The Digital Media Sociology Lab is a collaborative research space dedicated to critically exploring the social lives of digital technologies. Rooted in the Global South and informed by feminist, decolonial, and queer methodologies, the Lab investigates how digital media, from everyday apps to algorithmic systems, mediate power, identity, and citizenship. We envision a future where scholarship on digital culture is not only theoretically rigorous but also politically engaged, methodologically innovative, and grounded in the lived realities of diverse communities.
Through interdisciplinary research, methodological experimentation, and public engagement, the Lab cultivates a space for students, scholars, and practitioners to examine how digital infrastructures shape contemporary life. We support projects that unpack platform governance, trace data flows, surface digital inequalities, and imagine alternative digital futures. From data sprints and walk-alongs to autoethnographies and app walkthroughs, we champion research that is situated, affective, and accountable.
The Lab is committed to nurturing emerging scholars, fostering critical digital literacy, and producing research that speaks across academic, activist, and policy domains. At its core, the Digital Media Sociology Lab is a space to think, make, and act differently in the face of accelerating digital transformation.