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Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · Apr 1

! New publication by @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social & others on innovation & prototypes in housing policy & construction. They shed light on the role prototypes could have in translating between users and government actors, addressing more affordable housing futures. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Prototyping as a Means to Innovate Affordable Housing Policies and Provision: An Empirical Illustration

In the face of rising housing affordability challenges, a diverse range of stakeholders are increasingly looking to alternative forms of housing provision and policy, and in particular, a turn to m...

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Mar 30

After a five minute welcome home assault of wriggly hugs and kisses, Minx has put me to work playing tug of war. No rest for the wicked…

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Mar 23

The Digital Geography and Society editorial team will be at the AAG so come along and have a chat if you’re interested on submitting a paper or have any questions for us! Times below

Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · Mar 18

Join Digital Geography & Society editors at the @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2025 conference next week in booth 103 for our speed reviews! Please book here:
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Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2024

Join us at the AAG 2024 at the Elsevier booth #103 for a face-to-face speed review session with one of our Editors below!

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Mar 21

This was such a cool forum to be part of!

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Mar 21

A busy week but finishing strong with our paper on “Prototyping as a Means to Innovate Affordable Housing Policies and Provision” out in HTS. A fun piece to write with Robyn Dowling, Pauline McGuirk, Tom Baker and Laura Goh
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Prototyping as a Means to Innovate Affordable Housing Policies and Provision: An Empirical Illustration

In the face of rising housing affordability challenges, a diverse range of stakeholders are increasingly looking to alternative forms of housing provision and policy, and in particular, a turn to m...

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Feb 25

He kept us waiting but it’s bound to be a ripper! Looking forward to reading new work by @samkinsley.uk

Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · Feb 24

First proper article in five years, due to life stuff. If you’re interested in work, automation, the future & imagination this may be of interest #geosky

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Feb 19

I know! It’s almost inviting it 😂

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Feb 19

Don’t even. Traffic sign getting a bit passive aggressive there.

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Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social · Feb 18

Giving a talk soon on Silicon Valley Imperialism for friends in Ann Arbor today!

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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Feb 19

The theme of our CfP is - painfully - gaining in further relevance as the Trump-Thiel-Musk triad deepens its AI-inflected authoritarian tendencies.

Deadline for abstract submission is this Friday.

Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Jan 30

Are you thinking through questions about authoritarianism & AI? Do you like geographers? If so, please consider this session on ‘Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI’ by @casey-lynch.bsky.social & @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social & myself which we are hoping to get up at this year’s RGS-IBG.

Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · Jan 30

@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Feb 10

It was a pleasure! It really made me do some proper deep thinking. I’ve already pushed it on the tech people in our School’s design lab in the hopes they will also find something that inspires some thinking 😊

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Feb 9

I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing @erinmcel.bsky.social “Silicon Valley Imperialism” published by @dukepress.bsky.social. Spoiler alert: it’s excellent! You can read my review in Dialogues in Urban Research here: doi.org/10.1177/2754...

What is Silicon Valley Imperialism? - Sophia Maalsen, 2025

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Jan 30

Are you thinking through questions about authoritarianism & AI? Do you like geographers? If so, please consider this session on ‘Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI’ by @casey-lynch.bsky.social & @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social & myself which we are hoping to get up at this year’s RGS-IBG.

Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · Jan 30

@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs

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Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · Jan 30

@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Dec 16

Finishing the year on a high with our special issue on “Housing Disruptions” which brings together excellent papers that critically examine the digital transformation of housing & home. It was a pleasure co-editing with @timwhite100.bsky.social & Dallas Rogers. Full line up in Tim’s post below:

Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social · Dec 16

New special issue on ‘Housing Disruptions’ critically examining the digital transformation of housing and home. Edited by Dallas Rogers, @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social and myself in Digital Geography and Society. Contributions as follows:

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Nov 22

It’s digital geography Friday! And to celebrate, I am Shari g this excellent new article by Tim White (I’m not sure if he’s on here yet) on digital experiments in rent extraction focused on the co-living sector

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Nov 18

With the world as it is, I felt it was time to revisit this paper I wrote with my PhD supervisor, Kurt Iveson, on data and discipline in the city journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Nov 16

Just big dog fussing in the kitchen 😬😂

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Oct 24

I was very excited to see this one out too!

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Oct 23

Really excited to see this work on a critical history of the GeoJSON file format out by @marxist.af Jim Thatcher, Laura Beltz Imaka and David O’Sullivan. Perfect for you geo spatial tech nerds and all digital geographers! doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Sep 16

Highly likely!!

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Sep 16

He’d be a hit in my home town.

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Sep 10

I’m experimenting with AI to help with in class quizzes. I seem to be unable to communicate with it without being all, “thank you!” “That’s great”, “please”, “if it’s not too much bother could you…”. I hope the AI appreciates my politeness 😂

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Sep 9

Back in Sydney.

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Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’ve been very quiet on here of late so I’m going to kick things off again with this newly published progress report on digital geographies. I hope it gives those new to the field a good grounding on the cool work that geographers do on the digital! doi.org/10.1177/0309...

Digital geographies 1: Reality bytes - Sophia Maalsen, 2024

This report is intended to provide a foundation to debates which illustrate how geographers have approached the challenge of understanding something variously i...

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