Outsmarted? A creative methods toolkit for developing collective intelligence around the ‘digital city’

Dr Giota Alevizou and Dr Mike Duggan Student experience in a digital city  UK universities are an increasingly popular choice for international students, especially those seeking to experience life in multicultural, diverse centres indeed global cities such as London. Nonetheless, getting used to life in large diverse urban settings is not without its challenges. Several studies have reported …

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 …

New Research Project: Art x Public AI

Art x Public AI is a new research project by the Creative AI Lab, a collaboration between the Serpentine (a public arts org in London) and the Department of Digital Humanities, KCL. The lab focuses on developing research and prototypes that further artistic experimentation with AI. Our aim is to expand the conversations around AI …

Workshop: Sculpting Time with Computers

Researchers from leading laboratories in cultural informatics come together to discuss the past, present, and future, of computational moving images.

Seminar: Forgotten knights and unseen sailors • 13 June 2023

Event organised by the Computational Humanities research group 13 June 2023 3pm BST (remote) Folgert Karsdorp (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam) and Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp, Belgium), Forgotten knights, unseen sailors, and unapprehended criminals: applying unseen species models to the survival of culture Abstract Researchers of the past — whether historians, …

Shannon Mattern: “Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus”

We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be hosting Shannon Mattern talk on “Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus” on Thursday 11th May 2023, as part of a series of King’s Public Lectures in Digital Humanities. Further details are copied below and you can register here. Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus At a …

Representing and (re)Imagining Digital Crowds Beyond Data Reduction

The following post is from Nicola Bozzi, Lecturer in Digital Innovation Management at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. I am happy to finally share the recording of the online workshop I organised as part of the Online Crowds series, which was supported and funded by the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s …