The Digital Economy: Ubercapitalism or Post-Capitalism? King’s College London, 11 May 2018 This international conference aims at exploring the digital economy, understood as the new forms of production, work, consumption, distribution, and finance ushered in by the diffusion of digital… Read More ›
Archive for February 2018
Digital Cultures: Knowledge / Culture / Technology
International Conference / Leuphana University of Lüneburg 19–22 September 2018, Lüneburg, Germany co-hosted by the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), Leuphana University of Lüneburg, and the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Western Sydney University, as part of the Knowledge/Culture… Read More ›
CfP: Using Creative & Visual Methods in Comparative Research
A one-day seminar funded by the International Journal for Social Research Methodology Friday, 15th June, University of Surrey CALL FOR PAPERS Keynote speakers: Agata Lisiak (Bard College, Berlin) and Rita Chawla-Duggan (University of Bath Increasing use is made of both creative… Read More ›
Answering social science questions with social media data
March 8th, 2018 9:30am to 5:00pm Wellcome Collection, London After last year’s successful ‘Introduction to tools for social media research’, the SRA and #NSMNSS are teaming up again to deliver this one-day conference. As social media research matures as a… Read More ›
CfP Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation Workshop 2018
6th Annual CPERI Workshop, 29-30 July 2018 Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University, UK We cordially invite submissions to the 6th workshop on the Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation (CPERI), following previous events at Lancaster (2012), Toronto (2013),… Read More ›
‘Social Listening’ Workshop: building qualitative skills in social media research
10am – 4pm, Saturday 24 February 2018 Palmer 101, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading ‘Social Listening’ Workshop Following the interdisciplinary showcase conference ‘’Social Listening’ in the past, present and future’ in November 2017, we are pleased to announce a British… Read More ›
Understanding the political economy of digital technology
A BSA Digital Sociology Study Group event hosted by the Web Science conference at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam May 27th 2018 In more optimistic times we thought of ourselves as masters of digital technology: we told ourselves it was empowering, liberating,… Read More ›