What is Digital Politics today? Come to our conference to discover current research in the field

11 May 2023, Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building, room 229

Please join us for the showcase of our research and PhD projects in Digital Politics. We are part of the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy and the Digital Society research group. Come and meet our PhD students from the Digital Politics PhD programme, and the academics who supervise and support the programme

Keynote: Dr Anastasia Denisova, University of Westminster

Registration: attendance is free but registration is required, please click here to register

Programme

10.15-10.45 Tea, coffee and registration

10.45-11.45 Meet our Digital Politics academic staff

• Dr Ting Luo, Digital politics of internet governance
• Dr Noran Fouad, Digital Politics of cybersecurity
• Dr Adi Kuntsman, Digital Politics of Environmental Harms

11.45-12.30 Lunch

12.30-1.30 Keynote

• Dr Anastasia Denisova, Memes, politics, and why things go viral

1.30-1.45 Comfort Break

1.45-3.15 Meet our PhD students

Emeka Nwankwo, Can submarine cables be decolonised?
Pierre Chadelle, Political polarization in American Partisan discourse on Twitter
Klodian Rjepaj, The "WalkThrough" method for studying Albanian digital platforms for citizen engagement

3.15-3.45 Tea and networking