DERC member Professor Rob Cover's work published through Routledge Books is on sale for today only! This includes his exciting most recent book 'Identity and Digital Communication' so make the most of this promotion and feed your brain here: ow.ly/v2Iy50O7py4 #digitalethnographyrmit

#DERC IS BACK FROM THE DEAD! After a much-needed decompression break, #DERC’s social media presence is back! Your feeds will be packed with digital ethnography content in the coming months from our thriving cross-disciplinary research centre, so keep those peepers peeled!

DERC member Haiqing Yu is assisting in hosting a public ADM+S event featuring @ausma_b on China's queer social sorting methods. This event is hosted in person at The Oxford Scholar in Melbourne and on Zoom. Check out and register for the event here: ow.ly/OGU050ObfQF

Looking for some mid-week #brain-food? Save the date for the launch of prof. dr. anna hickey-moody's new book, 'Faith Stories: Sustaining Meaning and Community in Troubling Times'. Join us at State Library Readings on May 24th at 6 PM to hear from Anna on this fascinating topic! #ethnography

DERC-member Haiqing Yu has just co-authored the first book on #Chinese-language media in Australia, investigating how "how migrants from (...) China negotiate two media, cultural and political systems.” Be sure to request your library purchase a copy! ow.ly/S0zO50Ol6Y7

Last month #RMIT staff celebrated the projects that were made possible through the EIP funding scheme. Former #DERC co-director Tania Lewis' #CaféLab project headlined the event, presenting her team’s exciting work on #sustainability in #foodwaste and #caféculture. Updates soon!

#DERC Co-director @annettemarkham.bsky.social + @mastodon.social's energising and inspiring latest article with Riccardo Pronzato "showcases the usefulness of critical (...) techniques in enhancing (...) awareness regarding hegemonic datafication structures" read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

The Death Online Research Symposium's 6th annual event starts TODAY! Running to June 2nd, this year is featuring a keynote by DERC’s founder Larissa Hjorth discussing ‘Mobile Media Mourning of More-than-human Futures’. Find out more about the event here: ow.ly/h4mP50OAkgc

#DERCresearcher Ramon Lobato and Alex Scarlata have just published a stellar new article on broadcaster video-on-demand in Australia - find the article here: ow.ly/Ioyz50OGk1E and gain some insight to our rapidly shifting media landscape! #digitalethnography #dercfam

DERC member Dr. Tami Gadir is interviewed here on her forthcoming book on dance music, and on music and politics in general: podcasts.apple.com/.../the-sound.……... Keep your eyes (and ears) peeled for the release of her book later this year! #soundofsolidarity RMIT University RMIT Research

RMIT's Mapping Future Imaginaries research network, run by #DERC member Linda Knight, have received Enabling Impact Platform funding to host ‘Making Connection: Mapping Creative Encounters’. All are welcome to participate! Congratulations, Linda! #dercfam #creativeresearch

#CaféLab co-founders Tania Lewis and Helen Addison Smith have won further funding! Working to building a low carbon and equitable hospitality sector, CaféLab brings researchers from across RMIT together with industry and policy actors in a public facing cafe. #dercresearch

DERC co-founder Larissa Hjorth has gained an ARC #FutureFellowship to research ‘The Mourning After: Grief rituals, affective witnessing and mobile media’, aiming to understand the role of mobile media mourning rituals as a reflection of our social and cultural lives. Congrats!

Attention french-speakers! #DERC executive member Professor Rob Cover has recently given an interview on #sapiosexuality (attraction to intelligence) for a supplement of Le Figaro, France's oldest national daily newspaper. Read below! madame.lefigaro.fr/bien-etre/psyc…

Here is the latest in our Spotlight On blog, on TASA Youth member Dr Sharon Greenfield tasa.org.au/content.aspx?p…

How can we get ahead of the curve when it comes to ethical problems around new tech? Join the discussion about why “society 5.0” is a useful label that centres human accountability for ethical futures. ⁦The Digital Ethnography Research Centre⁩ ⁦⁦RMIT Research⁩ socialsciencesweek.org.au/event/society-…