Digital Society Research Group

Description

Digital Society (DISC) was formally launched in 2021, when we officially became a research group, bringing together research activities and conversations between staff members in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and across Manchester Metropolitan University. Drawing on the “Digital Transformations” research group established by Adi Kuntsman in 2015, and developing the work carried out by Tom Brock and Adi Kuntsman to promote digital sociology in 2016-2020, in 2021 DISC has received a substantial support from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities to bring together “all things digital” and showcase social science research on digital technologies.

In the last few years, the group has grown substantially from a handful of staff to a vibrant cohort of early career and established researchers and international collaborators. Each year, DISC offers a wealth of activities, welcomes visiting Research Fellows, and is home to the annual online Postgraduate Summer School in Digital Politics. Our researchers take part in pioneering work on platform governance, visual social media research, game studies, health informatics, digital fashion, digital harms, digital environmental sustainability, and AI literacy.

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Founding year

2021

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University affiliation(s)

Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester

Additional Partnerships

Center for Digital Ethics & Policy (CDEP) - Loyola University Chicago