Social Justice and the Digital Research Cluster, Sheffield

Description

Social Justice and the Digital is a cross-disciplinary research cluster of the School of Information, Journalism and Communication at the University of Sheffield, exploring how digital systems shape power, inequality, and social change. It brings together critical, interdisciplinary research on how digital systems shape power, inequality, labour, representation, and social change, and creates a shared space for colleagues and postgraduate researchers across information studies, journalism and communication, urban innovation, and related fields. It reports strengths in qualitative, ethnographic, participatory, discourse-based, and mixed-methods research. Its interests include digital justice and inequality; platforms and data; digital labour and creative work; smart technologies and the city; digital cultures and everyday life; media and social change; and alternative digital futures, including democratic, cooperative, and public-interest models. It supports paper development, grant capture, external partnerships, and researcher development, especially for postgraduate and early career researchers. The cluster reports fortnightly meetings, critical friends sessions, guest speakers, joint webinars and an annual cluster away day.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Contact details

On the map

Go to larger version of this map

Categorisation

Type

Tags

University affiliation(s)

University of Sheffield
Sheffield