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gillian rose
@profgillian.bsky.social
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digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here: https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/ .. more

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Gillian Rose FBA is a British geographer and geographic author. She is a professor of human geography in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Previously, she taught and served as Associate Dean at The Open University. She is best known for her 1993 book, Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge. .. more

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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · 3d
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 8d
amazing line-up of speakers here, including Yu-Shan Tseng, @uitermark.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @myriageorgiou.bsky.social urbanpolitical.online/96-digital-c...
96 – Digital Cities and Democracy – Urban Political Podcast
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 10d
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 10d
Join us for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari.
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 20d
Speculative Friction is inviting submissions that explore frictions between people and AI systems in creative and critical ways. They welcome proposals in a range of formats; learn more and submit by November 15: speculativefriction.org/livingarchive
livingarchive — Speculative Friction
<< home | about | blog | LIVING ARCHIVE | resources | events | subscribe “The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things...
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Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · 23d
Call for Applications: Gender, Place and Culture New and Emerging Scholars Award for 2026

Application closing date: 31 January 2026 The editorial team of Gender, Place and Culture is pleased to announce the annual award valued at a maximum… Call for Applications: Gender, Place and Culture New and…
Call for Applications: Gender, Place and Culture New and Emerging Scholars Award for 2026
Application closing date: 31 January 2026 The editorial team of Gender, Place and Culture is pleased to announce the annual award valued at a maximum… Call for Applications: Gender, Place and Culture New and Emerging Scholars Award for 2026
www.samkinsley.com
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 24d
Raymond Geuss, Seeing Double - @politybooks.bsky.social, April 2024
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
NDPR review by Espen Hammer
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/seei...
Seeing Double
Seeing Double, The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept
www.politybooks.com
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 24d
Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:

www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...
Stuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall Foundation
The second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ...
www.stuarthallfoundation.org
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 25d
Now booking!

"Annie Bot vs The Tech Bros." SF’s influence on modern tech culture.

🗓️ Thurs 2 Oct, 1pm, online

Join Clarke Award winner Sierra Greer + expert panel:
@drkatedevlin.bsky.social
@laurenbeukes.com
Jen Wong, Science Gallery London

Register👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annie-bot-...
Cover of Annie Bot and author photo of Sierra Greer
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Aug 18
statehood for DC on demand and without apology. If you live outside the district and care about democracy, a thing you can do is to decry the actions of the federal government under Trump to senators and representatives and urge them to support statehood for DC and withdrawal of Trump's forces there
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Jul 11
Attractive job offer at the University of Zurich:

Lecturer Teaching position in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data, 100%, permanent position

Please share widely!

#DigitalHumanitie #JobAlert

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
UZH: Lecturer Teaching
The Art History Department (Program Directorate) in collaboration of the departments of Film Studies, Archaeology, Media and Communication, and Educational Sciences of the University of Zurich is seek...
jobs.uzh.ch
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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · Aug 14
New in @theconversation.com today from @suzesrdarov.bsky.social and I:

‘Australiana’ images made by AI are racist and full of tired cliches, new study shows theconversation.com/australiana-... [1/2]
‘Australiana’ images made by AI are racist and full of tired cliches, new study shows
What do Australians and Australia look like according to generative AI? The results are alarming.
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Jody Joy @jodypjoy.bsky.social · Aug 12
North Sea
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Lostcatdog @lostcatdog.bsky.social · Aug 6
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · Aug 5
really interesting special issue of New Media & Society on digital twins now out: journals.sagepub.com/toc/NMS/curr...
gives me an excuse to reshare my own (feminist) take on city digital twins, accompanied by some excellent commentaries: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · Aug 4
Goodnight from Ashcourt Necropolis’ stone guardians, wary of further vandalism conducted under pretence of hunting the Iron-toothed Vampire. Goodnight from Liv Malin, increasingly convinced certain figures walk between the photos held in the Wyndham Archive. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Maria Schreiber @perceptionalize.bsky.social · Aug 4
Submit your contribution to this fantastic online gathering of critical visual researchers: visualculturesecrea.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/c...
Call for papers online!
This year, we are organizing a one-day-online conference – find out more and join us to see through complexity!
visualculturesecrea.wordpress.com
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Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · Dec 4
I have a new article now online- it’s a short piece for the relaunch of @vcib.bsky.social talking about my thoughts on what “visual culture in Britain“ might mean. There’s a little preview of themes and topics in my next book (A Dirty History of Photography) too- www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Take Me to the River: Place and Material in Visual Culture
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2024)
www.tandfonline.com
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Prof Andrew Hudson-Smith @digitalurban.bsky.social · Dec 16
Todays images (autogenerated using @metoffice.bsky.social text based data fed into AI) are quite nice - its improving on its cloudscapes and landscape representation... #weather #aiart #ai #landscapes
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Dec 17
I now have my physical copies of 'Digital Ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds' from @digicologies.bsky.social. Honestly, such lovely, caring engagement from the editors and three afterwords.

This has really made my day 🥲
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Alex Tarr @avatarr8.bsky.social · Dec 19
The wonderful editors at City asked me to write an editorial for the latest issue. Here is what I had to say about Cities, computation and capitalism:
doi.org/10.1080/1360...

(lots of wonderful work I didn't have space to cite, but I hope it furthers a broader conversation and action)
Cities, computation and capitalism
Published in City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action (Vol. 28, No. 5-6, 2024)
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Jan 14
«The series are different in genres and tone. But all of them seem to have collectively decided that the best way to convey the sense of epic event TV is with an overture of shape-shifting, literal-minded screen-saver art.»
Why Do TV Title Sequences Have So Much … Stuff? (Gift Article)
A visual style originally meant to make TV series appear epic and distinctive has become awfully familiar
www.nytimes.com
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · Jan 18
Interesting digital ID update in The Times. A couple of things on this from me: firstly, does someone at DSIT need reminding that govt is not a tech company?

Govts should have transparent public road maps for delivery. Tech cos do launches to feed the hypebeast www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
The scheme will be voluntary and drivers will still be issued with provisional and full photocard driving licences, but ministers hope the move will "drag government into the 2020s". The plans are due to be announced by ministers next week in a "product launch" event in central London. Subermarkets could link the digital licence with
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · Feb 24
🎙️ Please enjoy!

These two are so generous and brilliant in conversation:
pca.st/episode/183d...
Indexicality, with Roland Meyer and Gillian Rose - The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scholars, thinkers and f...
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Feb 26
Finally online: My essay on #PlatformRealism for #Transbordeur. There couldn't be a more appropriate day to publish it, even though when I wrote it last year I couldn't have imagined the extent to which the aesthetics of AI slop would become the basis of a new #MemeFascism
“Platform Realism”. AI Image Synthesis and the Rise of Generic Visu...
In May 2023, artist Bjoern Karmann introduced a gadget called Paragraphica, a lensless “camera” based on AI text-to-image synthesis (fig. 1). For Karmann, Paragraphica gives us a glimpse into how g...
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · May 12
Really looking forward to this event with the wonderful Gillian Rose (@profgillian.bsky.social) who will share her insights on smart cities, digital city twins and discuss with us the false promises of corporate tech solutions in search of urban problems. Next week in Zurich at Cabaret Voltaire!
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Zentrum Künste und Kulturtheorie @zkk-zurich.bsky.social · May 12
The city of Zurich has become a center for the digital platform economy. But what visions of urban life are embedded in the promises offered by tech companies? @profgillian.bsky.social will speak with @bildoperationen.bsky.social at ZKK Talk #3: May 20th, 6:15 PM, Cabaret Voltaire!
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Zentrum Künste und Kulturtheorie @zkk-zurich.bsky.social · May 12
The city of Zurich has become a center for the digital platform economy. But what visions of urban life are embedded in the promises offered by tech companies? @profgillian.bsky.social will speak with @bildoperationen.bsky.social at ZKK Talk #3: May 20th, 6:15 PM, Cabaret Voltaire!
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · May 21
We had a wonderful evening yesterday with @profgillian.bsky.social discussing smart cities, digital twins and the false promises of tech solutionism. Thank you so much, dear Gillian, for coming to Zurich and sharing so generously your research, insights and perspectives with us!
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Zentrum Künste und Kulturtheorie @zkk-zurich.bsky.social · May 12
The city of Zurich has become a center for the digital platform economy. But what visions of urban life are embedded in the promises offered by tech companies? @profgillian.bsky.social will speak with @bildoperationen.bsky.social at ZKK Talk #3: May 20th, 6:15 PM, Cabaret Voltaire!
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · Jul 25
I had to blow up San Francisco to give it a future I wanted to live in. For @48hills.bsky.social I wrote about my new book Automatic Noodle, and how science fiction helps us resist the AI oligarchs who are stealing our city's future. 48hills.org/2025/07/stea...
Steal this future - 48 hills
We don't need to let the Big Tech oligarchs and creepy cyber-libertarians decide what city—and what kind of society—we want to live in.
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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · Jul 14
I shared two publications discussing research methods for understanding app use on smartphones in a blogpost - both part of the TRAVIS research project led by the estimable @kattiid.bsky.social‬.
Learning from the mess in social media elicitation interviews – new paper alert!
Really happy to have been a small part of this new paper in Qualitative Inquiry, called 'Learning from the mess in social media elicitation interviews.' It's available open access here: and this is the abstract: The article examines what happened during 50 semi-structured interviews that were designed to focus on the visual content of interviewees’ social media feeds. During these encounters, interviewees were invited to talk about content that appeared on their social media apps while showing their phone screens to the interviewer.
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