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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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