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Tuğçe Bidav

@tugcebidav.bsky.social

Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London | Interested in platforms, digital labour & creator cultures https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/tugce-bidav

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Latest posts by tugcebidav.bsky.social on Bluesky

✨Reminder: CFP still open for our Digital Humanities Today conference (23–26 June 2026, King’s College London) — do consider submitting!

25.09.2025 20:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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✨ A must-read article by my brilliant co-author @mediaindustries.bsky.social on how privilege & precarity shape academia and media industries. Reflecting on these issues is essential if we are to foster more inclusive knowledge production in academia.

Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

29.08.2025 15:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (Academic Education Pathway)!

📅 Start date: 29 September 2025 (or soon after)
📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term until 30 September 2026
🗓 Apply by: 27 August 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#AcademicJobs

14.08.2025 09:31 — 👍 5    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1
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OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ - BBC News GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

Calling GPT-5 “PhD-level” is a provocative marketing strategy that devalues the depth of academic work—critical thinking, creative research design, original data collection and analysis, ethical reflection, and engagement in peer review, among much else.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

13.08.2025 21:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital From the 23-26 June 2026, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London will host an international conference exploring the evolving role of Digital Humanities in a world increasingly ...

My department at King’s College London is organising a conference on all things digital — from AI and platforms to creative practice, labour, and digital ecologies — on 23–26 June 2026.

📝 Do consider submitting paper or panel abstracts!

📣 CFP: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...

02.08.2025 19:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital is a Marxist journal based in London.

Announcing the new journal: "Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital"

We've launched a new Historical Materialism project with a CfP for the first issue. Abstracts due 31st of October

Full details and the new website here: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/jo...

01.08.2025 11:31 — 👍 30    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

So grateful to have read this chapter with @tugcebidav.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing the book out soon!

30.07.2025 14:59 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Join a great network of scholars researching creator cultures and industries — check out the Discord link in the post below! ⬇️

09.06.2025 15:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A quick announcement from the editors @julieychen.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social that we are now live on bsky. We will be posting updates about Platforms & Society on here. Follow to keep abreast!

07.04.2025 19:45 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

I was just about to send this to you!

26.03.2025 15:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...
@kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social

26.03.2025 11:08 — 👍 49    🔁 38    💬 2    📌 4

Creators who stand for justice, on the other hand, are being asked to expose brands that cut ties with them so those brands can be added to the boycott list.

24.03.2025 10:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some creators remain silent but postpone their content schedules. Those who haven’t posted about the issue are facing backlash from their followers, with a list of their names circulating on social media for boycott.

24.03.2025 10:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a boycott movement has emerged. Amidst all this, public attention is also on creators, once again highlighting how the creator economy is deeply embedded in national contexts.

24.03.2025 10:26 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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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

17.03.2025 15:20 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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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.

Delighted to be welcoming @roopikarisam.bsky.social to give the second King's Public Lecture in Digital Humanities in May: "Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis". Details and registration here - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every...
@kingsdh.bsky.social

24.02.2025 22:32 — 👍 30    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 1
Select tickets – Stephanie Diepeveen: Power, Representation and GenAI: A critical exploration of AI imaginaries across language and place – Safra Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London The Global Digital Cultures Research Group in the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL hosts Dr Stephanie Diepeveen, speakin...

🎭 How is bias reproduced in text-to-image generative AI models? Join Dr. Stephanie Diepeveen for a public talk on Power, Representation & GenAI.

📅 26 February | 5PM
📍 King’s College London | Free event
🔗 Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

#AI #GenerativeAI #digitalmedia

18.02.2025 17:53 — 👍 9    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

Disco hall as the new public sphere 😄 It could serve as a conversation starter, shifting the discussion from rational debate to affect, performance and spectacle.

14.02.2025 20:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you missed #AoIR2024, read CCSN’s blog post for key takeaways and insights on creator studies!
@mediaindustries.bsky.social @arturoarriagada.bsky.social

19.11.2024 20:52 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Startup pack of my academic colleagues doing amazing digital research at @kingsdh.bsky.social! go.bsky.app/SXpvQhQ These are the ones I know who are on Bsky - drop me a message if I missed anyone 😅 #academia #digitalhumanities

15.11.2024 20:55 — 👍 27    🔁 10    💬 5    📌 0

Me 🙃 and @zaborowski.bsky.social, @tavmos.bsky.social

15.11.2024 21:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Thank you!!

14.11.2024 20:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Add me too 🙃

14.11.2024 19:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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✨Excited to announce my first solo-authored paper is out now! I’m thrilled to be part of the new special issue ‘Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production’ with a piece on localised precarity. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

11.06.2024 09:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey - Tugce Bidav, Smith Mehta, 2024 Drawing on Indian, Irish, and Turkish YouTube creators’ perceptions of their work, this article focuses on peripheral creator work cultures to broaden the under...

📢 New publication alert with an amazing co-author @mediaindustries.bsky.social 🎊 Our paper “Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey” is out in Social Media + Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

29.02.2024 04:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

04.12.2023 14:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

✨Excited to share that Smith @mediaindustries.bsky.social and I just signed a book contract with Routledge to publish an edited collection provisionally titled 'Global South Creator Cultures'.

04.12.2023 13:20 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Howth seascapes 🌅🚤

11.10.2023 07:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yayy, please do! ☘️

20.09.2023 20:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I went sailing for the first time in Ireland (From Dún Laoghaire to Killiney Bay)⛵️☘️

02.09.2023 20:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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