Centre for Digital Inquiry

Description

The Centre for Digital Inquiry (CDI), founded in 2020 at the University of Warwick, serves as the focal point for critical digital research. As an interdisciplinary research hub, it integrates scholars from humanities, social sciences, and sciences to comprehend and scrutinise the digital landscape. The CDI adopts and refines digital methodologies and tools to deepen understanding of culture and society while also treating the digital domain as a critical area of inquiry.

While the digital sphere is often equated with novelty or technological advancement, offering novel research methodologies, the CDI recognises that concepts of the digital or a digital society are not novel. Notwithstanding its capacity for enabling research and societal progress, the digital sphere also presents significant challenges, including e-waste, trolling, misinformation, surveillance, micro-tasking, platformisation, and drone warfare.

The CDI views the digital as a complex realm encompassing a spectrum of computational technologies, from smartphones to search engines, text mining software to recommender systems. It also encompasses the multitude of practices and activities that sustain these technologies, including development, design, engineering, and the cultures of usage, often the catalysts for novel innovations.

The CDI organises a wide array of research activities, such as networking events, public engagement initiatives, lectures, debates, sprints, and workshops. It facilitates external research funding applications pertaining to digital topics, and may also provide financial aid for preliminary studies, proofs of concept, and other experimental research initiatives.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2020

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University of Warwick, Coventry
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