Digital Society Lab

📢 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

Philosophical Foundations for Chatbot Regulation 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…

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

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.

Canadian research is producing AI-powered algorithms to counter mis- and disinformation on social media | Canada Foundation for Innovation 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.

Analysis: As the Bank of Canada prepares for a digital Canadian dollar, democratic concerns loom large 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.

McMaster researchers develop tool that tracks how governments keep election promises Polimeter logs and tracks progress on campaign promises of governing provincial and federal parties.

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

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