Early Career Workshop: New Perspectives in the Digital Society

King's College, London - Centre for Digital Culture

7 November 2018, King’s Building, room K-1.14 h. 1.30

The blending of offline and online interaction has had many talk about a “digital society” within which human and nonhuman actors coexist, and social media become batttlefields for culture wars. The contours of this “digital society”, however, are still to be questioned. In this workshop we will discuss some of the most interesting, cutting-edge research on the emergent “digital society”. How do we interpret key events and issues concerning the “digital society”? What are the key critical aspects that pertain to its emergence? What are the new frontiers of explorations to research societal issues in the digital era?

The workshop is free to attend. Provisional schedule below.

h .1.30pm Introduction

h 1.45pm: Keynote 1 – Kate Devlin (King’s College, London)

h. 2.40-3.40 pm Panel 1: Digital Sociality

Alessandro Caliandro (University of Bath)
Sophie Bishop (King’s College, London)
Daniel Chavez Heras (King’s College, London)

3.40 – 4: Coffee break

4 – 5 Panel 2: Roundtable: Digital Methods for the Digital Society
(Alessandro Gandini, Alessandro Caliandro, Jonathan Gray, + others)

h. 5 – 5.45 pm Final keynote: Content moderation: Assemblages of Silence on Social Media, Ysabel Gerrard (U of Sheffield)

h. 5.45 – 6pm Conclusive remarks

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