Dr Nick Srnicek awarded Honorary Professorship from the University of Buenos Aires

During his first visit to Argentina, Dr Nick Srnicek delivered a lecture on the relationship between political economy and new technology. Left to right: Emiliano Yacobitti, Vice-Rector of the University of Buenos Aires, and Dr Nick Srnicek, Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at King’s College London. Photo credit: Guillermo Llamos Dr Nick Srnicek, Senior Lecturer …

Professor Dame Janet (Jinty) Nelson DBE FRHistS FBA 1942-2024

Professor Dame Janet Nelson, 2019. Image: John Deehan for the Royal Historical Society Jinty, as she was known, was a distinguished medieval history scholar of international standing as well as an inspirational colleague and teacher. Her life and career will be celebrated by her colleagues in the Department of History – see their tribute  here …

troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸

How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this, researchers in the Department of Digital Humanities are launching a call for screenshots as part of a collaboration with the Digital Futures Institute’s Centre for Digital Culture and Centre for Attention Studies at King’s College London, the mĂŠdialab at Sciences Po, Paris and the Public Data Lab. Further details can be found copied below. …

Welcome to Marta Arisi, visiting PhD at the Department of Digital Humanities ✨

We are delighted to announce that Marta Arisi will be joining us from Sciences Po as a visiting PhD researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. During her stay she will be working with Jonathan Gray and exploring collaborations with researchers in the department and the Centre for Digital Culture. Marta comments: “Through my …

King’s Engaged Research Awards for collaborative project to develop arts-, research- and community-based responses to anti-Asian racism

A collaboration led by researchers at DDH and CMCI to develop arts-, research- and community-based responses to anti-Asian racism has been recognised with a King’s Engaged Research Award in the Local Collaborations category: I, Human: Becoming Visible (IHBV) was a collaborative, creative project organised by King’s College London; City, University of London and Moongate Productions, working with …

AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda

A paper on “AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda” has just been published by Department of Digital Humanities PhD researcher Tommy Shane. The paper is open access and can be found here and the abstract is copied below. Against a backdrop of widespread interest in how publics can participate in …

Article on COVID-19 testing situations on Twitter published in Social Media + Society

King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) researchers have contributed to a new collaborative article on “Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods” which has just been published in Social Media + Society. The article is co-authored by Noortje Marres (CIM Warwick), Gabriele Colombo (DensityDesign Lab Milan, former King’s DDH), Liliana …

New Research Project: Art x Public AI

Art x Public AI is a new research project by the Creative AI Lab, a collaboration between the Serpentine (a public arts org in London) and the Department of Digital Humanities, KCL. The lab focuses on developing research and prototypes that further artistic experimentation with AI. Our aim is to expand the conversations around AI …

Professor Stuart Dunn’s Inaugural Lecture at King’s College London

On 20th June 2023, Stuart Dunn of the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London delivered his Professorial Inaugural Lecture, The Spatial Humanities: A Challenge to the All-Knowing Map, which explored: What are Spatial Humanities, and why does King’s have a Professor dedicated to them? In 1946 Jorge Luis Borges published a short story …