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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 13d

✨Reminder: CFP still open for our Digital Humanities Today conference (23–26 June 2026, King’s College London) — do consider submitting!

Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Aug 2

My department at King’s College London is organising a conference on all things digital — from AI and platforms to creative practice, labour, and digital ecologies — on 23–26 June 2026.

📝 Do consider submitting paper or panel abstracts!

📣 CFP: 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 ...

www.kcl.ac.uk

Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Aug 29

✨ A must-read article by my brilliant co-author @mediaindustries.bsky.social on how privilege & precarity shape academia and media industries. Reflecting on these issues is essential if we are to foster more inclusive knowledge production in academia.

Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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

my.corehr.com

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Aug 13

Calling GPT-5 “PhD-level” is a provocative marketing strategy that devalues the depth of academic work—critical thinking, creative research design, original data collection and analysis, ethical reflection, and engagement in peer review, among much else.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ - BBC News

GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

www.bbc.co.uk

Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Aug 2

My department at King’s College London is organising a conference on all things digital — from AI and platforms to creative practice, labour, and digital ecologies — on 23–26 June 2026.

📝 Do consider submitting paper or panel abstracts!

📣 CFP: 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 ...

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · Aug 1

Announcing the new journal: "Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital"

We've launched a new Historical Materialism project with a CfP for the first issue. Abstracts due 31st of October

Full details and the new website here: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/jo...

Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital

Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital is a Marxist journal based in London.

workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org

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Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social · Jul 30

So grateful to have read this chapter with @tugcebidav.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing the book out soon!

Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · Jul 30

Crashed an anthropologists’ conference in Seoul✨Shoutout to Yuna, Soojin & Reagan for inviting me🫶Spent my time talking about a HK feminist creator—super stoked that this paper will be published w/ ‘Global South Creator Studies’ edited by @tugcebidav.bsky.social & @mediaindustries.bsky.social

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Jun 9

Join a great network of scholars researching creator cultures and industries — check out the Discord link in the post below! ⬇️

CCSN @weareccsn.bsky.social · Jun 9

CCSN begins its Discord era! ✨ 🧑‍🏫

We are fortunate to be collaborating with the Discord Academic Research Community (D/ARC) to provide you a NEW means to connect with other scholars!

Join us: discord.gg/KkFBy9MJ

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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · Apr 7

A quick announcement from the editors @julieychen.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social that we are now live on bsky. We will be posting updates about Platforms & Society on here. Follow to keep abreast!

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Mar 26

I was just about to send this to you!

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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · Mar 26

Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...
@kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social

King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post)

King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Mar 24

Creators who stand for justice, on the other hand, are being asked to expose brands that cut ties with them so those brands can be added to the boycott list.

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Mar 24

Some creators remain silent but postpone their content schedules. Those who haven’t posted about the issue are facing backlash from their followers, with a list of their names circulating on social media for boycott.

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Mar 24

Following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a boycott movement has emerged. Amidst all this, public attention is also on creators, once again highlighting how the creator economy is deeply embedded in national contexts.

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Mar 17

Next week, I’ll be presenting our book project Global South Creator Cultures with @mediaindustries.bsky.social at the Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop at the Oxford Internet Institute.

www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

@kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social

OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop

This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.

www.oii.ox.ac.uk

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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · Feb 24

Delighted to be welcoming @roopikarisam.bsky.social to give the second King's Public Lecture in Digital Humanities in May: "Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis". Details and registration here - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every...
@kingsdh.bsky.social

Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis

King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities delivered by Professor Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · Feb 18

🎭 How is bias reproduced in text-to-image generative AI models? Join Dr. Stephanie Diepeveen for a public talk on Power, Representation & GenAI.

📅 26 February | 5PM
📍 King’s College London | Free event
🔗 Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

#AI #GenerativeAI #digitalmedia

Select tickets – Stephanie Diepeveen: Power, Representation and GenAI: A critical exploration of AI imaginaries across language and place – Safra Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London

The Global Digital Cultures Research Group in the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL hosts Dr Stephanie Diepeveen, speakin...

www.tickettailor.com

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Feb 14

Disco hall as the new public sphere 😄 It could serve as a conversation starter, shifting the discussion from rational debate to affect, performance and spectacle.

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Nov 19

If you missed #AoIR2024, read CCSN’s blog post for key takeaways and insights on creator studies!
@mediaindustries.bsky.social @arturoarriagada.bsky.social

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Niki Cheong @nikicheong.bsky.social · Nov 15

Startup pack of my academic colleagues doing amazing digital research at @kingsdh.bsky.social! go.bsky.app/SXpvQhQ These are the ones I know who are on Bsky - drop me a message if I missed anyone 😅 #academia #digitalhumanities

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Nov 15

Me 🙃 and @zaborowski.bsky.social, @tavmos.bsky.social

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Nov 14

Thank you!!

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Nov 14

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Jun 11

✨Excited to announce my first solo-authored paper is out now! I’m thrilled to be part of the new special issue ‘Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production’ with a piece on localised precarity. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Feb 29

📢 New publication alert with an amazing co-author @mediaindustries.bsky.social 🎊 Our paper “Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey” is out in Social Media + Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey - Tugce Bidav, Smith Mehta, 2024

Drawing on Indian, Irish, and Turkish YouTube creators’ perceptions of their work, this article focuses on peripheral creator work cultures to broaden the under...

journals.sagepub.com

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