QSHIFT: Decision-Making in the Age of Quantum AI Advances and investment in quantum computing (QC) have the potential to significantly affect how we solve complex problems across industries. While still in its infancy today, QC could, for instance, significantly increase the computational power of existing machine learning systems, resulting in Quantum AI. This evolution, which…
PSM-AP: Public Service Media in the Age of Platforms For almost 100 years, public service media (PSM) have played a central role in European culture and society. However, over the past decade the rise of global platforms and streaming services has transformed the environment within which PSM operates. PSM organisations have to compete with global…
PolarVis: Visual Persuasion in a Transforming Europe – the affective and polarising power of visual content in online political discourse The PolarVis project examines the role of visual content in processes of political polarisation and belonging in the digital age. The visual dimension is increasingly salient online, where it underpins both conflict and connection. Photos,…
PlatFAMs: Platforming Families – tracing digital transformations in everyday life across generations Digital platforms have penetrated deeply our everyday life, affecting people’s informal interactions, ways of living and understanding of the world, as well as the institutional structures that underpin these. Increasingly, digital platforms provide an infrastructure for learning, social connections, gaming, commerce and engagement…
© R. & S. Łotysz MEDEP: Media and Epidemics: Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries What is the relationship between technologies of communication and social and cultural change? This collaborative project between humanities researchers and art practitioners proposes to explore this question in the context of public health…
JUSTHEAT: Looking back, moving forwards: a social and cultural history of home heating Home heating is a major source of greenhouse gases, therefore reducing the carbon footprint of our heating systems is a priority in the context of the climate emergency. This will be achieved through the introduction of low carbon heating systems to our…
HuLog: Humans in Digital Logistics The Humans in Digital Logistics (HuLog) project investigates how digital technologies shape work and employment conditions in warehouses in Europe. Today, warehouses are profoundly affected by rapidly evolving digital technologies along the whole supply chain, which facilitate the online purchase of goods, harmonise systems for tracking parcels and optimise warehouse…
GIG-OSH: New challenges for occupational safety and health in times of the digital transformation in Europe: the role of digital labour platforms Digitalisation is transforming labour markets and altering labour relations. This has laid the foundations for the rise of digital labour platforms, which connect the supply and demand for labour. The growth of digital…
GEiO: Gender Equitable Interactions Online – Supporting gender equity in work-based videoconferencing The GEiO project investigates the role of gender in online work meetings across four nations (Germany, Iceland, Spain and the UK). Research exploring how gender becomes relevant to videoconferencing at work remains in its infancy. Existing investigations suggest that with the exponential rise…
DIGITISLAM: Digital Islam across Europe: Understanding Muslims’ Participation in Online Islamic Environments European Muslim communities (and indeed all communities) have been transformed by the digital revolution and new processes of knowledge creation, acquisition and dissemination that erode traditional structures of authority. While many Muslims remain marginalised from European hierarchies of knowledge, digital platforms provide novel…