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👋 Friday spotlight!

Last but definitely not least, say hello to Olivia Fletcher @livfletcher.bsky.social (she/her), our Early Careers Representative, supporting and bringing early-career perspectives to the DGRG. 👇

We hope you've enjoyed learning about the committee!

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The image is a profile of the Early Careers Rep Olivia Fletcher. On the left is an image of Olivia smiling. She has blonde hair, wears a black jacket and white top and stands against a green and blue background. There is a title on the right, "Introducing...OLIVIA FLETCHER University Teacher, University of Liverpool". The beige text box below reads, "My recent work includes a paper on technology–space entanglements in relation to self-tracking and a creative writing workshop examining women’s access to health technologies. Digital geographies help us understand how technology shapes our lives, movements, bodies, identities and relationships - even when we don’t notice it happening! ". A final black box at the bottom reads, "Research interests: digital geographies of health & fitness, health tracking technologies, social media, embodiment, digital inequalities, feminist new materialism ". The background is made up of interlocking geometric shapes to highlight the photo and text.
January 23, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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👋 Continuing our committee introductions as we head toward the end of the series!

Say hello to Richard Müller (he/him), an Ordinary Member on the DGRG Committee.

Great to have them involved 👇

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The image is a profile of Ordinary Member Richard Müller. On the left is an image of Richard in black and white. It is a headshot of him facing the camera. There is a title on the right, "Introducing...RICHARD MULLER PhD candidate at University College London". Below is a beige text box that reads: "My doctoral research has focused on the 'interstitial' gaps in urban morphology, governance, and temporality through which unofficial, insurgent, and informal practices emerge in Taiwanese and Indian urbanisms. As a heavily interdisciplinary and practice-based researcher, I am interested in how digital tools can bear witness to these alternative urban imaginaries. Find out more about my research: www.latentspace.com". A final black text box at the bottom reads: "Research interests: Digital imaginaries, digital urbanisms, insurgent spatial practices, practice-based research, creative and visual methods." The background is made up of interlocking geometric shapes to highlight the photo and text.
January 19, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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🥁Continuing our committee introductions…

Holly Gowland (she/her) serves as one of our Postgraduate Representatives, supporting and representing postgraduate researchers within the DGRG.

She also wins the award for the coolest profile photo - check out her research interests below👇

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The image is a profile of the Postgraduate Representative Dr Holly Gowland. On the left is an image of Holly, playing a guitar surrounded by purple and pink shapes and lighting. There is a title on the right, "Introducing...HOLLY GOWLAND Postgraduate researcher at the University of Birmingham". The beige text box below reads: "My research explores the intersection of urban transformation and sound composition through the lens of sonic urbanism. I worked recently with Fruit and Nut Village Stirchley on a soundwalk through their sites, and I am currently working on a piece for harpsichord and electronics (premiering by Gośka Isphording in February). As I explore sound, I am able to curate a fieldwork pack of varied equipment from varied fields (environmental science, music, etc.) as digital geographies approaches analysis with an open mind.". A final black box at the bottom reads, "Research interests: sound studies, composition, changing spaces & places. I explore how constantly evolving urban environments are perceived through sound, and how sound contributes to the identity, transformation, & memory of urban landscapes.". The background is made up of interlocking geometric shapes to highlight the photo and text.
January 14, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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👋 Now say hi to Jack Lowe (he/him), our Prize Co-ordinator, helping to recognise outstanding research in digital geographies.

@jackalowe.bsky.social recommends you check out Pin The Tale (pinthetale.co.uk) and this free mystery game (interment.itch.io/play) to wave Monday goodbye!

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The image is a profile of the Prize Co-ordinator Dr Jack Lowe. On the left is an image of Jack smiling, wearing a hoodie in front of a multi-coloured wall. There is a title on the right, "Introducing...JACK LOWE Knowledge Exchange Manager, UWE Bristol". The beige text box below reads, "Jack is the creator of Pin the Tale: an online, map-based game about discovering and sharing stories connected to places in the UK: pinthetale.co.uk. Something fun to share with the community: If you’ve ever wandered through an old graveyard, looked at the barely readable headstones and imagined the lives of those buried there, you might enjoy this little free mystery game: https://interment.itch.io/play". A final black box at the bottom reads, "Research interests: Place, digital games, creative methods, locative and mobile media, psychogeography". The background is made up of interlocking geometric shapes to highlight the photo and text.
January 12, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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📣 Rounding off the week with another committee intro…

Meet Hope Steadman (she/her), the Social Media Co-ordinator for the DGRG, helping share news, events and (yes) these posts 👇 @hope-steadman.bsky.social

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The image is a profile of the Social Media Co-ordinator Hope Steadman. On the left is an image of Hope smiling at the camera wearing a flowery jumpsuit with foliage behind. There is a title on the right, "Introducing...HOPE STEADMAN PhD Student - School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford". The beige text box below reads, "My PhD research investigates how digital technologies shape the ways rivers are sensed, understood and governed in Oxfordshire, exploring how they influence environmental knowledge, politics and everyday experience. I believe digital geographies are crucial at a time when digital tools increasingly shape how we monitor and govern environmental change. I’m excited to join a community that critically engages with these technologies and to support PGR-led conversations on digital environmental futures." A final black box at the bottom reads, "Research interests: feminist digital geographies, environmental knowledge politics, pollution governance and digital ecologies." The background is made up of interlocking geometric shapes to highlight the photo and text.
January 9, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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👋 Next in the series...

Meet Adam Michael Packer (he/him), our Events Co-ordinator. @adammpacker.bsky.social is a familiar face on the committee and does a truly excellent job helping ensure DGRG events are well organised, welcoming and engaging 👇

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The image shows a profile of the DGRG Events Coordinator, Adam Michael Packer. On the left is a photo of Anna in a stripey shirt and black jacket, smiling at the camera. The heading on the right reads, "Introducing... ADAM MICHAEL PACKER Research Fellow, University of Birmingham". Below this is a beige text box reading, "I am currently undertaking an ESRC-funded Centre-UB Early Career Researcher Fellowship that explores public perceptions and attitudes towards medical uses of drones in Wales, UK, building on my previous work as part of the University of Birmingham’s Future Flight Social Science research programme. DGRG have facilitated and nurtured welcoming and supportive spaces for a friendly collective of scholars that have tangibly contributed to the professional development of my career. I hope we can continue to do that through our events and activities including our annual symposium." A final black text box at the bottom reads: "Research Interests: I draw on geography, STS, political science, and sociology to understand how digital technologies are transforming (urban) life." The background is made up of several interlocking shapes to highlight the photo and text.
January 7, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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✨ Hello 2026... and welcome back!

We're starting the new year with our next committee intro. Please welcome Anna Jackman (she/her), our Treasurer and a great person to have on the team.

Happy New Year @ahjackman.bsky.social! 👇

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The image shows a profile of the DGRG Treasurer, Anna Jackman. On the left is a photo of Anna in a stripey top, smiling at the camera. The heading on the right reads, "Introducing... ANNA JACKMAN Associate Professor in Human Geography - University of Reading, UK". Below this is a beige text box reading, "I’m currently PI on a British Academy project (with Co-I Dr Paul Cureton, Lancaster University), 'Future drone skies: Planning in volume' which brings together academics in geography and design to explore the implications of drones in UK airspace for the UK built environment. I’m also part of the RGS and Antipode-funded States of Precarity research project, exploring the long and short term effects of precarity in UK HEI Geography. We’ve created a project report, action plans and wider resources, designed to support more equitable working cultures." A final black text box at the bottom reads, "Research interests: Feminist political geographer interested in robotic and digital technologies in everyday, urban and military life and space.". The background is made up of several interlocking shapes to highlight the photo and text.
January 5, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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🎄 Our final committee intro before the festive break...

Meet Maciej Główczyński one of our Ordinary Members and a fantastic part of the DGRG Committee.

A lovely note to end the year on, and more to come in the new year 👇

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The image shows a profile for Maciej Główczyński, an Ordinary Member of the Committee. A photo on the left show Maciej outdoors, wearing glasses, smiling and in a puffer jacket. Text on the left reads: "Introducing... Maciej Główczyński Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań". A beige text box below reads: "My current research project tackles the problem of posthuman agency and experiences of place mediated through digital technologies. For me, digital geographies help to critically address the entanglements between human and digital technologies, as well as the relations, inequalities, and imaginaries they produce.". A final black text box at the bottom reads: "Research Interests: Digital placemaking, agency, human-place-technology relations, extended realities, qualitative methods". The background shows geometric shapes to highlight the main text.
December 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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💡 In today’s committee spotlight…

Please welcome Alfie Greenwood, joining us this year as one of our Postgraduate Representatives. Hi @alfiegreenwood.bsky.social!

A new face on the committee helping to bring postgrad perspectives to the table! 👇

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This image shows a profile of the Committee's Postgrad Rep, Alfie Greenwood. On the left is an image of Greenwood, smiling, facing the camera, wearing a black jumper with a red logo. Behind him is a green lawn and pillared building. On the right, the title reads: "Introducing... ALFIE GREENWOOD PhD student - UCL, Department of Geography". Below is a beige text box, reading: "My PhD research explores the geographies of AI within the home, exploring how intelligent technologies are increasingly (re)shaping everyday domestic life, as well as what these developments mean for how we geographically understand the home in the era of AI. Digital geography has profoundly shaped my thinking since my undergraduate studies, and I believe this field is more critically important than ever amid the proliferation of pervasive digital technologies across all aspects of life. I’m excited to play a role in a community that is deeply and critically engaged with the impacts of these technologies, and to help positively shape its growth through PGR-led contributions." At the bottom is a final black text box reading: "Research Interests: Geographies of the home, geographies of AI, and exploring how emerging AI systems are reshaping everyday life, spaces and relations." The background is made up of several geometric shapes helping to highlight the photo and key text.
December 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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❄️ Starting the week with another committee intro...

Meet our Secretary, Daisy Curtis (she/her) helping to keep everything running smoothly as we head toward the end of the year. 👇

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This image shows a profile of the Committee Secretary, Daisy Curtis. On the left is an image of Daisy, smiling, facing the camera, wearing a grey top and yellow cardigan. On the right, the title reads "Introducing... DAISY CURTIS Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Exeter." Below is a beige text box, reading: "Daisy's research examines emerging technologies and their social life, in particular 5G technology. Daisy is interested in technological development and roll-out, the radio spectrum, digital geopolitics, and knowledge controversies including conspiracy theories and their associated communities. For Daisy, digital geographies captures a huge breadth of research interests and also brings together wonderfully generous and thoughtful people from across geography and beyond." The image ends with a final black text box, reading: "Research interests: 5G, digital geopolitics, knowledge controversies" The background shows several overlapping geometric shapes to highlight the text.
December 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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🥁And next up…

Meet María Cervantes-Macías (she/her), one of our Ordinary Members and a new face on the DGRG Committee this year.

We’re excited to have her on board! 👇

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This image shows a profile of an Ordinary Member of the Committee, María Cervantes-Macías. On the left is an image of María, smiling, facing the camera, wearing a pink dress with foliage in the background. On the right, the title reads "Introducing... María Cervantes-Macías Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia". Below is a beige text box, reading: "Broadly, I’m interested in how global migration regimes and digital labour markets reshape cities, producing new forms of inequality and belonging. I approach these questions through ethnographic methods, with a focus on North American regional integration. "Digital geographies" allows us to think about all the connections that we have across space and time, it gives us tools to study the infrastructures and networks that keep us all connected." At the bottom of the image is a black text box reading, "Research Interests: My work examines how borders, technology, and inequality shape who gets to move, work, and belong across North America." The background is made up of geometric coloured shapes to highlight the text.
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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👋 Today we're introducing June Wang (she/her), our fabulous International Officer. Hello @june-wang.bsky.social!

June is an Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, and you can find out more about her research interests in the profile below. 👇

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"The image is a profile introducing the International Officer, June Wang. On the left hand side of the image, there is a professional photo of June with dark hair, looking at the camera, seated at a table with a mug of coffee. To the right of the image, the text reads: “Introducing... JUNE WANG Associate Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs, City University of Hong Kong”. Below this is a text box section: “My current research examines how digital infrastructures facilitate Chinese tech professionals’ expansion into BRI countries and the emerging geopolitics of technological standards shaping this process.” A quote follows: “To me, digital geographies reveal how the digital is deeply entangled with spatial politics — from infrastructures and labour to governance and imaginaries of the future.” A final text box at the bottom states: "Research interests: Digital territories, digital infrastructure, digital labour, and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)”
December 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Next up in the series…

Say hello to Thomas Dekeyser (he/him), our new Website Co-ordinator, keeping all things DGRG online running smoothly! 👇 @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social

And why not check out the site to see what we're up to: digitalgeographiesrg.org

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The image is a profile introducing the Website Co-ordinator, Thomas Dekeyser. On the left hand side of the image, there is a headshot of Thomas with brown hair, looking towards the camera. To the right of the image, the text reads: "Introducing... THOMAS DEKEYSER Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Southampton" Below this is a text box section detailing Thomas' latest projects. He explains that his work, in the form of writing and films, examines the shifting co-ordinates of power and resistance and digital and urban environments. He has a new monograph out in March 2026, titled Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine. He continues to engage with the politics of refusal in a world increasingly saturated with AI. At the bottom is a final black text box, "Research interests: digital technology; refusal; negativity; Artificial Intelligence; pessimism; geographical theory; creative methods." The background is a mix of white and intersecting grey and black geometric shapes to highlight the quoted information.
December 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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🎉 Meet the DGRG Committee!

Over the coming days, we’ll be spotlighting the brilliant humans who keep the DGRG running, including a mix of familiar faces and new members.

First up (because someone has to go first)… our Chair, Tess Osborne (she/her/hers)! 👇 @tessosborne.bsky.social

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The image is a profile introducing the Committee chair, Tess Osborne. On the left hand side of the image, there is a professional photo of Tess with blonde hair, looking off to the side, seated at a table with a water bottle and a microphone pack. To the right of the image, the text reads: "Introducing... TESS OSBORNE Lecturer in Human Geography @ University of Leicester & Honorary Research Fellow @ University of Birmingham." Below this is a text box section titled "Two of my recent projects include:" listing "Biosocial Walking: exploring how movement and emotion shape migrant belonging in cities," and "AI Images: investigating how AI understands and misrepresents place." A quote follows: "For me, digital geographies shows how tech quietly choreographs our lives, sometimes helping, sometimes getting in the way." A final text box at the bottom states: "Research interests: how digital tech shapes movement, bodies and health and wellbeing: from migrant journeys to later-life mobility." The background is a mix of white and intersecting grey and black geometric shapes to highlight the quoted information.
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Welcome to RGS-IBG AC25!

We have an exciting lineup of 14 (co-)sponsored session over the next few days, as well as our Annual Lecture & Reception. Join us for conversations across a broad range of topics intersecting the digital.

Please check ExOrdo for locations/timings.

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August 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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We warmly invite you to the Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Lecture at @rgsibg.bsky.social AC25 at @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Our inaugural lecture will be given by @ahjackman.bsky.social (@uniofreading.bsky.social) on ‘Feminist digital geographies in flight: Diversifying drone stories’
The poster shows a picture of Dr Anna Jackman University of Reading alongside her social media handles for BlueSky and LinkedIn with the title of her presentation ‘Feminist digital geographies in flight: Diversifying drone stories’ and the abstract. The header reads ‘RGS-IBG 2025. Digital Geographies Research Group Annual Lecture. Thursday 28th August 2025, Lecture Theatre 1 - LG19’.
August 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Not long until our RGS pre-conference event: Exploring Place-based Creativity in a Digitally-Mediated World!

Featuring workshops + a keynote from @olimould.bsky.social
Psychedelics, multiverses and radical creativity: towards an aesthetics of the commons.

Register: www.rgs.org/research/ann...
Image is a screenshot of black text on a pale pink background with a plum coloured border in a squiggly line. The text states: Psychedelics, multiverses and radical creativity: towards an aesthetics of the commons - Professor Oli Mould This talk explores the potential of radical aesthetics to reawaken political imagination in the face of neoliberal capitalism’s cultural stranglehold and it's ushering in of the fascist horizon. Drawing on Mark Fisher’s unfinished project of Acid Communism, it argues that contemporary art and culture must reclaim the psychedelic, affective, and collective energies of the countercultural movements of the 1960s. This is not to indulge in nostalgia, but to rupture the present’s temporal and ideological capture by financialised capitalism. Central to this argument is the reconfiguration of time: whereas high-frequency trading and extractive logics sever the present from past and future, psychedelic aesthetics reanimate the now as a fertile commons, rich with collective memory and utopian possibility. I aim to critique the complicity of mainstream cultural institutions in sustaining capitalist realism and proposes an ‘aesthetics of the commons’ grounded in mutual aid, proletarianised cultural, digital and analogue production, and multiversal imaginaries. From pandemic-era art activism to the radical temporalities, psychedelic imaginaries and lucid dreaming, it seeks to chart an emergent, insurgent cultural politics that is not about building the future, but refusing capitalism’s version of it, and revelling instead in the shared abundance of the present.
August 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Session 3 is a sonic exploration of a city in transformation, led by Holly Gowland (@unibirmingham.bsky.social). Through a series of spatial compositions, field recordings, and performance, the concert captures the evolving acoustic environments of Birmingham, presenting a tapestry of sounds.
Photo by Luke Matthews on Unsplash. The image shows the Birmingham city cityscape with the Bullring just left of centre in the background, the Rotunda to the left of that, and the Coach Station in the foreground. It is a gloomy, grey picture.
August 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Session 2 is an interactive exploration of the University of Birmingham campus through a location-based narrative-style game, led by Dr @jackalowe.bsky.social (University of West of England). 'Pin the Tale' is a location-based game about connecting with the world around you through stories.
An aerial image of the tops of buildings and a park are overlaid with a white grid evoking coordinates with the 'pin.the.tale' logo in the centre in turquoise green with a pin logo.
August 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Session 1 is a screening & discussion of the ‘AI in the Street: Drone Observatory’, a short film created & directed by Dr @thaophan.bsky.social (Australian National University) & Jeni Lee. We will be joined online by Thao to discuss their work & the creative practices behind producing the film.
A landscape poster advertising the AI in the Street Drone Observatory short film about drone delivery trials in Logan, Australia. Text below the title and subtitles reads 'Directed by Thao Phan and Jeni Lee'. The image shows a drone deliverying a white package via a cord into the lawned yard of a house, with at least one person looking on from the porch. The logos for the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University and the University of Warwick are in the righthand corner.
August 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Last week was our Global Digital Geographies Symposium with speakers from China, India, Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa, Iran, the US, UK & more making it our most international symposium! Thank you to everyone who presented work, attended sessions, & discussed emerging ideas 1/3
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The top half of the image features text stating: Global Digital Geographies: Digitalising the Territorial/ Territorialising the Digital which is in white font. Below in black font is the text: Annual Symposium Digital Geographies Research Group 19-20 June 2025 online. In the bottom half of the image is a map of the world in a blue and purple tint. Various digital symbols are placed on top of the map such as smartphones, sensors, location pins, satellites, and submarine cables. In the bottom right hand corner is the RGS logo and the City University of Hong Kong logo. The background of the image is a graduated purple to white colouring with purple at the top and white at the bottom of the image.
June 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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We're now having a very rich discussion between the panel speakers thinking about overlapping themes and interests including conceptualisations of space, bodies, and scales of power

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Zoom screenshot: showing 5 speakers: left to right: Jack Lowe (chair) who is wearing a grey tshirt and white earphones with a blurred background, Azadeh Akbari who is wearing a white tshirt and has a blurred background, Norma Möllers who is wearing a black top and wearing glasses with a background partially showing a bookshelf, Sam Kinsley who is wearing a white shirt, glasses, and headphones with a blurred background, Mirjam de Bruijn who is wearing a dark blue top and with a bookshelf in the background.
June 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Next is Norma Möllers discussing state violence, digital & infrastructural practices via a focus on privatisation of data extraction in spaces of policing, borders, and war. Norma asks the question about the future of just data in a context of eroding digital sovereignty & racism
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Zoom screenshot: to the right is an image of Norma Möllers who is wearing a black top, glasses, and hoop earrings. In the background there is a bookshelf. To the left is a presentation slide showing the title 'state of extraction' written in green on a black slide
June 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Drawing on his work thinking about space @samkinsley.uk proposes a way of thinking in/with space for digital geographers. Sam argues for a pluralistic approach to spacings and understanding how spatial vocabularies & grammars are used: as verb, metaphor, physical imaginary, & more #DGRGSymposium2025
Zoom screenshot: to the right is an image of Sam Kinsley wearing a white shirt, glasses, and headphones. The background is blurred. To the left is the title presentation slide: troubling realities: Thinking space for digital geographies
June 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Next is Mirjam de Bruijn presenting on African Mobile Communities & discusses a range of processes she researches including Cameroonian mobile societies, e-mobilisation in Chad, & e-conflict in West Africa. Such mobilisation of people occurs within the digital beyond the state

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June 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM