ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section

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

We're at the Royal Society celebrating this, with a stellar line-up, including Wendy Hall, Alan Kay, Gary Marcus, Abeba Birhane and more royalsociety.org/science-even...

How could EA's go-private deal impact the video game industry? If the transaction is approved, Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund will join Silver Lake Partners and Affinity Partners, run by US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, as EA’s new owne...

Wow, recent news from the (proposed) record-breaking $55 billion deal with the video game maker Electronic Arts Inc.!!
#videogames #gaming #EA
www.euronews.com/business/202...

What an amazing conference it was!!! Many thanks to the organisers, to all my wonderful colleagues and friends! Geomedia Conference always feels like home. 🌍😁🥰#geomedia #transforming-passion #geomedia-studies #karlstad-university

Our New Field Guide: ‘The Tech We Want | Read This Before You Build’ - Open Knowledge Blog We at OKFN are questioning our own practices and learning how to do things anew. This new publication compiles some of these processes and invites you to put your community first.

[Recommended resource + event] 🚀 Our friends at Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social have just released a new field guide: “The Tech We Want | Read This Before You Build.” Read more: blog.okfn.org/2025/09/23/o...

View of Montreal in summer, with the Biodome and several bridges. Photo by D.P. Henriques 2025 CCBY.

🇨🇦🎮👾Call for abstracts until 10 October 2025 for the HCII 2026 conference & affiliated conferences, such as the 8th International Conference on HCI in Games, to be hosted in Montreal, Canada!! More info at: 2026.hci.international/hci-games
#HCI #games #play #design #impact #VR #AR #XR #AI #HCII2026

Laura Mulvey to receive a BFI Fellowship The BFI’s highest honour recognises the huge global impact of Mulvey’s work through her groundbreaking writing and filmmaking, including her seminal essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’.

Laura Mulvey, who recently retired from Birkbeck, to refeive a BFI Fellowship. www.bfi.org.uk/news/laura-m...

This is an open biblio —and anyone can add to it to help keep it updated!

Rimska arena v Nîmesu, zgrajena okoli leta 100 n. št., ena bolje ohranjenih. V 6. stol. je postala trdnjava, v 12. stol. srednjeveška četrt. Do 18. stol. v njej stalo 150 hiš. Po obnovi v 19. stol. zaživela na novo. Danes gosti koncerte, festivale, uprizoritve. Dediščina se ohranja in živi naprej.

YouTube video by SAS Software E76 | The Shape of Synthetic Data with Dietmar Offenhuber | Pondering AI

Sharing this recent interview with @dietoff.bsky.social, E76 | "The Shape of Synthetic Data" Pondering AI:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9njJ...

Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms Drones increasingly feature beyond battlefields, deployed across civil, commercial and hobbyist applications and contexts. So too are off-the-shelf consumer drones increasingly being misused. From ...

📢 New article - 'Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms'. Louise Hooper
@gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and I reflect on the legal dimensions of off-the-shelf drone incidents and the potential diversified harms accompanying them.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In NES games, Luigi is at an unfair disadvantage since he cannot pause the game. While this might be self-evident to Japanese players, international players might find this handicap baffling. The reason is the Famicom's lack of Start and Select buttons on the second controller.

Hieronymus Bosch owl detail from Le Louvre today. Vibe.

Foto das sessões de cinema gratuito às 4as no pátio do Teatro Sá da Bandeira, em Santarém. Nesta foto, vê-se um still do filme histórico-biográfico "The Elephant Man/ O Homem Elefante," realizado por David Lynch (1980) e baseado na vida de Joseph Merrick (1862 – 1890).

🎥 Cinema gratuito às 4as no pátio do Teatro Sá da Bandeira em Santarém. Na foto, o filme histórico-biográfico "The Elephant Man/ O Homem Elefante," realizado por David Lynch (1980) e baseado na vida de Joseph Merrick. #cinema #cultura #Verao #Santarem
🌙 + info: www.santaremcultura.pt/index.php/es...

Some snaps from the @birmac.bsky.social / Media & Democracy / Qualitative Methods Group workshop 'Exploring Quali-Quantitative Approaches in Social Media Research', where me, @robtoes.bsky.social & participants explored methods for approaching the messy, contradictory phenomena that is social media

The ICJ Rules That Failing to Combat Climate Change Could Violate International Law In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice declared that failure to act on climate change can be an “internationally wrongful act”—meaning countries could face legal consequences for...

In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice declared that failure to act on climate change can be an “internationally wrongful act”—meaning countries could face legal consequences for harming the planet. www.wired.com/story/the-ic...

World’s highest court delivers historic protections for climate-impacted communities - Greenpeace International The world’s highest court has just delivered a landmark Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States in the face of the climate emergency.[1] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision deliver...

Huge news from the International Court of Justice in the Hague – the start of a new era of climate accountability

The court confirms that states are obliged to act on the climate crisis, and that the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is fundamental for all other human rights

KEYS - Acid Communism Dewiswch wasanaeth // Choose your preferred music service

@jemgilbert.bsky.social check out our new album just dropped ACID COMMUNISM orcd.co/acidcommunism

Hong Kong Noir! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

📝Don't miss the IWG online meeting of the @opendatacharter.org, on 'data created by non-governmental actors: challenges & opportunities': Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025, 7pm (UTC+1). In my talk, I'll discuss data re-use in multicultural cities. #NGOs #opendata #datamigration #datarecycling
👇 Register below..

Today’s Festival Deadline: Toronto/Los Angeles DOCUMENTARY Festival

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IN-PERSON screenings and HYBRID Festival Mode: Entering its 9th year, the Toronto & Los Angeles Documentary Festival now gives filmmakers 5 tiers to showcase and promote their film. #filmfreeway

Happy Nelson Mandela International Day! He believed that each of us has the power to create a more just world. We honor his legacy by serving others today and every day.

Foto das sessões de cinema gratuito às 4as no pátio do Teatro Sá da Bandeira, em Santarém. Nesta foto, vê-se o público e um still do doc biográfico "Joan Baez – I am a Noise / A Cantiga é uma arma," realizado por Miri Navasky, Karen O'Connor, e Maeve O'Boyle (2023).

🎥 Cinema gratuito às 4as no pátio do Teatro Sá da Bandeira, em Santarém. Na foto, o doc biográfico "Joan Baez – I am a Noise / A Cantiga é uma arma," realizado por Miri Navasky, Karen O'Connor, e Maeve O'Boyle (2023). #cinema #cultura #Verao #Santarem
🌙 + info: www.santaremcultura.pt/index.php/es...

"Autism is not a cause for fear or shame; it’s a form of neurodiversity." — @rweingarten.bsky.social starting tonight's #VitalLessons town hall with @vinguptamd.bsky.social, @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, and Danielle Hall, Autism Society's Director of Health Equity Initiatives.

E-Bikers Ride Much Farther and More Frequently Than Regular Bikers They are not 'cheating,' but are serious transportation.

The “E-Bike Effect:” Those who bought e-bikes increased their average daily bicycle use from 2.1km (1.3 miles) to 9.2km (5.7 miles), a 340% increase. The e-bike share of all their transportation increased dramatically too; from 17% to 49%.

E-bikes support fewer car trips.

V @lloydalter.bsky.social

it's truly remarkable how much *other* writing I can get done when I'm trying to avoid The Book™

1/ 🌍♻️📶Excited to share that I'll be speaking alongside Barbara McGillivray (KCL and ATI) and Macarena Zappe (Global Data Barometer) in the next IWG Meeting @opendatacharter.org, on data created by non-governmental actors: challenges and opportunities!
Join us next Tuesday, 22 July '25, 7pm (UTC +1)

A Spree change: from Berlin to Oslo, Europe’s urban swimmers take the plunge Parts of the Seine are opening to bathers and Berliners are pushing authorities to permit river dips, while other hotspots continue to delight city dwellers

'A Spree change': from Berlin to Oslo, Europe’s urban swimmers take the plunge www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... via @theguardian.com @deborahcole.bsky.social

All you need to know about bathing water quality at Irish beaches. By @marcospdias.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

An article I wrote about our DCU RESTART project that aims to
Improve bathing water quality monitoring in Ireland @dcuresearch.bsky.social @dcuclimate.bsky.social