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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · 9d

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: myumi.ch/W6MWd

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · 13d

👀 Less than 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: myumi.ch/W6MWd

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · 21d

Mark your calendars for an amazing event next week!!

The DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our event, Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks, is coming up at the end of this month!

We're thrilled to host Christopher Fan, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Tony Shyu on SEPTEMBER 25th at 4 PM EST!

Learn more & register to attend by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/P3mjg

A promotional flier for DISCO's event "Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks." The title is prominently displayed, accompanied by details like the date, time, and location: "Thursday, September 25, 2025, 4:00 - 5:30 Pm EST, Weiser Hall 10th Floor & Zoom." The design highlights three speakers: Christopher Fan, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Tony Shyu, each with their headshots in circular frames. Descriptions of each are provided with their names in bold uppercase text. The background features a circuit board design in shades of deep blue and teal.

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · 21d

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: myumi.ch/QwGnk

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Sep 5

We have an amazing lineup of programming through the DISCO Network for the 25-26 academic year! Learn more below🪩We hope to see you there!

The DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · Aug 21

With the start of the semester around the corner, we're excited to share (some of) our upcoming events for the 2025-26 academic year!

Mark your calendars 📅 for these panel discussions, each are open the public and HYBRID. CART will be provided.

Learn more and register at the link in our bio 🔗

Promotional poster for the 2025-2026 DISCO Panel Series. It features a colorful grainy texture in the background, with a faint circular grid design and planetary rings in the center. Six panel topics with dates and times are listed in outlined text: "Sept 25, 4PM Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks; Oct 16, 4PM How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes: On Crip Wisdom and Critique; Nov 6, 4PM Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Sowing Disunity in Black Communities Through Digital Propaganda; Jan 29, 4PM Black Boys and the Future of Technology; Feb 19, 4PM Content Creation and the End of Social Media; Mar 10, 4PM Against Surveillance and Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression"

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Jun 27

At Digital IDEAS, we watched "Humans in the Loop" — a film that showcases the invisible labor behind AI systems.
We spoke with filmmaker Aranya Sahay about Western biases in AI, and the laboring bodies in the Global South who train those norms into the machine.
#DigitalIDEAS #CriticalAI

UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Jun 26

Digital IDEAS Day 4 → A dynamic panel on Harnessing Reparative AI with Ellie Abrons, Germaine Halegoua, Matt Bui, and Erykah Benson.
What does AI look like when it’s rooted in justice—not just efficiency?
A powerful conversation on repair, design, and digital futures.
#DigitalIDEAS #CriticalAI

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Jun 25

Digital IDEAS Day 3 → Ariel Hasell critically reflects on Elon Musk’s tweet: “You are the media now.”
In today’s media ecosystem, emotional virality beats credibility.
Who gets to speak—and who gets heard—is shaped more by engagement than expertise.
#DigitalIDEAS #MisinformationMachine

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Jun 25

Forget innovation. This morning at Digital IDEAS Day 3, Shannon Mattern reminded us that maintenance is radical.
We talked about care as a method, refusal as a practice, and the politics of keeping things running.
#DigitalIDEAS #FeministInfrastructures

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Jun 24

This afternoon at Digital IDEAS Day 2 → Sheila Murphy on Silicon Valley Frontiers 🧠✨
A sharp dive into the metaphors, myths, and media that keep Big Tech dreaming of expansion.
What happens when the “future” is just a repackaged past?
#DigitalIDEAS #SiliconValleyFrontiers

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Jun 24

Digital IDEAS Day 2 💻💥
Today’s keynote with Sarah Sharma brings us into the world of feminist techno-logics, where time is political, infrastructures are gendered, and refusal is a method.
#DigitalIDEAS #FeministTechnoLogics

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Jun 24

Digital IDEAS has entered the chat.
🌎 36 scholars
🌡️ 1 heat wave
💥 Infinite ideas about productive malfunctioning
Let’s make (and break) things — critically. #DigitalIDEAS

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The DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · Apr 2

UPCOMING: Join us in-person or virtually for a conversation about Building the Indigenous Internet, with Ashley Cordes, Majerle Lister, and @lnakamura.bsky.social

🗓️ Monday, April 14, 2 - 3:30 PM ET

📍 Weiser Hall 10th Floor, UMich & Zoom

More info and register: events.umich.edu/event/130932

Event flier for Building the Indigenous Internet panel and Q&A featuring headshots of Ashley Cordes, Majerle Lister, and Lisa Nakamura.

Flier text:
This panel brings together key voices in infrastructure as broadly imagined, data sovereignty and decolonial perspectives to critically explore the history, present, and future of the Indigenous Internet. The conversation will showcase how Indigenous knowledge has and will continue to shape data worlds by bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives on emerging technologies--ranging from computer science, artificial intelligence, social media, online activism, the work of infrastructure and circuit building, and beyond. By centering Indigenous voices, the discussion aims to create transformative visions for a sustainable, equitable, and inclusive digital future while inviting speculative thinking about post-settler digital worlds.

Free copies of Indigenous Currencies: Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age (MIT Press) by Ashley Cordes will be available for the first 50 attendees!

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Mar 20

Thank you to our #GivingBlueday donors!! Your financial support enables us to train the next generation of scholars, creatives, technologists, and policymakers thinking critically about emerging tech issues from a lens of social justice. We appreciate you!

Digital Studies Institute (DSI)

Join me in supporting what you love about LSA this Giving Blueday!

myumi.ch

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Mar 19

On #GivingBlueDay, we’re not just raising funds, we’re raising voices. Your donation to the DSI supports our commitment to the intersection of technology and social justice. Let’s pave the way for a brighter digital future!

Digital Studies Institute (DSI)

Join me in supporting what you love about LSA this Giving Blueday!

myumi.ch

UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Mar 19

Big shoutout to everyone who’s already donated to the DSI for #GivingBlueDay! Your generosity empowers the next generation of tech-savvy changemakers! 💻💡🤖

Digital Studies Institute (DSI)

Join me in supporting what you love about LSA this Giving Blueday!

myumi.ch

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Mar 19

When you donate to @UmichDigital on #GivingBlueday, you support research & programming on the social implications of technology & our shared digital futures. Help us train the next generation so that tech is shaped with equity and social justice at heart: myumi.ch/D81J6

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Mar 19

Rise and shine for #GivingBlueDay! Start your day off right by donating to the DSI 🤖 🌞 Help us train the next generation of scholars thinking critically about tech and social justice 💻🌐📱 Donate here:

Digital Studies Institute (DSI)

Join me in supporting what you love about LSA this Giving Blueday!

myumi.ch

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The DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · Mar 17

Join us for a conversation with Tara Fickle, Ian Shin, and @originalsp.in about TikTok, DeepSeek, and the fear of Chinese tech in nationalist times!

📅 Monday, March 31, 4-6 PM ET

📍Weiser Hall 10th Floor, University of Michigan & Zoom

More info and register: events.umich.edu/event/132520

Event flier for TikTok, Deepseek, and the Fear of Chinese Tech in Nationalist Times featuring headshots of Tara Fickle, Ian Shin, and Jeff Yang.

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Mar 18

Critical data studies, AI, platform cultures, post-truth internet, abolitionist tech—if your research engages digital studies in radical ways, we want you at Digital IDEAS @UmichDigital 📅June 23-27, 2025 📍 Ann Arbor, MI ✍️ Apply by Mar. 21: myumi.ch/G2WzP

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Mar 11

Join Oliver Haimson & Kishonna Gray on March 12 @ 3 PM for a talk on how trans experiences shape technology and innovation.

📍 NQ 2435
Register In-Person event: buff.ly/42Gyi2r
Register Virtual event:https://buff.ly/430l6pl

#TransTechnologies #TransTech

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UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Mar 10

#DigitalStudies #DigitalIDEAS2025
This year, we ask:
🔹 What does intellectual work mean in times of crisis?
🔹 How can academia extend beyond institutions?
🔹 How do we think about repair, longevity & survival?

📅 Jun. 23-27
📍 Ann Arbor, MI
✍️ Apply by Mar. 21
🔗 bit.ly/3XgA0Ed

UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Mar 10

Join Oliver Haimson & Kishonna Gray on March 12 @ 3 PM for a talk on how trans experiences shape technology and innovation.

📍 NQ 2435
Register In-Person event: buff.ly/42Gyi2r
Register Virtual event:https://buff.ly/430l6pl

#TransTechnologies #TransTech

UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Mar 5

Join us for a DSI Book Talk with Oliver Haimson & Kishonna Gray on March 12 @ 3 PM for a talk on how trans experiences shape technology and innovation.

📍 NQ 2435
Register In-Person event: buff.ly/42Gyi2r
Register Virtual event:https://buff.ly/430l6pl

#TransTechnologies

UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social · Feb 26

Applications are open! 📢 Join us for the 5th Annual Digital IDEAS Summer Institute at @umichdigital.bsky.social(June 23-27, 2025). A week of critical digital studies, activism, & public intellectualism.
Apply by March 7, 2024! #DigitalIDEAS2025
🔗 More info: bit.ly/3XgA0Ed

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