Dear all, The QUT Digital Media Research Centre (http://qut.edu.au/research/dmrc) is excited to announce the 2017 DMRC Summer School (#dmrcss17), to be held in Brisbane, Australia, between 6-10 February 2017. The Summer School will have a particular focus on digital methods, as well as covering the most pressing problems and novel approaches to digital media research more broadly. *About the Summer School* Participants will work with leading DMRC researchers, engage in hands-on workshop activities and will have the opportunity to present and get feedback on their own work. The #dmrcss is designed for early career researchers, from doctoral students up to five years post-completion. A full program and list of workshops and facilitators, as well as details for applications and registration fees, will be available shortly (see http://dmrcss.org for updates). For more information, email dmrc@qut.edu.au The program will draw directly on our four research programs: 1. Journalism, public communication and democracy This program combines big data with comparative qualitative methods to investigate the changing shape of journalism, news and public communication – as well as the essential democratic functions they serve – in the context of a rapidly transforming media environment. 2. Digital media industries, economies and regulation This program combines economic, legal and cultural analysis to map new and transforming digital media industries at both the global and local level, and to identify appropriate legal and regulatory responses to these shifts. 3. Digital media in everyday life This program applies advanced qualitative methods and theoretical frameworks to study the everyday experience of living with digital media technologies, and the new cultural practices emerging through everyday uses of digital media platforms. 4. Digital methods This program provides the methodological know-how and infrastructure that powers the Digital Media Research Centre, incorporating a range of methods from big data to thick description, and contributing to public debates about the social implications of big data, corporate data mining, and data ethics. *About the DMRC* The QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) conducts world-leading research that helps society understand and adapt to the changing digital media environment. It is a leading Australian centre for media and communication research, areas in which QUT has achieved the highest possible rankings in ERA, the national research quality assessment exercise. Our research programs cover the challenges of digital media for journalism, public communication and democracy; the dynamics and regulatory challenges of emerging digital media economies; and the embedding of digital media technologies into the practices of everyday life. The DMRC has a particular focus on innovative digital methods for social and cultural research, including the analysis of ‘big social data’; is actively engaged with the Asian region; and has a strong commitment to research training for academic and industry researchers alike. --- Dr Tim Highfield Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, Digital Media Digital Media Research Centre Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology *Social Media and Everyday Politics *(Polity, 2016) t.highfield@qut.edu.au | timhighfield.net | @timhighfield