Digital Cultures and Societies

The Southern Digitalities Summer School is designed to develop critical skills for early career scholars of media and communication working on digital transformations across a broad range of Asian contexts, spanning West, South, Central, East, Southeast Asia, and beyond.

Explore how social media shapes identity in our upcoming HDR workshop, facilitated by Dr Kelley Cotter. Participants will investigate how algorithms influence what we see and how we understand ourselves and others, engaging with concepts like algorithmic identities and algorithmized selves.

Unlock the power of parliamentary transcripts with our hands-on workshop! Learn to access and analyze Federal Hansard using computational text analysis (no coding experience needed).

This two-day symposium explores the visibility games at the heart of social media’s promotional and creator cultures. From influencers and everyday users to advertisers and automated algorithms, everyone on digital platforms is caught in the dynamics of being seen, being hidden, or being unknowingly profiled. What does it mean to be hyper-visible? What does it mean to stay in the algorithmic dark?

This one-day event is an invitation to school leaders, teachers, researchers, and community organisations to come together and reframe the way we understand and support boys and young men – not through sensationalism, but through curiosity, care and collaboration.

In this two-hour workshop, we’ll look at the key ingredients that go into a great article, thinking about genre, audience, and concept.

What happens to our understanding of the digital when we begin with time, rather than space? This symposium invites participants whose projects explore the entanglements of digital technologies and temporalities.

Theory can be seen as scary, boring, or irrelevant. But theorizing can be a creative and incredibly powerful way to generate new questions and push your research practice in new directions. In this two-day workshop, you’ll be introduced to theorizing as a creative practice.

Do you want to create a website to showcase your research or professional work but unsure where to start? This workshop provides an introduction to building your own website, giving you full control over your online presence. Designed for researchers, students, and anyone wanting a personal website, using the free GitHub platform.

In this workshop run by The Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies we take participants through a range of data collection strategies that focus on different digital traces and how these strategies could be integrated into other kinds of digital methods.