🏆 The DGRG is pleased to offer a prize to the best undergraduate dissertation in any area of digital geography. The winner will receive £100 and have the opportunity to showcase their work through DGRG channels. Submit your nominations by 22 July 2026. Full submission information below 🔗

Our special feature of People and Nature on the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery is coming into being! The special feature emerges from our 2024 conference at the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, Oxford besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @peopleandnature.bsky.social

BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism

🚨📣 We’re launching the first Early Career Editorial Board for Digital Geography & Society. If you’re a #PhD student, postdoc, or #ERC working on #digitalgeographies, we’d love to hear from you. We offer mentoring & hands-on experience in #academicpublishing & editorial work. Please share widely 🙏

very excited to have a date for the publication of my new book: 8 December!! 'Animated Urbanism' interrogates the visualisation of the mandate that urban life should be 'smart.' @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151792206...

⏰ Just three days left to submit your abstract for the DGRG Annual Symposium, 'Digital Geographies in Fragile Times'. Find more info on the CfP and submit your abstract before Friday 15th May via the link below! #DigitalGeography #CallForPapers #AcademicConference #Geography #DGRG

📢 There are just over two weeks left to submit your paper for the Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Symposium, held online 8th/9th July! We invite contributions on this year’s theme: 'Digital Geographies in Fragile Times'. 🔗 Full call details below. Submit by 15th May!

📢Call for Papers open for DGRG Annual Symposium 2026! This year's theme is 'Digital Geographies in Fragile Times'. The symposium will be held online on 8th/9th July, and we welcome a range of contribution formats. Submit your abstract by 15th May via the link below! #DigitalGeography #CfP

🌐 New paper in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌐 'Geography and Environmental Governance I: Governing with Environmental Data' by Marc Tadaki journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How do platforms like Uber and DoorDash change protections for immigrant workers? New paper by María Esther Cervantes Macías shows how they both enable and constrain transnational mobility, deepening global inequalities through flexible digital labour. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

SAVE THE DATE! Book talk with a special focus on mentoring on deck for late spring with the @gfgrg.bsky.social of @rgs.org Join us on June 11th as I discuss my new book "All Geographers should be Feminist Geographers!" out with @ugapress.bsky.social now! Register today!!

📢 Expressions of Interest are now open for guest passes for the RGS 2026 Annual Conference. Passes cover the conference registration fee and are intended to support colleagues who may otherwise be unable to attend. 👉 Find details and the EoI form here: digitalgeographiesrg.org/apply-for-a-...

Join the Society's Urban Geography Research Group later this month for their next webinar, featuring contributions from Lauren Andres (UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment). ⏰ 25 March, 1.00pm 👉 Register: https://ow.ly/tsLJ50XTxp9

Image, screen, projection: Conceptualising the urban (imaginary) in digital visual culture By Gillian Rose, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ahead of publication of our special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, the editorial sets out the approach we have taken to the topic and describes the 48 diverse and rich papers in the volume- most of which are already available to read. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣 The deadline is fast approaching for expressions of interest for sponsored sessions at the RGS Annual Conference 2026. Get in touch with your session details by 16 February! Follow the link below for more details:

Planning to attend the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference? Join our free webinar to learn how to make the most of the event, including networking tips, presenting guidance, and practical advice. 📅 Tuesday 27 January 🕐 1.00–2.00pm Register 👇 https://bit.ly/3LlMFD3

New in TIBG: 'Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI' guest edited by Jess McLean et al. This collection features four short pieces reflecting on questions of governance of and accountability for AI. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Got to present the book in full for the first time yesterday at the 'Technological Life Research Cluster' (@oxfordgeography.bsky.social). Big thank you to @atmosphericthings.bsky.social and attendees for the wonderful questions and comments.

New article for @tibg.bsky.social. Through the case of digital snake rescue, I merge @digicologies.bsky.social and disease ecology work to develop the lens of 'digital disease ecologies' - a way to analyse how digital encounter and datafication configure disease emergence and multispecies health.

I wrote an enthusiastic review of 'The Smartness Mandate' and 'The Ordinal Society', with added geographies. @ohalpern.bsky.social @marionf.bsky.social @dgrgrgs.bsky.social

Reminder that tomorrow (14 Jan) the @statesofprecarity.bsky.social Report Launch and Discussion will be held online, 1:00-2:30PM GMT. Guest speakers: @matildaf.bsky.social, @jaytoddgla.bsky.social, Lekan Adekola, @profgillian.bsky.social. Register here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️

🎉 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