What kind of story has collapse become — and what does it do to us? Join us for 'Collapse: A Story': a film screening + panel discussion on post-collapse narratives, affects and futures. 📅 Wed 3 June | 5–7 PM 📍 Strand Building, King's College London 🎟️ Register: www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...

Sharing our affiliate @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social ’s blog on #AIAgents & observability written with Giulia Tucci and Aanila Kishwar @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social kdl.kcl.ac.uk/blog/before-... Have an idea to work with with us? Reach out at forms.clickup.com/26475560/f/t...

Thrilled to welcome Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam) as Visiting Professor at KCL Digital Humanities! 🌟 He will be working on a critical new project exploring AI chatbots as tools — and objects — of internet research. Hear from Richard directly about his plans: kingsdh.net/2026/05/14/r...

Join us on 27 May for “Whose Knowledge? Ukraine, Language, and Bias in Culture and AI Systems” The event is organised by our Visiting Researcher Dr Oksana Yarema. 📍 Bush House (SE) 2.02 + online 🕓 4.00–5.30pm Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

Delighted to see our own Rafal Zaborowski @zaborowski.bsky.social featured in @nytimes.com reflecting on the enduring legacy of the iconic Guy Goma BBC interview — 20 years on. Read the article here: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/b...

📣 Book Launch | Job Quality in a Turbulent Era A timely, critical re-examination of what constitutes a “good job” today 📅 20 May 2026, 5–7 PM 📍 Strand Campus, KCL With presentations from contributing authors + Q&A. Organised by @fundaustek.bsky.social 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

📣 Lecture: Dronotope: Emerging Technologies & the Politics of Timeline Visualisations 🗓 11 May, 17:30–19:30 📍 Macadam Building, Strand Campus, KCL Dr Beryl Pong shares her work on Dronotope, a creative “untimeline” of recent cross-sectoral drone developments 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

📅 28 Apr · 16:30–18:00 BST | King's College London + online "Mapping Culture using Complex Networks: Entangling Science and the Humanities" — a talk by Gustavo Ariel Schwartz (CSIC). How can Wikipedia's 173M internal links reveal hidden connections between ideas, people & places?

How is the gig economy reshaping healthcare? New research by our colleague Funda Ustek Spilda @fundaustek.bsky.social explores the rise of platform-based nursing in the US and its implications for labour and regulation. Read “Uber for Nursing Part II”: ainowinstitute.org/publications...

What happens when AI searches the web for you? Our own Janna Joceli Omena @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social examines GPT-4o's web search over time — and finds that citation diversity only appears when users know how to push the system. 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... via @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

We’re proud to see our colleague Dr Gregory Asmolov featured in the @economist.com for his expert insight on internet blackouts in Russia

📵 'Protection does not have to mean exclusion.' As calls to ban social media for children intensify around the world, Dr Astrid Van den Bossche @kingsdh.bsky.social says: children need safe‑by‑design platforms and support to build judgement and resilience, not exclusion from digital spaces ⬇️

Our own @zaborowski.bsky.social in @nytimes.com on the “succulent Chinese meal” video – and why it makes for the perfect memeable and spreadable content.

🎉 Congratulations to @mrsbunz.bsky.social on her new article "On the Calculation of Meaning, or Doing Words without Things"!

📣 New project alert: Assembling Certainty Exploring how AI is used to document civilian harm — and the ethical questions involved. Co-led by our colleague Dr David Young, with partners at University of Sussex and Airwars. More info here: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

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...

Upcoming talk by Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama): “From Radical Accounting to Visceral Data Analysis” explores how dance + digital methods reshape data, embodiment & history 🗓 24 March, 4–6pm 📍 Strand Campus 🎟 www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

🧩 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 ⬇️

New on the King’s Digital Humanities blog: A Social Critique of AI amid the Climate Crisis by Paul Schütze (University of Osnabrück) AI as a system that sustains extractive logics and narrows our imagination for climate action kingsdh.net/2026/02/27/a-social-critique-of-ai-amid-the-climate-crisis/

🌿 The Digital X Climates network has officially launched 🌎 Led by colleagues in the Department of Digital Humanities, the network advances research and public engagement on the entanglements of digital technologies with environmental, social and political ecologies. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/digital...

Congratulations to our colleagues Andrea Ballatore (@aballatore.bsky.social), Rachael Kent, and Astrid Van den Bossche on being awarded the Digital Futures Fellowship for 2026–27! 🎉

“Destruction of heritage is not limited to crumbling bricks and mortar. It is also about lived experiences that once took shelter in those places.” – Dr Gabriele Salciute Civiliene, reflecting on the efforts to safeguard #Ukraine’s cultural heritage on the fourth anniversary of Russia's invasion.

Listen to our colleague Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social discussing the risks of banning children under 16 from social media on BBC Radio Scotland.

Thrilled to see Giota Alevizou's @giotita.bsky.social 'The Web of Knowledge' out in the world! A timely and original contribution to debates on knowledge, power, and AI. The book asks not what expertise we’ve lost, but how authority is being reorganised and governed under platform capitalism.

📣 Public talk: Appropriated Intelligence — Making AI Training Fair Ed Newton-Rex (Fairly Trained) on unlicensed AI training, creators’ rights, and what fairness could look like. Chaired by @markgotham.bsky.social 📅 11 Feb, 17:30 📍 KCL Embankment Room Register www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

👏 Great to see this write-up of Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies, led by Rikke Amundsen @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social with Laura Gibson, in collaboration with the Real Period Project. Thanks to King’s A&H Impact & Knowledge Exchange for highlighting this important work 🌱

TODAY at 5:30pm! Join us for a public talk with Dr Rolien Hoyng (Lancaster University) on Modelling the Climate Crisis: The Politics of Paradigmatic Logics. Register here: lnkd.in/eqekK5c8

Our next #OpenAccess training session for academic and professional staff takes place on Wednesday, 11 February, on Strand Campus. There are still places available! tinyurl.com/6femkfnx @kingsnmes.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Rolien Hoyng (Lancaster University) for a public talk hosted by Dr Güneş Tavmen 📅 28 Jan, 5:30pm 🎤 Modelling the Climate Crisis: The Politics of Paradigmatic Logics Exploring how AI-driven models in smart farming shape how we see climate change Register lnkd.in/eqekK5c8

New PhD Funding for Spanish Researchers! 🇪🇸🎓 King’s & Ramón Areces Foundation are offering a full scholarship for a Spanish national to study Digital Humanities starting Oct 2026. Deadline: 13 February 2026 Info Session: 12 January, 15:00 UK time. All info here: www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

We are delighted to share that our colleague Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social, Lecturer in Digital Labour and Marketing, is launching her new book Global South Creator Cultures (Routledge, 2025): 📅 Tuesday, 20 January 🕠 17:30–19:00 📍 King's College London Register here: lnkd.in/egBp6wCY

☎️ Netflix’s Stranger Things didn’t just break the internet – it built a global empire. How did a small-town mystery turn into a billion-dollar franchise? Dr @aorcuncan.bsky.social explains for @theconversation.com 🔗⬇️

Exciting news from our very own Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social who co-edited this upcoming volume on Global South Creator Cultures! 🎉📖 An essential read on the working conditions of social media creators and the geographical challenges of their labour. Pre-order details and intro preview below👇

How do #AI & #data risks shape trade & policy? Join a lively chat + networking at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social with @karishmabanga.bsky.social and a panel of top experts. 🗓 Wed 3 Dec | 10:30–12:00 🔗 Register: www.ciip.group.cam.ac.uk/events/gover... #DigitalGovernance #AIpolicy #AIRisks

Joint book launch at King’s 🌟 Featuring: • @jwyg.bsky.social, Public Data Cultures • @nsrnicek.bsky.social, Silicon Empires • @mayameme.bsky.social, Auto-Correct In conversation with @noortjem.bsky.social & @joannazylinska.bsky.social 📅 3 Dec, 19:00-21:00 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

Very happy to share @jenkidd.bsky.social and my contribution to @theconversation.com on AI Afterlives and memory @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @cujournmedcul.bsky.social

👏 Dr Rachael Kent @kingsdh.bsky.social wins historic case against Apple in £1.5 billion collective action. The decision paves the way for £1.5 billion in compensation to be returned to nearly 36 million UK consumers and businesses ⬇️

🌍 Yesterday @slehuede.bsky.social spoke at the 5th session of the UN Forum on Human Rights, Democracy & the Rule of Law. His talk explored community mobilisations to align AI with their unique, rich ecological visions. 📺 You can watch a recording of the session here webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q...

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (online programmes) 📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term 🗓 Apply by: 26 October 2025 Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... #DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring

⌨️ On 15 Oct, Dr @mrsbunz.bsky.social from @kingsdh.bsky.social explores Large Language Models and literary & philosophical theories of language to show that their calculation of meaning is fundamentally unlike meaning produced in communication. 🔗 Read more ⤵️

✨ 🌱 Update: call for submissions deadline extended to 12th October!

⏰ Last day to submit to Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital! 📅 Conference: 23-26 June 2026 ⏳ Deadline: 30 September 2025 Topics: computational humanities, digital ecologies, AI ethics & more. Submit now: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit... #digitalhumanities #cfp

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...