Digital Society Lab

09/08/2025

📢 Event Alert: Exploring Human Rights in the Digital Age
📅 Sept 22, 2025 | 🕖 7–9 PM
📍 In-person @ McMaster (KTH 104) + Streamed Online

Are we trading our humanity for convenience in a data-driven world?
Join award-winning author and 2025 Ho**er Distinguished Visiting Professor Wendy H. Wong for a timely talk on tech, rights, and the future of our digital lives.

🔗 Register by Sept 21 @ 11:59 PM ET: http://bit.ly/wethedata


McMaster Faculty of Social Sciences McMaster University

12/11/2024

In an age where we increasingly converse with artifacts – whose interfaces include AI, a pressing question emerges: Who, or what, are we really talking with? As AI-based chatbots, often terme…

11/20/2024

Do you have an idea for meaningful positive change in society? Check out our upcoming Social Impact Hackathon--open to all McMaster University students, faculty, and alumni. Prizes + a chance to see your idea brought to life! Details and registration here: https://www.digitalsocietylab.org/hackathon

01/24/2024

Thanks to the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Digital Society Lab at McMaster University is pursuing a cutting-edge reserach agenda in computational social science.

Dangerous disinformation campaigns on social media are on the rise. So are targeted personal attacks. The Digital Society Lab is using AI-powered countermeasures to push back.

06/23/2023

While a digital national currency does have the potential to mitigate key financial issues, we cannot ignore the democratic risks such a currency could introduce without safeguards.

10/14/2022

Polimeter logs and tracks progress on campaign promises of governing provincial and federal parties.

07/23/2022

Come work with us!

We're hiring a Managing Director for our Digital Society Lab. Apply by August 10, 2022.

Learn more: http://ow.ly/IqTo50JUOzi

07/13/2022

Come work with us!

We're hiring a Managing Director for our Digital Society Lab. Apply by August 10, 2022.

Learn more: http://ow.ly/sKma50JUOg6