Warwick's hub for critical digital research.
The CDI brings together researchers across humanities, social sciences and sciences to think with and through our digital condition.
We use and develop digital research techniques and associated tools to advance knowledge about culture and society ('thinking with' the digital), while also taking up the digital as a substantive critical topic ('thinking through' the digital).
Prefer pages to playback? Catch up on CDI-TV without having to watch it (and without having to look at us!). Hybrid Encounters is a downloadable PDF of edited transcripts from our first year of livestreamed sessions (July 2024-June 2025), including a short intro by the CDI team.
A portable archive of low-budget, high-intensity studio presence and content rich conversation covering topics from tactical media to the politics of AI, from vaporware/backrooms/weirdcore to the neo-plebeian condition, from algorithmic management to digital disconnection.
In this CDI-TV stream we will engage in a dialogue about AI and the workplace. Drawing on David Graeber's critique of Bullshit Jobs and Cory Doctorow’s notion of the ‘enshittification of the internet', we will discuss how the spread of AI and metric-driven management is not only multiplying meaningless work in the private sector, but also trapping public sector workers - teachers, healthcare workers, civil servants - in an ever-expanding regime of quantification that hollows out the sense and purpose of their work. We will explore the deterioration of working conditions this produces and the strategies of resistance that workers are developing in response.
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Streaming at: 18.03.26, 4:30pm GMT from Warwick Media Lab (FAB 1.16). Check back for link on the day.
Between 28th January and 1st February 2026, CDI-TV joined SAN Archipelago at Transmediale Festival 2026: forming a studio-chain of livestreamers spanning Krakow, Kyiv, Budapest, Warwick, Leeds, Munich and Vilnius, linked by converging and shared currents. This pop-up collaboration worked as a low-budget, high-intensity carrier-net for collective presence across borders, territories and time-zones within the festival. The team:
Over several days, the network appeared as a chill-ready, shaded locality, where visitors could drift in and out of live-streamed interviews, discussions and performances.
Read our report on livestreaming from Silent Green Berlin @ Institute of Network Cultures.
Watch archived livestreams: https://ukrainatv.streamart.studio/
Discover the research projects we have supported and hosted, covering themes such as data infrastructures, platform governance, app studies, digital intimacy and AI. Our work engages with critical questions around digital infrastructures, cultural shifts and the politics of technological change.
The CDI interdisciplinary research network at Warwick brings together researchers, practitioners and organisations to critically examine digital technologies and pursue experimental alternatives. Find out how to join and contribute to our future research projects.
