Digital Humanities @ King's College London

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/

Digital X Climates network launches at King's | King's College London Academics from the Department of Digital Humanities lead the new network examining digital infrastructures and climate realities.

🌿 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

COMMENT: How Stranger Things went from Netflix Original to a global franchise | King's College London Warning: this article contains spoilers for the first four seasons of Stranger Things.

☎️ 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 wins historic case against Apple in £1.5 billion collective action | King's College London The case, Kent v Apple, was brought by Dr Rachael Kent, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, who made history as the first female Class Representative in the UK’s collective action regime.

👏 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 The Calculation of Meaning, Or Doing Words Without Things | King's College London Bringing computational mechanisms of Large Language Models in conversation with literary and philosophical theories of language to show that their calculation of meaning is fundamentally unlike…

⌨️ 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!

Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital | King's College London From the 23-26 June 2026, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London will host an international conference exploring the evolving role of Digital Humanities in a world increasingly ...

⏰ 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

#Runningupthathill, revival and popular music fandom on TikTok The fourth season of Stranger Things (2022) used Kate Bush’s 1985 single ‘Running up that Hill’ for a key narrative moment, propelling the song back into the charts. This resurgence also inspired n...

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....

Report Launch: Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies in Higher Education | King's College London Join us for this online event to present and discuss findings from our recent research on Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies in Higher Education.

⏰ 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