DDH’s Prof. Btihaj Ajana publishes a chapter in Italian language in the volume, “Incorporazioni: Prospettive storiche e teoriche”, edited by Angela Michelis and Francesco Pisano. The volume focuses on the multifaceted concept of the body, examining its role in shaping identity and subjectivity through a historical and conceptual lens.
Category archives: Publications
“It Could Have Been Us”: media frames and the coverage of Ukrainian, Afghan and Syrian refugee crises
A new article by DDH’s Professor Btihaj Ajana on the news media framing of different refugee crises. Article is availabe open access on: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43545-024-00943-4
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 …
New article: ‘Risk consciousness and public perceptions of COVID-19 vaccine passports’
A new article on how perceptions of risk (Beck, Giddens) impact public attitudes towards vaccination passports, authored by DDH professor, Btihaj Ajana, and Elena Engstler, Anas Ismail & Marina Kousta. Link to article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/05390184231182056 Abstract: In response to the global outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, many countries around the world have rushed to develop …
DDH researchers contribute chapters to book on “Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City”
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 …
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 …
New article: Staying with the trouble of networks
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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Digital innovation and crisis-related resilience: enabling and limiting factors
A broad literature discusses the role of digital platforms in crisis situations. Over more than ten years we have seen a wide range of cases where social media supported different forms of crisis-related mobilization and increasing scope for participation in response to various types of threats. The notion of generativity (Zittrain, 2006) highlights how crisis …
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New publication: “Personal Science and the Quantified Self Guru”
DDH professor, Btihaj Ajana, recently published a new chapter, “Personal Science and the Quantified Self Guru”, in book, Digital Wellness, Health and Fitness Influencers, edited by Stefan Lawrence. Author’s summary of the chapter: “In this chapter, I examine the ways in which Quantified Self practices can be considered as “personal science,” a term first introduced …
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