Frameworks for Studying Digital Culture

Data, algorithms, artificial intelligence and platforms have become integrated into our personal, educational, and professional lives. Cultural institutions increasingly rely on platforms to reach their audiences.

Content creators reshape the forms and dynamics of public discourse. And the aesthetics and agencies of digital technologies are pushing the limits of how we think about artistic practice, authenticity and authorship.

In this Thursday Salon, members of the Digital Culture Research Cluster will discuss how digital technologies both work in continuation of and introduce new questions to cultural research. How and why do we study digital phenomena through cultural theories? And in what ways do emerging technologies such as generative machine learning and new cultural economic patterns brought on by platformization push researchers to adjust their objects of research, methodologies and epistemologies?