Rafal Zaborowski

A new book series with Univ of Exeter Press: Global Digital Futures, ed. by Cristina Moreno Almeida and myself.
It takes digital culture beyond the anglophone datasphere, focusing on alternative epistemologies, methods, and futures. Check www.exeterpress.co.uk/collections/... and get in touch!

New Book Series 📚️ Global Digital Futures

If you are interested in writing for the series we would love to hear from you. Learn more ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/k8xvs2ck

#digitalculturestudies #digitalculture #digitalfutures

Image of first page of journal article entitled "Social Media and Society: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics"

🚨Special Issue Alert: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics
(1/9) Introduction from our guest editors Zoetanya Sujon, Harry Dyer and Felipe Bonow Soares. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#academicsky #socialmediasky

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway).

📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025

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

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring

A very full and fascinating Audience Section panel on influencer cultures at #iamcr2025 #iamcr #iamcraud More tomorrow!

Two members of NHK crew are filming Dr Rafal Zaborowski in his office on King's Strand Campus.

📺 Tune in this Sunday, 6 July, at 9:10 am for the English version of the NHK documentary "New Japonism: Vocaloids", featuring our own Dr @zaborowski.bsky.social!

🔗 Catch it on NHK On-Demand: buff.ly/RmQa19V

#DigitalCulture #Vocaloids @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

NHK World schedule listing: "J-POP: Vocaloid Goes Global NEO-JAPONISM Japanese Vocaloid culture has taken the world by storm, sparking a global fan base and inspiring a new generation of artists. Watch and learn about this technology and how it unleashes creativity." Thumbnail is a photo of two overseas Rin & Len cosplayers https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/

We'll be getting 4 airings of this in the next day, so there will be a few chances to catch it before it's taken off. You can find the schedule here!

hello vocasky! the NHK overseas Vocaloid fandom special is premiering internationally in 3 hours!! Check out the livestream here 👇

Characteristically forgot to sit down to watch this but managed to tune in to the last quarter, just at @zaborowski.bsky.social's interview!

Microsoft Word - Film tourism impacts_SeanKim_Eerang Park_ECU SBL 2024 | Kourosh Esfandiar, PhD | 16 comments Exciting PhD Scholarship Opportunity – Film Tourism Impacts Project I am delighted to share an excellent PhD scholarship opportunity on a film tourism impacts… | 16 comments on LinkedIn

Very exciting PhD on film tourism impacts being advertised at Edith Cowan University supervised by Associate Professor Sangkyun Kim & Dr Eerang Park with the potential for a scholarship too. I'm tempted and I've got a PhD!
More details at www.linkedin.com/posts/kouros... #fanstudies #filmtourism

That is just so many jobs!

RIP Jonathan Sterne - most influential sound studies scholar of the past 20 years, renowned mentor, dedicated colleague.

Debuted on NHK last week! I was interviewed for a TV special on vocaloid cultures, focusing on how they allow listeners and young people in particular to develop their voice and a sense of agency. Friends in Japan can catch it on-demand.

My new article, co-authored with @zaborowski.bsky.social & focused on Kate Bush fandom on TikTok is now out 🎵

Happy Fat Thursday, the best Polish holiday

Can’t believe it. Effortlessly kind. A rare quality of leaving you feeling better after every interaction.

Works well now - maybe just a temporary glitch on my side. Thanks!

FRASER NELSON Is Rishi Sunak English? It didn't use to be a question The era of Trump and Musk is seeing issues raised in a way unthinkable a year ago - but it may yet trip up Farage Fraser Nelson Friday February 21 2025, 9.00pm, The Times I s Rishi Sunak really English? Until recently I had no idea this was a controversial question, but the debate is fast evolving amid the Trump “vibe shift”. The once unthinkable is being said regularly: yesterday's taboos are becoming today's orthodoxies. A new breed of digital discussion programmes are shaping the national conversation.

Nelson correctly says that of course Sunak is English, but absolutely misses his part in shaping the rhetoric we have now which makes the "unthinkable" questions mainstream.

A cat leaps from one gatepost to the other, with a wooden torii in the background. The cat's body stretches from one pillar of the torii to the other.

Sankei gallery for 猫の日(Cat Day) leads with this photo. www.sankei.com/article/2025...

Academic Recruitment April 2026 for the Post of Full-Time Academic Faculty The Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS) at WASEDA University is conducting a search for the following full-time academic faculty...

Please repost! My department -- Waseda University's Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies -- is planning to offer a tenured position to begin in 2026. We're a friendly place and we offer one of the best research environments in Japan. Application information here! Thanks for reposting, folks!

Looks fun - the link does not open for me though

The Nightmare Before Christmas This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layers of meaning and hi…

It's publication day for this edited collection that I've been working on with my two fabulous co-editors.

Plenty of great work in here on animation, fandom and transmedia, and the general importance of this classic film 🕷🎃🎄

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...

🎭 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
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#AI #GenerativeAI #digitalmedia

‘We’re projecting into the future’: sounds of BBC Radiophonic Workshop made available for public use Software goes on sale that replicates the distinctive analogue sounds of celebrated unit where Doctor Who theme was created With its banks of bafflingly complex equipment, and staff members that were among the most progressive musical minds in the UK,…

‘We’re projecting into the future’: sounds of BBC Radiophonic Workshop made available for public use

#Runningupthathill, revival and popular music fandom on TikTok The fourth season of Stranger Things (2022) used Kate Bush’s 1985 single ‘Running up that Hill’ for a key narrative moment, propelling the song back into the charts. This resurgence also inspired n...

New open access article!
With @lucykbennett.bsky.social we explore the resurgence of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" on TikTok -- creativity, renewal and nostalgia through fandom, but also tensions between platform infrastructure, creators and audiences.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

Academics have always been complaining about admin duties eating into their teaching and research time

Are we in a second Cold War? @iliasalami.bsky.social, @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social, @steverolf.bsky.social and @sethschindler.bsky.social argue that the current conflict focuses on controlling global economic networks rather than ideology or territory. www.tni.org/en/article/t...

Popular Music Explore the article collection: Popular Music. Published in Information, Communication & Society.

Free access music article collection!
@zaborowski.bsky.social & I edited a collection of 20 music academic articles for journal @icsjournal.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/journals/ric...