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Rob Kitchin
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Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
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Robert Michael Kitchin is an Irish and British geographer and academic. In 2005 he was appointed professor of human geography at Maynooth University (formerly the National University of Ireland Maynooth. .. more

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jan 6
New open access book – Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods – published by Polity Books. 413 key terms defined & described. Also available as a paperback or hardback. To download or buy visit the publishers website: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Dec 4
John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards 2026-2027 at Maynooth University. 4 year scholarship (€25,000 stipend, €2,000 research expenses plus fees). Applicants can find more details and identify potential supervisors and the topics they are willing to supervise at www.maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-res...
John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards at Maynooth University
John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards 2026-2027 The call for student applications for the John & Pat Hume Doctoral Scholarship Awards opens on Monday 1st December 2025 at 12 noon and closes on Friday 23rd
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Dec 2
Special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, vol 1(3) in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social, edited by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, Jing Hiah, @robkitchin.bsky.social & @steelecat717.bsky.social y.social. All 49 pieces open access. journals.sagepub.com/toc/ddsa/1/3
Dialogues on Digital Society - Volume 1, Number 3
Table of contents for Dialogues on Digital Society, 1, 3
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Dec 1
Situating automated infrastructure: (Dis)continuities, contingencies and spatialities by Weiqiang Lin, Peter Adey, Tina Harris and Dylan Brady. Intro to special section on automated infrastructure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Dec 1
Themed intervention: Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI. Papers appearing in online first list rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Nov 14
Engaging Publics in Media, Cities and Space – and Boosting the Impact of Your Research. An online one-day Conference by the ECREA Media, Cities and Space (MCS) section. Tuesday, 25 November 2025, 10:00–17:00 GMT. Register at docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Engaging Publics in Media, Cities and Space - Online Conference 2025
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Nov 12
Authoritarianism in the digital age by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, Jing Hiah and @steelecat717.bsky.social in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social. Intro to special issue with 48 papers on the topic. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Authoritarianism in the digital age - Kylie Jarrett, Rob Kitchin, Jing Hiah, Catherine Knight Steele, 2025
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Oct 30
Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data by @drnikko.bsky.social and @ameliadogan.bsky.social in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data - Nikko Stevens, Amelia Lee Doğan, 2025
Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, transgender activists are using data and data activism to advocate for and to protect trans communities. This tran...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Oct 30
On method, and the present and future of “doing” urban geography by Agnieszka Leszczynski in Urban Geography. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
On method, and the present and future of “doing” urban geography
Based on a survey of research articles published in Urban Geography between 2020 and 2024, I identify a tepidness in qualitative urban geographers’ relationship with method. This tepidness is marke...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Oct 23
New paper on housing data debates that traces arguments in news media between 2010 & 2025 about the number of #vacant dwellings & housing #completions in Ireland & examining the data politics of facts and counter-facts. In @journalurp.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6UCGN...
Data debates in urban development: the data politics of facts and counter-facts
Data relating to urban development are often accepted and used at face value, treated as impartial, objective, incontrovertible facts. However, the validity and veracity of official datasets can be...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Oct 9
Call for papers. Workshop: Data Migration and Mobilities: Towards a New Research Agenda. Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Tallinn, Estonia, 8-9 April 2026. Organised by Anu Masso & @robkitchin.bsky.social. Deadline for submissions 15 Oct.

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Oct 8
Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland's property market by spoofing property websites by @virt-arch.bsky.social, Ella Harris, Carla Kayanan, Hannah Mumby. Session as part of Research Week at MU, October 23, 2025, 13:00 to 14:00 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Oct 7
Can AI Help Build Cities Better? Advancing urban planning with algorithmic urbanism by Samuel Greengard in Communications of the ACM, cacm.acm.org/news/can-ai-...
Can AI Help Build Cities Better? – Communications of the ACM
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Oct 2
Navigating digital geographies: Black boxes, geospatial narratives, and the art of constructing location data by Thomas Cooke, @dancohen.bsky.social & @marxist.af
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Sep 22
New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)

New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’

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Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Sep 17
New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’

New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)

mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...

Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Sep 11
I'm not aware of a national open dataset of this. SEAI are most likely to have the data through grant applications

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Sep 11
Call for papers. Workshop: Data Migration and Mobilities: Towards a New Research Agenda. Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Tallinn, Estonia, 8-9 April 2026. Organised by Anu Masso & @robkitchin.bsky.social. Deadline for submissions 15 Oct.

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Aug 21
Japanese translation of Digital Geographies book just arrived in the post. Thanks to the Japanese editors, Masahiro Tanaka, Taro Futamura, and translators and the publishers, Akashi Shoten Co. for making the effort to translate the book for a new audience. Did a nice job
Japanese translation of Digital Geographies book

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Dialogues on Digital Society @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social · Aug 18
The second issue of Dialogues on Digital Society is now out. Explore it here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/DDS/curr... 1/6
Title of Dialogues on Digital Society with Volume 1 Issue 2 August 2025 written beneath

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Aug 14
CFP. Beyond Community: Hybrid Practices of Mapping and Participation, Agnone (Molise, Italy), 24-25 Oct 2025. Will cover travel/accommodation. www.verrinomap.it/conference/

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Aug 11
Digital Twins special issue in New Media & Society edited by Christoph Borbach, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Tristan Thielmann. 15 papers including one by Oliver Dawkins & myself. Interdisciplinary exploration of the conceptualisation and practices of digital twinning. journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8
New Media & Society - Volume 27, Number 8
Table of contents for New Media & Society, 27, 8
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jul 18
Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction by @bnjacobsen.bsky.social in The Sociological Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction - Benjamin N. Jacobsen, 2025
The last few years have seen the rollout of several generative AI applications. Yet, it is often claimed by commentators and social scientists that these have o...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jul 11
Is data material? Toward an environmental sociology of AI by Maximilian Pieper in AI & Society link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social · Jul 8
📢: Read this new article on "Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system" by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla M Kayanan, and Samuel Mutter!

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#dataassemblage #dataecosystem

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jul 7
Toward a geographical stack: Reworking state-less and scale-less conceptions of the digital in China and California by Dylan Brady in Progress in Human Geography journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jul 3
New paper (OA): Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla Kayanan and Sam Mutter in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jul 2
Job ad: 25-month contract lecturer post, Human Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland. Details at: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jun 27
Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency by @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and @casey-lynch.bsky.social in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency
This article interrogates the reconfiguration of human-technology relationships through urban artificial intelligence (AI), complicating how the human subject is understood and invoked within urban...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jun 20
African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial Data Science by Teanna Barrett, Chinasa T. Okolo, B. Biira, Eman Sherif, Amy X. Zhang, Leilani Battle. arxiv.org/abs/2502.16043
African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial Data Science
The shift towards pluralism in global data ethics acknowledges the importance of including perspectives from the Global Majority to develop responsible data science practices that mitigate systemic ha...
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