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Data Society
The Data Society research programme aims to advance the studies of digitalisation and datafication as pivotal change agents. We seek not only to understand these change agents but also to apply this understanding to effect positive social change. The programme focuses on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.
There are advantages and huge potential but also possible harm and great challenges with digitalisation and datafication: the program researchers tackle the complex issues of our data society
Maria Engberg, Director
Our research
Digital technologies are increasingly present in everyday life, forming part of the way we live and experience the world. The need to understand digitalisation and datafication in ways that are not uniquely through a technological lens is growing.
The Data Society program consolidates and develops research that addresses the societal challenge of digitalisation across society. It is an interdisciplinary program that comprises researchers from social sciences, humanities and technology, as well as the arts and design.
We critically and constructively engage in and advance research on aspects of digitalisation and datafication, today and for the future. We engage in multidisciplinary studies that investigate how these processes play out in people’s everyday lives, in communities, and in private and public organisations and institutions, with an initial focus on digital culture, datafied health and digital civics.
Our research questions include:
How do processes of digitalisation appear and operate at different societal levels, causing different and sometimes conflicting expectations and experiences?
What digital methods can be developed to open up new fields of study and develop deeper understanding of how digital technologies operate to structure the world around them?
In what ways can our research build on as well as challenge existing solution-driven practices to how we create a sustainable digitalised society?
Our objectives:
- construct a cross-disciplinary theoretical trajectory that moves beyond disciplinary boundaries;
- advance and develop methodologies that bridge social sciences, humanities, and technological sciences; and
- explore and develop new forms of practice-based research and contact zones for collaboration.
Researchers, publications and projects
Data Society is an interdisciplinary programme that comprises researchers from a wide range of academic fields within social science, humanities, technology and the arts and design.
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Staff
Martin Berg - Professor
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Jay David Bolter - Senior Professor
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Suzan Boztepe - Senior lecturer
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Maria Engberg - Senior lecturer
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Susanne Frennert - Senior lecturer
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Andreas Jacobsson - Dean/Associate Professor
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Susan Kozel - Professor
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Henrik Svarrer Larsen - Senior lecturer
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Sara Leckner - Senior lecturer
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Per Linde - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
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Elisabet M. Nilsson - Senior lecturer
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Carl Johan Orre - Program director/Senior lecturer
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Sven Packmohr - Program director/Senior lecturer
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Thomas Pederson - Professor
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Erik Pineiro - Program director/Senior lecturer
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Pille Pruulmann Vengerfeldt - Professor
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Bo Reimer - Professor
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Johan Salo - Doctoral student
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Ulrika Sjöberg - Head of unit/Professor
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Jakob Svensson - Professor
jakob.svensson@mau.se
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2021 | Article in journal
To Move, to Touch, to Listen
Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen, Maria Engberg, Iben Have, Ayoe Quist Henkel, Sarah Mygind, Helle Bundgaard Svendsen
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2021 | Book
Reality Media
Jay David Bolter, Maria Engberg, Blair MacIntyre
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2021 | Conference paper
Challenges of the Digital Transformation
Kristin Vogelsang, Sven Packmohr, Henning Brink
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2021 | Conference paper
A call for more sociomateriality and its usage in research on digital transformation
Sven Packmohr
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2021 | Conference proceedings (editor)
Introduction to the Minitrack on Making Digital Transformation Real
Sven Packmohr, Elaine Mosconi, Carsten Felden
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2020 | Article in journal
Encountering ethics through design
Anuradha Reddy, Iohanna Nicenboim, James Pierce, Elisa Giaccardi
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2020 | Conference paper
Developing and Applying an Instrument to Measure Barriers to Digital Transformation
Henning Brink, Sven Packmohr, Kristin Vogelsang
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2020 | Conference paper
Identifying Barriers to Digital Transformation for Digital Native Companies in Turkey
Mehmet Fatih Üstdag, Sven Packmohr
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2020 | Conference proceedings (editor)
Introduction to the Minitrack on Making Digital Transformation Real
Sven Packmohr, Elaine Mosconi, Luis Antonio De Santa-Eulalia
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2020 | Conference paper
The digitalization of universities from a students’ perspective
Henning Brink, Sven Packmohr, Kristin Vogelsang
Research projects
Our projects address wide-ranging questions that cannot be addressed within one discipline or with one set of methodological approaches. Some of Data Society's research is conducted by teams or individual researchers within the faculty financed research time. These are our current projects with external financing.
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Research project
Navigating visibility in contexts of state-sanctioned homophobia: development actors and LGBTQ rights defenders in Uganda and Russia
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Research project
Behind the Algorithm - A study of programmers the logics behind their work
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Research project
Promoting Digital Security and Empowering Queer Youth through Storytelling Techniques
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Research project
AI and the everyday political-economy of global health
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Research project
Working with Algorithmic Colleagues: Expectations and Experiences of Automated Decision-Making
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Research project
Norm-creative crisis preparedness – Co-designing methods for supporting crisis preparedness and responses before and during pandemics
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Research project
Virtual conferencing to promote research and scholarly exchange during the current pandemic and possible future disruptions
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Research project
Knowing From Somewhere: On Modes and Sites of Knowledge Production with Hacker Communities in the Field of Internet of Things
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Research project
Reading Between Media
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Research project
Digital Culture
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Research project
Re-humanising Automated Decision-Making
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board will help us continuously strengthen our position and outreach nationally and internationally. It consists of two external members: Professor José van Dijck (Utrecht University, NL), and Professor Sarah Pink (Monash University, AU), and two Malmö University members: Dean Andreas Jacobsson (Faculty of Technology and Society) and Dean Rebecka Lettevall (Faculty of Culture and Society)
Data Society seminars - past events
You will find videos of past Data Society seminars and events here.
February 25 - Interpretive Sociology and Computational Methods - Simon Lindgren
October 15 - Participatory engagment in museums - Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
Framtidens berättande / Storytelling of the Future seminars:
- October 20 - Kalle Lind in conversation with Maria Engberg, about podcast
- November 18 - Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt & Bjarke Pedersen, about audience engagement in museums.
- December 15 - Sara Granér in conversation with Thomas Alm, about cartoons and stories. The video will appear here after the event. Register for it here