The Centre of Material Digital Culture is focused on research on digital media. We maintain an insistence on exploring processes of mediation, which we take to be at once material and symbolic.
We re-connect media studies - and film studies - with forms of thinking that have traditionally been marginal to the discipline, but which have been more centrally concerned with thinking through early techno-culture: in particular medium theory, cultural geography, and science and technology studies (STS). We critically engage with developing and established forms of technocultural theory.
The Centre provides an organizing context within which depth studies can be conducted while also acting as a framework for collaboration and cross-fertilization for the study of new media forms within and beyond the boundaries of media studies.
We host Doctoral students and Postdoctoral Fellows in all critical aspects of the digital. The Centre engages with a series of projects and events which provoke connection, investigate developments in the field, encourage the development of shared research programmes on a local, national and international level. We welcome offers of collaboration, indications of interest in shared projects, and suggestions for the sustained exchange of ideas.
For more information, please contact Kate O'Riordan. (k.oriordan@sussex.ac.uk).