This spring's Digzoom seminars

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Since late January, there has been a series of Digzoom talks hosted by Umeå University's Digsum research centre and I have managed to attend most of them. The majority of these have been recorded and then uploaded to YouTube and I've decided to create a blog post to archive links to them in the same place.

The first talk was Zizi Papacharissi's on "Affective Publics and COVID-19: Solidarity and Distance."

The second, Whitney Phillips's "The Apex Predator President: Using Ecological Metaphors to Reframe Harm Online" can be found here.

Up next was Nick Couldry with "From the Myth of the Mediated Centre to the Myth of Big Data: Reflections on Media's Role in Social Order"

Then came Charles Ess's "Should You Kick a Robot Dog? Research Ethics in Human-Machine Communication"

Hannah Metzler followed with her talk "Collective Emotions During the Covid-19 Outbreak"

The next one up was Deen Freelon's presentation "Hashtag Heroes vs. Disinfo Dystopia: The Left, the Right, and the Truth About Social Media Activism"

The next presentation was Brooke Foucault Welles's "Voice, Attention, and (In)Equality: Connecting Online Talk to Political and Civic Change"
The last YouTube talk in this line-up was Chris Bail's "Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make our Platforms Less Polarizing"

There are three missing, José van Dijck's "Governing Public Values in a Platform Society," Sarah T. Roberts's "Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media" (which didn't take place due to illness), and Mark Carrigan's "Post-Pandemic Scholarship: Some Initial Thoughts,"

A big thank you to the Digsum team for a very interesting series of presentations!

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