The Department of Digital Humanities is recruiting for twelve full-time, permanent positions across a range of areas. Please help us share with those who might be interested in applying. Full details and links can be found on this jobs.ac.uk page. Some background information about these posts: The Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) is one of …
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To coincide with her new book More than a Glitch (2023, MIT Press), we’re excited to host Meredith Broussard for a talk on “Confronting Race, Gender and Ability Bias in Tech” on 10th May 2023. The talk is co-organised by the King’s College London Centre for Digital Culture, Digital Futures Institute, Department for Digital Humanities …
Researchers at the Department of Digital Humanities have contributed chapters to a new book on Digital (In)justice in the Smart City on Toronto University Press. Güneş Tavmen wrote a chapter on “Cybernetic Urbanism: Tracing the Development of the Responsibilized Subject and Self-Organizing Communities in Smart Cities”. Jonathan Gray co-wrote a piece with Noortje Marres on …
We’re looking forward to hosting Roel Roscam Abbing (Malmö University / lurk.org) for a workshop on “Infrastructuring alternatives: Mastodon, the Fediverse and beyond”. The workshop will take place on 6th April, at King’s College London, Strand Campus. Further details are available below. Infrastructuring alternatives: Mastodon, the Fediverse and beyond After many years of inaction and, …
In January the Creative AI Lab at King’s College London/Serpentine (Professor Mercedes Bunz and curator Eva Jäger as Lab’s co-founders, Dr Daniel Chávez Heras, PhD student Alasdair Milne, Professor Joanna Zylinska) hosted a one-day symposium supported by the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Colleagues from disciplines across King’s were invited to discuss what the concept …
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A new article on “Visual Models for Social Media Image Analysis: Groupings, Engagement, Trends, and Rankings” co-authored by DDH researchers Gabriele Colombo, Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray has just been published in the International Journal of Communication (IJOC). It is available as an open access PDF. Here’s the abstract: With social media image analysis, one collects and interprets online images for the study …
Researchers at the Department of Digital Humanities contributed to an investigation into “Fossil fuel greenwash” with Global Witness as part of a broader collaboration on the politics of “nature-based solutions”. Here’s an excerpt from the methodology section: To examine the companies’ Twitter images, we worked with researchers from the Department of Digital Humanities at Kings College London and the Public …
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The forestscapes project is a collaboration between the Department of Digital Humanities, the Department of Geography and the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London, together with the Public Data Lab. It is supported by the National Environmental Research Council. Soundscapes as method How can soundscapes be used as a way to attend to forest life and the many different ways …
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The Creative AI Lab (a collaboration between Serpentine’s R&D Platform and Department of Digital Humanities) has the pleasure to announce the publication of a new position paper, ‘Creative—Critical—Constructive—Collaborative—Computational: Towards a C5 model in Creative AI’. The paper analyses creative activity enabled by machine learning and recognised under the banner of ‘Creative AI’. The theoretical discussion …
A new article on “Staying with the trouble of networks” co-authored Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru at the Department of Digital Humanities together with Daniela van Geenen, Tommaso Venturini, Mathieu Jacomy and Axel Meunier has just been published in Frontiers in Big Data. It is available open access in html and PDF versions. Here’s the abstract: Networks have risen to prominence as intellectual technologies and graphical representations, not only …
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