Digital Society @SalfordUni

Critically analyse & creatively respond to a world undergoing digital transformation @SalfordUni

[Digital Society @SalfordUni @MScDigiSociety]

One month to go until #DeviantPleasuresConference @SalfordUni

Hear from leading researchers across the social sciences

Great list of confirmed speakers & brilliant abstracts received🙌

All welcome, more info here: https://t.co/LOdVXtuTw2

Register here: https://t.co/9TTYTbsktW

[Digital Society @SalfordUni @MScDigiSociety]

*Conference announcement* 😀

#DigitalSociety
@SalfordUni
Continues with a new symposium: Deviant Pleasure Markets & Digital Technologies

Excellent list of confirmed speakers so far includes @susannapaasonen @TeelaSanders @profbenlight & @angusbancroft

https://t.co/itZyEQ7XBF

[Digital Society @SalfordUni @MScDigiSociety]

Digital democracy will face its greatest test in 2020 https://t.co/Emnvqsb3t7

[Digital Society @SalfordUni @MScDigiSociety]

Print media - right-wing bias corroding public discourse?

https://t.co/PqacnhzPUr

https://t.co/hOASd1jG1r

[Loughborough University @lborouniversity]

Our research shows @UKLabour had a substantial deficit of positive to negative news reports in the first week of #GE2019. Read the full @lboroCRCC report: https://t.co/f4V5b3Pv4o

Image: Overall evaluations in newspapers (weighted by circulation)

[Digital Society @SalfordUni @MScDigiSociety]

Which form of media has the most negative impact on democratic elections? 🧐

#GE2019 #DigitalSociety

RT for larger sample!

(see thread below for extra info)

[Digital Society @SalfordUni @MScDigiSociety]

Social media - are fake news, post-truth and alternative facts undermining the very core of democracy?

https://t.co/tWbhd1XLUB

[Digital Society @SalfordUni @MScDigiSociety]

Thinking about studying for a masters degree? Interested in the various ways new technologies are changing society?

Join us for our Open Day to find out more about how you can respond to a world undergoing digital transformation. 27 Nov. Register here:

https://t.co/SxSnq5Athb

[Ethics in Bricks @EthicsInBricks]

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
- Jean Baudrillard

[Digital Society @SalfordUni @MScDigiSociety]

How can we make Twitter data useful for social scientific research? Great explanation in this video by @DrLukeSloan 👇

https://t.co/qEBTVdB0Kj

#DigitalSociety #SalfordResearchMethods

[Digital Society @SalfordUni @MScDigiSociety]

Great move by Twitter to ban political advertising in a week where Facebook admitted they fail to fact-check any of the political ads they run.

🤔 What else needs to be done?

#DigitalSociety
https://t.co/c5QWrdSFOk

[Dr Cristina Vasilica @cristinavas]

Privileged to have contributed a chapter to #Football as #medicine book with @alexfenton & @AMC_83 Great believer in using #hobbies as an engagement/activation mechanism to keep an active body and mind #socialprescribing @UoS_HealthSoc @MScDigiSociety @profbenlight

[Tom Redshaw @tom_redshaw]

What is #DigitalSociety? I've written some reflections on how social science is responding to digitisation, and what still needs to be done, reviewing great new texts by @nigelbdodd @jwajcman1 @MaryChayko @FeonaAttwood for @sociologyjnl

https://t.co/tMcNQWJRLz

[Digital Society @SalfordUni @MScDigiSociety]

How is sexuality governed on social media platforms? Great exploration of digital practices by our very own @profbenlight ! #DigitalSociety #NotSafeForWork @SalfordUniNews

[The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social @mitpress]

Happy Book Birthday to "#NSFW: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media" by @susannapaasonen @kylzjarrett and @profbenlight #sex #censorship #socialmedia #humor #risk #notsafeforwork
https://t.co/4SM3ROkHPA

[Digital Society @SalfordUni @MScDigiSociety]

What do companies do with all the data they generate about you? Are you really the same as your #DigitalSelf ? Great video 👇 #DigitalSociety

[Carl Miller @carljackmiller]

I recently worked with the BBC to try to discover what I looked like through all the personal data that's generated about me. The most detailed and distorted info was held, I learned, by companies I'd never heard of before.

https://t.co/6jrD3Xvwof

[Digital Society @SalfordUni @MScDigiSociety]

Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor https://t.co/VsKxlBYAYX

[Digital Society @SalfordUni @MScDigiSociety]

How should social media platforms tackle hate speech & radicalisation? Does deplatforming work? Great reflections important for #DigitalSociety by @JoeMulhall_

[Joe Mulhall @JoeMulhall_]

Long Read: I’ve had a good look at the debates around deplatforming the far right from social media, and argue that it works, so let’s get on with it! https://t.co/xh9KbmCWQ0

[Dr. Karen Gregory (@karengregory.bsky.social) @mscdigsoc]

Please share @JessieNYC @tressiemcphd @chrishtill @MScDigiSociety @EdCDCS

[Tom Redshaw @tom_redshaw]

Great article on the environmental impact of digital technologies, an increasingly important topic that is generating some fantastic research (but more is needed!) #DigitalSociety @MScDigiSociety

https://t.co/n5ES7hXVMZ

Thanks @pdlampard