[three_fourths] “Rethinking the Meaning of ‘Books’ and ‘Authorship’ in the Digital Age: The KITAB Project and Its Work on Text ‘Reuse’” – Sarah Savant This lecture focuses on the size of the Arabic tradition (ca. 700-1500), and the likely role that written practices and cultural expectations played in its development. It is arguably the largest …
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EVENT | SHOWCASE: King’s College London x Somerset House Studios 29.01.19
[three_fourths] A showcase of King’s College London x Somerset House Studios collaborations Five artist-academic project teams have worked together over the last six months to research and develop new critical perspectives on contemporary culture and society. The evening will be hosted by Dr Munira Mirza, Executive Director for Culture at King’s College London. The River …
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EVENT | Digital Tools for the Study of Theatre
[three_fourths] How can digital tools be used to study theatre and performance? Join us for a public talk with Miguel Escobar Varela from the National University of Singapore. Digital Tools for the Study of Theatre – Miguel Escobar Varela (National University of Singapore) This talk looks at a range of DH tools to study theatre …
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EVENT | No Business of Yours: How the Large Corporation Swallowed the Future
[three_fourths] When and how did economic growth become such a central concern of democratic political life? How might climate change challenge this conception of politics? Join us for an evening talk with Timothy Mitchell (Columbia University) at King’s College London, co-hosted by the Institute for Policy Research (University of Bath) along with the Department of …
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EVENT | Data that Warms: Remaking our Relations with Data through Commodifying Infrastructural Discard
[three_fourths] What kinds of infrastructures and relations underpin data societies? How is the heat of data streams being harnessed and commodified by data centre operators? How does the commodification of infrastructural discard modify the ways in which we live with and feel data? Join us for a public talk with Julia Velkova (University of Helsinki). …
EVENT | The Digital Party – Book Launch
[three_fourths] The Centre for Digital Culture invites you to the launch of Paolo Gerbaudo’s new book, The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy. From the Five Star Movement to Podemos, from the Pirate Parties to La France Insoumise, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders to those backing Jeremy Corbyn, the last decade has witnessed …
EVENT | DIGIT.PROP: Social media and Political Communication
[three_fourths] In recent years we have seen social media becoming a key means of political communication and propaganda in a number of election campaigns, from the US 2016 presidential elections, to the 2017 national elections in the UK. How does social media growing role in contemporary politics change the way in which campaigns are conducted? …
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EVENT | Seen by Machine: Computational Spectatorship and the BBC Archive
[three_fourths] Film and television makers have been using computers in their practice for almost as long as computers have been around. Recently, they have incorporated machine learning techniques as creative tools in their craft. Creative machine learning holds the promise of the automation of the production and reproduction of visual culture, and this type of …
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EVENT | Predictive Policing & Big Data Analysis
[three_fourths] The application of ‘big data’ to make predictions about future behaviour is increasingly being applied in policing and by social services. The more it is important to publicly discuss this development and exchange knowledge about it. Hosted by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College …
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EVENT | The good life after work? Nostalgia and digital capitalism
[three_fourths] Description Are people working in digital economies experiencing nostalgia for the “good life” of previous decades? What can we make of tensions between visions of “the end of work” and “life after work”? Join us for a seminar with Alessandro Gandini (King’s College London) where he’ll be previewing new research on nostalgia and …
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