Bernard Geoghegan from the Department of Digital Humanities and Lisa Han from Arizona State University are co-organising a symposium on “Ecologies and Infrastructures: Cultural Techniques of Environmental Management”, which will take place on 22nd April 2022, which is Earth Day 2022. The event is open to the public and free of charge. Further details and …
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Welcome to Rahel Süß, visiting researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities ✨
We are delighted to announce that Rahel Süß will be joining us as a visiting researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. During her stay, she will continue her research on a political theory of digital democracy. A key question regards what the task of democracy has become in digital-mediated societies. Beyond demands for …
Welcome to Jean-Christophe Plantin, visiting researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities ✨
Jean-Christophe Plantin (@JCPlantin) is joining the Department of Digital Humanities over the coming months as a visiting researcher. In the following post he discusses what he will be working on. Welcome Jean-Christophe! 🎊 It is an honor to be a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Digital Humanities during Fall 2021. I have been …
“Interrogating Global Traces of Infrastructure” workshop, 18th November 2021
A workshop on “Interrogating Global Traces of Infrastructure” will take place on 18th November 2021, organised by Urszula Pawlicka-Deger as part of her Marie Skłodowska-Curie DH Infra project. The event is organised together with the King’s Digital Lab, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London and the Critical Infrastructure Studies collective. The schedule …
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“You don’t own that data” – Btihaj Ajana on self-tracking in the Guardian
Btihaj Ajana has been interviewed in The Guardian about a piece on “Intimate data: can a person who tracks their steps, sleep and food ever truly be free?”. Here are some quotes from the piece: Such quandaries will only become more common and complex, says Btihaj Ajana, a reader in media and digital culture at King’s …
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#FacebookOutage highlights our social media addictions – Rachael Kent interviewed in The Independent
Rachael Kent was interviewed for a piece in The Independent on “What happens psychologically when we’re cut off from social media?”, exploring what the recent outage of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp tells us about our social media addictions. Here are a couple of quotes from the piece: This showed just how addicted many of us …
“Techno-snitching is definitely a thing” – Kate Devlin interviewed for Wired piece on Amazon Astro robots
Kate Devlin at the Department of Digital Humanities was recently interviewed for a piece in Wired on how “Amazon’s Astro robot uses fear to get into your home”. You can read the article here, and below is the transcript of the interview that Kate did with Jack Needham… From what you have seen so …
Speaker series with UNC Chapel Hill on “Digital Aesthetics: Critique, Creativity and Selfhood in Computational Culture”
As part of an ongoing collaboration between between Kings College London and UNC Chapel Hill, Doug Stark and Carly Schnitzler are convening a series of talks with researchers at the Department of Digital Humanities. The series will start with a workshop with Conor McKeown, followed by talks with Feng Zhu, Mercedes Bunz and Zeena Feldman. …
Joanna Zylinska joins Department of Digital Humanities as Professor of Media Philosophy and Critical Digital Practice
We’re delighted to announce that Joanna Zylinska has been appointed as Professor of Media Philosophy and Critical Digital Practice in the Department of Digital Humanities. Professor Zylinska is a writer, lecturer, artist and curator, working in the areas of digital technologies and new media, ethics, photography and art. Prior to joining King’s in 2021, she …
Best Thesis Prize goes to undergraduate dissertation exploring climate disinformation on Facebook
Congratulations to Kajsa Lonrusten, a recent graduate from our Digital Culture BA, who recently won Best Thesis Prize for her dissertation on “The Circulation of Organised Climate Change Denial on Facebook”. The dissertation drew on approaches from digital methods and digital journalism modules that she attended in order to explore the circulation of material associated …