UM Digital Studies Institute

We study ethical, social, and aesthetic implications of digital technologies - particularly focusing on digital media & race, disability, gender, and power.

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Today’s the day! 📢 Join us for “Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future” with Anita Chan.
🗓 March 24, 3:00 PM
📍1010 Weiser Hall + Zoom
💻 Register now: https://t.co/lGvhIMPBJI
See you there!

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We’re grateful for the students, faculty, and supporters who make the DSI possible💙

This #GivingBlueday, help us continue this work.

Give → https://t.co/4vftVyV21H

#DigitalStudies #CriticalTech #DigitalJustice

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Future.exe is being rewritten…

At the DSI, we’re reimagining digital futures through ethics, justice, and interdisciplinary research.

Help us keep building 💙
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#GivingBlueday #DigitalStudies #CritialTech

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From AI to digital surveillance to XR design, DSI students explore the most urgent questions of our digital world.

Help us sustain this interdisciplinary learning 💙
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#GivingBlueday #DigitalStudies #AMPLIFYStudentShowcase

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At the DSI, we study technology not just as tools, but as cultural forces shaping how we communicate, learn, and imagine the future.

Invest in this work today 📚💻 Donate here: https://t.co/4vftVyV21H

#GivingBlueday #CriticalTech #DigitalJustice

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💙 Recurring gifts to the DSI will be matched!

Through U-M’s Look to Michigan Matching Program, your monthly gift can be doubled (up to $100/month through July 2026).

That means:
$10 → $20
$50 → $100

Sustain our student programming here: https://t.co/4vftVyVzRf

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How do technologies shape power, identity, and inequality?

DSI brings students and scholars together to critically engage these questions across race, gender, disability, class, and more.

Support this work → https://t.co/4vftVyVzRf

#GivingBlueday #DigitalStudies #CriticalTech

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It’s #GivingBlueday 💙

At U-M’s Digital Studies Institute, we help students explore the ethical, cultural, and social implications of new technologies.

Support the next generation of critical digital thinkers → https://t.co/4vftVyV21H

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👀 A week away! Join us for the DSI Lecture Series “Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future” with Anita Chan.
🗓 March 24, 3:00 PM
📍1010 Weiser Hall + Zoom (Hybrid)
🔗 Register: https://t.co/lGvhIMP3Ua
Don’t miss this timely conversation!

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What do big tech, eugenics & your data trail have in common? Find out at our DSI Lecture Series, “Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future” with Anita Chan.
🗓 Mar. 24, 3:00 PM
📍1010 Weiser Hall + Zoom
🔗https://t.co/lGvhIMP3Ua

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Join us for our upcoming DSI Lecture Series with micha cárdenas on trans ecological poetics, care beyond the human, and media futures 🎉

📅 Feb. 24 | 3 PM (ET) | Zoom

Register: https://t.co/nTlcrc8Qft

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Good news! 🎉

We’ve extended the application deadline for the 6th Annual Digital IDEAS Summer Institute.

🗓️ New deadline: Feb. 22

Still time to join us May 31–June 5, 2026 as we explore this year’s theme: AFTER.

Apply here: https://t.co/2UpvKVcaMA💡
#DigitalIDEAS

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🚨 LAST DAY 🚨

Apply today to work alongside faculty moderators like Dr. Aubrey Anable at Digital IDEAS 2026, exploring aftermaths, afterlives, afterworlds & the hereafter.

⏰ Deadline: Feb. 1
🔗 https://t.co/4HuFG6SQv4
#DigitalIDEAS2026

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🎉 Join us for AMPLIFY: the DSI Student Showcase on Tue, Feb. 3 | 3–6 PM!
Explore student work across podcasts, zines, digital art, games, and more.
📍 North Quad
🔗 https://t.co/XfCEGzAcWQ

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🚨 5 days left!
Digital IDEAS applications close Feb. 1.
Please share with students, scholars, artists & technologists in your networks who are thinking critically about the digital AFTER.

Apply: https://t.co/4HuFG6TokC
#DigitalIDEAS2026 #CriticalTech

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The 6th Annual Digital IDEAS Summer Institute returns May 31–June 5, 2026! 💡💻✨This year’s theme: AFTER — exploring aftermaths, afterlives, afterworlds & the hereafter. Details + apply: https://t.co/4HuFG6TokC
#DigitalStudies #DigitalIDEAS2026 #CriticalTech

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What does creative constraint look like when using retro tech? 🎮 In our latest Q&A, Prof. Toni Bushner dives into the world of chiptune, where old-school hardware becomes a playground for radical creativity → https://t.co/sRL5AF2zbK #DigitalStudies #Chiptune #8BitMusic

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Today’s the day!📢Join us for “Forging Feminist Futures from 'Creepy' Technologies: The Politics of Smart Tech and Liberation Dreams”
with Neda Atanasoski & Nassim Parvin.
🗓 3–4:30 PM
📍 1010 Weiser Hall (10th floor) + Zoom
💻 Register now: https://t.co/OatoBLmVAg

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👀 A week away! Join us at “Forging Feminist Futures from 'Creepy' Technologies: The Politics of Smart Tech and Liberation Dreams” with Neda Atanasoski & Nassim Parvin.
🗓 Tue, Sept 30 | 3–4:30 PM
📍 1010 Weiser Hall + Zoom
🔗 Register: https://t.co/OatoBLmnKI

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What do smart dust, credit scores & sexcams have in common? Find out in “Forging Feminist Futures from 'Creepy' Technologies” with Atanasoski & Parvin, part of the DSI Lecture Series.
🗓 Sept. 30 | 3–4:30 PM
📍 1010 Weiser Hall + Zoom
🎟 Register: https://t.co/CiGNE5nPEa