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).
Today, March 6th, 17:00-18:00 GMT
Join us for a conversation about proliferating efforts to create artificial societies. How artificial are the “societies” we live in today? To what extent is the state and tech industry to blame for the embrace of “social engineering”? What does the “techlash” have to do with it? And how is it that despite widespread criticism of Big Tech, we continue to see an increasing intervention of these companies in our everyday realities?
Tune in live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v7t2T07d78
Part of the Artificial Societies symposium: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/events/artificial-societies/
This project explores the benefits of openness for qualitative and mixed-methods research, challenging the dominance of quantitative models in open data practices. It examines how data curation, infrastructures, and stewardship can support open inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. By inviting researchers at Warwick to contribute their datasets, the project takes a case-based approach to develop tailored strategies for open, interpretative research.
Friday 7th March 2025, 9:30-17:30, Oculus Building (OC0.04), University of Warwick
Social life is increasingly being the object of interventions from engineering and economics. Platforms, AI and Big Tech are driving a growing engineering of the social, often without transparency and accountability. This event encourages interdisciplinary dialogue to problematise our present, explore alternatives, and address societal concerns amid growing public backlash against Big Tech.
Keynote Speakers: Noortje Marres and Mona Sloane
This event is co-organised by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies with the Edinburgh Futures Institute in collaboration with the Centre for Digital Inquiry and the International Sociological Association’s Working Group 10 on Digital Sociology.
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.
