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Digital Humanities @ King's College London
@kingsdh.bsky.social
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Critical inquiry with and about the digital. 💾
Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.
https://kingsdh.net/
https://kcl.ac.uk/ddh
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kingsdh.bsky.social
Exciting news from our very own Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social who co-edited this upcoming volume on Global South Creator Cultures! 🎉📖
An essential read on the working conditions of social media creators and the geographical challenges of their labour.
Pre-order details and intro preview below👇
tugcebidav.bsky.social Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 18d
📚 Book Announcement

Our edited volume Global South Creator Cultures is coming soon from @routledgebooks.bsky.social - pre-order on 24 November, out on 15 December 2025! 🎉 @mediaindustries.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
kingsdh.bsky.social
How do #AI & #data risks shape trade & policy? Join a lively chat + networking at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social with @karishmabanga.bsky.social and a panel of top experts.
🗓 Wed 3 Dec | 10:30–12:00
🔗 Register: www.ciip.group.cam.ac.uk/events/gover...
#DigitalGovernance #AIpolicy #AIRisks
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
kingsdh.bsky.social
Joint book launch at King’s 🌟
Featuring:
• @jwyg.bsky.social, Public Data Cultures
• @nsrnicek.bsky.social, Silicon Empires
• @mayameme.bsky.social, Auto-Correct

In conversation with @noortjem.bsky.social &
@joannazylinska.bsky.social

📅 3 Dec, 19:00-21:00
www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
free ticket 🎟️ – joint book launch 🎊 Silicon Empires x Auto-Correct x Public Data Cultures 📚✨ – Macadam Building - MB 4.2
joint book launch 🎊 Silicon Empires x Auto-Correct x Public Data Cultures 📚✨ – Macadam Building - MB 4.2, Wed 3 Dec 2025 - Join us for a book launch event for Nick Srnicek's Silicon Empires, Maya Gane...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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evanmcavoy.bsky.social
Very happy to share @jenkidd.bsky.social and my contribution to @theconversation.com on AI Afterlives and memory @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @cujournmedcul.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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kingsartshums.bsky.social
👏 Dr Rachael Kent @kingsdh.bsky.social wins historic case against Apple in £1.5 billion collective action.

The decision paves the way for £1.5 billion in compensation to be returned to nearly 36 million UK consumers and businesses ⬇️
Dr Rachael Kent wins historic case against Apple in £1.5 billion collective action | King's College London
The case, Kent v Apple, was brought by Dr Rachael Kent, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, who made history as the first female Class Representative in the UK’s collective action regime.
www.kcl.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
kingsdh.bsky.social
🌍 Yesterday @slehuede.bsky.social spoke at the 5th session of the UN Forum on Human Rights, Democracy & the Rule of Law. His talk explored community mobilisations to align AI with their unique, rich ecological visions.

📺 You can watch a recording of the session here webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q...
October 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
kingsdh.bsky.social
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (online programmes)

📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term
🗓 Apply by: 26 October 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
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October 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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kingsartshums.bsky.social
⌨️ On 15 Oct, Dr @mrsbunz.bsky.social from @kingsdh.bsky.social explores Large Language Models and literary & philosophical theories of language to show that their calculation of meaning is fundamentally unlike meaning produced in communication.

🔗 Read more ⤵️
On The Calculation of Meaning, Or Doing Words Without Things | King's College London
Bringing computational mechanisms of Large Language Models in conversation with literary and philosophical theories of language to show that their calculation of meaning is fundamentally unlike…
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September 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
kingsdh.bsky.social
✨ 🌱 Update: call for submissions deadline extended to 12th October!
October 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
kingsdh.bsky.social
⏰ 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
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
September 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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giotita.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
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September 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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photini.bsky.social
🌱 Mine and Güneş's new paper calls for DH practices that prioritise environmental accountability, decolonial perspectives, and ethical collaboration.

Read here: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000...

#DigitalHumanities #Sustainability #EcologicalCare #EnvironmentalJustice
September 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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zaborowski.bsky.social
New open access article!
With @lucykbennett.bsky.social we explore the resurgence of Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" on TikTok -- creativity, renewal and nostalgia through fandom, but also tensions between platform infrastructure, creators and audiences.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Runningupthathill, revival and popular music fandom on TikTok
The fourth season of Stranger Things (2022) used Kate Bush’s 1985 single ‘Running up that Hill’ for a key narrative moment, propelling the song back into the charts. This resurgence also inspired n...
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February 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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kingsartshums.bsky.social
⏰ Only one day to go!

Join us tomorrow to discuss findings from Dr @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social & Dr Laura Gibson's @kingsdh.bsky.social research on Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies in Higher Education.

📍 Online, 11:30-13:00

Access the report & register here 🔽
Report Launch: Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies in Higher Education | King's College London
Join us for this online event to present and discuss findings from our recent research on Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies in Higher Education.
www.kcl.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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jwyg.bsky.social
✨ call for proposals ✨ - "Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital", London 23-26th June 2026 - coinciding with 25th anniversary of @kingsdh.bsky.social. deadline: 30th September 2025. further details here: jonathangray.org/2025/09/11/d...
September 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
kingsdh.bsky.social
📢 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
kingsdh.bsky.social
📢 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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stuartdunn.bsky.social
I'm very excited and proud that my dept @kingsdh.bsky.social is hosting this major conference in 2026. There are many streams of DH, some old, some new, and I've always believed that the future of the field is dialogue between them. This landmark event will do that www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital
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
August 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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kingsartshums.bsky.social
🎓 We're delighted to announce the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities here @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's.

Read more👇

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
July 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
kingsdh.bsky.social
🎶 How do digital platforms reshape and renew music fan practices? Dr Rafal Zaborowski & Dr Lucy Bennett investigate how TikTok is used to express and negotiate musical affinities.

Read the new article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#MediaStudies #DigitalHumanities #DigitalCulture #TikTok
July 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
kingsdh.bsky.social
📣 CFP now open! Is childhood intensifying or eroding? Join the 2026 Child & Teen Consumption conference at King’s College London (22–24 April)

📝 Submit by 22 Aug 2025
🔗 ctcc-2026.kcl.ac.uk

#ChildhoodStudies #DigitalCulture #CFP
Child & Teen Consumption Conference, 22 - 24 April 2026
King's College London, 22 - 24 April 2026
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June 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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kingsartshums.bsky.social
📱 A social media curfew for children would be a 'good thing' but 'misses the point' says Dr Rachael Kent from @kingsdh.bsky.social, who advocates for increased regulation instead.

'Tech companies need to be held to account & the government needs to be enforcing this.'

🔗 Read more ⤵️
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Social media curfews for children WON'T work, experts warn
Experts say that the government's proposed social media curfews won't make children any safer online.
www.dailymail.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
kingsdh.bsky.social
🎙️ 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
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
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aleexgreen.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
May 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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New paper! Latest work from @geoplace.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk exploring the strategic unknowns embedded in the business models of digital care work platforms, published in Critical Sociology. Co-authors @fundaustek.bsky.social and Dr Alessio Bertolini. Read the full paper here:
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The Strategic Unknowns of Business Models of Digital Care Work Platforms - Funda Ustek Spilda, Alessio Bertolini, Adam Badger, Oguz Alyanak, Mark Graham, 2025
Informed by the scholarship of strategic ignorance (agnotology), this study presents a critical analysis of digital care work platforms and their business model...
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May 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM