Centre for Digital Inquiry
Vibe Coding Club
A friendly, open workshop session for building, modding, inspecting, critiquing and debating software made with AI.
Bring a laptop and a minor thing you want to mod or make. Beginners, enthusiasts and critics welcome; no coding experience needed.
Date: Monday 23.11.2026
Time: 15:00-17:00
Room: JX2.02
Cost: 鈥渇ree鈥� (compute, energy, data and labour not included).
Thinking of attending? A quick email to m.j.dieter@warwick.ac.uk helps us plan numbers.
Tinder Talk
Upcoming book talk with Stefanie Duguay (Concordia University), author of Tinder: Digital Intimacy in the Dating App Era (Polity, 2026).
Date: Tuesday 17.11.2026
Time: 13:00-14:00
Room: FAB 1.01
Taking Tinder as a lens to consider the changing conditions of digital intimacy, Duguay examines how dating platforms transform understandings of love, authenticity, safety and visibility. From algorithmic surveillance and paid visibility to the promises of AI-assisted dating, the talk explores the tensions between platform business models and the possibilities for intimate connection.
Hybrid Encounters
Do you prefer reading text to watching video? Catch up on CDI-TV without having to stream it.
Hybrid Encounters is a downloadable PDF of edited transcripts from our first year of livestreamed sessions (July 2024-June 2025), including a short intro by the CDI team.
A portable archive of low-budget, high-intensity studio presence covering topics from tactical media to the politics of AI, from vaporware/backrooms/weirdcore to the neo-plebeian condition, from algorithmic management to digital disconnection.
Warwick's hub for critical digital research.
The CDI brings together researchers across humanities, social sciences and sciences to think with and through our digital condition.
We use and develop digital research techniques and associated tools to advance knowledge about culture and society ('thinking with' the digital), while also taking up the digital as a substantive critical topic ('thinking through' the digital).
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Discover the research projects we have supported and hosted, covering themes such as data infrastructures, platform governance, app studies, digital intimacy and AI. Our work engages with critical questions around digital infrastructures, cultural shifts and the politics of technological change.
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