KCL Digital Humanities

✨ 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

#digitalmedia #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ai #softwarestudies #culturalstudies #algorithmstudies #newmedia #platformstudies #internetstudies #commodon #sts #mediastudies #jobs

How can collections of social media images be visually organised for interpretation according to their different features?

New #openaccess paper from @gabrielecolombo@mastodon.social @lbngr@assemblag.es
@jwyg@post.lurk.org 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/

#digitalmethods #visualmethods #visualculture #images #commodon #mediastudies #socialmedia #internetstudies

Video and transcript for @stuartdunn@mstdn.social's Professorial Inaugural Lecture "The Spatial Humanities: A Challenge to the All-Knowing Map" are now online: http://kingsdh.net/2023/07/03/stuart-dunn-inaugural/

The video for @gleemie@mastodon.sdf.org's recent talk on "Algorithms of Suspicion: the Erosion of Worker Data Rights" is now online – with intro from @ashwinjm@mastodon.sdf.org: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAK5nhCF-nk

✨ jobs ✨ Come and work with us! We are hiring 12 new positions. All full time, all permanent. Covering many areas of research with and about the digital. Please help us share with those who might be interested. Links and details here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/linking/kings-college-london-digital-humanities-feb-2024/

We look forward to having Lilly Irani @gleemie@mastodon.sdf.org over for a talk on "Algorithms of Suspicion: the Erosion of Worker Data Rights" on 23 June 2023:
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/algorithms-of-suspicion-the-erosion-of-worker-data-rights

Co-organised by the Centre for Digital Culture and the Digital Futures Institute.
@ashwinjm@mastodon.sdf.org
@jwyg@post.lurk.org

In response to high demand, our public talk with @shannonmattern@saturation.social on "Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus" on Thu 11th May will now also be livestreamed.

You can get tickets/sign up for streaming link here 🎟
https://shannon-mattern.eventbrite.co.uk/

Streaming now:
@shannonmattern@saturation.social on "Modeling Doubt, Coding Humility: A Speculative Syllabus" https://youtube.com/watch?v=b6ogLgWnpes

hii #AoIR2024! 👋🏼 here are some of the talks from our department and @centrefordigitalculture@hcommons.social - including on fair work, unfriending, k-dramas, creator cultures, coding platforms, super SDKs, and digital rights in the Global South: https://kingsdh.net/2024/10/31/aoir-2024/

A new paper on AI incidents and 'networked trouble' from our PhD researcher Tommy Shane: https://kingsdh.net/2023/12/20/ai-incidents-networked-trouble/

#ai #artificialintelligence #aitrouble #algorithms #algorithmstudies #datastudies #criticaldatastudies #digitalmethods #trouble #feministsts #sts #mediastudies #commodon

What is responsible and trustworthy AI? @drkatedevlin@mastodon.ie and colleagues will be exploring this as part of new £5m UKRI research project: http://kingsdh.net/2023/06/15/ukri-ai-research-kate-devlin/ #ai #artificialintelligence

Department of Digital Humanities researchers Mark Coté and Kate Devlin are contributing to "AI: Who’s Looking After Me?" exhibition and public activities at the Science Gallery London, 21 June 2023 to 20 January 2024. Read more here: https://kingsdh.net/2023/05/10/science-gallery-ai-exhibition/