Scottish Minimum Digital Living Standard: interim report This interim report explores the use of a Minimum Digital Living Standard (MDLS) for Scotland and builds upon earlier UK-wide and Welsh MDLS studies, which delved into what households with children re...

We're excited to share with you the launch of the Scottish Minimum Digital Living Standard: interim report
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🎉 Congratulations to colleagues from @dmsi-uol.bsky.social who, as part of the Defence Data Research Centre (DDRC) team, have been named as finalists in the British Data Awards 2025 www.liverpool.ac.uk/digital-medi... @exeter.ac.uk @livuninews.bsky.social #AcademicSky

First page of journal article entitled "COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and “the new normal” on social media" in the journal Linguistics Vanguard Abstract Public distrust in government, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare professions, and medical science and technology has been consistently linked with vaccine rejection. Policymakers, therefore, want to better understand links between distrust of institutions and vaccine refusal. This paper reports on a case study of posts (tweets) to the social media platform Twitter (now X) collected as part of the TRAC:COVID (Trust and Communication: A Coronavirus Online Visual Dashboard) project. The TRAC:COVID dashboard combines methods from corpus linguistics with various visualization techniques to enable users to explore approximately 84 million posts containing reference to COVID-19 published between 1 January 2020 and 30 April 2021 (encompassing the dates of UK coronavirus lockdowns). The dashboard and all sampling considerations (including an overview of the detailed search query used) are available at https://www.traccovid.com. Specifically, the paper analyses a subsample of posts that make reference to vaccines and contain at least one hashtag relating to various categories of dis/misinformation. By employing keyword co-occurrence analysis – a method for examining statistically significant keywords using multiple correspondence analysis – we find that these posts draw on various “discourses of liberty” to protest against perceived infringements on “health freedoms” through the imposition of new norms of behaviour (e.g., mask-wearing).

COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and "the new normal" on social media

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Minimum Digital Living Standard YouTube video by Loughborough University

Check out this new animation launched by the Minimum Digital Living Standard team at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social with @goodthingsfdn.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social

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Reuse of IT for social good Public sector pioneers: Reusing IT equipment to bridge the digital divide This ongoing project is funded by Research Council England and is being conducted by a team of researchers at the University o...

Have a read of some of our recent work here 👇 relating to the reuse of IT for social good, and please give us a follow 👍 on LinkedIn where we will be posting articles relating to our recent projects and providing links to our reports.

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Phone bans in schools don't help grades or health, study suggests It is the first study to look at school phone rules, alongside measures of pupil health and education.

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Satellites could end UK phone 'not spots', Vodafone says It follows the firm carrying out what it says is the UK's first satellite-enabled smart phone video call.

This could be fab for digital inclusion! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Digital Media and Society Institute @University of Liverpool | LinkedIn Digital Media and Society Institute @University of Liverpool | Understanding the role of digital media in society and its impact on individuals, communities, nations and the world.

Exciting news! You can now follow us on LinkedIn as well! linkedin.com/company/digital-media-and-society-institute

DMSI is training the next of generation of researchers so they are prepared to meet the interdisciplinary challenges of studying digital media and its impact on society.

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Fancy a pint? No, we're not scuppering your Dry January (although no judgement here), but inviting academics from across the Uni to take part in @pintofscience.uk. Share you work with the public, in a pub. Applications now open bit.ly/4hkpWSb #AcademicSky

The Digital Media and Society Institute supports many projects from across the University of Liverpool and beyond, working with a wide range of partners both nationally and internationally. We will begin introducing these to you and post regular progress updates > www.liverpool.ac.uk/digital-medi...

And here we are, a beginner's guide to getting to know colleagues from across the Humanities & Social Sciences (and beyond) at the University of Liverpool. We'll be adding to this as things develop... go.bsky.app/5NUwui2 #StarterPack #AcademicSky

DMSI aims to understand the role of digital media across economic, social, political and cultural domains, with a view to leveraging the benefits and mitigating the risks for academia and policy, industry and civil society stakeholders. Read more here > www.liverpool.ac.uk/digital-medi...

What do we aim to do? We are the first Higher Education (HE) institution to integrate the humanities and social sciences with computer science and science disciplines, as well as international HE institutions and industry partners, to understand digital media and its impact on society.