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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Latest Past Events
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 Society Week!
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 […]
Research Internship Grand Challenge: Do digital technologies help or harm the planet? Decarbonising and decolonising our digital society
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 […]