join us for an evening on on growing feminist technocultures with Woman Open Tech Lab (Seoul) in London, 5-7pm, Friday 26th June 2026. ✨ more details and registration here: tinyurl.com/feminist-tec...

if you're interested in data politics from the global south, join us for a workshop with @silvanavf.bsky.social at 3pm on 18th june 2026: www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social

🌱📗 book launch for "public data cultures" with Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint in Amsterdam on 7th January: jonathangray.org/2025/11/28/a... @digitalmethods.net @digitalmethods.bsky.social #dmi26 #digitalmethods

Masterclass with Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam) on "research with AI chatbots: machine-researcher alignment, mis-alignment and critique", 21st November, 4pm: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/maste...

So because of various personal and toddler related reasons I missed my pub date post (Influencer Creep was out on the 28 October). Here's a pub week round up because nice things happened! I was thrown a pub day dinner, gave a talk for @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social & matched my nails to the book.

much look forward to welcoming @sophiebishop.bsky.social to talk about her new book "influencer creep" tomorrow with @zaborowski.bsky.social and Zeena Feldman! 🎊 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/influ...

🌱 Mine and Güneş's new paper calls for DH practices that prioritise environmental accountability, decolonial perspectives, and ethical collaboration. Read here: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000... #DigitalHumanities #Sustainability #EcologicalCare #EnvironmentalJustice

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

📱 A social media curfew for children would be a 'good thing' but 'misses the point' says Dr Rachael Kent from @kingsdh.bsky.social, who advocates for increased regulation instead. 'Tech companies need to be held to account & the government needs to be enforcing this.' 🔗 Read more ⤵️ buff.ly/BhIj6gL

On 7 and 8 May @scigallerylon.bsky.social is hosting a free VR exhibition created by students from the Department of Digital Humanities at King's Arts & Humanities, led by Gabriele Salciute Civiliene. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/throu...

"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

Friends in London and elsewhere: this is happening at KCL and online next week! Sad I can't join in person but looking forward to a vibrant discussion

One week from tomorrow folks!! 🪩📘

✨ book launch ✨ – join us to celebrate "Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal" by @disconetwork.bsky.social on 21st May, 5:30pm 🎊📖 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn... with @riannawalcott.bsky.social @drdavidadelman.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social & more

Arts of Opacity: Thinking Beyond Privacy. Join anthropologists & artists exploring resistance to surveillance beyond the lens of privacy. Wed 14 May, 2–6pm. Free panel + drinks reception! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arts-of-op... #Opacity #Surveillance #Art

Symposium on Information Controls on 16th May, bringing together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls around the world: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/sympo... #disinformation #algorithms #censorship #infrastructure #internetstudies @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social

Link to event page & registration below: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn... Co-authors in attendance: @riannawalcott.bsky.social, A. Joseph Dial, Kevin C. Winstead, Jeff Nagy, @drdavidadelman.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, & @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social

UPCOMING: A panel discussion of Technoskepticism coming soon to a King's College London near you! This is a hybrid event, to be held on Wednesday, May 21st from 5:30-7 PM (BST). View details below, thank you to @kingsdh.bsky.social & @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social for hosting 7 of our co-authors.

Excited to welcome Prof @roopikarisam.bsky.social for a talk on "Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis" on 1st May 2025: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every...

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

On Thursday 10th I'll be speaking at the University of Westminster as part of the Virtual Realisms lecture series organised by Tadej Vindis and Teodora Alata. I'll talk about my current research on videogames and the (post-)Anthropocene www.westminster.ac.uk/events/paolo...

✍️ A new report authored by Dr @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social in @kingsdh.bsky.social calls for more nuanced understandings of sexual consent, especially when digital technologies are involved. 📱 Explore the report's top five recommendations here 👇

Next week, I’ll be presenting our book project Global South Creator Cultures with @mediaindustries.bsky.social at the Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop at the Oxford Internet Institute. www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social

Hi. I'm sharing a pre-print by @anavaldi.bsky.social and me that is gaining traction @ssrn.bsky.social. Critical minerals policies are generating pressures to create 'technological peripheries' in both the South and North. We look at Chile and Spain. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Come listen to scholars discuss media and digital cuture in Southeast Asia! I'll be speaking at the 3rd editor of the SOAS South East Asia Seminar Series on 28 March at 4pm GMT (online and at Senate House in London). Details in the image below - register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Glad to announce the Game Engine Cultures workshop at DiGRA2025. Curated by Paolo Ruffino, Matteo Bittanti and Valentino Catricalà. Please send your abstract by April 4th. Workshop date: June 30th at the University of Malta drive.google.com/file/d/1A5pP...

Looking forward to forestscapes listening lab at @scigallerylon.bsky.social's Pulse of the Planet, Friday 21 March, 6.30pm: publicdatalab.org/2025/03/12/f... with @maudbo.bsky.social @lboungr.bsky.social @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social & Angela YT Chan

​❓ Interested in visual methods for digital & participatory research? Don’t miss the book launch of Visual Methods for Digital Research: An Introduction at KCL! 🎉📚 🗓️ 27 March 2025, 17:00–19:00 🔍✨ Sign up here: buff.ly/J8nu5Pg #DigitalResearch #VisualMethods #DigitalMedia #BookLaunch #KCL

Looking forward to hosting Marie Kolling (@diis.dk) at @kingsdh.bsky.social 26 Mar 6:30pm for her talk on illicit digital economies, based on ethnographic research. 'In debt from money-never-spent: financial fraud and scams in Brazil' Find out more: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

join us for a talk on "visual methods for digital research" with Sabine Niederer & @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social on Thursday 27th March, 5-7pm 🖼️✂️✨ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/visua... @politybooks.bsky.social

Join us to celebrate the publication of @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social's "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis", next Monday 10th March 2025, 6-8pm: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/dark-... #darklaboratory

🔍 How can creative coding techniques like soundscaping and video recomposition help us unpack political issues + influencer practices on TikTok? 🎵📹 📖 Insights from explorations w/ @publicdatalab.bsky.social around the 2024 Romanian elections at @digitalmethods.net winter school:

much look forward to co-hosting this evening with @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social on her new book "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" on 10th march. details & tickets here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/dark-...

🇧🇷 What is the current state of #digital methods for Internet research in #Brazil? Join @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social roundtable on 31 Jan to hear from @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social, Alan Angeluci, Elias Bitencourt, Giulia Tucci, Richard Rogers and Thais Lobo 🔽 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...

publication day of ✨digital ecologies✨ book - including our chapter with @lboungr.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social on #amazonfires and the online composition of ecological politics: jonathangray.org/2024/12/10/a...

Have you got a screenshot of an encounter with AI which is unsettling, strange, surprising, laughable or troubling? Still time to submit to our call for screenshots! A selection will be featured in an online publication and workshop. Deadline end of 10th Dec (any time zone): troubling-ai.glitch.me

We're pleased to announce the launch of KingsCAT 🐱, a new @4cat.nl instance to support social media research at King's created by @digitalmethods.net @oilab.bsky.social hosted by @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gather-... 🎊✨

welcome to kingscat 🐱 a new @4cat.nl instance to support collaborative social media research at King's 🎊✨ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gather-... created by @digitalmethods.net @oilab.bsky.social hosted by @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social #opensource #socialmedia

✨workshop✨ on "The Contentious Intersections of Social Media and Wellbeing", Wed 11 Dec 2024: www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

To what extent can public datasets address questions related to urgent issues? We're exploring this with "datatesting" a new @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social project with @databarometer.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social @esimperl.bsky.social @odihq.bsky.social & more! jonathangray.org/2024/11/05/d...

Can we imagine better futures with and around digital technology? Please join us for a symposium on Imaginative Digital Futures with @joannazylinska.bsky.social @giotita.bsky.social & others on 27 November kingsdh.net/2024/11/25/i... #digitaltechnology #digitalmedia #AI #digitalhumanities

Fascinating workshop with @4cat.nl walking us through their social media capture and analysis tool, talking through capabilities and possibilities! @kingsdh.bsky.social

a starter pack of some digital culture researchers at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social 🍫✨ go.bsky.app/LMhxsYK

✨jobs✨ - 2 postdocs on "ecological knowledge games" - as part of research collaboration with University of Stirling, James Hutton Institute & King's College London - please help us share! www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

Look forward to this workshop on social media data capture and analysis with @4cat.nl - and launching KingsCAT, a new instance of the tool running on a dedicated server 🐱 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/socia...

hii #AoIR2024! 👋🏼 here are some of the talks from our department and @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social - including on fair work, unfriending, k-dramas, creator cultures, coding platforms, super SDKs, and digital rights in the Global South: kingsdh.net/2024/10/31/a...

How are cultural imaginaries of work reshaped through digital platforms? How can we study the artisanalization of work on social media? Looking forward to talk with Alessandro Gandini on "neo-craft" work this afternoon: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/meani...

How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this we’re launching a call for screenshots. Further details can be found at: troubling-ai.glitch.me