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Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/ Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org .. more

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Robert Michael Kitchin is an Irish and British geographer and academic. In 2005 he was appointed professor of human geography at Maynooth University (formerly the National University of Ireland Maynooth. .. more

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jan 6

New open access book – Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods – published by Polity Books. 413 key terms defined & described. Also available as a paperback or hardback. To download or buy visit the publishers website: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 2d

Call for papers. Workshop: Data Migration and Mobilities: Towards a New Research Agenda. Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Tallinn, Estonia, 8-9 April 2026. Organised by Anu Masso & @robkitchin.bsky.social. Deadline for submissions 15 Oct.

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 3d

Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland's property market by spoofing property websites by @virt-arch.bsky.social, Ella Harris, Carla Kayanan, Hannah Mumby. Session as part of Research Week at MU, October 23, 2025, 13:00 to 14:00 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 3d

Can AI Help Build Cities Better? Advancing urban planning with algorithmic urbanism by Samuel Greengard in Communications of the ACM, cacm.acm.org/news/can-ai-...

Can AI Help Build Cities Better? – Communications of the ACM

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 9d

Navigating digital geographies: Black boxes, geospatial narratives, and the art of constructing location data by Thomas Cooke, @dancohen.bsky.social & @marxist.af
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 18d

New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)

New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’

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Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO

Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 24d

New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’

New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)

mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...

Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Sep 11

I'm not aware of a national open dataset of this. SEAI are most likely to have the data through grant applications

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Aug 21

Japanese translation of Digital Geographies book just arrived in the post. Thanks to the Japanese editors, Masahiro Tanaka, Taro Futamura, and translators and the publishers, Akashi Shoten Co. for making the effort to translate the book for a new audience. Did a nice job

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Dialogues on Digital Society @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social · Aug 18

The second issue of Dialogues on Digital Society is now out. Explore it here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/DDS/curr... 1/6

Title of Dialogues on Digital Society with Volume 1 Issue 2 August 2025 written beneath

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Aug 14

CFP. Beyond Community: Hybrid Practices of Mapping and Participation, Agnone (Molise, Italy), 24-25 Oct 2025. Will cover travel/accommodation. www.verrinomap.it/conference/

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Aug 11

Digital Twins special issue in New Media & Society edited by Christoph Borbach, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Tristan Thielmann. 15 papers including one by Oliver Dawkins & myself. Interdisciplinary exploration of the conceptualisation and practices of digital twinning. journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8

New Media & Society - Volume 27, Number 8

Table of contents for New Media & Society, 27, 8

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jul 18

Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction by @bnjacobsen.bsky.social in The Sociological Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction - Benjamin N. Jacobsen, 2025

The last few years have seen the rollout of several generative AI applications. Yet, it is often claimed by commentators and social scientists that these have o...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jul 11

Is data material? Toward an environmental sociology of AI by Maximilian Pieper in AI & Society link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social · Jul 8

📢: Read this new article on "Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system" by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla M Kayanan, and Samuel Mutter!

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#dataassemblage #dataecosystem

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jul 7

Toward a geographical stack: Reworking state-less and scale-less conceptions of the digital in China and California by Dylan Brady in Progress in Human Geography journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jul 3

New paper (OA): Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla Kayanan and Sam Mutter in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jul 2

Job ad: 25-month contract lecturer post, Human Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland. Details at: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jun 27

Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency by @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and @casey-lynch.bsky.social in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency

This article interrogates the reconfiguration of human-technology relationships through urban artificial intelligence (AI), complicating how the human subject is understood and invoked within urban...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jun 20

African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial Data Science by Teanna Barrett, Chinasa T. Okolo, B. Biira, Eman Sherif, Amy X. Zhang, Leilani Battle. arxiv.org/abs/2502.16043

African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial Data Science

The shift towards pluralism in global data ethics acknowledges the importance of including perspectives from the Global Majority to develop responsible data science practices that mitigate systemic ha...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jun 20

Indigenous Environmental Data Justice: Confronting Colonial Data and Activating Indigenous Sovereignty by Maria Fernanda Yanchapaxi & Michelle Murphy in Science, Technology, & Human Values. doi.org/10.1177/0162...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jun 16

Special issue of Sociologisk Forskning 62(1-2) on Critical Data Studies Meet Sociology edited by Julia Velkova & Ericka Johnson sociologiskforskning.se/sf/issue/vie...

Vol 62 Nr 1-2 (2025): Sociologisk Forskning 62(1-2) | Sociologisk Forskning

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jun 9

The digital mundane and the experiential production of public space by Robert Lundberg in Digital Geography & Society www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The digital mundane and the experiential production of public space

The role that our engagements with digital technology play in producing urban public space are often and easily taken for granted. Seeking to remedy t…

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jun 5

All That Is Urban Melts into Data: Circulations of Matter, Energy, and Data in the Digital City by Morgan Mouton & Ryan Burns www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

All That Is Urban Melts into Data: Circulations of Matter, Energy, and Data in the Digital City

This article seeks to conceptualize the interrelated movement of data on the one hand, and matter and energy on the other hand—and therefore contributes to a theorization of data as simultaneously ...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jun 5

Through thick and thin: data commons, community and the struggle for collective data governance by Tommaso Fia & Gijs van Maanen in Technology & Regulation techreg.org/article/view...

Through thick and thin: data commons, community and the struggle for collective data governance | Technology and Regulation

Tommaso Fia is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Law and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Tübingen

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jun 3

If you are at ISHF (International Social Housing Festival) in Dublin, then join us tomorrow (4th) at 11.15 for a workshop on 'Imagining an ideal set of data for evidence-informed storytelling about social housing' delivered by Ella Harris, Danielle Hynes & myself (and co-designed with Hannah Mumby)

Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · May 20

but also walkable ...

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · May 20

Thanks to everyone who submitted an abstract for the special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social. Presently halfway through reviewing my allocation of 89 of the 178 proposals. Geographically, empirically, conceptually diverse. Difficult choices ahead...

Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · May 20

New paper. Genealogy of a data ecosystem: The digitalisation of planning development and control in Ireland, 2000–2024 by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla Kayanan & Sam Mutter in Digital Geography and Society, www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Genealogy of a data ecosystem: The digitalisation of planning development and control in Ireland, 2000–2024

In this paper, we document how a data ecosystem emerges and evolves as a socio-technical assemblage over a 25 year period charting its digitalisation …

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · May 19

New OA paper: Provincialising platform citizenship: Citizen participation in & through civic platforms by @kiddingthecity.bsky.social & @robkitchin.bsky.social in Digital Geography & Society. Discusses differential use of Decidim in Barcelona, New York & Brazil www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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