The research environment advances critical perspectives on culture and society. We approach culture as living processes of continuity and discontinuity that are entangled with material, economic, affective and political processes at different scales and aspects of life. We study power and resistance in everyday life, as well as how institutions and spaces foster democracy and humanitarian values. Research is directed towards shifting material and environmental conditions for media, heritage, knowledge and cultural production.
Our expertise derives from a range of fields including media and communication studies, heritage studies, visual culture, anthropology, literature, history, intellectual property, peace and development studies, landscape architecture and science and technology studies. We embrace inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to research in conversation with other disciplines, fields and practices, and share an interest in innovative and visual methods, global and intersectional perspectives, as well as collaborations with artists, media producers and cultural institutions.
The environment also houses two bachelor’s programmes in Communication, Society, and Media Production, and Global Studies.
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Examples of ongoing research within this thematic area include:
• sustainable media and internet infrastructure
• computing cultures and materialities as heritage
• values and economies in algorithmic/data cultures
• social and cultural perspectives on dismantling communication networks
• emerging legacies of digital society in museums
• property regimes and regulatory aspects in digital societies
We investigate infrastructural and temporal dimensions of digital societies, the histories and relationships from which they emerge, the futures and legacies that they generate, and how these are inhabited, contested, and preserved.
Our expertise derives from a range of fields including media and communication studies, heritage studies, visual culture, anthropology, literature, history, intellectual property, peace and development studies, landscape architecture and science and technology studies. We embrace inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to research in conversation with other disciplines, fields and practices, and share an interest in innovative and visual methods, global and intersectional perspectives, as well as collaborations with artists, media producers and cultural institutions.
The environment also houses two bachelor’s programmes in Communication, Society, and Media Production, and Global Studies.
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Thematic Area, Digital Society, Infrastructure, Legacies
This thematic area advances research on the changing material conditions of media, technology, culture and heritage, and how they intersect with environmental, institutional, industrial, and social conditions. Research in this area is interdisciplinary and conducted in dialogue with relevant societal actors within and outside the university.Examples of ongoing research within this thematic area include:
• sustainable media and internet infrastructure
• computing cultures and materialities as heritage
• values and economies in algorithmic/data cultures
• social and cultural perspectives on dismantling communication networks
• emerging legacies of digital society in museums
• property regimes and regulatory aspects in digital societies
We investigate infrastructural and temporal dimensions of digital societies, the histories and relationships from which they emerge, the futures and legacies that they generate, and how these are inhabited, contested, and preserved.
