@kathrithm.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology at York. I research tourism as a key site of digitisation, tracing how mobilities, hospitality work, and urban economies are governed by algorithms and platforms.
Wish I could join!
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Starting to read for a chapter I'll be writing.
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Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - out now, open access in e-book form: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza... @edinburghup.bsky.social
14.10.2025 10:02 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Congrats!
15.10.2025 17:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Definitely nothing can go wrong with OpenAI having a full record of your sexy chatbot interactions.
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Adapting to iPad reading = fewer printed PDFs, a happier university budget, and perhaps a small nod from nature. Though with the energy footprint of our devices and data centres, I’m not sure what counts as the “sustainable” choice anymore…
15.10.2025 11:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2024
hardback and open access; paperback forthcoming in June 2026
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-french-...
two interviews in next post
Congrats!!
14.10.2025 13:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Friends and colleagues in Oxford, join us for this event at the end of the month.
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/unvei...
Happy almost birthday Liz 💛
14.10.2025 13:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...
02.10.2025 03:49 — 👍 453 🔁 198 💬 9 📌 44Congrats!! Great cover.
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Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way - @profilebooks.bsky.social, August 2025; @uchicagopress.bsky.social, October 2025
profilebooks.com/work/earth-s...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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11.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think the AI 'industry' can afford it, or does the free market and property rights only work in certain circumstances.
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Nobody does it better than Lady Gaga. Had a blast at the Mayhem Ball in Manchester last night.
Unfortunately, it's back to (heteronormative) reality now...
‘Authenticity’ is the ideal for many travellers, influencers, and commentators. But what is it? Can destination marketers and tourism professionals package it and sell it … authentically?
" #GoodTourism " #travel #tourism #authenticity
www.goodtourismblog.com/2025/09/auth...
What a beautiful city I inhabit ✨
05.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The AI bubble is gonna tank the economy. The ironic future of AI is to throw us backwards into a great depression. Let’s gooooo www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
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Teaching 'Living in Digital Cultures' this week, our first year students explored how social + locative media leave hidden trails across cities.
From Snap Maps to Google reviews, they mapped the infrastructures that quietly shape how we move, meet, and imagine place.
Image text: Don’t miss out! Abstract submissions invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other. Submission deadline: THIS FRIDAY, 3 October 2025 tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
Don’t miss out! Abstract submissions invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other.
Submission deadline: TOMORROW, Friday 3 October 2025 tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
The printed version is out today! Here we discussed how social credit system, an Orwellian Chinese Other, becomes a stand-in for Western anxieties about authoritarianism, technology goes wrong, quantification of everyday life, and shifting global power.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
01.10.2025 05:21 — 👍 319 🔁 185 💬 6 📌 19Very, very late to the bluesky party.
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