Emily Cousins (University of Southern Denmark)
Are your days shaped by the sounds of personalised playlists or podcasts? Perhaps you consume video reels or curate online pinboards? Or maybe you relax and recharge with some streaming or gaming? In this seminar, Emily will introduce the Digital Entertainment Machine (DiEM) research project, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, which explores how we use digital entertainment in our everyday lives. DiEM aims to understand how ubiquitous digital entertainment affects us, and to map the emerging entanglements of user, technologies, affect, culture and ideas. DiEM is a large-scale empirical study that includes interviews, ethnographic observations, digital methods and creative workshops. Emily will share some early findings and emerging ideas from the project, with an opportunity for questions and discussion.
Dr Emily Cousins (she/her) is a multidisciplinary, qualitative researcher in the Department of Design, Media and Educational Science at the University of Southern Denmark. She has a background in creative health and wellbeing, digital media, ageing, dementia and social prescribing. Emily’s current work aims to understand how digital audio entertainment e.g. music streaming, podcasts, audiobooks etc. can support social, emotional and psychological wellbeing.
Thursday 20 February, 11 am – 12, James Logie 613
The DHRN is a group of staff and students who share an interest in Digital Humanities research. The network meets monthly for seminars, workshops, and more informal discussions, with the aim of sharing ideas, skills and experience. The network also has a Teams space, which is used for discussion outside the monthly meetups, plus notices about upcoming events and opportunities. To join the DHRN, contact Chris Thomson or Kaspar Middendorf.