Andrew Hoskins

New Article: Peace in every shot: How Kodak changed the way we see war by Hadas Zahavi

Read it here: cup.org/40QIkfG

#Kodak #amateurphotography #visualmemory

My book series with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social - we're getting good proposals and welcome more:
www.intellectbooks.com/ai-politics

@andrewhoskins.bsky.social and I picked up this point in our book Radical War.

It isn't a surprise to me that the software optimisation tends to ignore the legal requirements that the armed forces remain accountable to their legislators and in the courts.

amzn.eu/d/0WMoRjm

Featured Article: Fake memories: A meta-analysis on the effect of fake news on the creation of false memories and false beliefs - cup.org/3SlXXGY

By Alexa Schincariol, Henry Otgaar, et al.

#fakenews #falsememories #falsebeliefs

New Special Collection: Navigating migration, memory and media

Read the introductory article, written by Ana Belén Martínez García, Monika Arnez and Anita Lunić here: cup.org/4mOLlpQ

#Migration #Memory #Media

Great to be here at

NATO #RigaStratComDialogue
@stratcomcoe.bsky.social

rigastratcomdialogue.org

The alibi of AI: algorithmic models of automated killing - Digital War The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Automated Target Recognition (ATR) optimises martial prophecies of perpetual threat while simultaneously exonerating the politically inclined prosecution of ...

Check this out link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Wisdom Weavers & Media Ecology: A Conversation with Dr. Tom Cooper The Human Voice with Bob Hutchins · Episode

Just up: Bob Hutchins' riveting interview with Tom Cooper, about his new book, Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, published May 1 by Connected Editions open.spotify.com/episode/6jHa...

The alibi of AI: algorithmic models of automated killing - Digital War The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Automated Target Recognition (ATR) optimises martial prophecies of perpetual threat while simultaneously exonerating the politically inclined prosecution of ...

Great article in @digitalwarjnl.bsky.social on when humans are there just to service the AI targeting machine…

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Review: "The Alibi of AI" by Anthony Downey - AOAV Anthony Downey’s essay argues that artificial intelligence systems used by the Israeli military in Gaza have transformed warfare by automating the designation of targets, eroding human oversight, and ...

Review: “The Alibi of AI” by Anthony Downey

aoav.org.uk/2025/review-...

The alibi of AI: algorithmic models of automated killing - Digital War The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Automated Target Recognition (ATR) optimises martial prophecies of perpetual threat while simultaneously exonerating the politically inclined prosecution of ...

THE ALIBI OF AI

Fantastic new article by @atpdowney.bsky.social

Open access in @digitalwarjnl.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great to be here at

NATO #RigaStratComDialogue
@stratcomcoe.bsky.social

rigastratcomdialogue.org

Understanding identity’s cognitive roots is key to addressing conflict. What variables shape it?

Panel discussion “Washing away memory. New realities emerging.”
📢 Riga StratCom Dialogue 2025
📅 10–11 June | 📍 Riga, Latvia
🔗 rigastratcomdialogue.org

I've just read @williammerrin.bsky.social and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social's fast paced book "Sharded Media".

If you who want to understand the highly fragmented state of our media ecologies and how this framed/shaped Trump's 2024 election then this is for you.
www.amazon.co.uk/SHARDED-MEDI...

From the Open Collection: Sharing memory and wisdom across generations: A scaffolded community reminiscing programme for adolescents and older adults - cup.org/42YuSGK

By Penny Van Bergen, Tanya Evans, et al.

#reminiscing #intergenerational #lifestory

From the AI and Memory Collection: Myopic memory: Capitalism's new continuity in the age of AI - cup.org/4ifOxaJ

By Danny Pilkington

#AI #Capitalism #Neoliberalism

JOB KLAXON - 5 year Research Fellowship for experienced postdoc working with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social on digital war @edinburghuni.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

From the AI & Memory Collection: Myopic memory: Capitalism's new continuity in the age of AI cup.org/4ifOxaJ

By Danny Pilkington

#AI #Capitalism #Neoliberalism

From Merrin and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social Sharded Media, written in November:

'Very simply, Reform are going to become one of the most important and powerful voices in UK politics (perhaps the most)' (p. 112)...

Trending article in Memory, Mind & Media: AI and memory - cup.org/42EoeGC

By Andrew Hoskins

#generativeAI #humanagency #digitalparticipation

Did I mention that the fabulous Memory, Mind & Media journal is on Bluesky? You might want to check out @mmmjournal.bsky.social if you're interested in all things mediating memory.

Invitation to potential authors - AI Politics: new book series by @intellectbooks.bsky.social / @uchicagopress.bsky.social edited by @andrewhoskins.bsky.social & I. View the full call here>>
www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2536/a...

New article from Memory, Mind & Media: Sharing photographs on social media enhances recollection of photograph-related details - cup.org/4lLXX0G

By Angelina N. Vasquez, Shayla J. Dockery, Jessica M. Karanian, Qi Wang and Charles B. Stone

#memory #socialmedia #captureddetails

Recently published in Memory Mind & Media: Remembering/imagining: Shona Illingworth’s time present and Trinh-T Minh-Ha’s forgetting Vietnam - cup.org/42lGNxW

By Caterina Albano

#memory #amnesia #imagination #TrinhTMinha @cambridgeup.bsky.social

Book examines how digital culture is affecting our memory | Cornell Chronicle A new book co-written by Cornell professor Qi Wang probes key issues on how our digital culture affects our memory, including recalling personal memories of events and information.

🙂

news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

YouTube video by Pulp Pulp - Spike Island (Official Video)

The uncanny of AI memory

#pulpband

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27a...

(1) The markets and commentators make the mistake of thinking what Trump says is real... hence the crash and recovery and panicked analyses of the global impact. They all make the mistake that #shardedmedia by myself and
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social point out ...

SHARDED MEDIA This book shows how the election of Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2024 is not a fluke but rather a symptom of a deep crisis within representative democracy

Noticing my dissertation students are writing about #deepfakes, #mistrust, #illiberalism, I'm telling them to read at least the first chapters of Sharded Media by @andrewhoskins.bsky.social & @williammerrin.bsky.social, as the book is about more than just Trump: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

PhD Studentships 2025 We are recruiting six PhD studentships to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory, and how people navigate together in space and time.

Six funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

L’IA permettra t-elle aux générations futures de mieux nous connaître ? Jamais l'humanité n'aura partagé autant de données. De quoi permettre à nos descendants de mieux nous connaître ? Pas sûr : si de nombreux outils d’IA proposent de prendre soin de nos traces numérique...

Our co Editor-in-Chief
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social

on SYNTHETIC MEMORY and deadbots,

in this great essay by
@lauraguien.bsky.social
@usbeketrica.bsky.social

usbeketrica.com/fr/article/l...