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'Building an Inclusive European Community in Communication'
ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section, focused on the intersections of media and communications with cities and spatiality.
https://mediacitytwg.wordpress.com
ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section, focused on the intersections of media and communications with cities and spatiality.
https://mediacitytwg.wordpress.com
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CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal
The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…
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1/ CFP Dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social:
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
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The Large Hadron Collider has a new job. It’s being used to study how information flows through quantum systems — ideas that lie at the core of quantum computing. @shalmawegs.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/particle-phy...
Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider | Quanta Magazine
The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Large Hadron Collider has a new job. It’s being used to study how information flows through quantum systems — ideas that lie at the core of quantum computing. @shalmawegs.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/particle-phy...
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Birkbeck, University of London is seeking an Associate Lecturer in Digital Video and Editing. Part-time, contractual – perfect for creatives who want to share their skills while continuing their practice.
👉 Details & apply: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...
👉 Details & apply: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...
Associate Lecturer in Digital Video and Editing (2296) - Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck
cis7.bbk.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Birkbeck, University of London is seeking an Associate Lecturer in Digital Video and Editing. Part-time, contractual – perfect for creatives who want to share their skills while continuing their practice.
👉 Details & apply: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...
👉 Details & apply: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...
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REMINDER! CfP: The Synthetic City
We’re putting together a special issue dossier for
@mediapolis.bsky.social
on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism.
📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30
🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
We’re putting together a special issue dossier for
@mediapolis.bsky.social
on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism.
📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30
🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal
The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
REMINDER! CfP: The Synthetic City
We’re putting together a special issue dossier for
@mediapolis.bsky.social
on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism.
📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30
🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
We’re putting together a special issue dossier for
@mediapolis.bsky.social
on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism.
📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30
🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
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Today in E-flux, a piece I wrote on the spatial and environmental politics of AI in the United States. In great company as part of the Technoecologies series curated by Nathalie Bredella and Grayson Bailey. www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Technoecologies - Daniel Cardoso Llach - The Mississippi Colossus
Boxtown is a neighborhood in South Memphis established in 1863 by emancipated former slaves. Since 2024, it is also the home to one of the world’s largest supercomputers, property of Elon Musk’s artif...
www.e-flux.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Today in E-flux, a piece I wrote on the spatial and environmental politics of AI in the United States. In great company as part of the Technoecologies series curated by Nathalie Bredella and Grayson Bailey. www.e-flux.com/architecture...
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Join us Nov 25 for Engaging Publics in Media, Cities & Space -free online conference on research impact in media and urban studies. Talks on monographs, journals, podcasts, walking tours + networking, incl. a special session for ECRs.
👉 Full programme & register: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
👉 Full programme & register: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Engaging Publics in Media, Cities and Space - Online Conference 2025
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November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Join us Nov 25 for Engaging Publics in Media, Cities & Space -free online conference on research impact in media and urban studies. Talks on monographs, journals, podcasts, walking tours + networking, incl. a special session for ECRs.
👉 Full programme & register: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
👉 Full programme & register: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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1/ CFP Dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social:
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal
The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
1/ CFP Dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social:
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
1/ CFP Dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social:
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal
The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
1/ CFP Dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social:
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
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📷 This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image features spiral galaxy NGC 3370, home to two kinds of objects prized by astronomers for their usefulness in determining distances to faraway galaxies: Cepheid variable stars and Type Ia supernovae 🧪🔭
esahubble.org/images/potw2... @stsci.edu
esahubble.org/images/potw2... @stsci.edu
October 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
📷 This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image features spiral galaxy NGC 3370, home to two kinds of objects prized by astronomers for their usefulness in determining distances to faraway galaxies: Cepheid variable stars and Type Ia supernovae 🧪🔭
esahubble.org/images/potw2... @stsci.edu
esahubble.org/images/potw2... @stsci.edu
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Great to see this CfP "The Synthetic City" #urbanAI for @mediapolis.bsky.social w/ guest editors @scott-rodgers.bsky.social @marcospdias.bsky.social & colleagues.
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Abstract deadline 30 November 2025.
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Abstract deadline 30 November 2025.
CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal
The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Great to see this CfP "The Synthetic City" #urbanAI for @mediapolis.bsky.social w/ guest editors @scott-rodgers.bsky.social @marcospdias.bsky.social & colleagues.
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Abstract deadline 30 November 2025.
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Abstract deadline 30 November 2025.
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Call for Papers: The Synthetic City
We’re putting together a special issue dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism.
📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30
🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
We’re putting together a special issue dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism.
📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30
🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal
The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Call for Papers: The Synthetic City
We’re putting together a special issue dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism.
📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30
🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
We’re putting together a special issue dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social on 'urban AI' and seek short essays, provocations, creative-critical reflections on synthetic urbanism.
📅 Abstracts due: Nov 30
🔗 Details: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
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✨ 🌱 Update: call for submissions deadline extended to 12th October!
⏰ Last day to submit to Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital!
📅 Conference: 23-26 June 2026
⏳ Deadline: 30 September 2025
Topics: computational humanities, digital ecologies, AI ethics & more.
Submit now: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
#digitalhumanities #cfp
📅 Conference: 23-26 June 2026
⏳ Deadline: 30 September 2025
Topics: computational humanities, digital ecologies, AI ethics & more.
Submit now: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
#digitalhumanities #cfp
Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital | King's College London
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 ...
www.kcl.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
✨ 🌱 Update: call for submissions deadline extended to 12th October!
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We're at the Royal Society celebrating this, with a stellar line-up, including Wendy Hall, Alan Kay, Gary Marcus, Abeba Birhane and more royalsociety.org/science-even...
October 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
We're at the Royal Society celebrating this, with a stellar line-up, including Wendy Hall, Alan Kay, Gary Marcus, Abeba Birhane and more royalsociety.org/science-even...
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Wow, recent news from the (proposed) record-breaking $55 billion deal with the video game maker Electronic Arts Inc.!!
#videogames #gaming #EA
www.euronews.com/business/202...
#videogames #gaming #EA
www.euronews.com/business/202...
How could EA's go-private deal impact the video game industry?
If the transaction is approved, Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund will join Silver Lake Partners and Affinity Partners, run by US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, as EA’s new owne...
www.euronews.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Wow, recent news from the (proposed) record-breaking $55 billion deal with the video game maker Electronic Arts Inc.!!
#videogames #gaming #EA
www.euronews.com/business/202...
#videogames #gaming #EA
www.euronews.com/business/202...
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What an amazing conference it was!!! Many thanks to the organisers, to all my wonderful colleagues and friends! Geomedia Conference always feels like home. 🌍😁🥰#geomedia #transforming-passion #geomedia-studies #karlstad-university
September 20, 2025 at 5:25 AM
What an amazing conference it was!!! Many thanks to the organisers, to all my wonderful colleagues and friends! Geomedia Conference always feels like home. 🌍😁🥰#geomedia #transforming-passion #geomedia-studies #karlstad-university
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[Recommended resource + event] 🚀 Our friends at Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social have just released a new field guide: “The Tech We Want | Read This Before You Build.” Read more: blog.okfn.org/2025/09/23/o...
Our New Field Guide: ‘The Tech We Want | Read This Before You Build’ - Open Knowledge Blog
We at OKFN are questioning our own practices and learning how to do things anew. This new publication compiles some of these processes and invites you to put your community first.
blog.okfn.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
[Recommended resource + event] 🚀 Our friends at Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social have just released a new field guide: “The Tech We Want | Read This Before You Build.” Read more: blog.okfn.org/2025/09/23/o...
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🇨🇦🎮👾Call for abstracts until 10 October 2025 for the HCII 2026 conference & affiliated conferences, such as the 8th International Conference on HCI in Games, to be hosted in Montreal, Canada!! More info at: 2026.hci.international/hci-games
#HCI #games #play #design #impact #VR #AR #XR #AI #HCII2026
#HCI #games #play #design #impact #VR #AR #XR #AI #HCII2026
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Laura Mulvey, who recently retired from Birkbeck, to refeive a BFI Fellowship. www.bfi.org.uk/news/laura-m...
Laura Mulvey to receive a BFI Fellowship
The BFI’s highest honour recognises the huge global impact of Mulvey’s work through her groundbreaking writing and filmmaking, including her seminal essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’.
www.bfi.org.uk
September 17, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Laura Mulvey, who recently retired from Birkbeck, to refeive a BFI Fellowship. www.bfi.org.uk/news/laura-m...
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This is an open biblio —and anyone can add to it to help keep it updated!
And @melhogan.bsky.social has collected an excellent library on Critical Data Center Studies at:
August 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is an open biblio —and anyone can add to it to help keep it updated!
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Rimska arena v Nîmesu, zgrajena okoli leta 100 n. št., ena bolje ohranjenih. V 6. stol. je postala trdnjava, v 12. stol. srednjeveška četrt. Do 18. stol. v njej stalo 150 hiš. Po obnovi v 19. stol. zaživela na novo. Danes gosti koncerte, festivale, uprizoritve. Dediščina se ohranja in živi naprej.
August 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Rimska arena v Nîmesu, zgrajena okoli leta 100 n. št., ena bolje ohranjenih. V 6. stol. je postala trdnjava, v 12. stol. srednjeveška četrt. Do 18. stol. v njej stalo 150 hiš. Po obnovi v 19. stol. zaživela na novo. Danes gosti koncerte, festivale, uprizoritve. Dediščina se ohranja in živi naprej.
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Sharing this recent interview with @dietoff.bsky.social, E76 | "The Shape of Synthetic Data" Pondering AI:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9njJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9njJ...
E76 | The Shape of Synthetic Data with Dietmar Offenhuber | Pondering AI
YouTube video by SAS Software
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August 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Sharing this recent interview with @dietoff.bsky.social, E76 | "The Shape of Synthetic Data" Pondering AI:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9njJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9njJ...
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📢 New article - 'Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms'. Louise Hooper
@gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and I reflect on the legal dimensions of off-the-shelf drone incidents and the potential diversified harms accompanying them.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and I reflect on the legal dimensions of off-the-shelf drone incidents and the potential diversified harms accompanying them.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms
Drones increasingly feature beyond battlefields, deployed across civil, commercial and hobbyist applications and contexts. So too are off-the-shelf consumer drones increasingly being misused. From ...
www.tandfonline.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
📢 New article - 'Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms'. Louise Hooper
@gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and I reflect on the legal dimensions of off-the-shelf drone incidents and the potential diversified harms accompanying them.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and I reflect on the legal dimensions of off-the-shelf drone incidents and the potential diversified harms accompanying them.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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In NES games, Luigi is at an unfair disadvantage since he cannot pause the game. While this might be self-evident to Japanese players, international players might find this handicap baffling. The reason is the Famicom's lack of Start and Select buttons on the second controller.
July 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
In NES games, Luigi is at an unfair disadvantage since he cannot pause the game. While this might be self-evident to Japanese players, international players might find this handicap baffling. The reason is the Famicom's lack of Start and Select buttons on the second controller.
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Hieronymus Bosch owl detail from Le Louvre today. Vibe.
July 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hieronymus Bosch owl detail from Le Louvre today. Vibe.
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🎥 Cinema gratuito às 4as no pátio do Teatro Sá da Bandeira em Santarém. Na foto, o filme histórico-biográfico "The Elephant Man/ O Homem Elefante," realizado por David Lynch (1980) e baseado na vida de Joseph Merrick. #cinema #cultura #Verao #Santarem
🌙 + info: www.santaremcultura.pt/index.php/es...
🌙 + info: www.santaremcultura.pt/index.php/es...
July 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
🎥 Cinema gratuito às 4as no pátio do Teatro Sá da Bandeira em Santarém. Na foto, o filme histórico-biográfico "The Elephant Man/ O Homem Elefante," realizado por David Lynch (1980) e baseado na vida de Joseph Merrick. #cinema #cultura #Verao #Santarem
🌙 + info: www.santaremcultura.pt/index.php/es...
🌙 + info: www.santaremcultura.pt/index.php/es...
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Some snaps from the @birmac.bsky.social / Media & Democracy / Qualitative Methods Group workshop 'Exploring Quali-Quantitative Approaches in Social Media Research', where me, @robtoes.bsky.social & participants explored methods for approaching the messy, contradictory phenomena that is social media
July 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Some snaps from the @birmac.bsky.social / Media & Democracy / Qualitative Methods Group workshop 'Exploring Quali-Quantitative Approaches in Social Media Research', where me, @robtoes.bsky.social & participants explored methods for approaching the messy, contradictory phenomena that is social media