Check out our new COMICS MEMORY ACTIVISM collection!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social
PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR University of Edinburgh AI & MEMORY https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.16 https://www.andrewhoskins.net/about ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War 5 year project https://tinyurl.com/yjem9a4w
Check out our new COMICS MEMORY ACTIVISM collection!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Who has control of the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings if survivors are now dead? AI #memorybots? Should there be moral worth for forgetting rather than assuming all memory is valuable? New by Luli van der Does and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
17.11.2025 15:07 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0text reads: Supervisor-led 3 Funded PhD Scholarships WARSHARE: The New War Front: Digital Participation in War. This project will produce new interdisciplinary understanding of how and why digital participation is transforming how individuals and societies (including militaries and states) fight, experience, and understand (perceive, explain, and de/legitimise) warfare.
3 Funded PhD Scholarships
Supervisor-led
Closing date for applications: 11 December 2025
WARSHARE: The New War Front: Digital Participation in War
Supervisor: Professor Andrew Hoskins
PROFESSOR of AI, MEMORY & WAR
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social
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How are you unwittingly involved in your own surveillance? @byrontau.bsky.social's interesting discussion of his book Means of Control, explains how.
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social & I discussed data surveillance in the context of war in our 2022 book Radical War.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT3s...
π¨ New publication alert! π¨
Iβm proud of this interdisciplinary, co-authored piece on how memory studies might handle the AI hype.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It has just been added, open access, to Memory, Mind and Mediaβs special collection on AI and Memory.
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social has a sense #AI won't be good for #memory, collective or otherwise. We are sharded and swimming alone in slop:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated images of war Abstract This study addresses how AI-generated images of war are changing the making of memory. Instead of asking how AI-generated images affect individual recall, we focus on how they communicate specific representations, recognising that such portrayals can cultivate particular assumptions and beliefs. Drawing on memory of the multitude, visual social semiotics, and cultivation/desensitisation theories, we analyse how visual generative AI mediates the representation of the Russia-Ukraine war. Our corpus includes 200 images of the Russia-Ukraine war generated from 23 prompts across proprietary and open-source visual generative AI systems. The findings indicate that visual generative AI tends to present a sanitised view of the war. Critical aspects, such as death, injury, and suffering of children and refugees are often excluded. Furthermore, a disproportional focus on urban areas misrepresents the full scope of the war. Visual generative AI, we argue, introduces a new dimension to memory making in that it blends documentation with speculative fiction by synthesising the multitude embedded within the visual memory of war archives, historical biases, representational limitations, and commercial risk aversion. By foregrounding the socio-technical and discursive dimensions of synthetic war content, this study contributes to an interdisciplinary dialogue on collective memory at the intersection of visual communication studies, media studies, and memory studies by providing empirical insights into how generative AI mediates the visual representation of war through human-archival-mechanistic entanglements. Keywords: visual generative AI; AI-generated images; memory of the multitude; war representation
New study in Memory, Mind & Media: "Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated #images of #war;
#AI and #Memory special collection. doi.org/10.1017/mem....
#criticalAI @universitypress.cambridge.org
Our video: What is AI Politics - our book series and a thing out there in the world? @andrewhoskins.bsky.social and I mull it over:
Watch: ow.ly/EQFC50WQin8
CFP: ow.ly/M43J50WQin7
Thanks to James @intellectbooks.bsky.social and do consider writing a book on this!
James Campbell is joined by Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin.
They discuss their new book series, AI Politics, which will interrogate and shape debate on the artificial intelligence.
Watchπow.ly/EQFC50WQin8
CFPπow.ly/M43J50WQin7
@benoloughlin.bsky.social @andrewhoskins.bsky.social
AI & COLLECTIVE MEMORY
The agentic turn shatters collective memory through three key forces:
(1) The war on human agency.
(2) The sharding of the self
(3) The new haunting
My latest article in Current Opinion of Psychology.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
From the AI and Memory Collection - Digital Dybbuks and virtual Golems: the ethics of digital duplicates in Holocaust testimony - cup.org/4fH7W4R
By Atay Kozlovski & Mykola Makhortykh
#digitalduplicate #Holocaust #testimony #artificialintelligence #ethics
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 BelΓ©n MartΓnez GarcΓa, Monika Arnez and Anita LuniΔ here: cup.org/4mOLlpQ
#Migration #Memory #Media
Great to be here at
NATO #RigaStratComDialogue
@stratcomcoe.bsky.social
rigastratcomdialogue.org
Check this out link.springer.com/article/10.1...
17.06.2025 17:34 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Just 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...
17.06.2025 15:49 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Great article in @digitalwarjnl.bsky.social on when humans are there just to service the AI targeting machineβ¦
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Review: βThe Alibi of AIβ by Anthony Downey
aoav.org.uk/2025/review-...
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 identityβs cognitive roots is key to addressing conflict. What variables shape it?
Panel discussion βWashing away memory. New realities emerging.β
π’ Riga StratCom Dialogue 2025
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10β11 June | π Riga, Latvia
π 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...
30.05.2025 20:12 β π 4 π 9 π¬ 1 π 1From 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)...