Digital platforms and data is a research group is a research group that brings together researchers across the Digital Design Department at the IT University of Copenhagen. We start our research from data produced by and within digital platforms. We work with a variety of methods from web experiments to social network analysis and data visualization and constitute an interdisciplinary group that brings together sociologists, media scholars, psychologists, and computer scientists.

The group works with an understanding of design of IT and services as engaging, intervening and including, that always involves people, non-human participants and empirical sites. We embrace a critical stance towards both techno-centric and social engineering perspectives. We are interested not only in ‘cutting edge’ IT but also ‘blunt edge’ technologies ranging from IT artifacts to infrastructures. In our study of IT practices, we pay attention to the assemblages of tools and technologies that people bring together and enact as meaningful configurations.