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

🌱 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

New open access article! With @lucykbennett.bsky.social we explore the resurgence of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" on TikTok -- creativity, renewal and nostalgia through fandom, but also tensions between platform infrastructure, creators and audiences. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⏰ Only one day to go! Join us tomorrow to discuss findings from Dr @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social & Dr Laura Gibson's @kingsdh.bsky.social research on Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies in Higher Education. 📍 Online, 11:30-13:00 Access the report & register here 🔽

✨ call for proposals ✨ - "Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital", London 23-26th June 2026 - coinciding with 25th anniversary of @kingsdh.bsky.social. deadline: 30th September 2025. further details here: jonathangray.org/2025/09/11/d...

📢 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

I'm very excited and proud that my dept @kingsdh.bsky.social is hosting this major conference in 2026. There are many streams of DH, some old, some new, and I've always believed that the future of the field is dialogue between them. This landmark event will do that www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...

🎓 We're delighted to announce the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities here @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's. Read more👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

🎶 How do digital platforms reshape and renew music fan practices? Dr Rafal Zaborowski & Dr Lucy Bennett investigate how TikTok is used to express and negotiate musical affinities. Read the new article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #MediaStudies #DigitalHumanities #DigitalCulture #TikTok

📣 CFP now open! Is childhood intensifying or eroding? Join the 2026 Child & Teen Consumption conference at King’s College London (22–24 April) 📝 Submit by 22 Aug 2025 🔗 ctcc-2026.kcl.ac.uk #ChildhoodStudies #DigitalCulture #CFP

📱 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

🎙️ 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

As part of Living Well With Technology at the Digital Futures Institute & King’s Institute for AI, I attended a powerful panel on AI, Literature & Cultural Production during the King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence led by @ drkatedevlin.bsky.social‬#KingsAIA#digitalfuturese#AIandliteraturere

New paper! Latest work from @geoplace.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk exploring the strategic unknowns embedded in the business models of digital care work platforms, published in Critical Sociology. Co-authors @fundaustek.bsky.social and Dr Alessio Bertolini. Read the full paper here: bit.ly/3F4WAJW

👏 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 ⤵️

"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...

👏 Meet our eleven new Digital Futures Institute Fellows! Congratulations @lboungr.bsky.social, Rowan Boyson, Mark Cote, Amrita Dhillon, Alex Gould, Elisabeth Kelan, @niccoloridi.bsky.social, Gabriele Salciute Civiliene, Astrid Van den Bossche, @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social & @lorenzoz.bsky.social 🔽

👏 Professor @s-tanner.bsky.social and Dr @aballatore.bsky.social from @kingsdh.bsky.social and experts from King's Digital Lab will spearhead digital research in the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk 🔽

👁️ How do we imagine a response to surveillance that does not involve privacy? This event, chaired by Dr Vita Peacock @kingsdh.bsky.social, brings together anthropologists and art practitioners to explore counter-surveillance as venues for cultural creation. 🗓️ 14 May, 14:00 📍 Strand Campus

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...

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

📣 How can #DigitalHumanities help in times of crisis? Join us in less than 1 week for @roopikarisam.bsky.social's public lecture, with introductions by @stuartdunn.bsky.social @s-tanner.bsky.social 📍Hybrid event (KCL & online) 🗓️ 1 May 2025 🍷 Drinks after! 🔗 Register: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every...

📚 Join us at King’s College London on 21 May for the launch of Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal, a book by @disconetwork.bsky.social exploring the possibilities that technoskepticism can create. 📍 Strand Campus and online, 17:30 🔗 Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...

Many thanks to colleagues who joined the 'AI & Data Ecologies' panel at KCL on Wednesday. Case studies included deforestation, urban biodiversity and the digitisation of sound. Speakers: M Duggan, @jwyg.bsky.social , @lboungr.bsky.social , M Borie, @tavmos.bsky.social, G Williams and A Green.

Looking forward to speaking later today at King’s e-Research Symposium 2025 📚 about kingsCAT 🐈 — our new cross-faculty instance of the open-source @4cat.nl toolkit for social media data capture and analysis 🛠️, More about kingsCAT here: buff.ly/bcXzxiq More about the event here: buff.ly/fZbncFw

Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki... @kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social

✍️ 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 👇

📜 The COALA project, led by Dr Barbara McGillivray @kingsdh.bsky.social, has been selected by @erc.europa.eu and will receive a €2M grant from @ukri.org under the Horizon Europe guarantee. The project aims to revolutionise how we study word meanings in historical languages ⬇️

If you're around KCL on 9 April, join us for a timely panel on 'AI & DATA ECOLOGIES'. We will have amazing speakers: Mike Duggan, @jwyg.bsky.social , @lboungr.bsky.social , @tavmos.bsky.social, Gavin Williams and Maud Borie. You can register here: lnkd.in/eQSTNGBp

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

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

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...

​❓ 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

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

What will our future look like? What role will biotech, screen media and AI play in it? Can we imagine better futures with digital tech? Can we design them in a collaborative way? Recording from @kingsdh.bsky.social symposium on IMAGINATIVE DIGITAL FUTURES now online: youtu.be/nI0ADNfsQ_s?...

The Algorithm and AI Register, which collects information about algorithms used by city governments, has drawn criticism for falling short of its ideals. David Moats & Sonja Trifuljesko @helsinki.fi @kingsdh.bsky.social look at AI ethics & the register. #OpenAccess in the journal buff.ly/uyzGzQN

👏 Khartoum, Sudanese-UK documentary completed with input from King’s academics from @kingsdh.bsky.social and @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social has won the Peace Film Prize and got a special mention in the Amnesty International Film Award at the #2025Berlinale. Learn more about our contribution 🔽

Registration now open for the online townhall launch of Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives (ISSA): bit.ly/439e41h. Join us on 6 March to learn about our plans for #AI in screen heritage. Speakers from @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @FilmArchivesUK @BFI #film #TV #archives

Join us for a public talk on "Hegel in Cyberspace" with Katherine Everitt! 📅 March 5, 4–6 PM 📍 King’s College London (Strand Campus) 🍷 Free drinks included 🔗 Sign up now: buff.ly/4hXfrVo #Philosophy #DigitalHumanities #Hegel #AcademicEvents #KingsCollegeLondon

📱 Dr Rachael Kent, Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy & Society Education in @kingsdh.bsky.social, is the first female class representative in UK legal history to lead collective action against Apple on behalf of 19.6 million UK consumers, seeking £1.5bn in compensation. Learn more 🔽

🎧 How did Sperm Whales help re-elect Margaret Thatcher? Is the guy who invented CAPTCHA secretly Batman? Dr Andrew Johnstone, Lecturer in Digital Content Management @kingsdh.bsky.social, explores seemingly unrelated topics in his podcast. Listen on different platforms ⤵️

How can we create ethical algorithms? What does it mean to put our principles into practice? David Moats & Sonja Trifuljesko @helsinki.fi @kingsdh.bsky.social on AI ethics and the tension between values and actions. #OpenAccess https://buff.ly/3Qva5F3

Reminder! Tuesday (4 March), 16:00 Brian Ball (Northeastern London) is presenting to the Computational Humanities Research Group at @kingsdh.bsky.social on "Structure Meets Strategy in the Misinformation Age: a Simulation-Based Study." Hybrid event, register here: forms.office.com/e/79m7nUwu6d

What do student vloggers have to say about #rankings? What does gossip have to do with subversion? And what do Hufflepuffs have to do with any of this? Of this & more in our new paper: ‘Rankings are all bullsh*t anyway, why not do my own?’ 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Super interesting chat with two brilliant KCL students @kclradio.co.uk. Can the environmental benefits of AI outweigh its costs? open.spotify.com/episode/4mbS...

Delighted to be welcoming @roopikarisam.bsky.social to give the second King's Public Lecture in Digital Humanities in May: "Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis". Details and registration here - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every... @kingsdh.bsky.social

🇺🇦 On 27 February, the exhibition ‘Ukraine: Architectures of Despair and Hope’ opens at Europe House in London. Curated by Dr Gabriele Salciute Civiliene @kingsdh.bsky.social, it sheds light on the fragility of architecture and the resilience of Ukrainians. Read more ⬇️ #Ukraine

What are the implications of generative AI on (and for) the African continent? Join us on March 5th, 13:00 GMT for an Africa Week 2025 online panel with Dr. Andiswa Mfengu, Andiswa Bukula and Nanjala Nyabola. 🔗 Register now: https://buff.ly/3Xfj0OD #AfricaWeek2025 #GenerativeAI #GenAI

🎭 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