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Birkbeck Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture. Birkbeck, University of London.
There's an art to creating the perfect CD rip. Join BIRMAC and Dr Eomann Bell (Durham, UK) to learn more about the digital auditory extraction community (aka cd-rippers) on 30 October, 18-21:00 in Bloomsbury. Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Toward a more perfect rip: Lessons learned in the digital history of "secure" digital audio extraction (DAE) from CD media
Dr Eamonn Bell (Durham, UK) reflects on ripping, digital audio formats and the CD-ripping software ecosystem.
www.bbk.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by BIRMAC
Some snaps from the @birmac.bsky.social / Media & Democracy / Qualitative Methods Group workshop 'Exploring Quali-Quantitative Approaches in Social Media Research', where me, @robtoes.bsky.social & participants explored methods for approaching the messy, contradictory phenomena that is social media
July 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
@scott-rodgers.bsky.social + @robtoes.bsky.social will be giving a 1/2 day BIRMAC workshop at Birkbeck for ECRs and students on methods in quali-quantitative approaches to social media research. More info & sign up here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Exploring Quali-Quantitative Approaches in Social Media Research
Interested researchers and students are invited to this practical workshop on how to scrape and analyse data from social media platforms.
www.bbk.ac.uk
June 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Excited for the first BIRMAC event for 2025 - a journey through the Bolivian Cloud forest in search of honey with artist Kate Daudy that provokes speculations on how we can think AI differently (w. Rebekah Cupitt) www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Honey, AI and Camping Out in The Cloud Forest
What do honeybee-human relationships have in common with human-AI relationships? Artist, Kate Daudy & researcher, Rebekah Cupitt find out.
www.bbk.ac.uk
January 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Playing around with 360 degree sound recordings after the successful Bloomsbury launch of BIRMAC's Dispatches from the Air series on sound recording technologies & transmission last Monday. Big thanks to our guest speakers Neil Wilson (RadioMuseum, Watchet) & Emily Best, Birkbeck.
November 25, 2024 at 9:43 PM