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.
Our Working Groups
CDCS researchers have organized into working groups that build knowledge on a variety of relevant topics. View the full list of Working Groups here.
Theory Lab
Theory Lab is a collaborative space for critical engagement with cultural communication theory. It aims to reflexively interrogate what we are “doing” with theory as academics and to experiment with different ways of engaging theory in our teaching, writing, and multimodal projects, so it can feel useful and concrete.
The Digital Activism and Data Justice (DADJ)
The Digital Activism and Data Justice (DADJ) working group engages in a collaborative research agenda that aims to bridge the gap between social movement theory and digital activism research.
Adetobi Moses (Ph.D. ‘26) Named Center on Digital Culture and Society Postdoctoral Fellow
During the next year, she will explore how narratives and cultural memory intersect with political realities, particularly during global crises.
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