Digital Ecologies is an interdisciplinary network dedicated to advancing research, dialogue, and public engagement on the entanglements of digital technologies with environmental, social, and political ecologies. We foster critical inquiry into the material infrastructures, labor relations, cultural imaginaries, and policy arrangements that sustain digital systems, from data centers and extractive supply chains to platforms, algorithms, and networked devices. Challenging persistent narratives of digital immateriality and limitless innovation, Digital Ecologies foregrounds the environmental costs and uneven human consequences of contemporary digital culture, situating digital technologies within broader planetary and ecological limits.

Bringing together digital humanities scholars from a range of methods and backgrounds, the group asks how digital systems contribute to the climate crisis and global inequality, and how they might be reimagined otherwise. It examines the legal, regulatory, cultural, and design challenges involved in asserting limits on digital capitalism, while exploring how critical and digital humanities approaches can support practices of resistance, accountability, and intervention. Through collaborative research and exchange, Digital Ecologies seeks to cultivate alternative techno-ecological futures grounded in sustainability, justice, and collective care.