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Liliana Bounegru
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, Culture and Society @kingsdh.bsky.social. Co-founder @publicdatalab.bsky.social. Member of @digitalmethods.net and @medialab-scpo.bsky.social. Website: lilianabounegru.org. Mastodon: assemblag.es/@lbngr
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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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📢 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
📚 I look forward to giving a workshop next week on critical data practices and digital media research methods with @jwyg.bsky.social‬ at the 2025 Fudan University Summer School on Communication Theory and Research Methods in Shanghai.

#criticaldatastudies #communicationstudies #researchmethods
June 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
✨ Grateful for the invitation to speak at Seoul National University next week w/ @jwyg.bsky.social on digital methods, critical data practice, @publicdatalab.bsky.social‬, and the Data Journalism Handbook (buff.ly/bYrnCzC). Excited to learn from SNU colleagues in STS & digital media and culture!
June 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
📚 I look forward to speaking this Thursday at the University of Milan-Bicocca about The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice - a book I had the privilege to co-edit with @jwyg.bsky.social buff.ly/JRywQB8

🔗 Event details:
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The Data Journalism Handbook
The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a…
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May 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
📖 Join us on 18 May at the Feminist Library in reading “East–West Inequalities and the Ambiguous Racialisation of ‘Eastern Europeans’” by Alexandra Lewicki as part of the bi-monthly Central & Eastern European Diasporic (CEED) Feminisms Reading Group: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/central-ea... 📚✨
Central & Eastern European Diasporic (CEED) Feminisms Reading Group
A bi-monthly reading group exploring the untold stories from the central and eastern european diaspora.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
✨ 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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Sharing an opportunity to publish in our journal. Check out this call for papers led by @silvertje.bsky.social Rianne Riemens Donya Alinejad @juikei.bsky.social "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis." Deadline: 23.05 journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Looking forward to speaking later today at King’s e-Research Symposium 2025 📚 about kingsCAT 🐈 — our new cross-faculty instance of the open-source @4cat.nl toolkit for social media data capture and analysis 🛠️,

More about kingsCAT here: buff.ly/bcXzxiq
More about the event here: buff.ly/fZbncFw
KingsCAT: Capture and Analysis Tool for Social Media Research at King’s College London
KingsCAT is an instance of the open source 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit set up to support interdisciplinary and collaborative social media research.
www.kcl.ac.uk
April 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Looking forward to sharing work on digital methods for critically engaging with environmental issues at this session with inspiring colleagues Mike Duggan, @jwyg.bsky.social, @tavmos.bsky.social Gavin Williams and Maud Borie. Thank you @slehuede.bsky.social for convening this panel!
If you're around KCL on 9 April, join us for a timely panel on 'AI & DATA ECOLOGIES'.

We will have amazing speakers: Mike Duggan, @jwyg.bsky.social , @lboungr.bsky.social , @tavmos.bsky.social, Gavin Williams and Maud Borie.

You can register here:
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April 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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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
March 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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🔔 We just released a new 4CAT version, v1.47!

Some highlights:
📥 Data capture from Bluesky, Pinterest and RedNote/Xiaohongshu
🤖 Prompt-based coding and annotation of data via the OpenAI API
🛠️ New & updated data fields for datasets from TikTok, Instagram, & co

Read more: github.com/digitalmetho...
Releases · digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
The 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit provides modular data capture & analysis for a variety of social media platforms. - digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
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February 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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🦜 New Zeeschuimer release 🦜

📌📕 New modules for Pinterest and RedNote/Xiaohongshu!

Capture data from these platforms directly with Zeeschuimer—and export them to the newest version of 4CAT (also out now) for further analysis.

github.com/digitalmetho...

Updates automatically if installed already!
Release v1.12.1 Pinterest fixes · digitalmethodsinitiative/zeeschuimer
This public release of Zeeschuimer incorporates the following updates and fixes: Enable capture on Pinterest subdomains (e.g. https://nl.pinterest.com) Full Changelog: v1.12.0...v1.12.1
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February 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I’ve recently joined the organising team for the CEED Feminisms Reading Group at the Feminist Library in London! 🎉 Our next session is on 16 March, discussing Transfeminists and Transmigrants Perspectives in Europe 💜. Sign up details here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1217701831... #Feminism
#GenderStudies
Central & Eastern European Diasporas (CEED) Feminisms Reading Group
A bi-monthly hybrid reading group exploring the untold stories from the central and eastern european diaspora.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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📢 Happening today! Excited to see our colleague Dr Zeena Feldman speak on Social Media and Drag Culture at the Barbican Centre #DigitalMedia #digitalculture
💄 How did drag become a global sensation? 💃

Dr Zeena Feldman, Director of Queer@King's, explores the professionalisation of drag, asking how it moved from the fringes of entertainment to a lucrative international industry.

📆 13 February
🏛️ Barbican Centre

🔗 Sign-up for tickets ⬇️
Social Media and Drag Culture: A Talk with Zeena Feldman
Dr Zeena Feldman examines the current professionalisation and mainstreaming of drag culture in the UK, US and other Global North geographies.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Looking forward to this event 💛
📺 Join Queer@King's for the launch of Bad Sex: Sexuality, Gender and Affect in Contemporary TV, a new book tracing the shifting portrayals of sex in hit shows like Fleabag, Sex Education, I May Destroy You and Euphoria.

📆 18 February
⏰ 5pm-7pm
🔗 Register to attend ⤵️
Book launch of Bad Sex: Sexuality, Gender and Affect in Contemporary TV
Queer@King’s hosts the launch of Bad Sex: Sexuality, Gender and Affect in Contemporary TV (Bloomsbury, 2025), a thought-provoking exploration of the evolution of sexual representation on the small…
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February 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Well written & designed AI explainer from FT.

"LLMs are not search engines looking up facts; they are pattern-spotting engines that guess the next best option in a sequence."
Generative AI exists because of the transformer
The technology has resulted in a host of cutting-edge AI applications — but its real power lies beyond text generation
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October 21, 2023 at 5:36 PM
🔍 How can creative coding techniques like soundscaping and video recomposition help us unpack political issues + influencer practices on TikTok? 🎵📹

📖 Insights from explorations w/ @publicdatalab.bsky.social around the 2024 Romanian elections at @digitalmethods.net winter school:
The great Romanian election TikTok replay – Public Data Lab
In December 2024, the European Commission launched an investigation following “serious indications that foreign actors interfered in the Romanian presidential elections using TikTok.” The elections…
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February 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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publication day of ✨digital ecologies✨ book - including our chapter with @lboungr.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social on #amazonfires and the online composition of ecological politics: jonathangray.org/2024/12/10/a...
December 10, 2024 at 11:54 AM
looking forward to this 💛
🇧🇷 What is the current state of #digital methods for Internet research in #Brazil?
Join us in person or online ✨👩🏻‍💻❣️ to celebrate emerging research practices in Brazil and kick off a Global South network! www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...
🇧🇷 What is the current state of #digital methods for Internet research in #Brazil?

Join @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social roundtable on 31 Jan to hear from @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social, Alan Angeluci, Elias Bitencourt, Giulia Tucci, Richard Rogers and Thais Lobo 🔽

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
January 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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New article in Social Media + Society: “Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods”, co-authored w/ Noortje Marres, Gabriele Colombo, @lboungr.bsky.social, Carolin Gerlitz & James Tripp: jonathangray.org/2023/09/25/t...
September 26, 2023 at 12:57 AM