Giota Alevizou
@giotita.bsky.social
Lecturer in Digital Humanities & Culture @KingsDH | New Book out in early 2026, ‘The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias & Authority in the Digital Age’ Polity | profile: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/giota-alevizou
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📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.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
Read OA here: www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...
#DigitalUrbanism #urbanpedagogies
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September 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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
Read OA here: www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...
#DigitalUrbanism #urbanpedagogies
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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
📔 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
📢 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
📔 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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📢 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
📅 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
my.corehr.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
📢 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
📅 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
Nothing better than students casually dropping gold in a podcast—Digital Futures MA voices, you’re sharp, thoughtful, and a joy to hear.
Links to pod below 🔥🎧 #DigitalFutures
Links to pod below 🔥🎧 #DigitalFutures
💡 Curious what it’s really like to study Digital Futures at King’s College London?
In this special student Q&A episode of The DigiTalk Podcast, we hear directly from those living it, with insights from @giotita.bsky.social & @gealga.bsky.social, and three current MA students 🧵
In this special student Q&A episode of The DigiTalk Podcast, we hear directly from those living it, with insights from @giotita.bsky.social & @gealga.bsky.social, and three current MA students 🧵
July 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Nothing better than students casually dropping gold in a podcast—Digital Futures MA voices, you’re sharp, thoughtful, and a joy to hear.
Links to pod below 🔥🎧 #DigitalFutures
Links to pod below 🔥🎧 #DigitalFutures
Not intentionality on AI preferences, but lots of imagination needed esp as my book w/ @polity will be added there in the autumn…can’t wait
July 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Not intentionality on AI preferences, but lots of imagination needed esp as my book w/ @polity will be added there in the autumn…can’t wait
Very happy about this pod on our #digitalfuturesMA hosted by our own @aleexgreen.bsky.social
💡 Curious about how digital technology is transforming culture, media, and the world of work, and how you could be part of that change?
Tune into this podcast featuring @giotita.bsky.social and @gealga.bsky.social as they dive into the Digital Futures MA at King’s College London 🧵⬇️
Tune into this podcast featuring @giotita.bsky.social and @gealga.bsky.social as they dive into the Digital Futures MA at King’s College London 🧵⬇️
June 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Very happy about this pod on our #digitalfuturesMA hosted by our own @aleexgreen.bsky.social
Is there a future for a public AI?
NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out.
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
June 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Is there a future for a public AI?
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WOKE?! Come to our panel on Digital Futures of Diversity on 23 June at King's College London as part of @kings-dfi.bsky.social 'Living Well with Technology' series, with @birgitneunews.bsky.social , @lewisiwu.bsky.social, & @nessakeddo.bsky.social and Elisabeth Kelan.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
Digital Futures of Diversity
How can we design and implement digital systems that genuinely enhance diversity rather than simply digitising existing inequalities?
www.kcl.ac.uk
June 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
WOKE?! Come to our panel on Digital Futures of Diversity on 23 June at King's College London as part of @kings-dfi.bsky.social 'Living Well with Technology' series, with @birgitneunews.bsky.social , @lewisiwu.bsky.social, & @nessakeddo.bsky.social and Elisabeth Kelan.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
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June 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Launching London Tech Week, the CEO of Nvidia has just remarked on the UK’s ‘fantastic universities and research communities’. That’s great — but around 90 of the UK’s 166 universities are currently making job cuts. Half are closing courses.
Nvidia wants to help turn the UK into an AI powerhouse - here's how Nvidia reveals partnerships with UK FCA and DSIT at London Tech Week 2025.. @cosmicmeta.io #AIUK
https://u2m.io/PqJiUjop
https://u2m.io/PqJiUjop
Nvidia wants to help turn the UK into an AI powerhouse - here's how
Nvidia reveals new AI projects with UK government and FCA
www.techradar.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Launching London Tech Week, the CEO of Nvidia has just remarked on the UK’s ‘fantastic universities and research communities’. That’s great — but around 90 of the UK’s 166 universities are currently making job cuts. Half are closing courses.
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🎙️ Series 2 of the Media Industries Podcast hosted by our colleague @aorcuncan.bsky.social and Paul McDonald is here! This season dives deep into AI + the media industries.
🎧 Listen now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3GX5... or Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
#AI #Media
🎧 Listen now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3GX5... or Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
#AI #Media
Media Industries and AI: An Introduction - Orçun Can and Paul McDonald (King’s College London)
Media Industries Podcast · Episode
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June 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🎙️ Series 2 of the Media Industries Podcast hosted by our colleague @aorcuncan.bsky.social and Paul McDonald is here! This season dives deep into AI + the media industries.
🎧 Listen now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3GX5... or Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
#AI #Media
🎧 Listen now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3GX5... or Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
#AI #Media
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There are only two sides right now. One side has tanks and drones and data and tear gas. The other side has solidarity and that’s it. That’s what we have.
A movement isn’t something you design in an Artisan Protest Lab. But you are welcome to come down here and see what kind of reception you get.
A movement isn’t something you design in an Artisan Protest Lab. But you are welcome to come down here and see what kind of reception you get.
June 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
There are only two sides right now. One side has tanks and drones and data and tear gas. The other side has solidarity and that’s it. That’s what we have.
A movement isn’t something you design in an Artisan Protest Lab. But you are welcome to come down here and see what kind of reception you get.
A movement isn’t something you design in an Artisan Protest Lab. But you are welcome to come down here and see what kind of reception you get.
Really proud of our @kingsdh.bsky.social student posting a reflective post on last week’s event on #AIandLiterature chaired by @drkatedevlin.bsky.social
As part of Living Well With Technology at the Digital Futures Institute & King’s Institute for AI, I attended a powerful panel on AI, Literature & Cultural Production during the King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence led by @ drkatedevlin.bsky.social#KingsAIA#digitalfuturese#AIandliteraturere
June 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Really proud of our @kingsdh.bsky.social student posting a reflective post on last week’s event on #AIandLiterature chaired by @drkatedevlin.bsky.social
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Last week, I attended the launch of the Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal book at King’s College London, hosted by the @ kingscmci.bsky.social
the @ digitalculturekcl.bsky.social���, and the DISCO Ne#digitalfuturesl#technoskepticisme#KCLism #KCL
the @ digitalculturekcl.bsky.social���, and the DISCO Ne#digitalfuturesl#technoskepticisme#KCLism #KCL
May 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Last week, I attended the launch of the Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal book at King’s College London, hosted by the @ kingscmci.bsky.social
the @ digitalculturekcl.bsky.social���, and the DISCO Ne#digitalfuturesl#technoskepticisme#KCLism #KCL
the @ digitalculturekcl.bsky.social���, and the DISCO Ne#digitalfuturesl#technoskepticisme#KCLism #KCL
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This aligns with the ethos of the #DigitaFuturesMA @kingsartshums.bsky.social, which explores how to engage critically with emerging technologies. I would definitely look into applying this for my MA: tinyurl.com/munhw4hr
Digital Futures MA (online, part-time)
Understand how to apply to study an online master’s degree with King’s College London. We’ll support you throughout the application process. Apply today.
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May 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This aligns with the ethos of the #DigitaFuturesMA @kingsartshums.bsky.social, which explores how to engage critically with emerging technologies. I would definitely look into applying this for my MA: tinyurl.com/munhw4hr
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The overall time spent online is linked with higher levels of loneliness, however the use of #socialmedia platforms is not.
A new study found that it's the type of digital platform that's associated with loneliness, rather than using social media itself.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/social-...
A new study found that it's the type of digital platform that's associated with loneliness, rather than using social media itself.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/social-...
Study finds links between social media and loneliness depend on the app
New research finds that although overall time spent online is linked with higher levels of loneliness, use of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter is not.
www.kcl.ac.uk
May 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The overall time spent online is linked with higher levels of loneliness, however the use of #socialmedia platforms is not.
A new study found that it's the type of digital platform that's associated with loneliness, rather than using social media itself.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/social-...
A new study found that it's the type of digital platform that's associated with loneliness, rather than using social media itself.
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/social-...
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👏 On 6 June, join us, @kingsdh.bsky.social and @kings-dfi.bsky.social as we celebrate Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social 's appointment as Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Society.
⏰ 18:00-20:00
📍 Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre
Register via the link below ⤵️
⏰ 18:00-20:00
📍 Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre
Register via the link below ⤵️
You Autocomplete Me: Our intimate and emotional encounters with technology
Please join us for this Inaugural Lecture as we celebrate Professor Kate Devlin's appointment as Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Society.
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May 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
👏 On 6 June, join us, @kingsdh.bsky.social and @kings-dfi.bsky.social as we celebrate Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social 's appointment as Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Society.
⏰ 18:00-20:00
📍 Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre
Register via the link below ⤵️
⏰ 18:00-20:00
📍 Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre
Register via the link below ⤵️
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another good one from the german guy who uploads 360 degree panoramas to wikipedia
May 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
another good one from the german guy who uploads 360 degree panoramas to wikipedia
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🪄 Few tickets left for tonight's live magic show!
Dr @mattltompkins.bsky.social, professional magician and researcher in visual cognition, discusses the psychology behind magic tricks and how this relates to our understanding of black box technologies with @drkatedevlin.bsky.social ⤵️
🎟️ Book now ⤵️
Dr @mattltompkins.bsky.social, professional magician and researcher in visual cognition, discusses the psychology behind magic tricks and how this relates to our understanding of black box technologies with @drkatedevlin.bsky.social ⤵️
🎟️ Book now ⤵️
Magic, Minds, and the Mysteries of AI
Step into a world where magic and technology collide in a fascinating exploration of AI and deception.
www.kcl.ac.uk
May 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🪄 Few tickets left for tonight's live magic show!
Dr @mattltompkins.bsky.social, professional magician and researcher in visual cognition, discusses the psychology behind magic tricks and how this relates to our understanding of black box technologies with @drkatedevlin.bsky.social ⤵️
🎟️ Book now ⤵️
Dr @mattltompkins.bsky.social, professional magician and researcher in visual cognition, discusses the psychology behind magic tricks and how this relates to our understanding of black box technologies with @drkatedevlin.bsky.social ⤵️
🎟️ Book now ⤵️
We are spoiled with e
Vents today @drkatedevlin.bsky.social aren’t we?
Vents today @drkatedevlin.bsky.social aren’t we?
🗣️ Is AI a tool for enhancing creativity or does it pose a threat to authentic human expression?
Join us and @aiatkings.bsky.social for the discussion featuring @drkatedevlin.bsky.social, @clemicollett.bsky.social, Genevieve Liveley and Sarah Perry.
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏰ 19:30-20:45
🎟️ Register ⤵️
Join us and @aiatkings.bsky.social for the discussion featuring @drkatedevlin.bsky.social, @clemicollett.bsky.social, Genevieve Liveley and Sarah Perry.
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏰ 19:30-20:45
🎟️ Register ⤵️
The Digital Futures of Literature
Join us to explore the future of AI and literature.
www.kcl.ac.uk
May 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
We are spoiled with e
Vents today @drkatedevlin.bsky.social aren’t we?
Vents today @drkatedevlin.bsky.social aren’t we?
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The complete and utter depravity of this. There are no words. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...
Israel just launched its offensive to permanently ‘conquer’ Gaza as Trump’s Arab Gulf tour wraps up
Israel announced the initial phase of “Gideon’s chariots,” the expanded ground invasion to permanently “conquer” Gaza, amid reports that Trump reneged on his deal with Hamas to lift the blockade, and ...
mondoweiss.net
May 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The complete and utter depravity of this. There are no words. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...
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New @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk @britishacademy.bsky.social report today on the need for policymakers to not overlook the importance of investing in social and cultural infrastructure, and how we might go about measuring it
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/value-o...
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/value-o...
Value of social and cultural infrastructure ‘risks being neglected in decision-making' without new measurement framework - Bennett Institute for Public Policy
New framework for measuring the value of social and cultural infrastructure will more effectively highlight its crucial role in improving wellbeing and economic growth.
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk
April 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
New @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk @britishacademy.bsky.social report today on the need for policymakers to not overlook the importance of investing in social and cultural infrastructure, and how we might go about measuring it
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/value-o...
www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/value-o...
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Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.
April 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.
Amazing and timely report by my wonderful colleague @rikkeamundsen.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 👇
📱 Explore the report's top five recommendations here 👇
April 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Amazing and timely report by my wonderful colleague @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social