Meet the Digital Cultures Theme Leads

Learn more about Luca Scholz and Łukasz Szulc.

"As the cultural record is recast in data, we have a mandate to appropriate digital methods on our own terms and to delineate the contingent and interpretive nature of data and its associated practices." - Luca Scholz

 

Luca Scholz is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media at The University of Manchester.

His work combines archival research and computational methods to study the history of weather, information, law, and freedom of movement. His digital work develops new geospatial and data-driven methods to analyse – and question – data in historical and humanistic inquiry.

"To understand the profound impact of digital technologies on societies and cultures, we must study the ideologies, power dynamics, and historical and global contexts that underpin our digital lives." - Łukasz Szulc

 

Dr Łukasz Szulc (he/him) is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture and Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media at The University of Manchester.

He specializes in critical and cultural studies of digital media at the intersections of gender, sexuality and transnationalism, currently working on dating cultures.