By Caitlin Wilson and Barbara McGillivray On 16 September 2026, researchers, legal professionals, UX designers, heritage practitioners, and members of the public gathered at King’s College London for a day-long hackathon. The goal of the day was to take real tools built on real collections, find the problems users have with them, and design something …
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Revolut has begun piloting its new facial-recognition checkout system, “Pay with Smile”, allowing customers to settle bills by scanning their faces at point-of-sale terminals. Speaking to Metro, DDH’s Prof. Btihaj Ajana warns that that Revolut’s facial-recognition payment trial turns sensitive bodily data collection into a routine commercial practice, steadily eroding consumer anonymity. Having observed the …
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by Paul Schütze I am currently a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. As part of that visit, I recently gave a talk titled “A Social Critique of AI amid the Climate Crisis.” In that talk, I argued that AI is more than an environmentally costly technology. It …
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The Department of Digital Humanities is delighted to announce a prestigious new doctoral scholarship scheme, offered in partnership with the Ramón Areces Foundation. The King’s–Ramón Areces Foundation PhD Scholarship Programme (K-FRA) is designed to support a researcher of Spanish nationality in undertaking full-time doctoral study within our department, starting in October 2026. A comprehensive support package …
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The case, Kent v Apple, was brought by Dr Rachael Kent, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, who made history as the first female Class Representative in the UK’s collective action regime.
A new open-access article by Hui Lin and Dr Rafal Zaborowski, both from the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL, examines how the Chinese platform Douyin (internationally known as TikTok) gamifies everyday social interaction. The article was first presented at the 2024 International Conference on Social Media & Society where it was honoured with the …
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Wednesday 28 May 2025 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Location: WC2R 2LS To register for this event, please follow this link. Andrew Gilbert (University of Surrey), DANTE-AD: Dual-Vision Attention Network for Long-Term Audio Description
When: May 16th 2025, 8:30 am – 5 pm Where: MB4.2 Macadam building, Strand campus, King’s College London The Symposium on Information Controls brings together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls from around the world. This event is hosted by the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College, London with support from the London …
We are pleased to announce that our PhD student Andrea Farina has been awarded the ‘Initiative of the Year’ prize by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities for his workshop Data Driven Classics: Exploring the Power of Shared Datasets (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/data-driven-classics-exploring-the-power-of-shared-datasets), which took place at King’s College London on 5 July 2024.
Could social media challenge dominating approaches to organisational evaluation? In a recent paper we explore how student vloggers remediate traditional university rankings. In particular, we look at how this is done through ‘reaction’ and ‘tier list’ videos. In reaction videos, vloggers film their own reaction as they, one by one, read the results of ‘official’ …
