Our Events
DISC hosts many exciting events, including conferences and research festivals, seminar series, guest talks, workshops, and an annual Digital Politics Summer School. Please see below the details of our upcoming and past events.
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Latest Past Events
Workshop by Dr Katie MacKinnon on Early Internet Memories
Have you ever wondered what happens to your data when a platform dies? Have you ever tried to find an old account? Have you ever deleted your website and regretted it? In this workshop, participants will go on an archive promenade to search for their own forgotten or abandoned websites from the past 30 years in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, […]
Talk from Dr Katie MacKinnon on Arctic Archives: Temporal politics of platform power
Over the past couple years several deep time data archival projects have emerged, and with them the politics of data loss in deep time archival processes reveal how platform centralization and control reshape the future of data preservation. The Arctic World Archive is a facility located in an abandoned coal mine Svalbard, Norway. It stores […]
Workshop from Dr Nataliia Laba on Beyond the algorithm: Creative agency in the age of AI
Can generative AI be creative, or is it merely a copy machine that recycles stolen data it has been trained on? Adopting a usage-oriented perspective, this workshop invites a critical reflection on the disruptive impact of visual generative media on creative industries and professional practices. It does so by foregrounding the question of human-AI agency […]