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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Why this challenge? Digital 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 […] |
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![]() 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 […] ![]() 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 […] |
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![]() 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 […] |
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