Digital Ecologies

Thanks so much to everyone who has submitted to our CFP.

We've had an overwhelming number of wonderful submissions. It's going to take us a while to process them all, so we'll aim to get back to you within the next few weeks)!

Today is the deadline to send your abstracts for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference!

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

Two days 😱

Last four days to send in your abstracts 👇

Last four days to send in your abstracts 👇

unboxing Public Data Cultures book

Copies of the book on a train in Totoro bag.

Front and back cover of Public Data Cultures with quotes and book blurb.

Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜

There's still over a week left to submit to our next conference, 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'.

Deadline: 14th November.

Any questions, get in touch with the organisers!

two weeks left!!
received some INCREDIBLE abstracts so far!!

🌅 How are digital technologies refashioning ecological aesthetics? 🌅

Join us for the next Digital Ecologies conference in February 2026 - CFP now open!

We're delighted to welcome Joanna Zylinska and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg as our keynotes!

Any questions, get in touch.

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

The expansion of computational capital reproduces the core-periphery dynamics of earlier empires—extracting from the Global South to enrich the North—while excavating billions of years in geological time to increase the speed of algorithmic convenience by milliseconds. After feeding at this planetary scale, the industrial beast now releases a tide of slop.

Crawford's new essay in e-flux offers the best summary of the monstrous absurdity of contemporary AI that I've read in a long time.

(via @jonnyjjt.bsky.social)

www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Glitch environmentalism - Naomi Parker, Adam Searle, Jonathon Turnbull, 2025 Birding is a form of wildlife recreation that often involves exclusive communities and spaces, where both access and practice are policed along hegemonic lines....

GLITCH ENVIRONMENTALISM is freely accessible for two weeks... make sure to download it soon!!

we think with Legacy Russell's Glitch Feminism (2020) to examine digitally-mediated activism challenging birding's hegemonic, exclusionary histories and cultures

w/ Naomi Parker and @jonnyjjt.bsky.social

New #DigitalEcologies paper from Naomi Parker, @admsrl.bsky.social & @jonnyjjt.bsky.social on 'glitch environmentalism'!

Open Access for the next two weeks.

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🦉 Glitch Environmentalism 🦉

In our new paper, Naomi Parker, @admsrl.bsky.social & I explore glitches in the birding community that arose in the Self-Isolating Bird Club

We theorise glitch environmentalism to understand how transitory glitches can gain duration

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/CESTC...

Plenty of brilliant books on display on the MUP stand at #BSA2025!

Featuring titles from some of our key series:
Theory for a Global Age 🧠
Racism, Resistance and Social Change ✊
Rethinking Borders 🌏
Music and Society 🎶

Can you spot yours?🔍

Photograph of the Manchester University Press conference stand at the ASA 2025, displaying a selection of sociology, anthropology and geography books as well as posters and marketing materials for their key book series.

Calling all Sociologists!

We're excited to be in Birmingham this week for the Association of Social Anthropologists 2025 conference #ASA2025

Pop by the MUP stand to chat with @lauramswift.bsky.social and browse a selection of our latest academic and trade titles🗨️

The Digital Ecologies MSc collective recently held an exhibition - #NatureBuffering - at Oxford. Students showcased key concepts from the #DigitalEcologies framework through a series of wonderful creative interventions 💫

More pics of the students' fantastic exhibits!

Looking back on the Nature Buffering exhibition curated with my Digital Ecologies MSc students at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago.

Loved seeing their creative reflections on the digital mediation of more-than-human worlds!

Join us for the Nature Buffering exhibition!

The @digicologies.bsky.social MSc Collective will exhibit creative work reflecting on the digitisation of more-than-human worlds, w/ @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @karolinausk.bsky.social & @admsrl.bsky.social

🗓️ 11 March
⏰ 4-6pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull

This week, we're hosting the book launch of Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds w/ @jonnyjjt.bsky.social & @admsrl.bsky.social

🗓️ 27th February
⏰ 4pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/ @digicologies.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social P

This week we're delighted to be joined by Karolina Uskakovych who will screen her film 'Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil' and discuss her work on #agriculture and #gardening in the UK and #Ukraine.

🗓️ Thursday 20th Feb
⏰ 4pm
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

All welcome!

Beyond ‘technical fixes’: Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference provokes debate at the interface between theory and application Noemi Duroux, Caitlin Hafferty, and Jonathon Turnbull reflect on the 2024 Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference, which created a vibrant, interdisciplinary space for knowledge sharing, posi...

🌐 Check out this new blog by @caitlinhafferty.bsky.social, @jonnyjjt.bsky.social & Noemi Duroux where they reflect on the Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference held at the Digital Hub at Jesus College, Oxford in November last year

naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/beyond-... #DigitalEcologies

Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference explores the potential, pitfalls, and diverse futures of technological innovation Noemi Duroux, Caitlin Hafferty, and Jonathon Turnbull reflect on the 2024 Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference, which created a vibrant, interdisciplinary space for knowledge sharing and d...

🤖🌳🚀 New blog post on our transdisciplinary Digital Dimensions of Nature Recovery conference, which brought together diverse voices to question the tensions between utopian innovation & complex power dynamics at the interface between policy and practice.

naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/digital...

Carnivorous marsupials, cryptic birds and feral cats: wildlife cameras capture life on a Queensland cattle station The monitoring program by Australian Wildlife Conservancy aims to show conservation and cattle grazing can coexist if properly managed

🐁 📹 Camera traps, bioacoustics, and AI-driven wildlife recognition technology in cattle grazing stations in Queensland 📹 🐁

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Retweeting this very late, so obviously way after Christmas now, but just seen that the open access version is now up :) www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

I'm sharing the CFP for the upcoming "Fragile Environments in a Digital Age: Technologies, Aesthetics, Socialities" conference organized by the DigiFREN project I'm a partner on. Join us in Bohinjska Bistrica, Slovenia, 26-27 June 2025! #envhum CFP deadline 20 January 2025.

The year’s last author copies are here, on the first day of my holiday break. @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and I wrote an epilogue for this excellent book on Digital Ecologies. #envhum

Thanks so much for these kind words, Peter. They mean a lot! We'd love to know what you think of the book.