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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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 […]