🎉 Meet the DGRG Committee! Over the coming days, we’ll be spotlighting the brilliant humans who keep the DGRG running, including a mix of familiar faces and new members. First up (because someone has to go first)… our Chair, Tess Osborne (she/her/hers)! 👇 @tessosborne.bsky.social #DGRGCommittee

Statement from the Digital Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG) The Royal Geographical Society’s (RGS-IBG) Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG) are deeply concerned about the impacts and implications of ongoing crises facing Geography departments in UK Universities. 1/6

Today, we’re starting a countdown to the launch event for our States of Precarity in UK HE Geography report. Based on 364 responses from across the discipline, it maps how precarity is shaping academic lives. #StatesofPrecarity Follow along as we share the findings week by week. Register below👉

💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥 We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thank you to Daniela Ferreira and Mário Vale for organising the 4th Digital Geographies Conference (lnkd.in/eYeFD6P4) at IGOT-ULisboa. Great to engage with diverse international digital geographies research, and to share my research on 'Feminist digital geographies in flight: Everyday drone stories'

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🗓️ 2-3 February 2026 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating) Deadline: 14th November Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

Calling all geographical filmmakers! 🌏 We are seeking submissions for a winter film night in February 📹 Share your work with an engaged public audience in our Ondaatje Theatre. Deadline 7 November. Find out more: https://www.rgs.org/about-us/our-work/latest-news/calling-all-geographical-filmmakers

The DGRG Dissertation Prize 2025 Winner is Levina Purewal for “‘I can’t think without ChatGPT’: A Cognitive Sociotechnical Assemblage Analysis of Student-AI Entanglement at Durham University”. Reviewers praised the contribution, multi-method approach, analysis & ambition 1/2 @geogdurham.bsky.social

📣Deadline tomorrow! We're a welcoming and active research group. If you're looking to meet new people, get involved in digital geographies activities, learn about Geography research groups, and much more make sure you apply Applications open to geographers and those in similar disciplines Info⬇️

We're looking for fantastic digital geographers to join our committee! A few committee roles are open, and we’d love to see new (and familiar) faces step up. It’s a chance to meet other digital geographers and help shape what we do next. Apply here: shorturl.at/kvDIv Deadline: 24th Sept.

It was a pleasure to deliver this year’s @dgrgrgs.bsky.social annual lecture at #RGS2025. Thank you @adammpacker.bsky.social & @tessosborne.bsky.social for the kind invitation, to @debbiehopkins.bsky.social for rich discussant reflections, and to all who joined the session ⭐️

Three @dgrgrgs.bsky.social chairs, no table #RGSIBG25

We have a day of exciting events today, don't miss out! 🔹Our AGM at 13:10 is a chance to hear from the committee & details of our upcoming election 🔹Our inaugural lecture from @ahjackman.bsky.social on her fascinating research 🔹And many more DGRG sponsored sessions throughout the day #RGSIBG25

Welcome to RGS-IBG AC25! We have an exciting lineup of 14 (co-)sponsored session over the next few days, as well as our Annual Lecture & Reception. Join us for conversations across a broad range of topics intersecting the digital. Please check ExOrdo for locations/timings. @rgsibg.bsky.social

Are you at the RGS-IBG conference in Birmingham this week? And do you have a story to share about a place that is meaningful to you? Look out for our Pin the Tale stand in the Teaching and Learning Building foyer, where you can browse our online map, read other people’s stories and add your own.

📣Today's the day!! Don't miss our exciting RGS pre-conference event. It's also a great chance to meet some members of the committee. We're a friendly group and welcome anyone whether your key focus is digital geographies or you're just starting to explore ideas 12pm-5pm Room 125 & the Map Room

There is also a Pin the Tale workshop you can take part in TOMORROW as part of the @dgrgrgs.bsky.social pre-conference event, 'Exploring place-based creativity in a digitally-mediated world', 12pm - 5.30pm. www.rgs.org/research/ann...

We warmly invite you to the Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Lecture at @rgsibg.bsky.social AC25 at @unibirmingham.bsky.social Our inaugural lecture will be given by @ahjackman.bsky.social (@uniofreading.bsky.social) on ‘Feminist digital geographies in flight: Diversifying drone stories’

Not long until our RGS pre-conference event: Exploring Place-based Creativity in a Digitally-Mediated World! Featuring workshops + a keynote from @olimould.bsky.social Psychedelics, multiverses and radical creativity: towards an aesthetics of the commons. Register: www.rgs.org/research/ann...

Planning your RGS annual conference itinerary? Don't miss our pre-conference event! Join to explore placed-based creative practices of researchers, content creators & game designers 🔹AI in the Street 🔹Pin the Tale 🔹Sounds of Birmingham 🔹Keynote by Oli Mould digitalgeographiesrg.org/rgs-ibg-inte...

Planning your RGS annual conference itinerary? Don't miss our pre-conference event! Join to explore placed-based creative practices of researchers, content creators & game designers 🔹AI in the Street 🔹Pin the Tale 🔹Sounds of Birmingham 🔹Keynote by Oli Mould digitalgeographiesrg.org/rgs-ibg-inte...

Attending RGS-IBG AC25? Before the main conference kicks off, please join us for our pre-conference workshop on Tuesday 26th August, 12pm-5pm, in the School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences. Register here: www.rgs.org/research/ann... @rgsibg.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Last week was our Global Digital Geographies Symposium with speakers from China, India, Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa, Iran, the US, UK & more making it our most international symposium! Thank you to everyone who presented work, attended sessions, & discussed emerging ideas 1/3 #DGRGSymposium2025

We're now starting our afternoon panel session for #DGRGSymposium2025 with some excellent speakers joining us!

This afternoon Max Münßinger discusses Rethinking Embeddedness? Limits to the Regulations of Digital Capitalism In a review of literature Max shows researcher tendency to territorialise abstract ideas of global digital capitalism through ideas of embeddedness #DGRGSymposium2025

Next Ayşe Gizem Kılıç and Fatih Eren with their presentation 'Spatial Reflection of Immigrant Density on Digital Platforms and Its Effects on Urban Planning' which discusses how digital platforms shape the spatial traces of immigrant populations and regional development #DGRGSymposium2025

Next, Batel Yossef Ravid and Erez Tzfadia give the presentation 'Rescaling Digital Sovereignty: Digital Technologies and the Politics of Territory in Unrecognized Bedouin Villages'. They look at digital displacement and sumud in unrecognised Bedouin villages and politics of territory. #DGRGSymposium

Our second day of #DGRGSymposium2025 was begun this morning by our fantastic keynote - Iginio Gagliardone with his talk 'Digital sovereignty and networked sovereignty. A perspective from Africa'

Next up we've got @ronene.bsky.social with his presentation 'Digital Borderlands: Technological Transformation and Territorial Politics in Divided Jerusalem' discussing how Jerusalem's implementation of digital systems and practices for urban governance #DGRGSymposium2025

In session 2:1 Anu Masso is presenting on Social Data Migration: Conceptualising Transborder Data Flows as Processes of Social Transformation. Anu proposes the concept social data migration to better understand technical, economic, political, & socio-cultural dynamics #DGRGSymposium2025

First up in this session, we’ve got Pauline Baudens, with her presentation ‘Reshaping of Women’s Mobility in Highly Constrained Urban Contexts’ discussing how women’s spatial practices are reshaped by the digital, and how experiences of empowerment are shaped by the digital #DGRGSymposium2025

Welcome to the second day of @dgrgrgs.bsky.social symposium 🎉✨ we kick off this morning with a fantastic presentation from Iginio Gagliardone talking about ‘Digital sovereignty and networked sovereignty. A perspective from Africa’ ✨🙌

Thank you so much to our fantastic keynotes, presenters and thoughtful interlocutors for a very stimulating first day of #DGRGSymposium2025 ! We look forward to a full programme in our second and final day tomorrow

In our final discussion of the first day of #DGRGSymposium2025 we had a panel of distinguished scholars addressing a range of themes concerning territory, sovereignty, infrastructures and ontological politics

Our final presentation of this session, Maja Warlich (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) shares her Master's work on: 'The Race for LEO. Fragmented Futures of Satellite Internet' #DGRGSymposium2025

Amaël Cattaruzza ( Université Paris 8) brings experiences from the Balkans, with his work: 'An Imposed Sovereignty? Implementing European “Digital Sovereignty” in the Western Balkans' #DGRGSymposium2025

Papers shared in the panel just shared will be chapters in the edited book: 'The Elgar Companion to the Geopolitics of Digital Sovereignty: Contested Networks, Territories and Self-determination'. Edited by Georg Glasze, Finn Dammann, Amaël Cattaruzza, Frédérick Douzet #DGRGSymposium2025

Finn Dammann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), shared fascinating research on: 'Situating digital sovereignty in the material geographies of internet infrastructures: Lessons from Mediterranean interconnection hubs' #DGRGSymposium2025

Margot François (Université Paris 8) brings experiences from Cuba, with her work: 'The evolution of the Cuban strategy towards connection and the affirmation of sovereignty' #DGRGSymposium2025

Frédérick Douzet & Kave Salamatian (Université Paris 8, Université Savoie Mont Blanc), share their timely research on Iran: 'Iran’s strategy of Digital sovereignty: the strategic control of Internet routes' #DGRGSymposium2025

The (UK GMT+1) afternoon of #DGRGSymposium2025 is under way. We began with Louis Petiniaud (Université Paris 8), sharing his work on: Digital sovereignty under kinetic siege: The transformation of Ukraine's information sovereignty #DGRGSymposium2025

Today has been the first day of #DGRGsymposium2025 and we have had some wonderful presentations throughout the day, and across timezones!

One more day to go!! We're so excited our free online symposium Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial and Territorialising the Digital is happening TOMORROW! Don't miss out, register now: www.rgs.org/events/upcom... #DGRGSymposium2025

Not long until our free online Global Digital Geographies Symposium #DGRGSymposium25 (19th-20th June) But don't worry there's still time to sign up! So make sure you don't miss out, the clock is ticking... www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Crossing off actions from your weekly to-do list? An easy win as we end the week: registering for our free online Global Digital Geographies Symposium! Next week we'll be exploring all things Digitalising the Territorial & Territorialising the Digital #DGRGSymposium2025 www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Counting down the hours! Next week is our free online symposium on Global Digital Geographies. We welcome attendees from geography and beyond so don't forget to sign up: www.rgs.org/events/upcom... #DGRGSymposium2025

Interested in Global Digital Geographies? Want to hear from a range of speakers on a variety of topics exploring digitalising the territorial and territorialising the digital? Join us for our free online symposium by registering here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom... #DGRGSymposium2025

Registration for the online Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Symposium on 'Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial / Territorialising the Digital' is now open: www.rgs.org/events/upcom... @dgrgrgs.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social

Are you interested in learning about exciting work happening in digital geographies (& aligned) research? Join us for our free online symposium 19-20th June Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial & Territorialising the Digital Sign up: www.rgs.org/events/upcom... #DGRGSymposium2025