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Daniel Chávez Heras
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Digital Culture and Creative Computing @kingsdh.bsky.social, King’s College London.
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📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (online programmes)

📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term
🗓 Apply by: 26 October 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
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October 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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mrsbunz.bsky.social
Join us if you are in London to discuss the language of LLMs! Wednesday, 15 October 4pm. 👇
September 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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stuartdunn.bsky.social
I'm very excited and proud that my dept @kingsdh.bsky.social is hosting this major conference in 2026. There are many streams of DH, some old, some new, and I've always believed that the future of the field is dialogue between them. This landmark event will do that www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital
From the 23-26 June 2026, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London will host an international conference exploring the evolving role of Digital Humanities in a world increasingly ...
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August 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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kingsdh.bsky.social Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · Aug 14
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway).

📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
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September 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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kingsdh.bsky.social Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · Aug 14
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway).

📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
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September 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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kingsdh.bsky.social
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway).

📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
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August 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (Academic Education Pathway)!

📅 Start date: 29 September 2025 (or soon after)
📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term until 30 September 2026
🗓 Apply by: 27 August 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#AcademicJobs
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August 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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kingsartshums.bsky.social
🧸 Is childhood intensifying or eroding? This question will guide the 2026 Child & Teen Consumption conference at King’s.

Contributions are invited on themes like agency in digital economy, sustainability and climate crisis, and changing institutions of childhood. Deadline: 22 August 2025 🔽
Child & Teen Consumption Conference
Child & Teen Consumption conference will be held from 22 to 24 April 2026 at King’s College London.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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AI's immense requirements for data, computation, and talent entrench the power of existing tech monopolies. Our podcast of the week frames AI as a general-purpose technology whose primary role is consolidating capital.

With @nsrnicek.bsky.social on @smartcookies.bsky.social

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July 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Join us for a presentation about DANTE-AD, a video description model designed to improve long-term contextual understanding in visual storytelling. @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social

📅 28 May 2025
📍 KCL (Strand) 12:00 hrs
🔗 Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/dante...
DANTE-AD: Dual-Vision Attention Network for Long-Term Audio Description
Professor Andrew Gilbert introduces DANTE-AD, an enhanced video description model.
www.kcl.ac.uk
May 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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jwyg.bsky.social
"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...
Book cover for Public Data Cultures (Polity, forthcoming 2025).
May 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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🗣️ The Global Cultures Institute hosts How We Argue: About Immigration, part of a new series on how arguments unfold, intensify & break down.

Featuring @sundersays.bsky.social, @greenmirandahere.bsky.social & David Goodhart. Chaired by Prof @bobbyduffy.bsky.social.

Register here ⤵️
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How We Argue: About Immigration
Miranda Green, David Goodhart and Sunder Katwala explore perspectives on immigration.
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May 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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✨ Excited to speak @ National School of Political Science & Public Administration in Bucharest tomorrow about growing an Eastern European feminist digital methodologies network.

Inspired by @publicdatalab.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @medialab-scpo.bsky.social, CEED Feminisms, feminist labs
April 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Great news!
April 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Great opportunity for talented colleagues to join interdisciplinary AI research at King's. 3 years of protected research time leading to an open-ended academic post. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social Join us!
March 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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​❓ Interested in visual methods for digital & participatory research? Don’t miss the book launch of Visual Methods for Digital Research: An Introduction at KCL! 🎉📚

🗓️ 27 March 2025, 17:00–19:00
🔍✨ Sign up here: buff.ly/J8nu5Pg

#DigitalResearch #VisualMethods #DigitalMedia #BookLaunch #KCL
Visual Methods for Digital Research: An Introduction
Visual Methods for Digital Research is the first textbook to bring the fields of visual methods and digital research together.
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March 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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aballatore.bsky.social
Exciting news! The Mapping Museums Lab data has been incorporated into the latest ONS dataset on UK museums—and I’m proud to have contributed to this effort over the years with Fiona Candlin et al. 🏛️📊 aballatore.space/2025/03/14/m... #museums #mappingmuseums
Mapping Museums data used by Office for National Statistics
(AI image source: Dall E) Exciting news! The Mapping Museums Lab data has been incorporated into the latest ONS dataset on UK museums—and I’m proud to have contributed to this effort over the years…
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March 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Looking forward to forestscapes listening lab at @scigallerylon.bsky.social's Pulse of the Planet, Friday 21 March, 6.30pm: publicdatalab.org/2025/03/12/f...
with @maudbo.bsky.social @lboungr.bsky.social @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social & Angela YT Chan
an image for forestscapes listening lab at Science Gallery London, Friday 21st March 2025, 6.30pm. There is a collage featuring images of forest related plants, creatures, infrastructures and objects. Concentric circles represent fields of sound. The background is a gradient from purple to yellow. In the top right is an image of the moon.
March 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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🎞️ 'I’m Still Here’s cautionary tale for the present may be curtailed by the fact that its emotional core is placed so firmly in mourning its past'.

Read Dr Belén Vidal's @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social review of I'm Still Here, triple #Oscars2025 nominee, for @uk.theconversation.com ⬇️
COMMENT: I'm Still Here: a vibrant testament to female resilience that mourns Brazil's dark past
Director Walter Salles’s first feature film since 2012, the Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here is a return to home ground, and a return to strength, for the Brazilian auteur. At 68, Salles reconnects…
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February 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Registration is now open for the online townhall launch of Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives (ISSA) --> bit.ly/439e41h Join us to learn about our plans for #AI in screen heritage. Speakers from @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social Film Archives UK, and the BFI. #film #archives
stylised wall of screens morphing into data networks
February 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Ad Astra Lecturer/Assistant Professor in AI and Digital Cultural
Heritage at UCD, last few days to apply: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
#academic #jobs #AI
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February 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Wikipedia is now recognized as a digital public good by the UN-endorsed Digital Public Goods Alliance.

This recognition highlights Wikipedia's role in advancing free and trusted knowledge, powered by nearly 260,000 volunteers in 300+ languages.

Read more ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/02...
Early morning in Prado, Bahia, Brazil. Text says: Wikipedia is now recognized as a digital public good. Here's what that means.
February 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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adho-org.bsky.social
We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon.

Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027!
#DH2027 #digitalhumanities #Galway
February 13, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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💬 'We have to define how we want AI to mediate our relationship with over a century of film and television. This is too important to be left to a handful of large companies.'

– Dr @dchavezheras.bsky.social, ISSA Principal Investigator & Digital Futures Institute Fellow @kingsdh.bsky.social ⬇️
Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives (ISSA)
ISSA aims to develop critical and technical exploration of AI in the screen sector, focusing on moving image archives in the UK.
www.kcl.ac.uk
February 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Very excited to share this as my first Bluesky post!
#academicsky #AI in #filmsky #movies
kingsartshums.bsky.social King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Feb 7
🎞️ The BFI #NationalLottery Innovation Challenge Fund has awarded £192,500 to King’s to support the development of Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives (ISSA).

The project led by @dchavezheras.bsky.social will explore the use of AI for UK moving image archives.

Learn more 🔽
BFI National Lottery Fund supports King's project exploring AI for screen archives
BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund awards £192,500 to a King’s project to explore how AI technologies could be used to unlock potential with screen archives.
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February 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM