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Centre for Digital Culture
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Interdisciplinary research centre promoting research and public engagement with digital culture. Based at King's College London.
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digitalculturekcl.bsky.social
much look forward to welcoming @sophiebishop.bsky.social to talk about her new book "influencer creep" tomorrow with @zaborowski.bsky.social and Zeena Feldman! 🎊 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/influ...
cover of Sophie Bishop's Influencer Creep
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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photini.bsky.social
🌱 Mine and Güneş's new paper calls for DH practices that prioritise environmental accountability, decolonial perspectives, and ethical collaboration.

Read here: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000...

#DigitalHumanities #Sustainability #EcologicalCare #EnvironmentalJustice
September 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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giotita.bsky.social
I and @photini.bsky.social have a new publication The article reconceptualises London as ‘A Learnt City’, a dynamic learning ecosystem shaped through digital mediation, affective experience, and embodied practices.

Read OA here: www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

#DigitalUrbanism #urbanpedagogies
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September 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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kingsartshums.bsky.social
📱 A social media curfew for children would be a 'good thing' but 'misses the point' says Dr Rachael Kent from @kingsdh.bsky.social, who advocates for increased regulation instead.

'Tech companies need to be held to account & the government needs to be enforcing this.'

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Social media curfews for children WON'T work, experts warn
Experts say that the government's proposed social media curfews won't make children any safer online.
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June 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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kingsdh.bsky.social
On 7 and 8 May @scigallerylon.bsky.social is hosting a free VR exhibition created by students from the Department of Digital Humanities at King's Arts & Humanities, led by Gabriele Salciute Civiliene.

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/throu...
Through Estranged Eyes: Across Inner Dreams and Outer Worlds
“Through Estranged Eyes: Across Inner Dreams and Outer Worlds” is the creative outcome of the educational programme of King’s Department of Digital Humanities.
www.kcl.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 3:36 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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lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social
Friends in London and elsewhere: this is happening at KCL and online next week! Sad I can't join in person but looking forward to a vibrant discussion
May 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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disconetwork.bsky.social
One week from tomorrow folks!! 🪩📘
May 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
digitalculturekcl.bsky.social
✨ book launch ✨ – join us to celebrate "Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal" by @disconetwork.bsky.social on 21st May, 5:30pm 🎊📖
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...

with @riannawalcott.bsky.social @drdavidadelman.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social
@lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social & more
Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal
The Department of Digital Humanities and the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London are delighted to host the launch of the DISCO Network’s Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refus...
www.kcl.ac.uk
May 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
digitalculturekcl.bsky.social
Arts of Opacity: Thinking Beyond Privacy. Join anthropologists & artists exploring resistance to surveillance beyond the lens of privacy. Wed 14 May, 2–6pm. Free panel + drinks reception!
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#Opacity #Surveillance #Art
Arts of Opacity: Thinking Beyond Privacy
How do we imagine a response to surveillance that does not involve privacy? Five anthropologists and art practitioners present their work.
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May 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
digitalculturekcl.bsky.social
Symposium on Information Controls on 16th May, bringing together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls around the world: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/sympo...
#disinformation #algorithms #censorship #infrastructure #internetstudies
@kingsdh.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social
Symposium on Information Controls
The Symposium on Information Controls brings together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls from around the world.
www.kcl.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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disconetwork.bsky.social
Link to event page & registration below: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...

Co-authors in attendance: @riannawalcott.bsky.social, A. Joseph Dial, Kevin C. Winstead, Jeff Nagy, @drdavidadelman.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, & @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social
Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal
The Department of Digital Humanities and the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London are delighted to host the launch of the DISCO Network’s Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refus...
www.kcl.ac.uk
April 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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disconetwork.bsky.social
UPCOMING: A panel discussion of Technoskepticism coming soon to a King's College London near you!

This is a hybrid event, to be held on Wednesday, May 21st from 5:30-7 PM (BST).

View details below, thank you to @kingsdh.bsky.social & @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social for hosting 7 of our co-authors.
Promotional image for a book launch for Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal. On the left, the book cover features a pale blue background with abstract dark shapes at the bottom. To the right, the words "BOOK LAUNCH" stand prominently in large, blue capital letters above details for the event.
April 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
digitalculturekcl.bsky.social
Excited to welcome Prof @roopikarisam.bsky.social for a talk on "Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis" on 1st May 2025: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every...
Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis
King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities delivered by Professor Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College.
www.kcl.ac.uk
April 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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jwyg.bsky.social
✨jobs✨ 20 AI+ Academic Fellowships - including for arts, humanities and social researchers: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...
King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post)
King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...
www.kcl.ac.uk
April 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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paoloruffino.bsky.social
On Thursday 10th I'll be speaking at the University of Westminster as part of the Virtual Realisms lecture series organised by Tadej Vindis and Teodora Alata. I'll talk about my current research on videogames and the (post-)Anthropocene www.westminster.ac.uk/events/paolo...
Paolo Ruffino: Gaming the Post-Anthropocene
www.westminster.ac.uk
April 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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kingsartshums.bsky.social
✍️ A new report authored by Dr @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social in @kingsdh.bsky.social calls for more nuanced understandings of sexual consent, especially when digital technologies are involved.

📱 Explore the report's top five recommendations here 👇
April 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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tugcebidav.bsky.social
Next week, I’ll be presenting our book project Global South Creator Cultures with @mediaindustries.bsky.social at the Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop at the Oxford Internet Institute.

www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

@kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social
OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop
This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.
www.oii.ox.ac.uk
March 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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slehuede.bsky.social
Hi. I'm sharing a pre-print by @anavaldi.bsky.social and me that is gaining traction @ssrn.bsky.social.

Critical minerals policies are generating pressures to create 'technological peripheries' in both the South and North. We look at Chile and Spain.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
March 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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nikicheong.bsky.social
Come listen to scholars discuss media and digital cuture in Southeast Asia! I'll be speaking at the 3rd editor of the SOAS South East Asia Seminar Series on 28 March at 4pm GMT (online and at Senate House in London). Details in the image below - register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
March 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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paoloruffino.bsky.social
Glad to announce the Game Engine Cultures workshop at DiGRA2025. Curated by Paolo Ruffino, Matteo Bittanti and Valentino Catricalà. Please send your abstract by April 4th. Workshop date: June 30th at the University of Malta drive.google.com/file/d/1A5pP...
Game Engine Cultures DiGRA2025 workshop CfP.pdf
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March 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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jwyg.bsky.social
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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kingsdh.bsky.social
​❓ 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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margchee.bsky.social
Looking forward to hosting Marie Kolling (@diis.dk) at @kingsdh.bsky.social 26 Mar 6:30pm for her talk on illicit digital economies, based on ethnographic research.

'In debt from money-never-spent: financial fraud and scams in Brazil'

Find out more:

www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...
Select tickets – In debt from money-never-spent: financial fraud and scams in Brazil’s digital economy – BH (S) 2.02, Bush House, King's College London
The Department of Digital Humanities is delighted to invite Marie Kolling and invite you to join us for a talk + drinks. Title...
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March 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
digitalculturekcl.bsky.social
join us for a talk on "visual methods for digital research" with Sabine Niederer & @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social on Thursday 27th March, 5-7pm 🖼️✂️✨
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/visua... @politybooks.bsky.social
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.
www.kcl.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM