Data Society
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
Digital Civics
Digital civics concerns the research-based activities of designing, developing, and evaluating personal and community based digital technologies and services to support new forms of civic engagement and support local communities. The theme has a strong focus on inclusion in a digitalised society as well as an insistence on participation.
Datafied Health
Datafied Health refers to how data-centric technologies affect and become entangled with processes and practices of health care and self-care across different organisational, social and cultural levels. The projects engage in producing accounts of how datafication of health takes shape in different social and cultural contexts, and across diverse social practices.
Digital Culture
This theme explores the ways in which digital systems constitute new social and cultural formations, and addresses one of the most urgent and elusive contemporary issues: the relationship between the rise of digital technologies and culture in its broadest sense. Central questions concern issues of epistemology, policy, audience and literacy developments, as well as the impact of datafication and digitalisation on cultural heritage and forms of cultural expression.
Behind data and algorithms
A conference about the actors, logics and cultures behind digital technologies. The conference is co-organised by Malmö University's Data Society research programme and the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Date: 30 September - 1 October, Malmö. The conference has been postponed. Please contact the organizers for more information.
