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just came across this bueatiful work: The triple migration of the “cyber-pets”: embodied digital labour and multisensory experiences of female live streamers in urban China www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.cityu.edu.hk/doi/full/10....
October 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Great to see several articles from our journal included in this collection @tandfresearch.bsky.social All 40 articles in the collection are Free to Access before February 2026!
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Sociology at Times of Crises: Article Collection 2025
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August 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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The Economy and Society Early Career Paper Prize 2026 is now live.
£1000 prize.
Submission deadline: 15/12/25
Details here and in the News and CfP section of our website
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July 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Are you interested in learning about exciting work happening in digital geographies (& aligned) research? Join us for our free online symposium 19-20th June Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial & Territorialising the Digital
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Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium 2025 - RGS
Join us for the annual Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium. This year's topic will be Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial.
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May 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Registration for the online Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Symposium on 'Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial / Territorialising the Digital' is now open: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

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Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium 2025 - RGS
Join us for the annual Digital Geographies Research Group annual symposium. This year's topic will be Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial.
www.rgs.org
June 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Interested in Global Digital Geographies? Want to hear from a range of speakers on a variety of topics exploring digitalising the territorial and territorialising the digital? Join us for our free online symposium by registering here:
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#DGRGSymposium2025
promotional poster: along the top banner of the poster is the RGS logo, Digital Geographies Research Group Symposium 2025, and the DGRG logo image. In the top half of the post on the left is an image of a pale blue map viewed from a horizontal angle with a series of multi-coloured pins in it and lines connecting the pins. To the right of the image text reads: DGRG Annual Symposium 2025. Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial and Territorialising the Digital. 19th June, 2025 09:45-17:00 GMT+8, 02:45-10:00 GMT+1. Online and there is a QR scan feature. Below and centred in the image is the a box for 6 Featured Guests and Chairs. Listed alongside headshot images are Ayona Datta, University of College London: Fantasies of territorial Calculability: Automated Ignorance (AI) in digitalising land in the global south; Jiang Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong: Data Metropolis: shaping sustainable cities with big data?; I-Chun Catherine Chang, Macalester College: Smart Re-territorialization: The consolidation fragmentation, and exterritoriality of Taipei Smart City developments; Luke Munn, University of Queensland: Technical Territories; June Wang (Chair), City University of Hong Kong, and Siyi Liu (Chair), University of College London. Centred at the foot of the poster: For More Information & Registration visit the DGRG website.
June 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Also joining us for our free online Global Digital Geographies symposium is Iginio Gagliardone who examines the international politics of AI and the emergence of new imageries of technological evolution in Africa

Want to learn more? Register here: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

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The background is dark brown with lines sweeping across it to create texture. The top left is a circle image of a headshot photo of Iginio Gagliardone who is looking straight at the camera and smiling. Iginio is wearing a blue-grey and white geometric shirt and in the background trees are visible. To the right of the headshot is white text stating: Iginio Gagliardone University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Iginio Gagliardone is Professor of Media Studies at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa and inaugural fellow of Wits’ Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute. He is the author of “The Politics of Technology in Africa” (2016) and “China, Africa, and the Future of the Internet” (2019). His most recent work examines the international politics of Artificial Intelligence and the emergence of new imageries of technological evolution in Africa. Below this and centred in the image is white text stating: Global Digital Geographies DGRG Annual Symposium 2025, 19-20th June
June 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Next in our speaker intro series is Luke Munn who investigates sociocultural impacts of digital cultures. Luke combines diverse digital methods with critical analysis that draws on media, race, cultural, & environmental studies. Join us to learn more: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
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The background is dark brown with lines sweeping across it to create texture. The top left is a circle image of a black and white headshot of Luke who is looking straight to camera and wearing glasses. To the right is white text stating: Luke Munn, University of Queensland, Australia. Luke Munn’s work investigates the sociocultural impacts of digital cultures and has been featured in highly regarded journals such as Cultural Politics, Big Data & Society, and New Media & Society as well as the Guardian, the Washington Post, and Scientific American. He has written six books: Unmaking the Algorithm (2018), Logic of Feeling (2020), Automation is a Myth (2022), Countering the Cloud (2022), Red Pilled (2023) and Technical Territories (2023). His work combines diverse digital methods with critical analysis that draws on media, race, cultural, and environmental studies. Below this and centred in the image is white text stating: Global Digital Geographies. DGRG Annual Symposium 2025, 19-20th June
June 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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📢 We're excited to start sharing speaker bios for our June symposium: Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial & Territorialising the Digital

1st up is Jiang Xu who is interested in critical urban & regional studies

Keep an eye out for more speakers bios #DGRGSymposium2025
The image shows a speaker bio. The background is dark brown with lines sweeping across it to create texture. At the top left is a circle image of Jiang Xu with a white background. Jiang Xu is looking straight at the camera smiling with brown hair wearing a black blazer and floral top. The text next to the image is in white and reads: Jiang Xu Chinese University of Hong Kong Prof Jiang Xu’s primary research interests lie in critical urban and regional studies, particularly focusing on China’s inland region and the Greater Bay Area. Recognized for her contributions, she has received numerous research awards and has widely published in leading international journals. Jiang Xu integrates the political economy tradition with a post-structuralist approach, offering a unique perspective on how emerging industries such as big data have influenced China’s urban and regional transformation. Below this is the text: Global Digital Geographies DGRG Annual Symposium 2025, 19-20th June
May 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Counting down the hours! Next week is our free online symposium on Global Digital Geographies. We welcome attendees from geography and beyond so don't forget to sign up:
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

#DGRGSymposium2025
promotional poster: along the top banner of the poster is the RGS logo, Digital Geographies Research Group Symposium 2025, and the DGRG logo image. In the top half of the post on the left is an image of a pale blue map viewed from a horizontal angle with a series of multi-coloured pins in it and lines connecting the pins. To the right of the image text reads: DGRG Annual Symposium 2025. Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial and Territorialising the Digital. 19th June, 2025 09:45-17:00 GMT+8, 02:45-10:00 GMT+1. Online and there is a QR scan feature. Below and centred in the image is the a box for 7 Featured Guests and Chairs. Listed alongside headshot images are Iginio Gagliardone, University of Witwatersrand: Digital sovereignty and networked sovereignty: a perspective from Africa; Mirjam de Bruijn, University of Leiden: African Mobile Communities; Norma Mollers, Queens University: State of Extraction; Sam Kinsley, University of Exeter: Troubling Realities: Thinking space for digital geographies; Azadeh Akbari, University of Twente: Authoritarian Smart Cities; Nina Willment, University of Nottingham (Chair); Jack Lowe, University of West England (Chair). At the footer of the poster is an orange band with white text stating: For more information and registration visit the DGRG website
June 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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We are hosting the seminar by Prof Alexander Murphy, all are welcome!
April 1, 2025 at 4:35 AM