TRAVIS: Trust And Visuality – Everyday digital practices

TRAVIS: Trust And Visuality – Everyday digital practices The ongoing crisis of trust in specific institutions (government, media, healthcare system) is often blamed for many of the social, cultural and political problems European societies are currently facing. While many researchers are exploring the relations between trust, technology and misinformation, we need to understand how trust…

SoLiXG: The Social Life of XG – Digital infrastructures and the reconfiguration of sovereignty and imagined communities

SoLiXG: The Social Life of XG – Digital infrastructures and the reconfiguration of sovereignty and imagined communities Post-pandemic recovery plans in the EU and the UK involve an unprecedented expansion of digital infrastructures that promise to strengthen the resilience and sovereignty of the European Union and ‘upgrade’ the UK respectively. These new technologies will be…

SMARTUP: Smart(ening up the modern) home – Redesigning power dynamics through domestic space digitalisation

SMARTUP: Smart(ening up the modern) home – Redesigning power dynamics through domestic space digitalisation What happens to home when it becomes smart/er? What does “smartness” at home mean? What are the various consequences of home smartening? SMARTUP targets these questions as it explores how digitalisation affects our homes. Home has long been positioned by means…

REMEDIS: REthinking MEdia literacy and DIgital Skills in Europe

REMEDIS: REthinking MEdia literacy and DIgital Skills in Europe Adopting an evidence-based approach to REthinking MEdia Literacy and DIgital Skills in Europe, REMEDIS seeks to provide a framework for evidence-based evaluative research of media literacy and digital skills. REMEDIS aims to inform practitioners and policymakers about so far severely underdeveloped evidence that links interventions around…