We study ethical, social, and aesthetic implications of digital technologies - particularly focusing on digital media & race, disability, gender, and power.

Joined October 2020
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Today’s the day! 📢 Join us for “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 💻 Register now: myumi.ch/n1zqb See you there!
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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
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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
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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
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💙 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
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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
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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
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👀 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!
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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
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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
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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
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🚨 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
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🎉 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
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🚨 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
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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
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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
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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
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👀 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
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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
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