-right research: The case of Sweden as ‘the rape capital of the world’”.
On the 4th of June, DIGSUM-member Kalle Eriksson at the Department of Political Science will be defending his doctoral thesis “Politicising Automation: Ideas on Work, Technology, and Agency in the Swedish Political Debate”.
The DIGSUM Centre for Digital Research at Umeå University invites everyone interested to a 2-day symposium to discuss, apply and critique methods for analysing societal entanglements and consequences of digital technology.
On the 24th of May, Humlab and TAIGA – Centre of Transdisciplinary AI are hosting a panel discussion on “The stories we tall (and are told) about AI”.
The Department of Sociology at Umeå University is looking for a postdoctoral fellow. The employee will be part of the NordForsk financed project "PastForward: The political uses of the past in digital discourses about Nordic futures".
DIGSUM-director Simon Lindgren in collaboration with Petter Ericson, Umeå University, and Roel Dobbe, Technische Universiteit Delft, are announcing the publication of their latest research article, "Tracing Class and Capitalism in Critical AI Research".
On the 29th of May, DIGSUM and the Department of Culture and Media Studies are hosting a seminar where André Jansson, Karlstad University, will talk about “Searching for the selfie spot: On geomedia and logistical lives”.
We have an open position for a postdoc to come work with us at Umeå University to study how disinformation and misinformation are created and spread through digital platforms, and how they may affect public opinion and democratic processes.
On the 22nd of March, DIGSUM’s guest PhD student Pasko Kisic Merino, Karlstad University, will be giving a seminar on Anxiety as Ideology: Longtermism, Pro-Natalism, and the Normalisation of the Far-Right’s “Great Replacement” in the Mythos of Silicon Valley as part of the seminar series at the Department of Sociology.
On the 12th of April, the research group Learning and ICT, Umeå University, together with the research group Procesos, espacios y prácticas educativas, University of Salamanca, will host an online symposium titled Rethinking educational spaces. Future Classroom, metaverse and AI.
DIGSUM partner The School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex is looking for a fellow researcher in data visualization and digital heritage.
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.