Centre for Digital Culture

public data cultures in Amsterdam, 7th January 2026 critical engagements with digital data, methods and infrastructures

🌱📗 book launch for "public data cultures" with Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint in Amsterdam on 7th January: jonathangray.org/2025/11/28/a...
@digitalmethods.net @digitalmethods.bsky.social #dmi26 #digitalmethods

Masterclass: Research with AI chatbots — machine-researcher alignment, mis-alignment and critique | King's College London Masterclass led by Professor Richard Rogers focuses on the use of chatbots for researchers and what to do when the machine and the researcher findings misalign.

Masterclass with Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam) on "research with AI chatbots: machine-researcher alignment, mis-alignment and critique", 21st November, 4pm: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/maste...

So because of various personal and toddler related reasons I missed my pub date post (Influencer Creep was out on the 28 October). Here's a pub week round up because nice things happened! I was thrown a pub day dinner, gave a talk for @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social & matched my nails to the book.

cover of Sophie Bishop's Influencer Creep

much look forward to welcoming @sophiebishop.bsky.social to talk about her new book "influencer creep" tomorrow with @zaborowski.bsky.social and Zeena Feldman! 🎊 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/influ...

🌱 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

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

Social media curfews for children WON'T work, experts warn Experts say that the government's proposed social media curfews won't make children any safer online.

📱 A social media curfew for children would be a 'good thing' but 'misses the point' says Dr Rachael Kent from @kingsdh.bsky.social, who advocates for increased regulation instead.

'Tech companies need to be held to account & the government needs to be enforcing this.'

🔗 Read more ⤵️
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Through Estranged Eyes: Across Inner Dreams and Outer Worlds “Through Estranged Eyes: Across Inner Dreams and Outer Worlds” is the creative outcome of the educational programme of King’s Department of Digital Humanities.

On 7 and 8 May @scigallerylon.bsky.social is hosting a free VR exhibition created by students from the Department of Digital Humanities at King's Arts & Humanities, led by Gabriele Salciute Civiliene.

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/throu...

Book cover for Public Data Cultures (Polity, forthcoming 2025).

"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

Friends in London and elsewhere: this is happening at KCL and online next week! Sad I can't join in person but looking forward to a vibrant discussion

One week from tomorrow folks!! 🪩📘

Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal The Department of Digital Humanities and the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London are delighted to host the launch of the DISCO Network’s Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refus...

✨ book launch ✨ – join us to celebrate "Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal" by @disconetwork.bsky.social on 21st May, 5:30pm 🎊📖
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...

with @riannawalcott.bsky.social @drdavidadelman.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social
@lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social & more

Arts of Opacity: Thinking Beyond Privacy How do we imagine a response to surveillance that does not involve privacy? Five anthropologists and art practitioners present their work.

Arts of Opacity: Thinking Beyond Privacy. Join anthropologists & artists exploring resistance to surveillance beyond the lens of privacy. Wed 14 May, 2–6pm. Free panel + drinks reception!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arts-of-op...
#Opacity #Surveillance #Art

Symposium on Information Controls The Symposium on Information Controls brings together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls from around the world.

Symposium on Information Controls on 16th May, bringing together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls around the world: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/sympo...
#disinformation #algorithms #censorship #infrastructure #internetstudies
@kingsdh.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social

Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal The Department of Digital Humanities and the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London are delighted to host the launch of the DISCO Network’s Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refus...

Link to event page & registration below: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...

Co-authors in attendance: @riannawalcott.bsky.social, A. Joseph Dial, Kevin C. Winstead, Jeff Nagy, @drdavidadelman.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, & @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social

Promotional image for a book launch for Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal. On the left, the book cover features a pale blue background with abstract dark shapes at the bottom. To the right, the words "BOOK LAUNCH" stand prominently in large, blue capital letters above details for the event.

UPCOMING: A panel discussion of Technoskepticism coming soon to a King's College London near you!

This is a hybrid event, to be held on Wednesday, May 21st from 5:30-7 PM (BST).

View details below, thank you to @kingsdh.bsky.social & @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social for hosting 7 of our co-authors.

Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities delivered by Professor Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College.

Excited to welcome Prof @roopikarisam.bsky.social for a talk on "Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis" on 1st May 2025: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every...

King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post) King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...

✨jobs✨ 20 AI+ Academic Fellowships - including for arts, humanities and social researchers: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...

Paolo Ruffino: Gaming the Post-Anthropocene

On Thursday 10th I'll be speaking at the University of Westminster as part of the Virtual Realisms lecture series organised by Tadej Vindis and Teodora Alata. I'll talk about my current research on videogames and the (post-)Anthropocene www.westminster.ac.uk/events/paolo...

✍️ A new report authored by Dr @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social in @kingsdh.bsky.social calls for more nuanced understandings of sexual consent, especially when digital technologies are involved.

📱 Explore the report's top five recommendations here 👇

OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.

Next week, I’ll be presenting our book project Global South Creator Cultures with @mediaindustries.bsky.social at the Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop at the Oxford Internet Institute.

www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

@kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social

Hi. I'm sharing a pre-print by @anavaldi.bsky.social and me that is gaining traction @ssrn.bsky.social.

Critical minerals policies are generating pressures to create 'technological peripheries' in both the South and North. We look at Chile and Spain.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Come listen to scholars discuss media and digital cuture in Southeast Asia! I'll be speaking at the 3rd editor of the SOAS South East Asia Seminar Series on 28 March at 4pm GMT (online and at Senate House in London). Details in the image below - register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Glad to announce the Game Engine Cultures workshop at DiGRA2025. Curated by Paolo Ruffino, Matteo Bittanti and Valentino Catricalà. Please send your abstract by April 4th. Workshop date: June 30th at the University of Malta drive.google.com/file/d/1A5pP...

an image for forestscapes listening lab at Science Gallery London, Friday 21st March 2025, 6.30pm. There is a collage featuring images of forest related plants, creatures, infrastructures and objects. Concentric circles represent fields of sound. The background is a gradient from purple to yellow. In the top right is an image of the moon.

Looking forward to forestscapes listening lab at @scigallerylon.bsky.social's Pulse of the Planet, Friday 21 March, 6.30pm: publicdatalab.org/2025/03/12/f...
with @maudbo.bsky.social @lboungr.bsky.social @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social & Angela YT Chan

Visual Methods for Digital Research: An Introduction Visual Methods for Digital Research is the first textbook to bring the fields of visual methods and digital research together.

​❓ Interested in visual methods for digital & participatory research? Don’t miss the book launch of Visual Methods for Digital Research: An Introduction at KCL! 🎉📚

🗓️ 27 March 2025, 17:00–19:00
🔍✨ Sign up here: buff.ly/J8nu5Pg

#DigitalResearch #VisualMethods #DigitalMedia #BookLaunch #KCL

Looking forward to hosting Marie Kolling (@diis.dk) at @kingsdh.bsky.social 26 Mar 6:30pm for her talk on illicit digital economies, based on ethnographic research.

'In debt from money-never-spent: financial fraud and scams in Brazil'

Find out more:

www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

Visual Methods for Digital Research: An Introduction Visual Methods for Digital Research is the first textbook to bring the fields of visual methods and digital research together.

join us for a talk on "visual methods for digital research" with Sabine Niederer & @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social on Thursday 27th March, 5-7pm 🖼️✂️✨
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/visua... @politybooks.bsky.social

Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis Join us to celebrate the publication of Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis by Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe.

Join us to celebrate the publication of @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social's "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis", next Monday 10th March 2025, 6-8pm: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/dark-...
#darklaboratory

The great Romanian election TikTok replay – Public Data Lab In December 2024, the European Commission launched an investigation following “serious indications that foreign actors interfered in the Romanian presidential elections using TikTok.” The elections…

🔍 How can creative coding techniques like soundscaping and video recomposition help us unpack political issues + influencer practices on TikTok? 🎵📹

📖 Insights from explorations w/ @publicdatalab.bsky.social around the 2024 Romanian elections at @digitalmethods.net winter school: