How do we design and carry out research that matters? What’s at stake when we capture, generate, and collect social data? How do methodologies are negotiated with and against the digital and the ethical? How do we participate in a world that calls researchers to take more active and even activist roles, not just reacting to, but creating better, ethical, sustainable future possibilities for the planet? STEEM facilitates collaborative, interdisciplinary, and ethical explorations of methods for studying and intervening in complex social phenomena, practices and events.