The pandemic’s effect on ‘offline’ academic research has been palpable. Many researchers have had to reevaluate and realign their research methods for our new socially distanced reality. The obvious choice for some was to digitise their data collecting processes, however Read more…
The Vitalities Lab, a research group at UNSW Sydney, has recently launched a webinar series called ‘Breaking Methods‘. These videos are prepared by Vitalities researchers and focus on creative methods that ‘break the mould’. There are currently eight videos on Read more…
Karen Gregory and Miguel Paredes Maldonado’s new article Delivering Edinburgh: uncovering the digital geography of platform labour in the city is now available in Volume 23, Issue 8 of Information, Communication & Society. Gregory and Maldonado look at the “unseen Read more…
A new research cluster was launched at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Data, Culture & Society recently. The Digital Social Science Cluster is a methods lab led by MSc Digital Society co-coordinator Dr Karen Gregory, lecturer in Data & Read more…
If you are in town for graduation on November 27th, please join us for a small get-together on Monday, November 26th at Sofi’s Southside:
One thing I’m really proud of is that we’ve been able to pull together a fantastic calendar of speakers this semester. Many thanks to Morgan Currie (STIS), Jon Hearn (Sociology) and Lizzie Robertson (Sociology) for all their help with coordination Read more…
David Young will round out our Digital Society Seminar series, with a seminar on December 7th (11-1pm | Room CMB Seminar Room 5) Please note that a reading accompanies this seminar and will be emailed to all MSc in Digital Read more…
We are delighted to add an additional speaker to the Digital Society seminar series and to welcome David Moats to Edinburgh on Friday, November 23rd (11-1pm, Lister Learning and Teaching Centre – 2.14) Seeing through data: On the promises and Read more…
I’m very happy to say that we have two more speakers coming to Edinburgh to speak with you this semester. Our next “Digital Society” seminar will be held on Friday, November 2nd (11-1pm, Lister 5.2) On Friday, Natalie Nzeyimana (Oxford Read more…
As requested, here are the slides from my annual “Discrimination In/Of Tech” lecture and additional reading list for the class. As I have suggested elsewhere, one class is really not enough to do justice to this topic. October 18, 2018: Read more…