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Imaginative Digital Futures: a symposium, 27 November 2024
What will our future look like? Will it have to be digital? What role will biotech, screen media and AI play in it? Can we imagine better futures with and around digital technology? Can we design those futures in a collaborative way? Hosted by the Department of Digital Humanities and the Centre for Attention Studies …
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Hello #AoIR2024! 👋🏼
Several members of King College London’s Department of Digital Humanities and Centre for Digital Culture are presenting at the Association of Internet Researchers AoIR 2024 conference over the coming days. If you’re there you can see:
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 …
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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 médialab 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 …
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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 …
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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 …