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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Established in 2021, the Digital Politics Online Summer School offers an opportunity for postgraduate students at Manchester Met to meet with other students and early career researchers and to take part in masterclasses led by world class scholars in the field of digital politics, society and media. Over the years, the school has supported networking, nurtured pioneering ideas, and mentored our students through all stages of academic publication from inception, through peer review and to the final publication. Our first Summer School led to a publication of Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures – a collection of chapters, creative reflections and methodological interventions authored by our students. The School is free, and open to all.
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Digital Citizenship and it’s Limits
We are delighted to announce our Postgraduate Winter School in Digital Politics, taking place online on 14-18 February 2022 This Winter School makes a series of critical interventions into the field of digital citizenship, in both so-called democratic and so-called authoritarian states. The School will focus particularly on how the interactions between individuals or communities […]
Digital Society @ Manchester MET 2022
A biennial series of events exploring the impact of an increasingly digital society on play, research methods, politics, arts and the environment. About these events These events celebrate the exceptional and diverse research expertise in digital social science and arts at Manchester Met. Each reflects a key aspect of digital research in the University’s Arts […]
Digital technologies and the environment
What are the environmental impacts of and conditions for digital technologies or digitization practices more generally? What constitutes the relation between digital technologies and the environment? Whether and how is the relation maintained, disrupted, repaired and reconfigured? What are its temporalities? What are the ethical and political implications of reconsidering the relation between digital technologies […]
Can we ‘reduce, reuse, refuse’.. the digital?
Our third online Digital Politics Summer School is here! The school will consist of keynotes and workshops, and will offer participants a possibility to join a follow-up publication. Attendance is free but places are limited - please click here to register. Digital technologies can inflict substantial human and environmental harms: from extractivist economies of mining to toxic […]
Digital Harms
Our Summer School opens its online doors for the first year running! This year, we are focusing on theorising and challenging digital harms. The School will consist of a roundtable discussion and two interactive workshops. Attendance is free but registration is required: please check the links below and register separately for each session you wish […]
Digital Harms: Theoretical Perspectives, Lived Experiences
Grosvenor East Building, Manchester Metropolitan University ManchesterOrganised by Jessica Elias and Adi Kuntsman, supported by the Digital Society Research Group. Roundtable will be streamed. The Digital Society Research Group invites you to an event exploring the wide-ranging harms of digitalisation and technologisation, from the environment to the individual. The event includes a roundtable discussion with our guest speakers, a networking and […]