Lecture series - Digimig

Webinar series Digital Inclusion and Migration

The DigiMig Webinar Series brings together leading scholars in media and migration studies to discuss how digital technologies shape inclusion, inequality, and everyday life across migrant generations. Organized by the DigiMig research team at the University of Groningen, these webinars explore themes such as digital literacy, intersectionality, wellbeing, and transnational networks.

About the webinar series

From fall 2025 the first webinar will take place in the Digital Inclusion and Migration webinar series. Topics covered include for example: digital migration, transnational ageing migrants, intersectionality, gender, newcomers, digital wellbeing in schools. The series will consist of 6 webinars in total ranging from November 2025 to June 2026.

The Webinar Series aims to create a space for exchange and reflection on how digital technologies shape experiences of migration, belonging, and participation. By bringing together research from different disciplines and countries, the series highlights diverse perspectives on digital inclusion — from education and labour integration to gender and ageing. The series are welcome to all who are interested.

About DigiMig

The DigiMig project is led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Bozdağ at the University of Groningen. It investigates from an intersectional perspective how social and cultural factors influence digital inclusion in the Netherlands with a focus on migration together with other factors. The project focuses on three key areas:

How digital media is used by families with a migration history, with attention to both parents and children.
How digital inclusion policies take cultural diversity into account.
How digital literacy is taught in schools with diverse student populations.

Next webinar

Maria José Brites and Teresa Sofia Castro

“Digital wellbeing in schools: the example of Information and Communication Clubs“

06/11/2025 3 PM CET (Amsterdam)

Digital wellbeing in schools: the example of Information and Communication Clubs

When considering the various approaches to digital well-being, it is important to pay attention to the impact of digital technologies on the concept of a good life for humans and society (Burr et al., 2020). In this presentation, we will consider digital wellbeing in non-formal spaces of school life, which are seen here as elements that promote digital citizenship in the daily lives of children and young people. We argue for the relevance of these contexts as catalysts for students’ formal lives. This reflection is based on (1) a series of participatory webinars that took place during the 2024-2025 academic year in Portugal, involving a partnership between the YouNDigital – Youth, News and Digital Participation project and the Directorate-General for Education, and (2) on nine interviews conducted with teachers from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles of education.

Reference:

Burr, C., Taddeo, M., & Floridi, L. (2020). The ethics of digital well-being: A thematic review. Science and Engineering Ethics, 26(4), 2313-343. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00175-8

Upcoming webinars

Panayiota Tsatsou

“Exploring digital inclusion, vulnerability and migration: A social lab framework“

05/02/2026 4 PM CET (Amsterdam)

Earvin Cabalquinto

“Networked Mobility Divide among Older Migrants and their Fragmented Social Networks“

20/03/2026 9 AM CET (Amsterdam)

Giacomo Solano

“Digitalisation and social and labour market inclusion of female refugees in the Netherlands“

09/04/2026 4 PM CEST (Amsterdam)

Claudia Minchilli

“The Myth of Digital Diaspora. An intersectional approach to the study of diasporic digital networking“

04/06/2026 4 PM CEST (Amsterdam)

Registration

Lecturers, researchers, PhDs, students, and other interested parties are invited to participate in the sessions. Registration is open for all sessions. Please register by clicking the button below. We will send you the details to follow the webinars via email. For questions regarding the webinar series, please contact Denise Mensonides (d.mensonides[@]rug.nl) or Cigdem Bozdag (c.bozdag[@]rug.nl).