Interrogating the significance of the digital

The Digital Culture Research Network (DCRN) is an interdisciplinary group of researchers based at the University of Nottingham who are currently exploring the ‘doing’ of the digital in relation to social media, video games, data analytics, networked technologies, film distribution, political activism, linguistics, gender and identity.

The Network offers an open space within which people can share their ideas of 'the digital', and hope to forge links with similar institutions worldwide.

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Aiming to be attentive to the specificity of digital technologies within the precise cultural and historical context of their inception and use.

Overview

The DCRN creatively explores how digital practices are embedded, enacted and embodied across diverse spheres of human being, and attempt to elucidate the means through which society can understand the technical relations that colour contemporary life.

Broadly, the DCRN asks:

How does the digital mediation of the world modulate our experience of it?
In what ways can we discern the conditions that facilitate the production and proliferation of digital practices?
How do technical platforms inform and politicise modes of usership in different contexts, and vice versa?
What constitutes value, commerce and exchange in the digital economy?
How do cultural, aesthetic and artistic practices incorporate the digital?