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Student Spotlight: Iván Chaar-López

Congratulations to Professor Anna Fisher!

Assistant Professor John Cheney-Lippold's new book "We Are Data" is released!

Want to learn about text analysis? Attend "Tech & Texts" this fall

Announcing AADHum's 2017-2018 series: Black Movement(s)

11/17 @ 11:45am Lecture: Social Media as Social Transition Machinery

Lost and Found in the Digital - Marisa Parham | 2.14.18 at 2pm

Graduate Student Cindy Lin and Assistant Professor Silvia Lindtner will present at 'Supply & Command' at NYU!

Digital Studies team received one of two 2018 Spring Term grants from the UM Humanities Collaboratory!

Christian Sandvig quoted in Boston Globe story on Cambridge Analytica scandal!

Ivan Chaar-Lopez cited in Bloomberg article about digital surveillance on the southern border!

John Cheney-Lippold, associate professor of American culture, quoted in the NYT!

Professor Christian Sandvig called "a good guy with a bot" in Politico!

Digital Studies faculty Sophia Brueckner and Christian Sandvig receive a University of Michigan Humanities Collaboratory Grant for their project "Sensing Algorithms!"

Lisa Nakamura quoted on humanities research spending in The Chronicle of Higher Education!

Digital Studies faculty, Christian Sandvig, quoted in ABA Journal!

UM Initiative on Disability Studies (UMInDS) is hosting a Digital Disability lecture series this fall!

Digital Studies is Hiring!

LSA Technology Services Supports Digital Scholarship

Christian Sandvig discusses changes at Facebook

DSI sponsors 2019 Michigan Meeting: Living a Digital Life

One Tough Question ~ An Interview with Lisa Nakamura

Lisa Nakamura Discusses Cancel Culture with NBC News

Christian Sandvig Discusses Ethical Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence

U-M Campuswide Extended Reality Initiative Announced!

Anna W. Fisher Discusses the MIT Media Lab Scandal

DSI Hiring Lecturer III/Advisor

DSI Faculty Maria Cotera discusses Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Project

Justin Joque Discusses the Iowa Caucus

DSI Director Lisa Nakamura discusses how we can correct toxic behavior online

Clifford Lampe Explains Differences in Circulation of Digitally Doctored Media

Stephanie Rosen Delivers Keynote Address at Network Detroit Conference

Oliver Haimson Wins Major NSF Research Award

Sarita Schoenebeck Discusses Online Shaming and Inability to Serve Justice

Osman Khan Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Scott Campbell Discusses the Re-Emergence of Chain Emails

Nazanin Andalibi Receives NSF funding for Emotion Recognition Research

Christian Sandvig on Bureaucratic Automated Systems and Relevant "Accountability Gap"

What Does Effective Teaching Look Like Right Now?

Privacy and Surveillance in Remote Teaching Platforms

DSI Announces New Faculty

Recognizing and Reducing Student Instability

DSI Postdoctoral Research Fellow Wins Dissertation Award

DSI Director Lisa Nakamura Quoted on CBS News Regarding 'Cancel Culture'

M. Remi Yergeau Receives Faculty Recognition Award

Cliff Lampe Quoted on Whitmer Kidnapping Plot

Apryl William Discusses "The Year of Karen" and Racism in America

Winter 2021 Course Videos and Offerings

Sarita Schoenbeck Quoted in AP News Article on Trump and Social Media Bans

Nazanin Andalibi, DSI Faculty, addresses Instagram's New "Shop" Feature

White Surveillance and Black Digital Publics

M. Remi Yergeau Named Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in 2021

Apryl Williams Deconstructs the "Karen Meme" with Harvard Law Today

Michigan Daily Explores "What is Digital Studies?"

White Surveillance and Black Digital Publics Podcast

Mellon Foundation grants $4.8M to U-M to study Digital Inequality with DSI Principal Investigators

Cliff Lampe Quoted in AP News, Facebook and Freedom of Speech

Megan Ankerson quoted in The Atlantic, Internet Archiving vs "Digital Rot"

PhD Students in Digital Studies Receive Research Fellowships

Christian Sandvig cited in ACLU's "important victory in civil rights" redefining journalists and computing researchers in online platforms.

PhD Students in Digital Studies Receive Anti-Racism Summer Research Grants

Libby Hemphill, DSI Faculty quotes on Teaching Technology How to Find White Nationalist Content

Mark Ackerman, DSI Affiliate Remarks on Relationship to College Degrees and the Increase of Cultural Acceptance of Science

Apryl Williams speaks to the question, "Are your dating preferences racist?" on Mic

Cliff Lampe quoted in ABC News, Facebook and Germany's "Big Delete"

UMSI Faculty Libby Hemphill Quoted in Forbes on Facebook's Name Change

Silvia Lindtner Wins the 2021 Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize From the Society for East Asian Anthropology

Scott Campbell Quoted in Wall Street Journal Following Astroworld Festival Incident

DSI Faculty, Apryl Williams, granted collaborative scholarship on anti-racism research

Apryl Williams Quoted on Portraying Minorities in Virtual Reality

Scott Campbell on Solitude in the Digital Age

Sheila Murphy is Awarded LSA Michigan Humanities Award for 2021-2022

Rethinking Pedagogy Through Game Design with Dr. Toni Bushner

Associate Professor of Information Sarita Schoenebeck Quoted by Wired Commenting on Twitters New Edit Button

DSI Faculty Libby Hemphill's Article on Combating Hate Speech Featured in VentureBeat

The DISCO Network Book Jam or Five Days of Collaborative Writing June 2022

DSI Faculty Yarden Katz's Article on Intelligence Under a Racial Capitalist Regime Published in the Monthly Review

Dr. Chad Van de Wiele in Conversation with Rhea Basarkar

"Being Online with Dr. Toni Bushner " by Giselle Mills

Grace Wilsey and Marisol Fila in Conversation with Júlia Irion Martins

"Teaching While Crip" by Giselle Mills

Digital IDEAS Photo Gallery

Now Hiring: Postdoctoral Resarch Fellow in Digital Studies

The AMPLIFY Student Showcase

DSI Faculty Member Apryl Williams Quoted in The New York Times

DSI Faculty Member Apryl Williams and DSI Affiliate Faculty Member Megan Threats Named 2023 Anti-Racism Research & Community Impact Faculty Fellows

You're Invited: DSI Esports Symposium

Crip Computing: On Access Histories and Access Futures

Unveiling 'Asian Futures, Without Asians': Astria Suparak's Exploration in The Michigan Daily

Michigan Daily Explores Astria Suparak's Groundbreaking Exhibit on Sci-Fi and Cultural Appropriation

"First-Gen Scholar Tyler Musgrave’s Innovative Project: A Journey into Restorative Justice and Online Identities"

DISCO Network | Curation, Accessibility, and Repatriation in Carly Sahr’s Archive

The DSI’s DISCO Network is Awarded $100,000 from the U-M Arts Initiative for ‘Search Engines: Art, Tech, Justice’

Meet our DISCO Network Fellows: Rianna Walcott

Meet our DISCO Network Fellows: Lida Zeitlin-Wu

DISCO Network | Letter from the Director Fall 2022

DISCO Network Event Reflection: Crip Mentoring, Access Advocacy, and the Job Market

Meet our DISCO Network Fellows: David Adelman

DISCO Graduate Scholar Lightning Talks

Seize the Moment: The DISCO Network’s Super Panel

DISCO Network | Director’s Letter

Course Spotlight | Critical Digital Visualization

Barbie: A Conversation Between Sarah Murray and Júlia Irion Martins

DSI Faculty Member Apryl Williams's writes "When Love and the Algorithm Don't Mix"

Event Spotlight | Trans Studies in the Virtual Age

Course Spotlight | Digital Aesthetics

Virtual Reality in U-M Classrooms

Event Spotlight | Asian futures, without Asians

Event Spotlight | DSI Research Colloquium: Architecture and the Arb

DSI Governing Faculty Member Christian Sandvig Receives the President’s Award for Public Impact

Q&A with Digital Accessible Futures Lab GSRA Pratiksha Thangam Menon

Event Spotlight | DSI Esports Symposium

Event Spotlight | Playing Like an Asian: Race and Esports

DISCO Summit 2024

DSI Faculty Awarded Institute for Humanities Collaboratory Proposal Development Grant for Reparative AI

Event Spotlight | DSI Research Colloquium: Intentional Bugs

Course Highlight | Stephanie Moody’s “Writing with ChatGPT”

Event Spotlight | DSI Lecture Series: Speedwatching, Access, and Netflix

Feature | Digital Cultures of Nostalgia

Tess Carichner: Senior Nursing Student Pioneers Healthcare Accessibility with Art and Advocacy

DSI lecture series with Whit Pow featured in the Michigan Daily

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