Symposium on Information Controls on 16th May, bringing together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls around the world: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/symposium-on-information-controls
#disinformation #algorithms #censorship #infrastructure #internetstudies
@kingsdh
Early academic works on the #internet, such as those by @hrheingold or Castells, merged visions of digital transformation w/ critical perspectives, influencing both its technological development & conceptual understanding.
December's #OpenAccess article in the spotlight examines these texts: how did their themes and discourses influence #InternetStudies and popular imaginaries of digital technology?
Read our interview with @NathalieFridz
How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this we’re launching a call for screenshots. Further details can be found at: https://troubling-ai.glitch.me
Glad to be part of new #openaccess book on "Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society" edited by @gastev @kfvanes @TraceyPLauriault on @AmsterdamUPress.
Here's my chapter on “Speculative Data Infrastructures: Prototyping a Public Database on Corporate Tax Avoidance”: https://jonathangray.org/2024/10/11/speculative-data-infrastructures
new article on "pluralising critical technical practice" with Daniela van Geenen and @kfvanes has just been published in Convergence: https://jonathangray.org/2023/12/12/pluralising-ctp
we'll add full details & links for the special issue here when it is out 
https://publicdatalab.org/projects/pluralising-critical-technical-practices/
#criticaltechnicalpractice
#internetstudies #datastudies #artificialintelligence #digitaldevices #digitalmethods #inventivemethods #feministsts #newmedia #commodon #sts
2/2 The software tools used to collect GitHub data for this study were created at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and are freely accessible to researchers and students interested in studying GitHub: https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolDatabase?cat=DeviceCentric&subcat=Github #CulturalStudies #mediastudies #internetstudies #platformstudies
1/2 My article on GitHub and the platformization of software development just got published: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565231205867. I’m grateful to colleagues who helped with this inc. Erik Borra, Emile den Tex, Sam Leon, @MJBroersma @markdeuze, Carolin Gerlitz, @jwyg Jean-Christophe Plantin, Karin Raeymaeckers, Richard Rogers, Tommaso Venturini and Esther Weltevrede. #CulturalStudies #mediastudies #internetstudies #platformstudies
“What does it mean for technologies that are built for short-term use, real-time updates, and perpetual refresh to broker individual and collective legacies?” Listen to Tamara Kneese @tamigraph explain on the latest episode of Imagine Otherwise
New Imagine Otherwise episode alert! We dive into the relationship between Big Tech and mortality.
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews media scholar Tamara Kneese @tamigraph about her new Yale University Press book Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond.
#Decolonisation #Colonialism #InternetStudies: "This paper introduces the ‘Decolonising the Internet’ themed special issue which includes research presented at the 23rd annual Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference (2022). The conference theme centred on decolonisation, highlighting the persistence of colonial practices but also the resistance they generate. Focusing on the internet as entailing colonial appropriations, reproducing inequalities, and foreclosing alternative ways of being, the conference theme asked participants to consider not only the ways in which the internet walks on the path forged by colonialism, but also how research practices are implicated in reinforcing the same exploitative patterns. This special issue includes seven papers that cover new and innovative approaches to studying decolonising the internet, including contexts related to LGBTQIA + digital spaces, neighbourhood and local surveillance, data colonialism, misinformation and conspiracies, and inclusion and access problems for Indigenous peoples. The papers in this issue also focus on various geographic locations in the Global South, including Africa, South America, and the Asia Pacific."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2262554
Looking for an editor or indexer for your #DigitalStudies #MediaStudies #InternetStudies book? Come by the Ideas on Fire booth in the #AoIR2023 exhibitor hall to chat with Cathy Hannabach and learn how our team of developmental editors, copyeditors, book indexers, and publishing consultants can help.
Getting our booth ready at #AoIR2023 to celebrate all you awesome IoF authors! Come on by the booth to grab some swag, learn about new interdisciplinary resources, and take a selfie with your new book.
Get in the #AoIR2023 mood with interviews featuring your favorite #DigitalStudies #InternetStudies #MediaStudies folks
jobs - we are looking to hire for five new roles in our department - please help us share with those who might be interested! 
Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073449-lecturer-in-digital-media-and-culture-education-aep
Lecturer in Social and Cultural AI
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073450-lecturer-in-social-and-cultural-ai-aep
Lecturer in Lecturer in Digital Media
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073465-lecturer-in-lecturer-in-digital-media-education-and-research
Lecturer in Cultural Computation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073467-lecturer-in-cultural-computation-education-aep
Lecturer in Digital Economy and Innovation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073468-lecturer-in-digital-economy-and-innovation-education-aep
We are now hiring for 10 new permanent academic positions in our department:
https://kingsdh.net/2023/03/31/ten-new-posts/
Please help us share with those who might be interested!
- Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation
- Lecturer in Digital Economy and Innovation
- Lecturer in Digital Culture and Race
- Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Ethics, AI and Society
- Lecturer in Digital Humanities
- Lecturer in Gender and Digital Culture Education
- Reader in Digital Humanities and Culture Education
- Senior Lecturer in Professional Education
- Lecturer in Digital Content Management Education
- Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education
#ai #artificialintelligence #commondon #culturalcomputation #contentmanagement #digitalculture #digitaleconomy, #digitalhumanities #digitalmedia #dh #ethics #gender #genderstudies #innovation #internetstudies #jobs #mediastudies #newmedia #newmediastudies #education #race #racestudies #scienceandtechnologystudies #sts
I'm running for an open seat at @AoIR_org's exec! I hope to represent early-career academics – especially casualized ones –, and to contribute to making the organization more plural, global & transparent. Read the candidacy statements: members.aoir.org/page-1774348
#AoIR2023 #commodon #mediastudies #internetstudies
How can collections of social media images be visually organised for interpretation according to their different features?
New #openaccess paper from @gabrielecolombo @lbngr
@jwyg on “Visual Models for Social Media Image Analysis: Groupings, Engagement, Trends, and Rankings” in International Journal of Communication (IJOC):
https://kingsdh.net/2023/03/03/visual-models-social-media-images/
Working on a couple of #AoIR23 panel proposals in conjunction with colleagues from around the world...
...I am in such awe of the incredible work done in the fields of #InternetStudies, #STS and #MediaStudies, and I feel so very grateful to work among these people.
Can people engage in debates about digitisation using indigenous languages? How does linguistic colonialism manifest itself in digital technologies? What are the implications of digital platform use for the future of African languages?
Looking forward to this online event on "African languages and technological transformations: debating knowledge, rights and power on a digital continent":
http://kingsdh.net/2023/02/23/africa-week/
Looking forward to visiting Berlin for a fellowship and workshop on "Environmental Data, Media, and the Humanities" in May - focusing on repurposing forest media: https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/22/berlin-fellowship
@maximilian @lbngr
@dh_potsdam
#berlin #sts #datastudies #mediaart #digitalmethods #ecologies #feministsts #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #newmedia #digitalculture #commodon #platformstudies #softwarestudies
#algorithmstudies #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #datapractices #datastudies #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #forests #formats #freesoftware #newmediaart #newmediastudies #soundscapes #environmentalhumanities
