News & Events
Love is a Smartphone
The 鉂わ笍 Summer of Love鉂わ笍 continues with Lik Sam Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Jamie Hakim (King's College London). Their research projects focus on dating apps and their relationships to different sexual scenes and identities. Join them and Carolina Bandinelli (91影视破解版) to further explore the political and cultural implications of digital intimacies.
June, 9th 15:00-16:30 BST
A Matin茅e with robots (Summer of Love Series)
Kate Devlin (King's College London) and Belinda Middleweek (The University of Technology Sidney) have extensively researched the ways in which we interact with robots, and how this may affect the future of love, sex and care. Bring a cup of coffee to join them and Carolina Bandinelli (91影视破解版) in the next episode of the 鉂わ笍 Summer of Love 鉂わ笍 dialogues.
June, 3rd 10:00 - 11:30am BST
A.I. Just Wanna Have Fun! (Summer of Love series)
New Research Article
Want to understand how young Chinese people navigate political feelings on social media?
Check out Wenhao Bi's new article in the journal Cultural Studies. Learn more about Wenhao's research here.
CDI Summer of Love
CDI's Summer of Love is a series of events presented by Warwick's Carolina Bandinelli on the topics of love, romance, dating, desire and digital technology.
from Media with Love
Our 鉂わ笍 Summer of Love 鉂わ笍 launch event features Mark Deuze (University of Amsterdam) and Ania Malinowska (University of Silesia). In their research, both Mark and Ania are looking at the entanglement between love and digital technologies. Join them and Carolina Bandinelli (91影视破解版) to dwell on and wonder about how media make us love, and how love makes media.
May, 13th 16:00 - 17:30 BST
Workshop: An Introduction to Computer Vision for Humanities research
Date: May 11, 2021
Time: 10:00am - 1pm (BST)
Facilitator: Daniel van Strien (British Library)
Over the last 10 years, the field of computer vision, which seeks to gain a high-level understanding of images using computational techniques, has seen rapid innovation. This workshop will begin with an overview of how these methods have been applied to humanities research, including examples drawn from the Living with Machines project. The second half of the workshop will provide a hands-on overview of the process of creating an image classifier using deep learning-based computer vision methods.
Inquiries Series: Lana Swartz and Rachel O'Dwyer discuss New Money: How Payment Became Social Media, April 16th
April 16, 2021, 4-5pm (GMT), 11-12 (EDT)
CDI's Nate Tkacz is joined by Lana Swartz (University of Virginia) and Rachel O'Dwyer (National College of Art and Design, Dublin) to discuss Swartz's recently published New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale University Press, 2020).
Register here to join on Zoom.
CDI Research Support Scheme 2020-21
Application deadline: 12/01/2021
Details: The Centre for Digital Inquiry research support scheme aims to support digital research at Warwick. The CDI will support research that aligns with its mission to 鈥渢hink with and through the digital鈥�. We are interested in projects and/or events that either engage with digital tools and methods in critical, reflexive and creative ways, or that substantively engage with the digital and closely related topics (data, AI, platforms, networks, etc.). Note: The CDI is a research centre and does not support projects that focus on teaching and learning.
Public Talk: Mapping the Covid-19 App Space
In this public talk, researchers from the ESRC-funded project 'COVID-19 App Store and Data Flow Ecologies' will present their initial findings regarding the mapping of the Covid-19 app space as accessed through the dominant app stores.