This video outlines the findings of a three-year research project that analysed how digitalisation shapes the form, content and consequences of conspiracy theories, including online sociality and offline actions and effects. Rather than seeing digitalisation as a process that has universal outcomes, or conspiracy theories as the same over space and time, the REDACT project considered online conspiracy theories and counter-disinformation organisations across a range of European countries.
Tags: disinformation; conspiracy theories; social media.
The DIGeMERGE project has studied the digitalization of emergency communication in the four Nordic countries. In Sweden, DIGeMERGE researcher Linda Paxling followed the team behind the Swedish national information portal for emergency communication known as krisinformation.se, examining how the communicators there use different online platforms—such as their own website and app, and social media. Paxling explored how social media logics are reshaping emergency communication and institutional trust. In Norway, DIGeMERGE researchers Åshild Kolås and Stine Bergersen studied a new cell broadcast emergency alerting system, Nødvarsel på Mobil, introduced in 2023 as a digital supplement to emergency sirens. They investigated responses to the testing of the cell broadcast alerting system, and to its first use in a real-life emergency- an extreme weather event with flooding in eastern Norway.
Tags: emergency, human needs, values and trust, digitalization, transformation.
These posters present the PlatFAMs project (Platforming Families: Tracing digital transformations in everyday life across generations): The partners, the research questions, the methodology and the abstracts of publications currently (spring 2026) on their way to publication.
Tags: technology at home, transformation, community, family relation, generations.
This booklet presents the most important findings of PlatFAMs – Platforming Families: Tracing digital transformations in everyday life across generations. It tells the story of how the project was planned and carried out, but most importantly, it gives a summary of the findings of the project in a form that is accessible for participants, NGOs, policy makers and members of the general public.
Tags: technology at home, transformation, community, family relation, generations.
This is a film of stills capturing the final exhibition of Justheat: A Social and Cultural History of Home Heating. The exhibition draws together the three years of artwork of all four artists who were part of the interdisciplinary research teams, Henna Åho (Finland), Denise Lobont (Romania), Ram Krishna Ranjan (Sweden), Becky Shaw (UK) and film-maker Miles Umney (UK). The photographs features are by Shaw and Peter Martin. The exhibition was held at Site Gallery Sheffield May 14-18, 2025 and was accompanied by an artists publication and discussion to reflect on the emotional, cultural and political impact of home heating. The exhibition built on seven previous exhibitions held by the individual artists in their home nations. The exhibition includes textile, photographic and foam carved works by Lobont, a photo montage of a textile work by Åho, sculptures and wall assemblages by Krishna Ranjan, and cardboard constructions, drawings, video and postcards by Shaw.
Tags: technology at home, creative-artistic work, transformation, human needs, environment.
This is an artist’s publication produced as part of Justheat: A Social and Cultural History of Home Heating. It brings together the work of the four artists who were part of the interdisciplinary research teams, Henna Åho (Finland), Denise Lobont (Romania), Ram Krishna Ranjan (Sweden) and Becky Shaw (UK) The publication was curated by lead artist Shaw and designed by An Endless Supply. The publication includes 27 photographs and drawings by all artists, a section on artists in research and an original designed artefact by Edit Gyenge (with support from Residenta9 Romania). The publication brings together artworks and process, as artistic process is often hidden to audiences. The publication experiments with colour to convey heating transition, playing with movement between red, orange and blue within the text. Paper versions of the publication were free at the exhibition and the Public Conversation. Paper versions are still available c/o [email protected]
Tags: technology at home, creative-artistic work, transformation, human needs, environment.
This is a moving image artwork that was produced as part of Justheat: A Social and Cultural History of Home Heating. It is the work of Becky Shaw (UK artist). The work responds to the oral history accounts of home heating that were gathered in the UK during the research. The oral histories showed us that despite our tendency to follow or aspire to grand narratives of epochs: the ‘age of coal’ or the ‘age of electricity’, people assemble their lives differently: their memories, earlier technologies and thoughts of the future are part of their present. People also live with heating technologies from other times depending on where they live, their affluence and their culture. The video combines direct, unpolished manual techniques and the moving body, with digital video making, to connect with the way our heating lives assemble and connect the analogue and the digital.
Tags: technology at home, creative-artistic work, transformation, human needs, time.