The Digital Societies research group is working to build strong, sustainable, critical and actionable research on how digital technologies change society: in the past, the present and in the future.
The Group
We bring together researchers from across the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law (economics, education, geography, political science, law, management, social policy, sociology). We warmly welcome members from all other Faculties.
We work closely with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute and the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures.
Our Motivation
Ours is an era of profound digital transformation. Increasingly interconnected digital devices and the data and business models that they generate are becoming entangled with every aspect of social life. This is only set to continue, as machine learning, artificial intelligence, surveillance capitalism, robotics and quantum computing gather pace. We use our social science expertise and methods to analyse and understand these futures in the making and use our insights to help shape digital futures in a way that is fair and prosperous for all.
Our Activites
We are a relatively new research group, set up in January 2019. Our main aim for the coming years is to build our network and to connect the research of colleagues across the University and beyond. We are planning a range of activities including guest speakers, seminars and symposiums to showcase our research and build wider networks.
All ideas for future events are very welcome.
