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SUMMARY:Public Talk on Games with Dr. Florence M. Chee
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the sandboxes and magic circles: Conversations on the pleasure and pain of what it means to engage in the study of games \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Prof. Dr. Florence Chee will provide an overview to essential debates in games/gaming as they intersect with ethics\, law\, and policy–along with what it means to research games through academia\, industry and government in today’s global regulatory landscape. Through her studies on game culture\, to ethics and data\, to AI and governance\, she tells a story of navigating an industry as it struggles to define itself locally and globally while those in it advance the narrative of pleasure and play across domains. Looking ahead\, she asks the audience to consider the ways constituencies may reclaim what it means to truly play meaningfully and ways to resist “getting played.” \n\n\n\nFlorence M. Chee is Associate Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Communication\, Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Computer Science\, and Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy (CDEP) at Loyola University Chicago. Internationally and nationally sought out as a speaker\, writer\, and advisor\, her sociotechnical interventions inform and influence decisions made in design\, development\, and policy arenas. This year\, she has been named to the Fulbright Specialist Roster for 2025-2028 and has recently focused on the US and Swiss game industries while serving on grant funded work in Switzerland. Florence Chee is founding director of the Social & Interactive Media Lab (SIMLab) based in Chicago\, USA. \n\n\n\nLoyola University Chicago Faculty website – https://www.luc.edu/soc/about/facultystaff/profiles/cheeflorence.shtml \n\n\n\nCenter for Digital Ethics & Policy – https://www.luc.edu/digitalethics \n\n\n\nThe Social & Interactive Media Lab (SIMLab) – https://simlabchicago.com/
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/public-talk-on-games-with-dr-florence-m-chee/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Influencer Creep by Sophie Bishop
DESCRIPTION:Dr Sophie Bishop\, in conversation with Scottee\, will discuss her forthcoming book Influencer Creep \n\n\n\nJoin the Digital Society Research Group (DISC)\, the School of Sociology and Criminology and the School of History\, Politics and Philosophy to celebrate the launch Sophie Bishop’s book ‘Influencer Creep: How Optimization\, Authenticity and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture’ (University of California Press. The book draws from in-depth ethnography and interviews with influencers and professional artists. Bishop argues that looking to the shifts within influencer culture can help us understand contemporary changes to labour conditions\, compensation and representation within creative industries. Taking seriously the motivations that drive more and more people into the contest for online visibility\, Influencer Creep documents a creative workforce nervously conforming to the monopoly power of social media platforms—and occasionally resisting it. Early praise for the book includes “those in the art world will find plenty to chew on” (Publishers Weekly) and “both a page turner and thorough academic study” (Professor Thomas Poell\, UVA). \n\n\n\nSophie Bishop is an expert in influencer culture and an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds in Media and Communications who has been researching the social and cultural implications of the influencer industry for a decade. Sophie\, has advised policy makers in UK Parliament and the European Union on influencer culture and has written for academic journals New Media & Society\,Social Media + Society and Media\, Culture & Society and has been interviewed in Paper\, Real Life\, Financial Times\, BBC and The Atlantic. Sophie lives in Manchester\, England with her husband\, daughter\, and two cats. Influencer Creep is her first book. \n\n\n\nLocation: Grosvenor East Building\, Room 3.01\, Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrder your copy
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/book-launch-influencer-creep-by-sophie-bishop/
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SUMMARY:Masterclass on AI Ethics with Dr. Florence M. Chee
DESCRIPTION:AI Ethics in Play: A Masterclass exploring ethical dilemmas\, policies\, and governance through the lens of games and everyday life \n\n\n\nIn this Masterclass on AI Ethics\, we will take an inquiry stance through the lens of games to examine how ethical dilemmas\, policies\, and governance solutions have taken effect both at individual and institutional levels. The issues in AI Ethics that require the most urgent action implicate systems and regulations that are already in place and affect us in everyday life. We will discuss ways that attendees may apply the insights derived from this session towards fostering more ethical engagement in their respective contexts of work\, rest\, and play. \n\n\n\nFlorence M. Chee is Associate Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Communication\, Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Computer Science\, and Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy (CDEP) at Loyola University Chicago. Internationally and nationally sought out as a speaker\, writer\, and advisor\, her sociotechnical interventions inform and influence decisions made in design\, development\, and policy arenas. This year\, she has been named to the Fulbright Specialist Roster for 2025-2028 and has recently focused on the US and Swiss game industries while serving on grant funded work in Switzerland. Florence Chee is founding director of the Social & Interactive Media Lab (SIMLab) based in Chicago\, USA.Loyola University Chicago Faculty website – https://www.luc.edu/soc/about/facultystaff/profiles/cheeflorence.shtml Center for Digital Ethics & Policy – https://www.luc.edu/digitalethics/The Social & Interactive Media Lab (SIMLab) – https://simlabchicago.com/
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/masterclass-on-ai-ethics-with-dr-florence-m-chee/
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SUMMARY:CDAC Seminar: Reimagining the World from Above: The Semiotics of Drone Visuals (Dr Elisa Serafinelli)
DESCRIPTION:Reimagining the World from Above: The Semiotics of Drone Visuals\n\n\n\nDr Elisa Serafinelli (Manchester Metropolitan University) \n\n\n\nThis presentation examines the transformative role of drones as emerging visual technologies that reconfigure our perception\, representation\, and understanding of the world. Drones extend human vision by capturing perspectives that were previously inaccessible\, offering novel ways of seeing that defamiliarise the familiar and reveal overlooked dimensions of landscapes\, infrastructures\, and social spaces. Drawing on research conducted through the AHRC Leadership Fellowship project Drones in Visual Culture: Developing a New Theory of Visual Mobile Communication\, this work advances a critical framework for theorising drone visuals\, interrogating the semiotics of aerial perspectives. Through analysis of users’ and developers’ perspectives\, as well as visual case studies\, this presentation explores how drone imagery generates new visual cultures and practices. It also reflects on the broader implications of drones for visual culture\, emphasising their potential to disrupt existing visual regimes\, and outlines future directions for scholarship on the social\, cultural\, and ethical life of drone visuals. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker: \n\n\n\nElisa Serafinelli is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University. She received her PhD in 2015 from the University of Hull (United Kingdom) in Media\, Communication and Society with a research project titled Digital Life on Instagram: Social Communication of Photography\, which was published by Emerald in 2018. She is the author\, most recently\, of Theorising Drones in Visual Culture: Views from the Blue (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2024) and the editor of Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetics (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2024).This seminar talk is hosted by the Centre for Drones and Culture (CDAC)\, University of Cambridge\, and sponsored by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/cdac-seminar-reimagining-the-world-from-above-the-semiotics-of-drone-visuals-dr-elisa-serafinelli/
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SUMMARY:Between the Winds\, Amongst the Roots: Bio-Sensing the City
DESCRIPTION:Between the Winds\, Amongst the Roots: Bio-Sensing the City’ features two video works by Gregory Herbert and Shelly Knotts\, which explore what we can learn about cities from natural data. The exhibition articulates alternative propositions for the ‘smart’ city\, which emphasise the interconnectivity between humans and the environment and foster a more balanced relation between natural and technological ways of knowing.Artists: Gregory Herbert\, Shelly Knotts. \n\n\n\nCurator: Polina Chizhova-WrightExhibition times: 10:00–12:00\, 13:00-16:00; 18:00-22:00 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCredit to Gregory Herbert.
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/between-the-winds-amongst-the-roots-bio-sensing-the-city/
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SUMMARY:Apple Intelligence and Oral History Transcripts: Digitization\, Ethics & AI
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the relations between digitisation\, Apple OS and questions of research ethics \n\n\n\nPlease join us at this seminar\, which explores the relations between digitisation\, smartphone operating system\, AI\, and questions of research ethics\, delivered by Dr Alison Slater\, and organised jointly by DISC (Digital Society Research Group) and our “AI Literacies” programme; the Faculty of Arts and Humanities Ethics Team; and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities Doctoral Training Programme. \n\n\n\nPlease note that this event page is for joining the talk remotely. If you wish to attend the event in person\, please join us at Geoffrey Manton Building\, room 225.
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/apple-intelligence-and-oral-history-transcripts-digitization-ethics-ai/
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SUMMARY:Young people and teachers use of generative AI to support literacy
DESCRIPTION:The event celebrates the new report by the National Literacy Trust on the use of AI to support literacy \n\n\n\nPlease join DISC and our AI Literacies working group\, in conversation with Irene Picton from the National Literacy Trust\, to celebrate NLT’s new report\, Young people and teachers’ use of generative AI to support literacy in 2025 \n\n\n\nIrene’s presentation will share findings based on data from young people (13–18) taking part in the National Literacy Trust’s 2025 Annual Literacy Survey\, focusing on 32\,757 who used generative AI\, with insights complemented by a survey of 2\,908 UK teachers. The findings demonstrate growing concerns around how generative AI is affecting how literacy skills are valued and enacted\, with AI tools bringing issues around academic integrity\, critical thinking and intrinsic motivation to learn to the fore. We highlight the need to balance AI’s potential with the enduring value of strong literacy skills. \n\n\n\nIrene Picton will be joined by members of the AI Literacies Group from Manchester Met Digital Societies Research Group (DISC)\, to disuss the report. \n\n\n\nIrene Picton is a Senior Research Manager at the National Literacy Trust . Her research focuses on children and young people’s experiences of literacy in a digital world\, exploring reading for pleasure alongside critical\, digital and media literacy\, and she sits on the Ofcom Research\, Evidence and Evaluation working group. \n\n\n\nAI Literacies working group is a sub-gorup of DISC\, bringing together researchers from across Social Sciences\, Humanities and teh Arts\, to address the urgent need to understand and theorise our engagement with AI in all spheres of social\, cultural and political life. “AI literacy” (or even “literacies”) extends far beyond the technical understanding of how artificial intelligence and associated technologies work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch recording
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/young-people-and-teachers-use-of-generative-ai-to-support-literacy/
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SUMMARY:Visual AI politics/politics of visual AI: a roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Location: online \n\n\n\nThis roundtable brings together experts on digital media\, visual cultures and politics\, misinformation\, political violence\, and generative AI. Curated by Adi Kuntsman and Jessica Elias\, the panel will explore the role of generative AI in contemporary politics through a range of theoretical and disciplinary lenses.  \n\n\n\nPanellists’ info \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf Miriyam Aouragh\, Professor of Digital Anthropology\, CAMRI\, University of Westminster https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/aouragh-miriyam \n\n\n\nBio: Miriyam Aouragh studies the political role of new digital tools and spaces and the way colonial and imperial histories shape present computational infrastructures. She writes about these matters (Palestine Online (IB Tauris 2011); (with Hamza Hamouchene) The Arab Spring a decade on (TNI 2022); Mediating the Makhzan (r)evolutionary dynamics in Morocco (CUP) and (with Paula Chakravartty) Infrastructures of Empire (forthcoming) and organises community projects with  The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf Roger Canals \, Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona www.rogercanals.net  www.visualtrust.ub.edu \n\n\n\nBio: Roger Canals is a Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona (UB). He is currently the PI of the ERC-Consolidator project ‘Visual Trust. Reliability\, accountability\, and forgery in scientific\, religious and social images’ (2021-2026). Specialist in Visual Anthropology\, he is the author of many articles as well as of the books including A Goddess in Motion (2017) and The Image that Never Ends. A Journey through Visual Anthropology (forthcoming). As a filmmaker\, he has made several internationally awarded films like “A Goddess in Motion” (2016) and “Chasing Shadows” (2019). In 2016\, he received the Fejos Fellowship for Ethnographic Film from the Wenner-Gren Foundation of New York.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Donatella Della Ratta\, Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies John Cabot University\, Rome https://www.johncabot.edu/faculty/donatella-della_ratta \n\n\n\nBio: Donatella Della Ratta is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at John Cabot University in Rome. She is a former Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Her research on generative AI earned her the Italian Ministry of Culture ‘Italian Council’ award 2024-25. She is currently developing her concept of ‘speculative violence’ into various formats\,  including the lecture performance Ask Me for Those Unborn Promises That May Seem Unlikely to Happen in the Natural \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Yoav Galai\, Department of Politics International Relations and Philosophy\, Royal Holloway\, University of London https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/yoav-galai \n\n\n\nBio: Yoav Galai is a former photographer and current academic working in the field of visual politics. His recent publications explored racialised visualities and their ongoing political effect through technological imaginaries and within social-scientific epistemologies. He also teaches advanced visual methods as part of a course in visual politics at Royal Holloway\, University of London and you can this year’s student work here: http://visualwriting.org/exhibition/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Nataliia Laba\, Assistant Professor in Digital and Multimodal Communication / Humane AI\, Communication and Information Studies\, University of Groningen\, the Netherlands. https://www.nataliialaba.com/ \n\n\n\nBio Nataliia Laba is an Assistant Professor in Digital and Multimodal Communication / Humane AI at University of Groningen. Her research focuses on multimodal generative AI and works at the intersection of critical data studies and discourse studies. Nataliia’s research projects address human-machine agency and a range of representational issues in the context of generative AI adoption and use. 
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/visual-ai-politics-politics-of-visual-ai-a-roundtable/
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SUMMARY:Seeing Through the Machine: Visual AI Tools for Research\, Creativity\, and Critical Practice- Masterclass with Dr Sam Martin
DESCRIPTION:Location: online \n\n\n\nWhat you’ll learn: \n\n\n\nThis interactive workshop introduces academics to the expanding world of visual generative AI tools. Led by Dr Sam Martin\, digital sociologist and AI artist\, the session explores how platforms such as MidJourney\, Leonardo.ai\, Krea.AI\, and Runway ML can be used critically and creatively in academic contexts—from visualising research findings and generating speculative visual data\, to interrogating AI bias\, aesthetics\, and misinformation. \n\n\n\nParticipants will gain: \n\n\n\n\nA practical understanding of key visual AI tools and interfaces\n\n\n\nCritical awareness of image generation bias\, AI aesthetics\, and ethics\n\n\n\nIdeas for integrating visual AI into research\, teaching\, or public engagement\n\n\n\nTips for prompt engineering and collaborative image creation\n\n\n\nA brief discussion of copyright\, attribution\, and academic use-cases\n\n\n\n\nWhether you’re curious about creative dissemination\, building speculative futures into your research\, or exploring the politics of AI imagery\, this session will help you navigate the rapidly evolving visual AI landscape. \n\n\n\nPre-requisites: \n\n\n\nNo coding experience required. A working laptop is preferred. \n\n\n\nIf you’d like to try generating images live\, please be ready to log in to provided workshop accounts on one or more of the following: MidJourney\, Leonardo.ai\, Krea.AI\, or Runway ML. \n\n\n\nAccess to these platforms will be provided on the day and for five days following the workshop.
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/seeing-through-the-machine-visual-ai-tools-for-research-creativity-and-critical-practice/
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SUMMARY:Launch of the Visual AI Literacy Toolkit
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to launch our new web-based resource designed to help learners stay ahead of the AI misinformation curve. The Visual AI Literacy Toolkit introduces the fundamentals of visual generative AI and explores how AI-generated images are shaping public understanding — from fake protest scenes and deep-faked politicians to AI beauty filters and images spreading misinformation around war\, conflict\, and trauma. \n\n\n\nDesigned for learners of all backgrounds\, this comprehensive toolkit offers interactive modules and real-world case studies. Users will: \n\n\n\n\nLearn to identify and interpret AI-generated visuals\n\n\n\nUnderstand the social and political impacts of visual misinformation\n\n\n\nExplore how creative activism and marginalised voices are using AI as a tool for resistance\n\n\n\nTest their visual AI literacy with guided exercises\n\n\n\nReflect on their own experiences with AI-generated media\n\n\n\n\nWhether you’re new to this space or looking to deepen your understanding\, the toolkit equips users with practical\, critical\, and creative skills to navigate the fast-changing visual AI landscape. \n\n\n\nThe Toolkit will go live on June 25th. This is a remote event and the link will be shared on the day with the registered attendees. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nView toolkit
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/launch-of-the-visual-ai-literacy-toolkit/
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Representations: The Politics of Responsible AI Imaging. Keynote by Prof Liv Hausken
DESCRIPTION:Location: online \n\n\n\nIn recent discussions surrounding AI imaging\, the prevailing discourse often highlights the technology’s inherent risks. However\, notable examples\, such as the use of so-called deepfake technology in the documentary “Welcome to Chechnya” and the controversial yet well-intentioned AI-generated images from Amnesty International commemorating the victims of police brutality in Colombia\, reveal the potential for socially responsible and ethical applications of this technology. This presentation explores the question: What is necessary to cultivate a socially responsible use of AI-generated imaging? \n\n\n\nThis inquiry is complex and lacks straightforward answers. The presentation will outline responsible practices in AI imaging by examining both problematic and potentially beneficial applications. Among the challenges we face is the intricate relationship between photography and photorealistic AI imaging. Addressing problematic perceptions of photography will be essential for developing a more robust analytical framework regarding AI imaging. This presentation will highlight key strategies for enhancing societal competence in navigating this evolving landscape. \n\n\n\nThe goal is to create a comprehensive framework for responsible AI imaging that benefits the academic community\, practitioners\, and developers in various fields. This framework will be particularly valuable for journalists and editors covering conflict and humanitarian issues and policymakers overseeing digital literacy and governance in increasingly digital economies. This paper aims to contribute to informed practices and strengthen ethical considerations in visual representation by promoting a critical understanding of responsible AI imaging. \n\n\n\nLiv Hausken is a Professor at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo (UiO). Her research\, teaching\, and supervision areas include photography\, AI imagery\, scientific imaging\, biometrics\, surveillance\, and aesthetics. She is part of the research project “PHOTOFAKE – Visual Disinformation\, the Digital Economy and the Epistemology of the Camera Image” and the Humanities-based AI hub “HumAIn” at UiO\, the “AI Media” Research Network at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)\, and the Scandinavian AI network “AIsthesis: network for research on the aesthetics of AI imagery” at Aarhus University. Relevant publications include “Photorealism versus photography: AI-generated depiction in the age of visual disinformation” (Journal of Aesthetics & Culture\, 2024) and “Untangling Photographic Manipulation: Exploring a Dual Concept and Its Societal Implications” (Journalism and Media\, 2024).
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/rethinking-representations-the-politics-of-responsible-ai-imaging-keynote-by-prof-liv-hausken/
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SUMMARY:Digital Politics Summer School
DESCRIPTION:Location: online \n\n\n\nOur Digital Politics Summer School is celebrating its fifth anniversary! This year\, the school is focusing on visual generative AI. \n\n\n\nWhen AI image generators were first popularised in 2023\, they were perceived as leading to a new crisis of deepfakes and misinformation\, particularly dangerous in cases of reporting war and human suffering\, because of the dire consequences of war-time misinformation. Many media scholars view AI as a significant threat\, that can lead to a new scale of media manipulation\, an erosion of sense of truth\, and a crisis of visual evidence. Others suggest that visual generative AI leads to a new form of synthetic realism and a potentially powerful political storytelling. Between these polarising approaches\, much remains unexplored when it comes to visual AI politics and the politics of visual AI: the biases in representation; the absence of visual digital and political literacy; the lack of social justice considerations in both the techno-hype around AI-enabled possibilities and the fears around AI-induced harms; and the need for complex and interdisciplinary thinking around the rapidly expanding use of AI-generated images in political landscapes. \n\n\n\nThis summer school brings together established scholars\, early career researchers and PhD students\, to learn about\, discuss\, and experiment with visual generative AI\, combining insights from media and communication studies\, politics\, visual criminology\, AI art\, and computational science. \n\n\n\nProgramme \n\n\n\n24 June: Keynote by Liv Hausken\, 2:00-2.30pm BST. 25 June: Virtual launch of a Visual AI Literacy resource\, all day. 26 June: Masterclass with Sam Martin: Sing Through the Machine: Visual AI Tools for Research\, Creativity\, and Critical Practice\, 10:00am-12noon BST. 27 June: Roundtable: Visual AI politics/politics of visual AI. With Donatella Della Ratta\, Miriyam Aouragh\, Nataliia Laba\, Roger Canals Vilageliu and Yoav Galai\, hosted by Adi Kuntsman and Jessica Elias\, 9.30-11.30am BST. 27 June: Networking session: by invitation only\, 1.00-3.00pm BST. \n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nAttendance is free but registration is required. Please register separately for each event you would like to attend. Masterclass places are limited due to the interactive nature of the activity- please only register if you can commit to attending. Networking session is by application only (see below) – the call is now closed and we will be contacting all applicants shortly.  \n\n\n\nWe are inviting applications for participation in the networking session.  \n\n\n\nThis session is for you if: \n\n\n\n– Your research focuses on the use of visual generative AI in contexts of politics\, violence or social injustice– You would like to collaborate on a jointly produced map of ideas and concepts– You are interested in being part of an international research network on the politics of visual AI. \n\n\n\nTo be considered\, please send a 200 word description of your research and a short bio (no longer than 50 words) to digitalpoliticsmanmet@gmail.com by 19th May 2025. Applicants will be contacted before the end of May.
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/digital-politics-summer-school/
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SUMMARY:AI Literacies public launch
DESCRIPTION:Location: Brooks Building\, Room BR 2.18 and BR 2.19\, M156GX \n\n\n\nUnderstanding the impact of AI on social\, cultural and political life has been at the heart of our new initiative – the AI Literacy working group. “AI literacy” (or even “literacies”)\, as developed by DISC members\, extends far beyond the technical understanding of how artificial intelligence and associated technologies work\, and focuses instead on a critical evaluation of AI processes and outputs\, a recognition of its biases\, and an analysis of its benefits and challenges.  \n\n\n\nThe AI Literacies public launch celebrates our work on “AI Literacies” and presents the newest research and public engagement initiatives by our members\, in dialogue with invited speakers from academia\, the industry and the creative sector. The launch also features a keynote by Mark Carrigan from the University of Manchester\, the author of Generative AI for Academics. \n\n\n\nProgramme \n\n\n\n10-11am Why AI Literacy matters? A welcome panel\, with Niamh Donovan\, Ting Luo and Sam Martin. Introductions by Adi Kuntsman\, Daniel Joseph and Keeley Crocket. \n\n\n\n11-11.15 comfort break \n\n\n\n11.15-12.30 Session 1 \n\n\n\n\nLeanne Fitton\, What do educators think about generative AI? Initial insights from a mixed-methods study\n\n\n\nAbu Sadat Muhammad Sayem\, AI Literacy for Fashion Professionals\n\n\n\nAdan Cooke\, Algorithmic Assemblages: Young people and critical data literacy\n\n\n\nAdi Kuntsman\, Jessica Elias and Sam Martin\, Visual AI Literacy and global misinformation politics\n\n\n\nAdi Kuntsman\, Environmental AI literacy: the missing piece we all need\n\n\n\n\n12.30-1.30 lunch and networking \n\n\n\n1.30-2.30 Session 2 \n\n\n\n\nDaniel Joseph\, Towards a political economy of AI: the case of NVIDIA\n\n\n\nElisa Serafinelli\, Visual-AI imaginaries: “Reimagining Realities: The Transformative Impact of Visual-AI on Visual Culture”\n\n\n\nJessica Elias\, Digital Zemiology: Self-Relation\, Agency\, and Autonomy amid Generative AI\n\n\n\nPolina Chizhova-Wright\, Decoding AI’: investigating Gen AI in placemaking \n\n\n\nSusan O’Shea\, Opt in-opt out: AI in music and sound production\n\n\n\nMatthew Barnard\, Anthropomorphism or mechanomorphism? AI and concepts of the self\n\n\n\n\n2.30-3.00 – tea break and exhibition \n\n\n\n3-4 – Is it possible for academics to use LLMs in a responsible and ethical way? A keynote by Mark Carrigan  \n\n\n\nPanellists’ info \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNiamh Donovan\, Ecosystem Manager\, Sustainable Ventures \n\n\n\nWith a background in sustainable development\, Niamh currently holds the position of Ecosystem Manager at Sustainable Ventures in Manchester. Sustainable Ventures is a full service ecosystem for climate tech startups\, providing both pre-seed and seed investment\, as well as innovation support and access to non-dilutive funding routes such as grants and R&D tax credits. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTing Luo\, Associate Professor in Government and Artificial Intelligence\, Centre for AI in Government at the University of Birmingham \n\n\n\nDr Ting Luo is an Associate Professor in Government and Artificial Intelligence at the Centre for AI in Government at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and governance\, with a particular emphasis on digital governance and AI governance. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSam Martin\, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Vaccine Group\, University of Oxford \n\n\n\nDr Sam Martin is a digital sociologist and generative AI artist. She specialises in Big Qual analysis of public health discourse and AI literacies. Alongside her research on visual misinformation\, she creates AI-assisted digital art and video\, including a current collaboration with Cincinnati Opera House. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote info \n\n\n\nThe emergence of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools presents both opportunities and challenges for academia. While these technologies offer powerful capabilities to support scholarship\, their thoughtless adoption could undermine the very foundations of academic work. This talk introduces a framework for incorporating generative AI into academic practice in ways that enhance rather than replace human thought. Drawing on extensive practical experience\, it demonstrates how conversational agents can serve as intellectual interlocutors rather than mere productivity tools\, while examining the broader implications of these developments for the future of universities. There is an urgent need to establish what constitutes responsible and ethical use of LLMs for academics\, which means taking seriously the argument that this might not be possible. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Carrigan is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester where he is co-lead of the Digital Education Manchester group. Trained as a philosopher and sociologist\, his research aims to bridge fundamental questions of social ontology with practical and policy interventions to support the effective use of emerging technologies within education. \n\n\n\n\nWatch recording
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/ai-literacies-public-launch/
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SUMMARY:Ahead of the AI misinformation curve: let’s talk visual AI
DESCRIPTION:Location: online \n\n\n\nJoin us for Let’s Talk Visual AI\, where we’ll discuss all things related to AI-driven misinformation and visual AI literacy. \n\n\n\nRecent advances in visual generative AI have made it increasingly easy to produce convincing synthetic images and videos\, raising urgent questions about truth\, trust\, and perception in the digital age. To better deal with social and political effects of visual AI\, it is imperative to develop visual AI literacy – the ability to recognise and evaluate AI images\, understand the process of their creation and the biases it might involve\, and use such images critically and responsibly. \n\n\n\nTo learn more about what is needed to foster visual AI literacy\, join us at the online panel with National Literacy Trust– the UK’s leading organisation to support children and young people’s literacy including AI literacy; Full Fact– a UK based team of independent fact checkers\, using AI tools to combat misinformation; and Tactical Tech– a Berlin-based\, European non-profit organisation supporting digital literacy. \n\n\n\nPlease note this event will be recorded. \n\n\n\nThe panel is part of DISC (Digital Society) Research Group and its AI Literacies initiative\, and is led by Dr Adi Kuntsman\, Jessica Elias and Dr Sam Martin. It is part of the public engagement 2025 project\, “Ahead of the AI’s misinformation curve: let’s talk visual AI literacy”\, supported by AHEAD. \n\n\n\nAHEAD (Arts and Humanities Engagement And Dialogue) is the public engagement programme of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch recording
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/ahead-of-the-ai-misinformation-curve-lets-talk-visual-ai/
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SUMMARY:Talk on the weight of connectivity and the inescapable grip of digitality
DESCRIPTION:Kenzie Burchell and Adi Kuntsman in conversation about dis/connection\, dis/engagement\, and digital life. \n\n\n\nKenzie Burchell\, the author of Constant Disconnection: The Weight of Everyday Digital Life (Stanford UP) and Adi Kuntsman\, the co-author of Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement : In Search of the Opt Out Button (with Esperanza Miyake\, Westminster UP) will discuss compulsory connectivity\, disengagement and digital rights. Please join us to hear more about their two books\, and explore how digital communication shaped and was shaped by the Covid-19 pandemic\, global war and capitalism\, and the rise of generative AI. \n\n\n\nThe Speaker \n\n\n\nKenzie Burchell is a Media Sociologist working at the intersection of everyday life\, media practices\, labour and technological change. As an Associate Professor at University of Toronto\, his teaching and research span Journalism and Information Studies with additional focus on digital surveillance and identity in the context of disinformation\, lawfare\, and marketcraft. Over the last two years\, Dr. Burchell has led the “Beyond Disinformation” research network bringing together scholars from the Universities of Manchester\, Melbourne and Toronto to produce a recently published open-access policy document for the UK and Canadian governments. \n\n\n\nAdi Kuntsman is Reader in Digital Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University\, UK; author/editor of multiple monographs and edited collections; and a co-editor (with Erinma Ochu and Liu Xin) of a new book series\, “Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures” at Emerald. Adi’s recent work focuses on the right to ‘opt out’ of digital communication; environmental impacts of digital technologies and the need for digital environmental literacy; and the use of generative AI in times of wars and political violence. Adi’s new book\, Digital Technologies\, Smart Cities and the Environment: In the Ruins of Broken Promises(with Liu Xin\, Bristol University Press) focuses on environmental harms of digital technologies and their use in smart cities. \n\n\n\nThe Books \n\n\n\nConstant Disconnection: The Weight of Everyday Digital Life \n\n\n\nOverflowing email inboxes\, deluges of mobile phone notifications and torrents of social media posts—the flow of communication in its abundance is today’s individualized interface for interpersonal and professional practices. Communication technologies and their use are both the needle and the thread of the wider social tapestry of everyday contemporary life. This ever-changing communication environment is where the neoliberal economic policies of the West and the commercial imperatives of the platform and data-mining industries meet. It is where the contradictions they produce can be felt day-to-day by citizens-turned-users. How does it feel to live at the pressure points of intersecting economic realities and why does it matter? Drawing on a decade of sociological research in the UK and Canada\, Constant Disconnection examines how individuals try to manage connection as participation in everyday life and how\, on a larger scale\, the ever-expanding knowledge\, communication\, and data-driven economies depend on the very pressures that result from our disparate communication needs. \n\n\n\nParadoxes of Digital Disengagement : In Search of the Opt Out Button \n\n\n\nLife is increasingly governed and mediated through digital and smart technologies\, platforms\, big data and algorithms. However\, the reasons\, practices and impact of how the digital is used by different institutions are often deeply linked to social oppression and injustice. Similarly\, the ability to resist these digital impositions is based on inequality and privilege. Challenging the ways in which we are increasingly dependent on the digital\, this book raises a set of provocative and urgent questions: in a world of compulsory digitality is there an opt out button? Where\, when\, how\, why and to whom is it available? Answering these questions has become even more relevant since the COVID-19 pandemic. In response\, the book puts forward the concept of ‘digital disengagement’ which is explored across six key areas of digitisation: health; citizenship; education; consumer culture; labour; and the environment.
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/talk-on-the-weight-of-connectivity-and-the-inescapable-grip-of-digitality/
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SUMMARY:Workshop by Dr Katie MacKinnon on Early Internet Memories
DESCRIPTION: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?  \n\n\n\nIn 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\, following the process outlined in the EARLY INTERNET MEMORIES zine(https://katiemackinnonxyz.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/early-internet-memories-6.pdf).  \n\n\n\nFor academics\, an archive promenade is a participatory approach to web archival research that is committed to producing a history of online community with members of that community\, for example\, by gathering\, curating\, and annotating archival material and data collaboratively. This method can be used in research contexts\, but also by individuals looking to explore their own internet histories\, as it grapples with the politics of data afterlives and contends with the ways that data is entangled through affect\, materiality and situatedness.
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/workshop-by-dr-katie-mackinnon-on-early-internet-memories/
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SUMMARY:Talk from Dr Katie MacKinnon on Arctic Archives: Temporal politics of platform power
DESCRIPTION: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 data on offline using silver halide crystals on polyester film which is created\, operated\, maintained by the Norwegian company Piql. InFebruary 2020\, GitHub curated an algorithmically selected “greatest hits” collection of 17\,000 data repositories\, migrating them from GitHub servers to this deep time archival format known as Piql Film\, that claims to preserve data from somewhere between 500-1000 years. \n\n\n\nSimilarly\, Microsoft’s Project Silica is an archive media primarily for Microsoft Azure\, their cloud computing platform. Data inscribed on quartz glass is a “low-cost\, durable WORM media that is electromagnetic field-proof and offers lifetimes of tens to hundreds of thousands of years […] storing data for millennia.” Cerabyte\, a German company is developing ceramic nano memory that is a “new way to store data without media life limits […] with a 5000-year track record as a reliable data storage”. And Lonestar\, an American company\, is sending SpaceX rockets with data to the moon. Through an empirical examination of these various projects and theoretical engagement with the temporalities of platforms and archival technologies\, this paper expands on emerging work in STS\, media studies\, and critical data studies that attends to the politics of deep time data preservation. It contributes to these fields by foregrounding how platform-driven archival practices extend centralization into the future\, creating conditions in which the preservation of data paradoxically entails its stasis and potential obsolescence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch recording
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/talk-from-dr-katie-mckinnon-on-arctic-archives-temporal-politics-of-platform-power/
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SUMMARY:Workshop from Dr Nataliia Laba on Beyond the algorithm: Creative agency in the age of AI
DESCRIPTION: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 distribution\, highlighting the unresolved tension between innovation and imitation inherent in visual generative media. The structure is three-part.First\, a lightning talk will invite participants to consider perspectives of artists and professional designers – both those in favor of genAI and those against it – drawing on a thematic analysis of 604 YouTube comments to video titled “AI vs Artists: The Biggest Art Heist in History” on the @yesimadesigner channel.In the second part\, participants will reflect on current and potential applications of generative AI in their own practice\, to unpack four visions in relation to genAI integration – AI as a tool\, AI as a threat\, AI training seen as similar to inspiration and learning\, and AI training seen as akin to data laundering. Additional perspectives are expected to emerge from this discussion.In the last section\, participants will collectively construct and negotiate the conditions for the ethical integration of AI into networked image cultures and society at large. \n\n\n\nDr Nataliia Laba is an Assistant Professor in Digital and Multimodal Communication / Humane AI at University of Groningen. Her research focuses on multimodal generative artificial intelligence and works at the intersection of critical data studies\, discourse studies\, and techno-ethics. Her current research projects address human-machine agency and a range of representational issues in the context of visual generative media adoption and use. These include how gender bias becomes normalized through prompting practices\, the attitudinal stance-taking of non-human agents in AI-generated images of war\, the effects of prompt modifiers on AI video generation\, and the impact of visual generative media on the creative economy\, professional designers\, and artists.  \n\n\n\nNataliia is particularly interested in discourse structure relations between tech companies\, designers\, critics\, and users as a way of engagement with observable techno-cultural practices and activities considered essential for good AI stewardship. \n\n\n\n\nVisiting Fellowships
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/workshop-from-dr-nataliia-laba-on-beyond-the-algorithm-creative-agency-in-the-age-of-ai/
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SUMMARY:Digital Society Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the newest publications by our members (and get publisher discounts\, too!) \n\n\n\nTheorising Drones in Visual Culture: Views from the Blue authored by Elisa Serafinelli significantly contributes to the fields of Digital Media and Visual Studies by synthesising diverse studies on drone-generated visuals. It offers readers a comprehensive exploration and specific examples that ground theoretical insights in new and innovative visual applications. \n\n\n\nIntroduction to healthcare knowledge and library services\, coedited by Geoff Walton\, \, Frances Johnson\, David Stewart\, Gil Young\, and Holly Case Wyatt\, Cambridge University Press. Winner of CILIP’s Knowledge and Information Management prize. Brings together health information practitioners and researchers with a variety of experience across health information work within knowledge and library services in the NHS. \n\n\n\nDigital Technologies\, Smart Cities and the Environment: in the ruins of broken promises\, co-authored by Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin. Drawing on academic scholarship and two case studies from Manchester and Helsinki\, this timely and accessible book examines what happens when these promises are broken\, as they prioritise technological innovation rather than environmental care. \n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n1.30-2.00 Theorising Drones in Visual Culture. Respondent: Richard Carter\, University of York. \n\n\n\n2.00-2.30 Introduction to Healthcare knowledge and library services. Respondents: Sue Lacey-Bryant\, MMU Visiting Professor in Knowledge Mobilisation and former NHS Chief Knowledge Officer and David Stewart\, former Head of NHS Health Education England North. \n\n\n\n2.30-3.00 Digital Technologies\, Smart cities and the environment. Respondents: Julian Tate\, Chief Execitive\, Open Data Manchester\, and Lucy Sollit\, Creative Director\, FutureEverything. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch recording
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/digital-society-book-launch/
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SUMMARY:Talk from Dr Nataliia Laba- Artificial witness: Generative AI and the visual politics of war representation
DESCRIPTION:Artificial witness: Generative AI and the visual politics of war representation.One application of generative AI is the production of highly realistic war images\, often indistinguishable from photographs taken by human witnesses. These images do not merely document events but actively shape public opinion\, legitimizing certain perspectives while obfuscating others. This raises broader cultural implications about how AI-generated imagery may (mis)represent cultural or political nuances of conflicts and wars\, prompting reflection on the ethical and perceptual consequences of complementing journalistic authenticity with synthetic\, machine-generated representations.Framing generative AI as an artificial witness – an ‘instrument for seeing’ and for ‘assessing how well we can see’ – this talk addresses the uses of generative AI in imaging and imagining wars. By exploring what Gillian Rose terms ‘the site of the image itself’ (Visual Methodologies\, 2016)\, we can uncover biases in AI model training that otherwise remain hidden due to proprietary models and algorithmic opacity. This knowledge can then be applied to consider the relationship between AI-generated images of war and the contexts in which they are shared and viewed\, ultimately contributing to public awareness of how generative AI is reshaping the boundaries of authenticity\, trust\, and power in war representation. \n\n\n\nDr Nataliia Laba is an Assistant Professor in Digital and Multimodal Communication / Humane AI at University of Groningen. Her research focuses on multimodal generative artificial intelligence and works at the intersection of critical data studies\, discourse studies\, and techno-ethics. Her current research projects address human-machine agency and a range of representational issues in the context of visual generative media adoption and use. These include how gender bias becomes normalized through prompting practices\, the attitudinal stance-taking of non-human agents in AI-generated images of war\, the effects of prompt modifiers on AI video generation\, and the impact of visual generative media on the creative economy\, professional designers\, and artists. Nataliia is particularly interested in discourse structure relations between tech companies\, designers\, critics\, and users as a way of engagement with observable techno-cultural practices and activities considered essential for good AI stewardship.  \n\n\n\nhttps://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/visiting-fellowships/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch recording
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/talk-from-dr-nataliia-laba-artificial-witness-generative-ai-and-the-visual-politics-of-war-representation/
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SUMMARY:Digital Harms: Theoretical Perspectives\, Lived Experiences
DESCRIPTION:Organised by Jessica Elias and Adi Kuntsman\, supported by the Digital Society Research Group. Roundtable will be streamed. \n\n\n\nThe 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 social event with refreshments\, and a creative zine-making workshop to explore your perceptions and lived experiences of digital harms.  \n\n\n\nThe Roundtable will be chaired by Dr Adi Kuntsman\, Reader in Digital Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University. During the panel\, our speakers will each discuss their approaches to conceptualising digital harms. The speakers come from a range of interdisciplinary backgrounds spanning critical criminology\, sociology\, environmental studies\, feminist studies\, zemiology\, surveillance studies\, post-colonial studies\, and technology studies. The second portion of the panel discussion will be an open Q&A with audience members. The zine-making workshop will be facilitated by Dr Kirsty Fife\, Lecturer in Digital Information and Curatorial Practice at Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch recording
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/digital-harms-theoretical-perspectives-lived-experiences/
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SUMMARY:Digital Harms
DESCRIPTION: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 to attend. \n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\nThe School will take place on Teams. All times are in UK/London time zone – please use a time converter if needed. \n\n\n\n\nDay 1: 20 May 11am-1pm. Conceptualising digital harms. A roundtable with Avi Boukli\, Jessica Elias\, Will Mbioh and Patrick Williams. \n\n\n\nDay 2: 24 May 10am-12noon. Composting Digital Harms: Can we Permaculture our way out? A workshop with Dani Admiss\n\n\n\nDay 3: 30 May 1pm-3pm. Navigating the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Digital Innovation. A workshop with Camille Minns and Sanjana Paul. \n\n\n\n\nFurther details\n\n\n\nDay 1: Conceptualising digital harmsThe roundtable is taking place face-to-face but will be streamed on-line. The roundtable is part of an on-site workshop on digital harms\, and is also availabel to the participants of the Summer School to attend remotely. During the panel\, our speakers will discuss their approaches to conceptualising digital harms. The speakers come from a range of interdisciplinary backgrounds spanning critical criminology\, sociology\, environmental studies\, feminist studies\, zemiology\, surveillance studies\, post-colonial studies\, and technology studies. \n\n\n\nDay 2: Composting Digital Harms: Can we Permaculture our way out?Digital harms\, and their impact on the environment\, are a ‘wicked problem’\, but what about our responses? Have we gotten used to the idea that there is one big solution that trumps all others and some versions of itend up everywhere i.e. more surveillance\, more measuring\, further out of sight\, etc. This workshop proposes that digital harms require local\, contextual\, creative and just place-making responses. Can we permaculture our way out of digital harms? This session is about imaginatively applying permaculture principles to use what we have to make things better. Can digital production be part of regenerative practices now and in the future?What links between things are needed to do this? How can we place true costs\, values and rights to living beings and the ecosystems we depend on? Participants will be making an accordion book in their own location. Please prepare coloured pencils or pens\, card for folding\, and a pair of scissors. \n\n\n\nDay 3: Navigating the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Digital Innovation.In an era of rapid technological advancement\, it is crucial to critically examine the impact of digital technologies on the environment and marginalized communities. This interactive workshop invites participants from diverse interdisciplinary backgrounds to engage in a process of “critical visioning” to explore the complex interplay between technology\, environmental justice\, and social equity. Through a series of thought-provoking activities and discussions\, attendees will delve into the potential positive and negative outcomes of technology-driven environmental solutions\, focusing on both utopian and dystopian scenarios. By examining the wide-ranging harms of digitalization and technologization\, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the ethical implications of technology development and deployment through an environmental justice lens. Ultimately\, this workshop aims to inspire participants to become more active agents in shifting the culture of technology towards environmental justice\, providing them with a framework for critical visioning and collaborative problem-solving.
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/digital-harms/
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SUMMARY:Can we 'reduce\, reuse\, refuse'.. the digital?
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nDigital technologies can inflict substantial human and environmental harms: from extractivist economies of mining to toxic e-waste; from unsafe and oppressive working conditions to rising carbon and heat emissions and electricity use; from individual and collective surveillance to economic subordination and emotional depletion. These harms are unevenly distributed and deeply connected to social\, economic and racial injustices. And yet\, conversations about digital sustainability\, climate change and environmental justice rarely use the logic of ‘refuse\, reduce\, reuse\, repurpose\, recycle‘ with regards to digital technologies. Scholarship and policy on digital sustainability continues to insist on green digital growth\, instead of posing crucial questions of degrowth and reduction. This summer school brings together principles of environmentally driven degrowth; decolonial and anti-racist environmental justice; and digital disengagement and opt out to explore whether and how we can reduce\, reuse and perhaps even refuse the digital. \n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\nThe conference will take place on Zoom. All times are in UK/London time zone. \n\n\n\nKeynote 1\, 5 June\, 1-2.30pm Grace Akese\, The University of Bayreuth\, Germany. Electronic waste politics in Accra\, Ghana \n\n\n\n\nGeographical scholarship on the spatialities of e-waste asks where e-waste travels\, who works with it\, and under what conditions. Studies across the “global south” shows that instead of trails of e-waste leading to dumpsites overflowing with debris\, the paths of discarded electronics also lead to production sites where electronics are transformed and recirculated through reuse\, repair\, repurposing\, and remanufacturing activities.The talk will explore the relational entanglements of e-waste geographies as they manifest in ideas and practices of circular economies (ethical design\, repair\, reuse\, care & maintenance\, and marker space cultures). \n\n\n\n\nWorkshop 1\, 5 June\, 7-9pm Laura Marks\, Simon Fraser University\, Canada. Small Files for a Small World \n\n\n\n\nThis workshop will guide participants in analyzing the carbon footprint of the internet\, with a focus on streaming video\, and discuss ways to reduce that footprint. I’ll introduce the Small File Media Festival\, which invites artists to submit movies of no more than 1.44 MB/minute\, and we will explore the practices and aesthetics of making alluring work with minimal carbon footprint. \n\n\n\n\nKeynote 2\, 6 June\, 10-11.15am Esperanza Miyake\, Strathclyde University. Connect\, Disconnect\, Re-Connect and Repeat: the labour and consumption of digital disengagement \n\n\n\n\nAs work emails pile up\, app notifications spring up and QR codes need scanning\, it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate our lives from institutionalised digital infrastructures and practices that are constantly structuring\, regulating and monitoring our everyday lives. Being digitally connected is exhausting\, and the idea of disconnection is fast becoming a popularised ‘necessity’\, even a social trend. From digital detox holidays\, Unplugging politics\, to screen-time apps: there is a rise in people actively reducing\, rejecting and refusing the digital….only to have to then ‘return back to normal’. What are the mechanisms of this dis/connective cycle? What are implications of buying digital disengagement? Can we ever escape the digital? Who really is able to just disconnect? This talk addresses such questions through the theoretical lens of digital disengagement\, considering interdependent issues around labour and consumption. Based on her specialism in technology\, identity and consumer culture\, Miyake will talk through some of the related chapters on labour and consumption from her recently co-authored published book with Adi Kuntsman\, Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button (2023). \n\n\n\n\nWorkshop 2\, June 6\, 1.30-2.30pm Adi Kuntsman\, Manchester Metropolitan University. Can we ‘reduce\, reuse\, refuse’ the digital? Informal discussion with participants\, interested in contributing to the follow-up publicaiton \n\n\n\n\nEvery year\, our Summer School offers PhD students and early career researchers an opportunity to contribute to a follow-up publication by submitting a chapter\, a short reflection\, or a creative piece. This year\, we are expanding our support also to those interested in co-editing a book. This workshop is for participants\, interested in taking part in this year’s publicaton opportunities linked to the topic of the Summer School\, and woud like to know more about the process. \n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nGrace Akese is a geographer and discard studies scholar interested in the geographies of electronic waste (e-waste). Joining the African Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth as a research fellow\, she is currently exploring the relational entanglements of e-waste geographies as they manifest in ideas and practices of circular economies(ethical design\, repair\, reuse\, care & maintenance\, and marker space cultures). \n\n\n\nLaura U. Marks works on media art and philosophy with an intercultural focus and an emphasis on appropriate technologies. Her fifth book\, The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos\, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. A co-founder of the Substantial Motion Research Network\, Marks founded the Small File Media Festival and leads the research group Tackling the Carbon Footprint of Streaming Media. She programs experimental media art for venues around the world. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, Marks teaches in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. \n\n\n\nEsperanza Miyake is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Journalism\, Media and Communication at the University of Strathclyde\, and the Director of Postgraduate Research for the School of Humanities. She specialises in the interdisciplinary examination of gender/race\, inequality and technology in culture\, media and society. Published widely in Media\, Cultural and Digital Studies\, Miyake has also acted as consultant on issues around digital justice and public data for the Scottish Government\, as well written for international news outlets such as The New York Times and Newsweek. \n\n\n\nAdi Kuntsman is a Reader in Digital Politics\, the founder of Digital Politics Summer School and the coordinator of Digital Politics research group and PhD programme at the Department of History\, Politics and Philosophy\, Manchester Metropolitan University. Adi is the co-editor (with Erinma Ochu and Liu Xin) of the new book series on digital materialities and sustainable futures at Emerald. Adi has published several monographs and edited collections and is currently working on a project on digital environmental harms and a book on smart cities (with Liu Xin\, Bristol University Press).
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/can-we-reduce-reuse-refuse-the-digital/
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SUMMARY:Digital technologies and the environment
DESCRIPTION: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 and the environment? And what are the methodological and epistemological challenges of doing so? \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to announce our Summer School\, taking place online on 13-15 June. Registration is now closed and the school is about to start!\n\n\n\nThe School will explore the relations between digital technologies and environmental concerns\, covering topics of digital waste\, digital toxicity\, e-waste\, communication infrastructures\, and smart cities. Registered participants will be offered to take part in five Masterclasses\, listed in the Programme below. In addition\, all particpants will be invited to attend a pre-School keynote on June the 10th. \n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n(all times are in UK/London time zone; zoom links are provided on designated Evenbrite pages) \n\n\n\nPre-School Keynote\, 10 June\n\n\n\nBenedetta Brevini\, “Data Driven Communication\, AI and the Climate Crisis”. \n\n\n\nDay 1\, 13 June\n\n\n\n\n1.30pm Introduction and Welcome address: Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin\, “How to think about digital technologies and the environment together”\n\n\n\n2-5pm Masterclass 1 Rahul Mukherjee\, “Approaching Media Infrastructures” \n\n\n\n\nDay 2\, 14 June\n\n\n\n\n10am-12noon Masterclass 2 Nanna Bonde Thylstrup\, “Toxic data” \n\n\n\n1-3pm Masterclass 3 Liu Xin\, “Clusters of broken objects”\n\n\n\n\nDay 3\, 15 June\n\n\n\n\n10am- 12noon Masterclass 4 Adi Kuntsman\, “Urban environmental imaginaries meet app studies”\n\n\n\n1-3pm Masterclass 5 Alenda Chang\, “Sustainable Design Patterns for the (Digital) Future”\n\n\n\n\nThe School is organised by our Digital Politics researchers cluster at the Department of History\, Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University\, UK\, together with Center for Gender Studies\, Department of Social and Psychological Studies\, Karlstad University\, Sweden. The School is generously supported by the Digital Society Research Group (DISC@ManMet) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, as part of the Digital Society @ Manchester 2022 events
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/digital-technologies-and-the-environment/
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SUMMARY:Digital Society @ Manchester MET 2022
DESCRIPTION:A biennial series of events exploring the impact of an increasingly digital society on play\, research methods\, politics\, arts and the environment. \n\n\n\nAbout these events\n\n\n\nThese events celebrate the exceptional and diverse research expertise in digital social science and arts at Manchester Met. \n\n\n\nEach reflects a key aspect of digital research in the University’s Arts and Humanities Faculty\, including games\, methods\, politics\, arts and the environment. \n\n\n\nThrough this series of events\, we aim to: \n\n\n\n\nconnect with the public about the exciting and impactful digital research taking place in Manchester and beyond\n\n\n\nsupport emerging scholars to build their research reputation by connecting them with established authorities in the field\n\n\n\ncreate and consolidate international research partnerships and networks with digital social scientists and artists\n\n\n\n\nWho should attend?\n\n\n\nThese events are open to academic researchers\, students and members of the public interested in the digital society. It will be of particular interest to those studying digital social sciences\, digital arts\, and media and communication studies – and prospective applicants to our MSc Digital Society. 
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/digital-society-manchester-met-2022/
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SUMMARY:Digital Society Week!
DESCRIPTION:Beginning on Monday 6th June\, Manchester Metropolitan University’s Digital Society series is a five-day\, free-to-all celebration of the groundbreaking research and expertise from the school’s faculty of Arts and Humanities and beyond. In a fascinating exploration of the impact of an increasingly digital society on our lives\, each day of events is dedicated to its own aspect of modern civilisation under growing technological influence: politics\, play\, methods\, art\, and the environment. \n\n\n\nMonday 6th June | Dr. Daniel Greene\, ‘The Promise of Access’ | Mon 6 Jun | 10.15am | FREE \n\n\n\nThe series begins with a keynote speech from the University of Maryland’s Associate Professor of Information Studies\, Dr. Daniel Greene. Specialising in the future of work\, Greene’s speech questions which complex social issues\, if any\, can find a solution in imminent technological progress. \n\n\n\nTuesday 7th June | Dr. Sara Grimes\, ‘The Politics of Children’s Digital Playgrounds | Tue 7 Jun | 2pm | FREE \n\n\n\nThe highlight of the already-intriguing ‘play’ day\, the University of Toronto’s Dr. Sara Grimes takes a transdisciplinary approach to exploring the politics of online gaming and networking spaces for children\, and their growth in complexity over decades of development which has transformed conventional sources of fun into an intricate nexus of power negotiations between children\, parents\, developers and politicians. \n\n\n\nWednesday 8th June | Professor Ben Light\, ‘Using the Walkthrough Method in a Multi-Method Study: An Example from the Covid Sex Lives Project’ | Wed 8 Jun | 10am | FREE \n\n\n\nOn a day dedicated to emerging digital methods of research and interaction\, Salford University’s Ben Light introduces the ‘Covid Sex Lives Project’ as a backdrop for discussing pioneering ways of researching digital communities. \n\n\n\nThursday 9th June | Dr. Ben Gwalchmai\, Augmented Reality workshop | Thu 9 Jun | 2pm | FREE \n\n\n\nAs one of the most visible growing technological markets of the last decade\, there is a sharpening focus on the artistic possibilities of virtual and augmented reality systems. In order to demonstrate this in the most direct and compelling way\, Dr. Ben Gwalchmai from MMU’s School of Digital Arts (SODA) takes guests into Manchester to demonstrate and engage with various aspects of augmented reality. Dr. Gwalchmai’s interactive event follows a morning of illuminating speeches and presentations from other SODA students and academics\, all of which consider the different aspects and many controversies of NFTs\, contextualised by shifting ideas and disputed definitions of ‘art’ in the digital society. \n\n\n\nFriday 10th June | Dr. Benedetta Brevini\, ‘Are Digital Technologies Good For The Planet?’ | Fri 10 Jun | 1.30pm | FREE \n\n\n\nAs irreversible climate change looms and exponential extinction gathers pace across the natural spectrum\, Friday’s environmental focus features a keynote speech from the University of Sydney’s Dr. Benedetta Brevini which poses the defining question of our time\, and speculates on whether technology can be our salvation.
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/digital-society-week/
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SUMMARY:Research Internship Grand Challenge: Do digital technologies help or harm the planet? Decarbonising and decolonising our digital society
DESCRIPTION:Why this challenge? \n\n\n\nDigital technologies are everywhere around us: smartphones\, computers\, big data\, communication networks\, digital documents\, video calls\, artificial intelligence. We use them without asking: what do they cost the planet? And we often assume\, that doing things “digitally” is more environmentally friendly. Indeed\, keeping an electronic document instead of printing it on paper saves trees. And doing a business call via zoom instead of flying reduces carbon emissions. This does not mean that digital technologies do not have an environmental footprint. Our digital lives really cost the earth and impact both human and non-human life. Making smartphones require extensive mining for rare metals. Their production is done by underpaid works\, and often in extremely poor conditions. Phones\, computers\, and other electronics create a huge amount of toxic e-waste. And all the information created by computers\, the internet\, and artificial intelligence\, use a tremendous amount of electricity. Photos\, emails\, and other data\, do not live on a “cloud”\, but is stored in data centres\, that contribute massively to carbon and heat emissions. What’s worse\, these environmental harms are affecting people differently. While most consumption of digital technologies and communication is taking place in the “Global North”\, mining and toxic e-waste are located in the “Global South”. And those working on assemblage\, service and disposal of digital technologies\, in both locations\, are strongly affected by poverty\, racism and other forms of injustice. \n\n\n\nThemes and Teams\n\n\n\nWe are working across politics\, sociology\, fashion\, SODA\, natural sciences\, business school\, engineering\, computing\, and operations and events management.  \n\n\n\nEach team will examine perceptions of\, and attitudes towards environmental harms of digital technologies among one of the following groups: \n\n\n\n\nstudents and young people\n\n\n\npolicy makers\n\n\n\nindustry and supply chain\n\n\n\ntextiles and fashion\n\n\n\nSMEs including business managers and technologists\n\n\n\n\nKey Dates\n\n\n\n\nMarch – April : registration and completing  the preparatory research intensives (see below)\n\n\n\nMay – June: meeting the team and carrying out research \n\n\n\nJune 10th: presenting initial findings at the Digital society and the Environment workshop\n\n\n\nJune 13-17: preparing project report\, getting ready for “Imagining Alternatives –A Hackathon about Sustainable and Just Digital Futures”\n\n\n\nJune 21st : Hackathon\n\n\n\nJune 30th Grand Challenge ends. 
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/research-internship-grand-challenge-do-digital-technologies-help-or-harm-the-planet-decarbonising-and-decolonising-our-digital-society/
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SUMMARY:Digital Citizenship and it's Limits
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce our Postgraduate Winter School in Digital Politics\, taking place online on 14-18 February 2022 \n\n\n\nThis 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 and the state\, in areas such as public services\, welfare\, border control\, and policing\, are mediated by digital platforms\, on-line communication\, algorithms and the AI. Participants will explore the following questions: What are the injustices involved in being a subject of a digital state? What is the human cost of e-governance\, digital border control\, high tech policing\, or on-line surveillance? What are the results of digital non-freedoms – distress\, despair\, loss of income\, poverty\, starvation\, imprisonment\, death? Who are the captive subjects and dependant victims of state digitisation? And finally\, what are the possibilities to rethink\, challenge\, survive and resist the violence of digital citizenship? \n\n\n\nThe School is organised by our Digital Politics researchers cluster and generously supported by the Digital Society Research Group (DISC@ManMet) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, as part of the Digital Society @ Manchester 2022 events. \n\n\n\nYou are welcome to attend all events\, or only some of them. Each event has it’s own registration link\, listed in the programme below. Please make sure to register separately to all the events you plan to attend. Masterclasses and workshops have a limited number of places – make sure to register asap! \n\n\n\nProgramme* \n\n\n\nMany UK universities take place in a UCU strike on 14-18 February. Although Manchester Met is not striking on those days but in the following week\, we stand in solidarity with those who are. A talk by one of the speakers\, based in one of the striking universities\, has therefore been rescheduled and will take place in the week before the Winter School. The rest of the event will take place as planned. \n\n\n\nDay 1\, 14 February\n\n\n\n\n11.00-12.30 Introduction and welcome\, Adi KuntsmanKeynote: Data-driven Policing: the hardwiring of racist citizenship and law enforcement practices\, Patrick Williams.\n\n\n\nRescheduled to 11 February 2.30-4.00 Book launch and talk: The Digital Border: Migration\, Technology\, Power\, Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou.\n\n\n\n\nDay 2\, 15 February\n\n\n\n\n10.30-12.00 Q&A and discussion: Racial justice\, technology and digital rights\, with Ade Adewunmi \, Laurence Meyer\, Nani Jansen Reventlow and Tracey Gyateng.\n\n\n\n2.00-3.30 Roundtable discussion: states\, businesses\, citizens. Competing Articulations of Networked Citizenship in Russia\, Tetyana Lokot; Whose time?” Exploring discourses on digital citizenship in the case of experimental legal regimes in Russia’\, Dmitry Muravyov.\n\n\n\n\nDay 3\, 16 February\n\n\n\n\n10.00 -11.30 Masterclass: Exploring e-government and “unfreedom by design”\, Alexey Sidorenko (Part I).\n\n\n\n1.30-3.00 Talk: Digital Citizenship in the Age of Algorithmic Cruelty\, Adi Kuntsman.\n\n\n\n\nDay 4\, 17 February \n\n\n\n\n12-1.30 Masterclass: Exploring e-government (Part II)\n\n\n\n\nDay 5\, 18 February\n\n\n\n11.00- 4.30 Digital reflection: discussing digital economy\, digital carcerality\, digital apartheid and decolonising the digital\, facilitated by Khadijah Diskin.
URL:https://digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/digital-citizenship-and-its-limits/
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