Text Affects brings together diverse scholarly communities that share a common interest in the creation, use and effects of text.
Conference CFP: https://digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/text-affects/text-affects-2025-2/calls/call-for-papers/
Writer, thinker, mom, MIT professor & humanistic voice of caution about tech. My memoir, The Empathy Diaries, called "an instant classic" by the NY Times.
The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association - working together to build a collaborative vision for the #DH field.
On Mastodon: @uk_ie_dh@hcommons.social
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Language / Politics / Dystopian narratives
Sociolinguist, Open University
Recent books:
The Future of Language
Political Activism in the Linguistic Landscape
The Art of Political Storytelling
Academic,newspaper columnist (Observer), blogger (johnnaughton.substack.com), photographer, optimist (despite current state of world), author, co-founder of Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy (mctd.ac.uk) at Cambridge
Pakistani-Canadian author of The Atheist Muslim (SMP/Macmillan). I don't take social media seriously. You shouldn’t either. Email aliamjadrizvi@gmail.com
The Open University's Institute of Educational Technology (IET) is a global leader in the field of pedagogy, known for advancing open and distance learning globally since 1970.
https://iet.open.ac.uk/
Emeritus Prof at the Open University, living in Cardiff. Professional interests include Educational technology & open education. Fun interests include ice hockey (Cardiff Devils), vinyl, dogs, horror books, walking in Wales.
Higher Education Teaching and Learning Consultant @ Nottingham Trent. All things academic skills, HE pedagogy, digital literacy, education tech, critical thinking and misinformation.
Previously a Biosciences Lecturer and researcher of miRNAs and TLRs.
edtech lecturer, maker, bodger, hacker, walker, history fan, rhizomatic academic
Digital Education, Education Futures, Digital Cultural Heritage & Research Cultures. Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-jen-ross
Screenwriter/showrunner: Breeders, Back, Veep, The Thick Of It, Peep Show, In The Loop, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Four Lions
Man City fan, half of @weareune and on the radio! All opinions are my own though!
Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor) at the Open University. Working on #EdTech #GenerativeAI #OpenEducation #LifelongLearning #Web3 #Blockchain.
Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University & President of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR). Religions; places; literacies; alternative futures. Bad at chess, worse at table tennis.
Luton Town fan & engaged Open University academic. Social scientist working with environmental, ecological & Earth scientists. https://www.open.ac.uk/people/rmh47
