@sebbustamante.bsky.social
Birmingham-based funded PhD student (Bristol), UK. Researching museums, memory, photo/art, new media from Latin America. Opinions own
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[Re]-appearances online: photography, mourning and new media ecologies for representing the Southern Cone’s disappeared on two digital memory platforms
The practice of enforced disappearances fundamentally alters memorialisation rituals as relatives do not have a body to localise mourning as is possible with processes of death. Families in the Sou...
www.tandfonline.com
Sharing recent article on photography, disappearance in the Southern Cone following the digital turn.
[Re]-appearances online: photography, mourning and new media ecologies for representing the Southern Cone’s disappeared on two digital memory platforms
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
[Re]-appearances online: photography, mourning and new media ecologies for representing the Southern Cone’s disappeared on two digital memory platforms
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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#CFP/ Call for Abstracts: #OLHJournal Special Collection "Language Diversity in Game Studies", guest edited by Stanisław Krawczyk, Mary Anne Argo Chávez, Antonia Hargreaves Bueno, Zahra Rizvi, and Rachael Hutchinson: www.openlibhums.org/news/813/
📅 Deadline: 10 June 2025
📅 Deadline: 10 June 2025
CFP: Language Diversity in Games Studies
CFP for a Special Collection at OLHJ (Open Library of the Humanities Journal) Language Diversity in Game Studies Para ver la versión en español de la convocatoria para artículos por …
www.openlibhums.org
May 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
#CFP/ Call for Abstracts: #OLHJournal Special Collection "Language Diversity in Game Studies", guest edited by Stanisław Krawczyk, Mary Anne Argo Chávez, Antonia Hargreaves Bueno, Zahra Rizvi, and Rachael Hutchinson: www.openlibhums.org/news/813/
📅 Deadline: 10 June 2025
📅 Deadline: 10 June 2025
Trump's attempt to defund public broadcasting feels taken straight out the Javier Milei playbook.
May 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Trump's attempt to defund public broadcasting feels taken straight out the Javier Milei playbook.
Another interesting case for the mediatisation scholars after the Mr Bates vs The Post Office TV programme's impact last year.
March 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Another interesting case for the mediatisation scholars after the Mr Bates vs The Post Office TV programme's impact last year.
It would be nice to imagine a future in which the tech infrastructures we use do not support war crimes. This article could read [insert any of the major tech companies here]
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Revealed: Microsoft deepened ties with Israeli military to provide tech support during Gaza war
Leaked documents shed light on how Israel integrated the US tech giant into its war effort to meet a growing demand for cloud and AI tools
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
It would be nice to imagine a future in which the tech infrastructures we use do not support war crimes. This article could read [insert any of the major tech companies here]
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The problem of bias is well explored in Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's Discriminating Data book and her discussions of software used to judge recidivism rates in the US prisons system.
Full transparency of how these algorithms work and are employed is vital.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Full transparency of how these algorithms work and are employed is vital.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Revealed: bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud
Exclusive: Age, disability, marital status and nationality influence decisions to investigate claims, prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2024 at 10:57 AM
The problem of bias is well explored in Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's Discriminating Data book and her discussions of software used to judge recidivism rates in the US prisons system.
Full transparency of how these algorithms work and are employed is vital.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Full transparency of how these algorithms work and are employed is vital.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
This resonates a lot with Naomi Klein's latest book on how the far right are quick to exploit/manipulate mirror images. One wonders if it is too late to regulate now that the AI cat is out of the bag.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
How the far right is weaponising AI-generated content in Europe
Experts say fake images raising fears around issues such as immigration have proliferated since EU elections
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:55 AM
This resonates a lot with Naomi Klein's latest book on how the far right are quick to exploit/manipulate mirror images. One wonders if it is too late to regulate now that the AI cat is out of the bag.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Check out our new special issue "Rethinking Obscenity in Latin America: Abjection, #Art, and #Performance," including articles on #trans identities in early and late-20C Argentina and a rpundtable with Archivo El Insulto! tinyurl.com/nt278w8f
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
Special Issue: Rethinking Obscenity in Latin America: Abjection, Art, and Performance. Volume 33, Issue 2 of Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
tinyurl.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Check out our new special issue "Rethinking Obscenity in Latin America: Abjection, #Art, and #Performance," including articles on #trans identities in early and late-20C Argentina and a rpundtable with Archivo El Insulto! tinyurl.com/nt278w8f
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Hey #AcademicSky, I'm part of the conference committee for
@csdhschn.bsky.social for a second year. If you could kindly share our CFP for Congress 2025, that would be great. csdh-schn.org/csdh-schn-co...
@csdhschn.bsky.social for a second year. If you could kindly share our CFP for Congress 2025, that would be great. csdh-schn.org/csdh-schn-co...
November 25, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Hey #AcademicSky, I'm part of the conference committee for
@csdhschn.bsky.social for a second year. If you could kindly share our CFP for Congress 2025, that would be great. csdh-schn.org/csdh-schn-co...
@csdhschn.bsky.social for a second year. If you could kindly share our CFP for Congress 2025, that would be great. csdh-schn.org/csdh-schn-co...
Henry Bell's new history of the red flag is out. Check it out
@plutobooks.bsky.social
www.plutobooks.com/978074534769...
@plutobooks.bsky.social
www.plutobooks.com/978074534769...
Red Threads
The red flag: there is no symbol, perhaps other than the crucifix and the crescent moon, that so many people have lived and died for. A standard of hope and ...
www.plutobooks.com
November 12, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Henry Bell's new history of the red flag is out. Check it out
@plutobooks.bsky.social
www.plutobooks.com/978074534769...
@plutobooks.bsky.social
www.plutobooks.com/978074534769...
Is this still the finest place on the planet for an egg butty?
November 12, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Is this still the finest place on the planet for an egg butty?
Ultimate disappointment from the cat after she realises that I was only printing one page.
November 12, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Ultimate disappointment from the cat after she realises that I was only printing one page.
Sharing recent article on photography, disappearance in the Southern Cone following the digital turn.
[Re]-appearances online: photography, mourning and new media ecologies for representing the Southern Cone’s disappeared on two digital memory platforms
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
[Re]-appearances online: photography, mourning and new media ecologies for representing the Southern Cone’s disappeared on two digital memory platforms
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
[Re]-appearances online: photography, mourning and new media ecologies for representing the Southern Cone’s disappeared on two digital memory platforms
The practice of enforced disappearances fundamentally alters memorialisation rituals as relatives do not have a body to localise mourning as is possible with processes of death. Families in the Sou...
www.tandfonline.com
November 12, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Sharing recent article on photography, disappearance in the Southern Cone following the digital turn.
[Re]-appearances online: photography, mourning and new media ecologies for representing the Southern Cone’s disappeared on two digital memory platforms
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
[Re]-appearances online: photography, mourning and new media ecologies for representing the Southern Cone’s disappeared on two digital memory platforms
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....