Projects
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.
Below you can explore some of the projects we have been part of recently.
Developing a minimum digital living standard for households with children
Capturing the minimum basket of digital goods, skills and services households need in order to have an adequate quality of life and participate in society.
Defence Data Research Centre UK
An interdisciplinary team with a shared interest in digital innovation, working on several exciting projects throughout 2023.
The LATIF project
Fact-checking beyond the facts. Leveraging argument technology for impartial fact-checking.
Developing a minimum digital living standard for Wales
Capturing the minimum basket of digital goods, skills and services households need in order to have an adequate quality of life and participate in society.
Developing a minimum digital living standard for Scotland
Capturing the minimum basket of digital goods, skills and services households need in order to have an adequate quality of life and participate in society.
LifeArc – Kidney Research UK (KRUK) Centre for Rare Kidney Disease project
This project explores the digital in/exclusion of households with children and young people with rare kidney conditions and their digital engagement with healthcare services and researchers, practitioners and providers.
ESRC Smart Data Research UK Strategic Advice Team
Supporting thriving interdisciplinary digital footprint data communities.
Civic Data Cooperative
We are working with CDC on a new upcoming project
Reuse of IT for social good
Identifying the barriers that prevent the recycling of IT equipment for reuse for social good.
Round’Ere
Exploring perceptions of wellbeing and data literacy among a UK community through a piece of participatory research.
Being Alone Together: Developing Fake News Immunity
This collaborative project between the Universities of Liverpool and Dundee aims to help citizens critically understand and engage with the information manipulations they encounter online, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Me and My Big Data
Led by Professor Simeon Yates, this project explored levels and variations in UK citizens' data literacy with a view to developing policy and educational materials.
Digital inclusion and media literacy projects
Guiding policy and practical interventions aimed at reducing digital inequalities and promoting media literacy in the UK..
Digital inclusion for survivors of modern slavery
Exploring the ways in which survivors of modern slavery use digital technologies to receive support and reintegrate into UK society.
GMCA Digital inclusion social housing project
The project linked up to 5,000 households, across five social housing providers, with five Internet Service Providers
Ways of Being in a Digital Age
The University of Liverpool, with other partner organisations and universities, is leading the ESRC review on ‘Ways of Being in a Digital Age'. This will provide a view of how digital technology mediates our lives.
TYKES
Towards developing understandings of Young Kid’s digital literacies in the Early years foundation Stage.
NewsWise in Primary Education
Evaluating the effectiveness of a news literacy programme in improving children’s levels of news and digital literacy in the UK.
Digital context-based methods for social listening to understand the social/cultural impact of Eurovision in Liverpool
Investigating the social/cultural impact of Eurovision on communities in Merseyside.
Healthcare communications and information distortion in crisis situations: The case of COVID-19 in Merseyside
Investigating public reactions to official information and guidance and the concerns and issues which were raised as a result.
Would you trust a simulation?
Exploring how awareness of computational validation processes, used for engineering systems like an aircraft, affects public trust in those processes.