The Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) undertakes comprehensive research on the everyday lived experience of digital cultures, mobile media, platforms, workplaces and settings. Working with a wide array of partners and collaborators in Australia and internationally, we undertake people-centric data collection, design and analysis to help governments, industry and the community make sense of changing factors in our digital lives, including digital harms, AI, disinformation, emergent mobile technologies and online economies.
Hosted by RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, DERC offers world class expertise for both small and large-scale research initiatives. We are the first and largest research centre in Australia focused on digital ethnography.
Address: School of Media & Communication, RMIT University, 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Our researchers connect, create and share expertise and resources in our Research Centres and collaborations.
Together with our partners we develop and apply knowledge to shape a better world.
RMIT builds partnerships to have a positive impact in the world. We form multi-disciplinary teams with government, community, industry and researchers to deliver innovative solutions.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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