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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 9d

⌨️ 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.

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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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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 2d

✨ 🌱 Update: call for submissions deadline extended to 12th October!

Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 9d

⏰ 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 ...

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 9d

⏰ 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

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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 16d

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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Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social · 15d

🌱 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

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Rafal Zaborowski @zaborowski.bsky.social · Feb 18

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.
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#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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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 20d

⏰ 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.

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 27d

✨ 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...

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 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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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 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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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · Aug 2

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 ...

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎓 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👇

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · Jul 14

🎶 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

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · Jun 10

📣 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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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Jun 10

📱 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.'

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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.

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · Jun 9

🎙️ 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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Alexandra Greenfield @aleexgreen.bsky.social · May 30

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

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · May 13

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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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · May 27

👏 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 ⤵️

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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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · May 15

"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

Book cover for Public Data Cultures (Polity, forthcoming 2025).

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Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social · Apr 15

👏 Meet our eleven new Digital Futures Institute Fellows!

Congratulations @lboungr.bsky.social, Rowan Boyson, Mark Cote, Amrita Dhillon, Alex Gould, Elisabeth Kelan, @niccoloridi.bsky.social, Gabriele Salciute Civiliene, Astrid Van den Bossche, @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social & @lorenzoz.bsky.social 🔽

Digital Futures Institute announces eleven new Fellows for 2025-26

Eleven interdisciplinary projects awarded Fellowships from the Digital Futures Institute for the 2025-26 cohort.

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Apr 14

👏 Professor @s-tanner.bsky.social and Dr @aballatore.bsky.social from @kingsdh.bsky.social and experts from King's Digital Lab will spearhead digital research in the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk 🔽

Digital research led by Kings to forecast the emergence of slavery in war zones

Academics from the Department of Digital Humanities and King’s Digital Lab will spearhead digital research in the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War.

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · May 8

👁️ How do we imagine a response to surveillance that does not involve privacy?

This event, chaired by Dr Vita Peacock @kingsdh.bsky.social, brings together anthropologists and art practitioners to explore counter-surveillance as venues for cultural creation.

🗓️ 14 May, 14:00
📍 Strand Campus

Arts of Opacity: Thinking Beyond Privacy

How do we imagine a response to surveillance that does not involve privacy? Five anthropologists and art practitioners present their work.

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · May 6

On 7 and 8 May @scigallerylon.bsky.social is hosting a free VR exhibition created by students from the Department of Digital Humanities at King's Arts & Humanities, led by Gabriele Salciute Civiliene.

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/throu...

Through Estranged Eyes: Across Inner Dreams and Outer Worlds

“Through Estranged Eyes: Across Inner Dreams and Outer Worlds” is the creative outcome of the educational programme of King’s Department of Digital Humanities.

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Centre for Digital Culture @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social · Apr 25

Symposium on Information Controls on 16th May, bringing together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls around the world: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/sympo...
#disinformation #algorithms #censorship #infrastructure #internetstudies
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Symposium on Information Controls

The Symposium on Information Controls brings together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls from around the world.

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