Working with a wide array of partners and collaborators in Australia and internationally, we undertake people-centric data collection, design and analysis to help governments, industry and the community make sense of changing factors in our digital lives, including digital harms, AI, disinformation, emergent mobile technologies and online economies.
Hosted by RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, DERC offers world class expertise for both small and large-scale research initiatives. We are the first and largest research centre in Australia focused on digital ethnography.
DERC is home to more than forty PhD students undertaking cutting-edge research on key issues affecting everyday users’ enjoyment of digital media, everyday creative practice, workplace solutions in a fast-changing digital world, digital harms such as online abuse, harassment, disinformation and doxxing,
Our PhD candidates participate in all Centre activities, and receive specialised training in digital research methodologies including ethnography and netnography, quantitative and qualitative practices for digital culture, and policy and data analysis. Together, we develop research that is informed by real-world knowledge and experience to create a better digital ecology.
Contact us for information on collaborations, partnerships or research services.
Professor Rob Cover - DERC Director
rob.cover@rmit.edu.au
Coordinator
digital.ethnography@rmit.edu.au
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