The Uppsala Hub for Digital Existence is a unique research environment for studying existential media
The hub is the home of the young international research field, existential media studies. The field intersects existential philosophy and media theory, and is concerned with what it means to be human in the era of digitalization and automation, focusing on such aspects as vulnerability, limits and limit situations, an ethics of care, relationality and responsibility, and the complex relations between the self/person, the more-than-human and the machine.
Contact
Prof. Amanda Lagerkvist
amanda.lagerkvist@crs.uu.se
Research
the existential and ethical implications of biometric AI
relationships between the AI, the future and the apocalyptic imaginary
self-knowledge through the machine for young women
relationships between selfhood, video sharing platforms and disability
sound and voice as an existential-environmental field.
Externally funded research
bioMe
support from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (MMW)
AI design futures
support from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (MMW), with WASP-HS Guest Professor Mark Coeckelbergh from Vienna)
intimate AI
grant from VR
dismedia: a project on self-discovery, ADHD and TikTok
grant from RJ
at the end of the world
one project within a study within the large national research program hosted by Lund University, grant from RJ.
the mediated planet
one project within the KTH project, supported by Formas.
assistive AI, disability and norms of being human
The Hub is transdisciplinary, and work is conducted across disciplines and fields of media and communication studies, the philosophy of technology, artistic and practice-based research, human-computer interaction, information systems, gender studies, and design.
The Hub organizes international conferences, seminars, workshops and guest lectures within the DIGMEX Lectures.
The Human Observatory for Digital Experience
The Human Observatory for Digital Existence is connected to the Hub and is a platform for collaborative research and cooperation with society, involving stakeholders from NGOs, industry, authorities, organizations, cultural institutions, and public intellectuals. Its statement of intent is to “monitor what happens to human value in an age of dramatic technological change.” Producing an “impact beyond numbers,” it has since 2015 been the conduit of long-term, extensive exchanges with Swedish society, and the organizer of public events and activities in collaboration with museums, and in partnership with the Sigtuna Foundation: The Human Observatory for Digital Existence.
Support
This research platform and its innovations in research practices and output, would not have been possible without the long-term and generous support of our partnes. We extend our sincere thanks to the named funding bodies for sponsoring the projects and activities of the Hub.
