Ayona Datta

1er Janvier 2026, 08h15, je viens de faire la connaissance d’Ayona Datta (en pensant à @mhoussayh.cpesr.fr ).
Merci à la prof de géographie de l’aînée pour cette découverte et merci/pas merci de demander à des enfants de 15 ans de comprendre tous les concepts présentés dans ce type d’articles.

So very kind of you to say that. Logging into Bsky after ages to see kindness and generosity. Thank you.

📢 CfP 'Researching the Digitalising State' RGSIBG 2026, London 2026.

We will explore methods for researching the digitalising state and its challenges: restricted access, confidentiality barriers, outsourced governance, and rapidly changing technologies.

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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!

Informational Peripheries Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

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 Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

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 🙌

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Informational Peripheries Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

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

A deindustrialising powerloom town which is now a burgeoning global logistics centre in the peripheries of Mumbai. Photo: Ayona Datta

A deindustrialising powerloom town which is now a burgeoning global logistics centre in the peripheries of Mumbai. Photo: Ayona Datta

A deindustrialising powerloom town which is now a burgeoning global logistics centre in the peripheries of Mumbai. Photo: Ayona Datta

🌍 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

Yale-NUS’ book dumping was a tiny crime against culture A library is not a fast-fashion store. You don’t discard last season’s items because nobody wanted them, says Andrew Hui

'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.'

Carlo Ratti’s Abundance Agenda At the Venice Corderie, a staggering quantity of installations fosters a messy synthesis of (human and artificial) intelligence and folly.

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

Congratulations @profgillian.bsky.social
Cannot think of anyone more deserving of the Victoria medal than yourself.

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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...

"Linescapes: The Role of Sketches and Illustrations in Geographical Research" We invite UCL PhD Students and Early Career Researchers -both physical and human geography—to sign up for our interactive workshop: “ Linescapes: The Role of Sketches and Illustration in Geographical ...

🖋️ 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

I woke up to this news and it made me so happy Ans. 👏🏼

Informational Peripheries Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

📣 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...

Informational Peripheries Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

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.

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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

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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
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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

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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...

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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

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 Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

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

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

'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