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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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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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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · Jun 25

📚 I look forward to giving a workshop next week on critical data practices and digital media research methods with @jwyg.bsky.social‬ at the 2025 Fudan University Summer School on Communication Theory and Research Methods in Shanghai.

#criticaldatastudies #communicationstudies #researchmethods

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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · Jun 17

✨ Grateful for the invitation to speak at Seoul National University next week w/ @jwyg.bsky.social on digital methods, critical data practice, @publicdatalab.bsky.social‬, and the Data Journalism Handbook (buff.ly/bYrnCzC). Excited to learn from SNU colleagues in STS & digital media and culture!

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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · May 20

📚 I look forward to speaking this Thursday at the University of Milan-Bicocca about The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice - a book I had the privilege to co-edit with @jwyg.bsky.social buff.ly/JRywQB8

🔗 Event details: buff.ly/njsCoF6

The Data Journalism Handbook

The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a…

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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · May 8

📖 Join us on 18 May at the Feminist Library in reading “East–West Inequalities and the Ambiguous Racialisation of ‘Eastern Europeans’” by Alexandra Lewicki as part of the bi-monthly Central & Eastern European Diasporic (CEED) Feminisms Reading Group: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/central-ea... 📚✨

Central & Eastern European Diasporic (CEED) Feminisms Reading Group

A bi-monthly reading group exploring the untold stories from the central and eastern european diaspora.

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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · Apr 28

✨ Excited to speak @ National School of Political Science & Public Administration in Bucharest tomorrow about growing an Eastern European feminist digital methodologies network.

Inspired by @publicdatalab.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @medialab-scpo.bsky.social, CEED Feminisms, feminist labs

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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · Apr 8

Sharing an opportunity to publish in our journal. Check out this call for papers led by @silvertje.bsky.social Rianne Riemens Donya Alinejad @juikei.bsky.social "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis." Deadline: 23.05 journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · Apr 11

Looking forward to speaking later today at King’s e-Research Symposium 2025 📚 about kingsCAT 🐈 — our new cross-faculty instance of the open-source @4cat.nl toolkit for social media data capture and analysis 🛠️,

More about kingsCAT here: buff.ly/bcXzxiq
More about the event here: buff.ly/fZbncFw

KingsCAT: Capture and Analysis Tool for Social Media Research at King’s College London

KingsCAT is an instance of the open source 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit set up to support interdisciplinary and collaborative social media research.

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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · Apr 8

Looking forward to sharing work on digital methods for critically engaging with environmental issues at this session with inspiring colleagues Mike Duggan, @jwyg.bsky.social, @tavmos.bsky.social Gavin Williams and Maud Borie. Thank you @slehuede.bsky.social for convening this panel!

Sebastián Lehuedé @slehuede.bsky.social · Mar 25

If you're around KCL on 9 April, join us for a timely panel on 'AI & DATA ECOLOGIES'.

We will have amazing speakers: Mike Duggan, @jwyg.bsky.social , @lboungr.bsky.social , @tavmos.bsky.social, Gavin Williams and Maud Borie.

You can register here:
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Mar 12

Looking forward to forestscapes listening lab at @scigallerylon.bsky.social's Pulse of the Planet, Friday 21 March, 6.30pm: publicdatalab.org/2025/03/12/f...
with @maudbo.bsky.social @lboungr.bsky.social @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social & Angela YT Chan

an image for forestscapes listening lab at Science Gallery London, Friday 21st March 2025, 6.30pm. There is a collage featuring images of forest related plants, creatures, infrastructures and objects. Concentric circles represent fields of sound. The background is a gradient from purple to yellow. In the top right is an image of the moon.

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4CAT @4cat.nl · Feb 19

🔔 We just released a new 4CAT version, v1.47!

Some highlights:
📥 Data capture from Bluesky, Pinterest and RedNote/Xiaohongshu
🤖 Prompt-based coding and annotation of data via the OpenAI API
🛠️ New & updated data fields for datasets from TikTok, Instagram, & co

Read more: github.com/digitalmetho...

Releases · digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat

The 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit provides modular data capture & analysis for a variety of social media platforms. - digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat

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Digital Methods Initiative @digitalmethods.net · Feb 20

🦜 New Zeeschuimer release 🦜

📌📕 New modules for Pinterest and RedNote/Xiaohongshu!

Capture data from these platforms directly with Zeeschuimer—and export them to the newest version of 4CAT (also out now) for further analysis.

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Updates automatically if installed already!

Release v1.12.1 Pinterest fixes · digitalmethodsinitiative/zeeschuimer

This public release of Zeeschuimer incorporates the following updates and fixes: Enable capture on Pinterest subdomains (e.g. https://nl.pinterest.com) Full Changelog: v1.12.0...v1.12.1

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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · Feb 15

I’ve recently joined the organising team for the CEED Feminisms Reading Group at the Feminist Library in London! 🎉 Our next session is on 16 March, discussing Transfeminists and Transmigrants Perspectives in Europe 💜. Sign up details here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1217701831... #Feminism
#GenderStudies

Central & Eastern European Diasporas (CEED) Feminisms Reading Group

A bi-monthly hybrid reading group exploring the untold stories from the central and eastern european diaspora.

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · Feb 13

📢 Happening today! Excited to see our colleague Dr Zeena Feldman speak on Social Media and Drag Culture at the Barbican Centre #DigitalMedia #digitalculture

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Feb 3

💄 How did drag become a global sensation? 💃

Dr Zeena Feldman, Director of Queer@King's, explores the professionalisation of drag, asking how it moved from the fringes of entertainment to a lucrative international industry.

📆 13 February
🏛️ Barbican Centre

🔗 Sign-up for tickets ⬇️

Social Media and Drag Culture: A Talk with Zeena Feldman

Dr Zeena Feldman examines the current professionalisation and mainstreaming of drag culture in the UK, US and other Global North geographies.

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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · Feb 13

Looking forward to this event 💛

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Feb 7

📺 Join Queer@King's for the launch of Bad Sex: Sexuality, Gender and Affect in Contemporary TV, a new book tracing the shifting portrayals of sex in hit shows like Fleabag, Sex Education, I May Destroy You and Euphoria.

📆 18 February
⏰ 5pm-7pm
🔗 Register to attend ⤵️

Book launch of Bad Sex: Sexuality, Gender and Affect in Contemporary TV

Queer@King’s hosts the launch of Bad Sex: Sexuality, Gender and Affect in Contemporary TV (Bloomsbury, 2025), a thought-provoking exploration of the evolution of sexual representation on the small…

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Michael Bishop @michaelbishop.me · Oct 21

Well written & designed AI explainer from FT.

"LLMs are not search engines looking up facts; they are pattern-spotting engines that guess the next best option in a sequence."

Generative AI exists because of the transformer

The technology has resulted in a host of cutting-edge AI applications — but its real power lies beyond text generation

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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · Feb 11

🔍 How can creative coding techniques like soundscaping and video recomposition help us unpack political issues + influencer practices on TikTok? 🎵📹

📖 Insights from explorations w/ @publicdatalab.bsky.social around the 2024 Romanian elections at @digitalmethods.net winter school:

The great Romanian election TikTok replay – Public Data Lab

In December 2024, the European Commission launched an investigation following “serious indications that foreign actors interfered in the Romanian presidential elections using TikTok.” The elections…

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Dec 10

publication day of ✨digital ecologies✨ book - including our chapter with @lboungr.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social on #amazonfires and the online composition of ecological politics: jonathangray.org/2024/12/10/a...

Tracing variations and different visual articulations of pre-2003 burning forest image shared by Macron and others in association with 2019 Amazon fires. The image shows variations of the same image clustered into different sections (labelled A, B, C). Some ofthem have text, some of them have overlaid elements and characters.

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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · Jan 24

looking forward to this 💛

Janna Joceli Omena @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social · Jan 16

🇧🇷 What is the current state of #digital methods for Internet research in #Brazil?
Join us in person or online ✨👩🏻‍💻❣️ to celebrate emerging research practices in Brazil and kick off a Global South network! www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Jan 16

🇧🇷 What is the current state of #digital methods for Internet research in #Brazil?

Join @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social roundtable on 31 Jan to hear from @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social, Alan Angeluci, Elias Bitencourt, Giulia Tucci, Richard Rogers and Thais Lobo 🔽

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Sep 26

New article in Social Media + Society: “Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods”, co-authored w/ Noortje Marres, Gabriele Colombo, @lboungr.bsky.social, Carolin Gerlitz & James Tripp: jonathangray.org/2023/09/25/t...

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