Center on Digital Culture and Society
Promoting critical scholarship and dialogue on digital culture, technology, and society.
About Us
Founded in July 2019, the Center on Digital Culture and Society (CDCS) at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication supports critical, interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on digital culture, technology, and society. CDCS aims to create collaborative spaces for discussion and debate among academics, citizens, and activists; develop critical approaches to the study of digital culture and technology; help train new generations of digital researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and beyond; build global networks of researchers; advocate for socially just design, production, and use of digital technologies; and explore and foster new visions of digital futures through scholarship and public communication.
Recent Publications
CDCS researchers produce critical and interdisciplinary scholarship on how digital technologies shape culture, politics, and society.
The Digital Radical
From the activist deploying technology for political causes to the individual who consciously disengages with online life, CDCS is building a collection of stories about ordinary people with radical relationships to digital technologies.
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Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium
Submissions should focus on affects and emotions in contemporary digital cultures.
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