📘 'Authority is negotiated. Plurality is procedural. Disagreement is productive.' The Web of Knowledge by Dr @giotita.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social looks at how encyclopedias have evolved and how they continue to structure what becomes visible and credible online ⬇️

Who governs what we know? tinyurl.com/48xfe2nh Made my 1st substack from booklaunch #KnowledgeCommons #AIGovernance #DigitalHumanities #Wikipedia25 #Encyclomedia Thanks @elenasimperl.bsky.social for inspiring me to start there :)

Launch of the Digital Investigations Lab at King’s College London: Explore how investigations are evolving across journalism, research & design in the digital landscape. Panel + Q&A + drinks. 🗓 24 March, 6:30–8:30pm 📍 Waterloo Campus Speakers & tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

My amazing colleague @elenasimperl.bsky.social wrote this sharp, short reflection following my book launch last week. 'If we want AI systems that are trustworthy and equitable, we must study how Wikipedia succeeded and failed in governing its own knowledge commons'.

🧩 Who gets to define knowledge today? Join us on 11 March for the launch of Dr Giota Alevizou's @giotita.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social 'The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age' (@politybooks.bsky.social, 2026). Register to attend ⬇️

🗣️ 'Isolating children from social media is likely to cut them off from a lot of support and help that they need.' Listen to Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social on BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast speak about social media ban for under-16s. Listen now, from 2:07:51 🎧⬇️

📘 My new book, The #WebofKnowledge, is on its way. tinyurl.com/encylop It follows the long arc from encyclopedic institutions to digital platforms and emerging AI systems — not to mourn lost expertise, but to ask how authority is reorganised, governed, and contested under platform capitalism.

Hallelujah www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social

I and @photini.bsky.social have a new publication The article reconceptualises London as ‘A Learnt City’, a dynamic learning ecosystem shaped through digital mediation, affective experience, and embodied practices. Read OA here: www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15... #DigitalUrbanism #urbanpedagogies

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway). 📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract 🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025 Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... #DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (Academic Education Pathway)! 📅 Start date: 29 September 2025 (or soon after) 📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term until 30 September 2026 🗓 Apply by: 27 August 2025 Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... #AcademicJobs

Nothing better than students casually dropping gold in a podcast—Digital Futures MA voices, you’re sharp, thoughtful, and a joy to hear. Links to pod below 🔥🎧 #DigitalFutures

Not intentionality on AI preferences, but lots of imagination needed esp as my book w/ @polity will be added there in the autumn…can’t wait

Very happy about this pod on our #digitalfuturesMA hosted by our own @aleexgreen.bsky.social

Is there a future for a public AI?

WOKE?! Come to our panel on Digital Futures of Diversity on 23 June at King's College London as part of @kings-dfi.bsky.social 'Living Well with Technology' series, with @birgitneunews.bsky.social , @lewisiwu.bsky.social, & @nessakeddo.bsky.social and Elisabeth Kelan. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...

Strawberry moon, Butlers Wharf. @se1.news @shad-thames.bsky.social

Launching London Tech Week, the CEO of Nvidia has just remarked on the UK’s ‘fantastic universities and research communities’. That’s great — but around 90 of the UK’s 166 universities are currently making job cuts. Half are closing courses.

🎙️ Series 2 of the Media Industries Podcast hosted by our colleague @aorcuncan.bsky.social‬ and Paul McDonald is here! This season dives deep into AI + the media industries. 🎧 Listen now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3GX5... or Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m... #AI #Media

There are only two sides right now. One side has tanks and drones and data and tear gas. The other side has solidarity and that’s it. That’s what we have. A movement isn’t something you design in an Artisan Protest Lab. But you are welcome to come down here and see what kind of reception you get.

Really proud of our @kingsdh.bsky.social student posting a reflective post on last week’s event on #AIandLiterature chaired by @drkatedevlin.bsky.social

Last week, I attended the launch of the Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal book at King’s College London, hosted by the ‪@ kingscmci.bsky.social‬ the ‪@ digitalculturekcl.bsky.social���, and the DISCO Ne#digitalfuturesl#technoskepticisme#KCLism #KCL

This aligns with the ethos of the #DigitaFuturesMA @kingsartshums.bsky.social, which explores how to engage critically with emerging technologies. I would definitely look into applying this for my MA: tinyurl.com/munhw4hr

The overall time spent online is linked with higher levels of loneliness, however the use of #socialmedia platforms is not. A new study found that it's the type of digital platform that's associated with loneliness, rather than using social media itself. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/social-...

👏 On 6 June, join us, @kingsdh.bsky.social ‬and ‪@kings-dfi.bsky.social‬ as we celebrate Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social ‬'s appointment as Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Society. ⏰ 18:00-20:00 📍 Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre Register via the link below ⤵️

another good one from the german guy who uploads 360 degree panoramas to wikipedia

🪄 Few tickets left for tonight's live magic show! Dr @mattltompkins.bsky.social, professional magician and researcher in visual cognition, discusses the psychology behind magic tricks and how this relates to our understanding of black box technologies with @drkatedevlin.bsky.social ⤵️ 🎟️ Book now ⤵️

We are spoiled with e Vents today @drkatedevlin.bsky.social aren’t we?

The complete and utter depravity of this. There are no words. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...

New @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk @britishacademy.bsky.social report today on the need for policymakers to not overlook the importance of investing in social and cultural infrastructure, and how we might go about measuring it www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/value-o...

Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.

Amazing and timely report by my wonderful colleague @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social

We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer in Technologies in Digital Humanities to join the Department of Information Studies at UCL. Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Once again, the Tony Blair Institute mistakes generative AI for magic beans.

🔥 Techno-authoritarianism has been brewing since at least the 1970s 🔥 In this new paper, @arturocastro.bsky.social and I trace how neoliberal theories—distrust in the state, private money, and the fetish of decentralisation—grounded the technical principles of contemporary cryptocurrencies.

Just out ➡️ The design-ification of future making: uncertainty and divination in contemporary business discourse @ulissess.bsky.social & Karl Palmas www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✨jobs✨ 20 AI+ Academic Fellowships - including for arts, humanities and social researchers: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...

new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb... #digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net

A needless and meaningless death because some dickhead decided to drive when they couldn't.

🎭 How is bias reproduced in text-to-image generative AI models? Join Dr. Stephanie Diepeveen for a public talk on Power, Representation & GenAI. 📅 26 February | 5PM 📍 King’s College London | Free event 🔗 Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit... #AI #GenerativeAI #digitalmedia

What does it mean for the UK to follow the US and not sign the French AI Summit Statement? Blog post on the descent of global AI policy in to WWE-style showmanship, and where that leaves the UK.

Researchers from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and Université Côte d'Azur have investigated a new approach that could usher in a new era for training AI. Pruning the neural network during training could make AI more efficient, sustainable and accessible. Read more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-app...

Today I chaired a roundtable on AI bias on behalf of the AI, Faith & Civil Society Commission, hosted by the Select Committee on Science, Innovation & Technology. In a week where we watch as a global superpower begins to dismantle inclusion, it was so heartening to hear people stand for fairness.

how are environmental consequences of AI accounted for? new research on quantification, footprinting, supply chains.. 31st Jan (paris/online) 👉🏼 cis.cnrs.fr/exploring-th... w/ @anavaldi.bsky.social @theolenoir.bsky.social @ludovico-rella.bsky.social @vgoujon.bsky.social @hugoesteca.bsky.social & more

I was looking fwd to season 5 of the Handsmaid’s Tale later in the year! I didn’t expect it to start today… The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed … rights scrapped ….so much for a unity speech

By intentionally naming Trump, TikTok is signaling its intention to be used as a tool to spread right wing propaganda. Extremely disturbing.