DDH’s Prof. Btihaj Ajana was interviewed by the Guardian for article “‘The bot asked me four times a day how I was feeling’: is tracking everything actually good for us?”: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/feb/22/the-bot-asked-me-four-times-a-day-how-i-was-feeling-is-tracking-everything-actually-good-for-us?CMP=share_btn_url
Category archives: Media Engagement
DDH Research Associate Rachel Pistol on Channel 5’s “No Place Like Home”
Dr. Rachel Pistol, Research Associate at the Department of Digital Humanities and UK National Coordinator of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) has contributed to the latest series of Channel 5’s “No Place Like Home”. In the episode, Rachel discusses Second World War internment camp, Warth Mills, in Bury, as Journalist and News Broadcaster Victoria …
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“You don’t own that data” – Btihaj Ajana on self-tracking in the Guardian
Btihaj Ajana has been interviewed in The Guardian about a piece on “Intimate data: can a person who tracks their steps, sleep and food ever truly be free?”. Here are some quotes from the piece: Such quandaries will only become more common and complex, says Btihaj Ajana, a reader in media and digital culture at King’s …
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#FacebookOutage highlights our social media addictions – Rachael Kent interviewed in The Independent
Rachael Kent was interviewed for a piece in The Independent on “What happens psychologically when we’re cut off from social media?”, exploring what the recent outage of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp tells us about our social media addictions. Here are a couple of quotes from the piece: This showed just how addicted many of us …