Digital Communication and Culture (DigCom)
Our research group, established in the academic year 2024-2025, brings together researchers interested in various aspects of the digital culture and society at all levels, from postgraduate students to established academics.
- Established:
- 2024-2025
- Affiliation:
- Faculty of Education
- Academic discipline:
- Film, TV, and digital media
Photo: Anne Karhio
What we research
Our work covers a wide range of topics related to digital culture and society, from historical antecedents of present-day technologies to current and ongoing developments in network culture and communication, and ethical, creative and critical perspectives in shaping the future of digital and communication technologies. On this page, we will publish information on forthcoming events, publications, projects, and collaborations.
More about the research group
Our approach is interdisciplinary, and we welcome new members representing different backgrounds and research interests, and at any stage of their research career, interested in aspects of digital culture and society, and the technological imaginary of the digital age. We welcome collaboration across disciplinary and institutional borders and with research communities with related interests.
Previous and current research by group members covers topics and approaches including
- Digital literature, art, music and performance
- Digital tools and technologies in education and pedagogy
- Creative practice and artistic research
- Social media platforms and communities
- Digital and interface aesthetics
- Ethics and values of digital culture and society
- Equality, participation, and agency
- Phenomenology, embodiment, and artificial intelligence
- Posthumanist and new materialist philosophy
- Network infrastructures, the environment, and local and global geographies
- Big data and the network economy
- Media history and media archaeology
- Technology, folklore, mythology, and religion
Contact the research group
- anne.karhio@inn.no
- Phone
- +47 62 51 78 46
Members
- Anne Sofia Karhio (Leader)
- Cathrine Victoria Felix
- Oda Julie Hembre
- Ida Jahr
- Friederike Merkelbach
- Hans Kristian Rustad
- Ingeborg Amundrud (Associate member)
- Øyvind Tolmar Berg (Associate member)
- Steffen Egge Frøyhov (Associate member)
- Minttu Johler (Associate member)
- Petter Hagen Karlsen (Associate member)
- Mathieu Lacroix (Associate member)
- Kristin Vold Lexander (Associate member)
- Silje Hernæs Linhart (Associate member)
- Øystein Olav Skaar (Associate member)
- Siri Fürst Skogmo (Associate member)
- Matthew Marlingford Williamson (Associate member)
- Jonas Christoffer Berger (Associate member)
- Simon Gilbertson (Associate Member, UiB)
- Dirk Johannsen (Associate Member, UiO)
- Anna Nacher (Associate Member, Jagiellonian University)
- Scott Rettberg (Associate Member, UiB)
- Camilla Holm Soelseth (Associate Member, OsloMET)