Grateful to present my work at Regional Futures conference at UCL @uclgeography.bsky.social 🌍✨ So much to learn, share & take back, from thought-provoking panels to inspiring conversations in between. Huge thanks to @ayonadatta.bsky.social & the team for making this space so rich & welcoming!

Congratulations to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Fenna Imara Hoefsloot! Their #OpenAccess book Informational Peripheries published earlier this week. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4 #UrbanTheory #Digitalisation #DataPolitics

Informational Peripheries is out now with @uclpress.bsky.social! It brings together critical perspectives on how information flows (or doesn’t) across the edges of systems: archives, infrastructures, digital divides, and more. Edited with @ayonadatta.bsky.social 🙌 uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

Our 'Informational Peripheries' book is now published and out for the world to read in paperback and online free #openaccess. Edited with @fennaimara.bsky.social It has been a pleasure working with @uclpress.bsky.social Read & download free at: bit.ly/4l76QR4 @uclgeography.bsky.social

🌍 Fieldwork in the Global South: @ayonadatta.bsky.social maps how digital tech reshapes urban peripheries, from Nairobi to Mumbai. 🛰️ Read the full story: tinyurl.com/ucl-digimap #UCLGeography #Fieldwork #UrbanGeography #DigitalUrbanisation @ucl.ac.uk @erc.europa.eu

Our first keynote of #DGRGSymposium2025 was given by the amazing @ayonadatta.bsky.social of UCL: Fantasies of territorial calculability: Automated Ignorance (AI) in digitalising land in the global south

'Last month...something else happened in academia: Yale-NUS College, a liberal arts college founded by the National University of Singapore and Yale University in 2012, quietly ceased to exist. And with it, thousands of books and DVDs disappeared.'

Why the Corderie felt dated: it was rife with the same kind of mandatory solutionism that has gotten us nowhere for decades. “Ratti’s sprawling [Venice] biennale is awash in the optimism of design solutions. Even the path to population collapse is paved in innovation.” — @novakovicto.bsky.social

Submission to our special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age close tomorrow. Get your proposal in! More details here: journals.sagepub.com/page/dds/cal...

🖋️ Are you a @ucl.ac.uk Geography PhD Student or Early Career Researcher? Join the Linescapes: The Role of Sketches and Illustrations in Geographical Research workshop on 29 May: bit.ly/Linescapes #UCLGeography #GeographyPhD #EarlyCareerResearcher #ResearchWorkshop #SketchingInGeography #Linescapes

📣 New book cover!!!! INFORMATIONAL PERIPHERIES: RETHINKING THE URBAN IN A DIGITAL AGE Free OA with a fantastic lineup of authors. It's been a pleasure working with @fennaimara.bsky.social Shoutout to @uclpress.bsky.social for being so supportive and organised. uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

Cover reveal! ✨ Our new book, 'Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the Urban in a Digital Age,' will be available this August! Get a first look here: uclpress.co.uk/book/informa... There will also be a digital open access version 🙌 @uclpress.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social

> The debates on ‘Silicon Savannah’: “The state as auteur: Timing digitisation in Africa’s Silicon Savannah” by @ayonadatta.bsky.social & @fennaimara.bsky.social - De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Guide Edited by Mareile Kaufmann & @heidimorklomell.bsky.social

Look forward to delivering a keynote on 'Fantasies of Artificial everything: Automated Ignorance (AI) in the making of Digitalising States" in workshop organised by Singapore Management University (SMU) Urban Institute. drive.google.com/file/d/1Q6-N...

Very honoured to co-author first article 'State as Auteur' in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Thanks @robkitchin.bsky.social for invitation & commentators @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo, Nancy Odendaal. with @fennaimara.bsky.social

Commentaries on this article engage with, expand, and critique the article's position, further complicating the novel agenda it brings to research into digital societies. This is complemented by a response from Datta and Hoefsloot continuing this dialogue.... 4/7

The first edition of Dialogues on Digital Society is out at last. It features an editorial by the Editorial team, @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, @pinkydigital.bsky.social, Jing Hiah, and @steelecat717.bsky.social .... 1/7 #DDS @journals.sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com/home/DDS

Very honoured to co-author first article 'State as Auteur' in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Thanks @robkitchin.bsky.social for invitation & commentators @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo, Nancy Odendaal. with @fennaimara.bsky.social

Excited that our research article with commentaries and response is out now in the inaugural issue of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social! Honoured to be amongst so many people I look up to in the launch of this great new journal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @ayonadatta.bsky.social

These are followed by the first article by @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social advocating for consideration of time and timing for understanding statecraft in Kenya's Silicon Savannah journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 3/7

UCL Sociology Network PhD Inaugural Student Conference 2025 (3 June). This 1 day conference will be an exciting opportunity for PhDs to engage with doctoral research from 24 UK universities across a range of disciplines, all with a focus on sociological research / methodology tinyurl.com/5hbpyx9e

The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri... #Anthropology #Computing #Environment via @mitpress.bsky.social

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

🚨 Job Alert! We're hiring a Project Administrative Officer for the Regional Futures project! Join the team and help drive research on digitalisation and urbanisation in the Global South. Apply by 22 April 2025! 🌍 🔗 tinyurl.com/ucl-rf #GeographyJobs #UCLCareers #UrbanStudies #Digitalisation

We are hiring a Project Administrative Officer in the @erc.europa.eu funded REGFUT project. Check out the advert below 👇 to apply. More details on the project here: www.regionalfutures.org

If you are a published author, check your name on the LibGen database which list works illegally used by Meta to train AI. 30 of my books and papers are in this database. The sheer scale of this intellectual theft is beyond imagination. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Beyond the usual suspects – how to make stakeholder analysis more inclusive blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

We are delighted to welcome 64 outstanding social scientists, who highlight the importance of the #socialsciences in understanding & tackling some of society’s most pressing challenges, to our Fellowship. Look out for some of our new Fellows later today. See the list➡️ acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...

Very honoured to be elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ap...

The lovely editors of the Urban Geography journal @urbangeography.bsky.social at the end of a long day conferencing in #AAG2025 @geographers.bsky.social

"... AI hype has emerged in the context of such fatigue. Promising to automate a workforce for each of us, this hype, like crypto hype before it" — and big data hype before that, and... — "reinforces a future of individualized economic power with a sexier allure than attending a town hall."

📣 For those in #AAG2025 @geographers.bsky.social who are interested in a critical discussion of Artificial Intelligence in urban contexts, come join us tomorrow Wednesday 26 March for a triple session on 'Urban AI Spectrums' Rm 330A, Level 3, Huntington Place. With a fantastic lineup of speakers.👇

speaking my language - I'm still convinced radio is the future: "Radio is the ultimate internet circumvention tool because it is not the internet. And it can’t be tracked." #othernetworks www.radioworld.com/columns-and-...

The Unbelievable scale of AIs pirated book problem. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Thrilled to announce our triple session on 'Urban AI Spectrums' in the @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2025 meeting in Detroit. Co-organised with Federico Cugurullo and Caprotti. Join us on 26 March 2025, Room 330A, Level 3, Huntington Place. www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

Labour Party, 2025

For a ‘digital studies’ What would a ‘digital studies’ list and maybe an online reading group(?) mean today, in 2025?

Come and join us at LSE! Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL. We have extended the deadline to 28th February. Looking for a couple more papers to complete the double session. Sponsored by Digital Geographies and Urban Geographies Research Groups at @rgsibg.bsky.social

Big thanks to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social for allowing us to think with their work !

📣 Pleased to announce response paper with @fennaimara.bsky.social out on @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social responding to brilliant commentaries by @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social Nancy Odendaal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ever wondered whether all those health-related apps are any good? Spoiler: not so much. We just showed it in: "An App a Day will (Probably Not) Keep the Doctor Away: An Evidence Audit of Health and Medical Apps Available on the Apple App Store" link.springer.com/ar... OA: papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

📣 We're still accepting abstracts! Reach out if you've got an interesting paper on the tensions between creativity and codeability in digital urban governance. We'd love to hear from you! @ayonadatta.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social

Delighted to announce new publication from the Regional Futures team post doctoral fellows on methodical insights into researching the state in India, Kenya and Mexico. 👇🏽

🙌 Our research led by Mariana Reyes and in collaboration with Neha Gupta, Dennis Muthama, and Jesus Flores is out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social! We hope it serves others working in international and intercultural research projects. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

What kind of study is this?

📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE @rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham. Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇 www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

Accelerated statecraft in the Silicon Savannah - Jack Odeo and I wrote a short commentary to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social 's piece on time and digitalization in Kenya journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...