Digital Studies Collective (DiSCo) 💃🏽🕺🏿

For anyone grappling with piecing together digital, datafied and in-person methods in their research, this paper may help

The Centre for Ai has our first workshop next week on Literature and Folklore. We've invited 10+ practitioners from across the creative industries to discuss how AI is going to affect their work in the next 10-20 years. Starter Q: Has Ai already affected Swift's songwriting? 😂

hi! if you work on the anthropology of play or have carried out ethnographies on play, we welcome you to submit your abstract to this conference -- deadline is 3 june! 🌻

Here we are! DiSCo Journal managing editors aka the dream team 🪩♥️

projektado collective present an interactive multimedia piece exploring the radicalism of friendship as an anti-capitalistic relational process of learning, living + organising contextualized as a chatroom dialogue with a mysterious friend buff.ly/44QkrWb #DJIssue2

@andreafebresmed ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

I love @Digital_DiSCo_

Have you seen the animation on our website? discojournal.com Our thanks to the web maestro @andreafebresmed 🪩

think he's talking about us ;)

Today we worry + prepare. Tonight we party! Join us. For the latter part. No stress for you xx eventbrite.co.uk/e/disco-journa…

Managing Editor @ryder_withawhy will be discussing Decolonising VR with VR world vuilder Chipo Mapondera at #DJIssue2 Launch Party. FREE tickets: buff.ly/3yek8Is

Let's ALOT to say in our editors introduction to the new issue. But it finishes with a GIF of Beyonce swinging a baseball bat so well worth it 🔥 buff.ly/3UPAXkQ

At the launch party we've got music from Neurotica Exotica. Have a sneak-peak. FREE tiks here: buff.ly/3yek8Is

We have a performance of Unforgettable Girl at our launch party on Thurs eve @ Reference Point, 180 Strand. She starts at 7.30pm!

What you up to Thurs eve? Come party with us! There's a bouffant performance, a discussion on SYSTEMS/HACKING, VR, + music made by memes 💚💚💚 and it's FREEEE register here shorturl.at/qzRRt

Artist and researcher Charlotte Lengersdorf hacks writing and thought into a pleasurable and radical method of writing through her introductory essay and videos on asemic writing, a form of writing that is illegible and lacks semantic meaning. ✍️ buff.ly/4aCkma5 #DJIssue2

Are you manifesting? Look out for @maxoginz essay and archival film ‘Manifestations (No Set Future)’ that links the pseudo-spiritual, self-help movement to the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the internet. 🧿☯️ buff.ly/44I0ctG #DJIssue2

Anna Hughes’ ‘The Cyber-crip’ explores embodiment in digital space from the lens of Crip theory and disability, mapping out online communities of care and their disruptive crip possibilities ♿️ buff.ly/3QKV6qS #DJIssue2 .

Can tree sounds improve quality of sleep? Rebecca Miller’s speculative biohack explores the benefits of green noise she has documented of her sleep, dreaming, and creativity. 😴🌲🎧 buff.ly/3V3zgl7 #DJIssue2

Erynn Young’s investigates the phenomenon of deliberate linguistic manipulation in response to the algorithmic content moderation on TikTok, mapping out its strategies and their implications. 🗣️🕵️ #DJIssue2 buff.ly/3QLdFv6