Engaging Conflicts in a Digital Era (ENCODE)
Interdisciplinary Research Group at HSL/ISK and BFE/NFH
The ENCODE-research group connects and coordinates research initiatives at UiT that focus on possible, preferable, and probable futures. Specific attention will be directed to implications of technology-uses in such fields as resource extraction (including the extraction of data), education (including focus on AI) and cultural representation, and at the various conflicts that might develop from such applications. ENCODE aims at creating synergies between various networks and initiatives at UiT working on related issues and at facilitating the development of funding applications directed at national and international bodies.
A regular research seminar facilitates continuous academic exchange on key theoretical and methodological issues, and provides opportunities for researchers, as well as PhD and MA students to present and receive feedback on their work.
The hub is coordinated by Holger Pötzsch, UiT Tromsø.
The ENCODE research group has a close cooperation with the CRAFT Research Lab at NFH/BFE coordinated by Melania Borit.
ENCODE sub-group:
CSET: Critical Studies of Educational Technologies (UiT chapter)
ENCODE-related projects & activities:
Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture
Symposium Critical Perspectives on AI in Higher Education (Aug. 12, 2026 from 09:00 to 16:30 at UiT room AUD Nedre Lysthus)
Reimagining Games, Art, and Performativity - Doctoral consortium at CEEGS 2024 (Oct. 10-12, 2024), University of the Peleponnese, Nafplio
The Meanings and Makings of Games - Doctoral consortium at CEEGS 2023 (Oct. 19-21, 2023), Macromedia Universität Leipzig
Putting the Cybermedia Model into Educational Practice - ENCODE panel at Nordic DiGRA (April 26-28, 2023), Uppsala University
AI, Machine Learning & Human-Machine Relations - a film series at Verdensteatret Cinematek, Tromsø (2023-)
Algorithmic Governance in Context: Project workshop at UiT (May 19-21, 2022; funded via NOS-HS; video lectures available here)
The Futures of Games and Game Studies: Symposium and Doctoral Consortium at IT University Copenhagen (April 6-8, 2022; full programme available here)
Project WARGAME (2015-19), internal UiT-site can be accessed here
Project Algorithmic Governance in Context (AGiC; 2019-22)
Transmedia Histories (PhD-projects 2015-20)