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 …
Category archives: DDH Activities
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 …
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Dr Kate Devlin leads £5m UKRI research project to explore responsible and trustworthy AI
King’s College London have been awarded £5m in funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to support a collaborative project led by Dr Kate Devlin from the Department of Digital Humanities and involving Dr Caitlin Bentley and Professor Sana Khareghani (Department of Informatics), and Professor Prokar Dasgupta (Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology and the Department …
High-dimensional cinema • 6 July 2023
Join this panel and discover how Artificial Intelligence and related technologies are reshaping the production and understanding of audiovisual culture.
Workshop: Sculpting Time with Computers
Researchers from leading laboratories in cultural informatics come together to discuss the past, present, and future, of computational moving images.
DDH researchers at King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence
DDH researchers are contributing to several public talks and events as part of the The King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence (Bringing the Human to the Artificial, King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence). The festival brings together speakers, exhibits, performances, demos, and screenings in an exciting programme of events from 24th-28th May 2023. The events are open …
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DDH researchers contribute to “AI: Who’s Looking After Me?” exhibition and events at Science Gallery London
Department of Digital Humanities researchers Mark Coté and Kate Devlin have contributed to a new programme of public activities with Science Gallery London. AI: Who’s Looking After Me?, (presented in collaboration with FutureEverything) is a free exhibition and public events programme, running from 21 June 2023 to 20 January 2024. AI: Who’s Looking After Me?’ …
Video from “Creative AI: Theory and Practice” symposium
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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New paper: “Visual Models for Social Media Image Analysis: Groupings, Engagement, Trends, and Rankings”
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 …
Investigating fossil fuel greenwashing with Global Witness
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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