UM Digital Studies Institute

We’re grateful for the students, faculty, and supporters who make the DSI possible💙 This #GivingBlueday, help us continue this work. Give → myumi.ch/3RbD1 #DigitalStudies #CriticalTech #DigitalJustice

Future.exe is being rewritten… At the DSI, we’re reimagining digital futures through ethics, justice, and interdisciplinary research. Help us keep building 💙 myumi.ch/3RbD1 #GivingBlueday #DigitalStudies #CritialTech

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 💙 myumi.ch/3RbD1 #GivingBlueday #DigitalStudies #AMPLIFYStudentShowcase

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: myumi.ch/3RbD1 #GivingBlueday #CriticalTech #DigitalJustice

💙 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: myumi.ch/3RbD1

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 → myumi.ch/3RbD1 #GivingBlueday #DigitalStudies #CriticalTech

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 → myumi.ch/3RbD1

👀 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: myumi.ch/n1zqb Don’t miss this timely conversation!

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 🔗myumi.ch/n1zqb

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: myumi.ch/G23ey

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: muni.ch/rAP6M💡 #DigitalIDEAS

🚨 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 🔗 myumi.ch/rAP6M #DigitalIDEAS2026

🎉 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 🔗 myumi.ch/qZ3mZ

🚨 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: myumi.ch/rAP6M #DigitalIDEAS2026 #CriticalTech

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: myumi.ch/rAP6M #DigitalStudies #DigitalIDEAS2026 #CriticalTech

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 → myumi.ch/mRN61 #DigitalStudies #Chiptune #8BitMusic

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

👀 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

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

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