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.
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New Research Explores Gamified Friendships and Digital Intimacy on Douyin
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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DANTE-AD: Dual-Vision Attention Network for Long-Term Audio Description
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
Symposium on Information Controls
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 …
PhD student Andrea Farina awarded the ‘Initiative of the Year’ prize by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities
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.
How genre work can shift evaluations
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’ …
Interview for Guardian article
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
DDH Seminar Series – Spring 2025
This is the schedule for our Digital Humanities Department Seminar Series, Spring 2025. All Seminars are at 5pm in the Safta Lecture Theatre on Wednesdays. Usually the events are followed by a drinks reception. Links to the details and registration pages will be updated on this page throughout the year. Please contact Alfie with questions …
Crossing Boundaries: Celebrating Linguistic Diversity at King’s
Event organised by Andrea Farina and Barbara McGillivray. To register for the event, please visit King’s official webpage. Join us for “Crossing Boundaries: Celebrating Linguistic Diversity at King’s”, an exciting initiative designed to explore the vibrant world of languages and how they shape our understanding of motion and space. In today’s global city of London, …
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Hello #AoIR2024! 👋🏼
Several members of King College London’s Department of Digital Humanities and Centre for Digital Culture are presenting at the Association of Internet Researchers AoIR 2024 conference over the coming days. If you’re there you can see: