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Submission to our special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age close tomorrow. Get your proposal in! More details here: journals.sagepub.com/page/dds/cal...

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🖋️ Are you a @ucl.ac.uk Geography PhD Student or Early Career Researcher? Join the Linescapes: The Role of Sketches and Illustrations in Geographical Research workshop on 29 May: bit.ly/Linescapes #UCLGeography #GeographyPhD #EarlyCareerResearcher #ResearchWorkshop #SketchingInGeography #Linescapes

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📣 New book cover!!!! INFORMATIONAL PERIPHERIES: RETHINKING THE URBAN IN A DIGITAL AGE Free OA with a fantastic lineup of authors. It's been a pleasure working with @fennaimara.bsky.social Shoutout to @uclpress.bsky.social for being so supportive and organised. uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

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Cover reveal! ✨ Our new book, 'Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the Urban in a Digital Age,' will be available this August! Get a first look here: uclpress.co.uk/book/informa... There will also be a digital open access version 🙌 @uclpress.bsky.social @ayonadatta.bsky.social

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Look forward to delivering a keynote on 'Fantasies of Artificial everything: Automated Ignorance (AI) in the making of Digitalising States" in workshop organised by Singapore Management University (SMU) Urban Institute. drive.google.com/file/d/1Q6-N...

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Very honoured to co-author first article 'State as Auteur' in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Thanks @robkitchin.bsky.social for invitation & commentators @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo, Nancy Odendaal. with @fennaimara.bsky.social

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The first edition of Dialogues on Digital Society is out at last. It features an editorial by the Editorial team, @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, @pinkydigital.bsky.social, Jing Hiah, and @steelecat717.bsky.social .... 1/7 #DDS @journals.sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com/home/DDS

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Very honoured to co-author first article 'State as Auteur' in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social Thanks @robkitchin.bsky.social for invitation & commentators @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo, Nancy Odendaal. with @fennaimara.bsky.social

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Excited that our research article with commentaries and response is out now in the inaugural issue of @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social! Honoured to be amongst so many people I look up to in the launch of this great new journal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... @ayonadatta.bsky.social

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UCL Sociology Network PhD Inaugural Student Conference 2025 (3 June). This 1 day conference will be an exciting opportunity for PhDs to engage with doctoral research from 24 UK universities across a range of disciplines, all with a focus on sociological research / methodology tinyurl.com/5hbpyx9e

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The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri... #Anthropology #Computing #Environment via @mitpress.bsky.social

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'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

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🚨 Job Alert! We're hiring a Project Administrative Officer for the Regional Futures project! Join the team and help drive research on digitalisation and urbanisation in the Global South. Apply by 22 April 2025! 🌍 🔗 tinyurl.com/ucl-rf #GeographyJobs #UCLCareers #UrbanStudies #Digitalisation

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We are hiring a Project Administrative Officer in the @erc.europa.eu funded REGFUT project. Check out the advert below 👇 to apply. More details on the project here: www.regionalfutures.org

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If you are a published author, check your name on the LibGen database which list works illegally used by Meta to train AI. 30 of my books and papers are in this database. The sheer scale of this intellectual theft is beyond imagination. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Beyond the usual suspects – how to make stakeholder analysis more inclusive blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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We are delighted to welcome 64 outstanding social scientists, who highlight the importance of the #socialsciences in understanding & tackling some of society’s most pressing challenges, to our Fellowship. Look out for some of our new Fellows later today. See the list➡️ acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...

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Very honoured to be elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ap...

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The lovely editors of the Urban Geography journal @urbangeography.bsky.social at the end of a long day conferencing in #AAG2025 @geographers.bsky.social

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"... AI hype has emerged in the context of such fatigue. Promising to automate a workforce for each of us, this hype, like crypto hype before it" — and big data hype before that, and... — "reinforces a future of individualized economic power with a sexier allure than attending a town hall."

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📣 For those in #AAG2025 @geographers.bsky.social who are interested in a critical discussion of Artificial Intelligence in urban contexts, come join us tomorrow Wednesday 26 March for a triple session on 'Urban AI Spectrums' Rm 330A, Level 3, Huntington Place. With a fantastic lineup of speakers.👇

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Transparency is a neoliberal remedy for technology problems because it not only allows a context-less way of thinking about power, it encourages it. biancawylie.medium.com/transparency...

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speaking my language - I'm still convinced radio is the future: "Radio is the ultimate internet circumvention tool because it is not the internet. And it can’t be tracked." #othernetworks www.radioworld.com/columns-and-...

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The Unbelievable scale of AIs pirated book problem. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Thrilled to announce our triple session on 'Urban AI Spectrums' in the @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2025 meeting in Detroit. Co-organised with Federico Cugurullo and Caprotti. Join us on 26 March 2025, Room 330A, Level 3, Huntington Place. www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

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Labour Party, 2025

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For a ‘digital studies’ What would a ‘digital studies’ list and maybe an online reading group(?) mean today, in 2025?

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Writing is thinking Reading is feeling Synthesizing is responsibility medium.com/@biancawylie...

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Come and join us at LSE! Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL. We have extended the deadline to 28th February. Looking for a couple more papers to complete the double session. Sponsored by Digital Geographies and Urban Geographies Research Groups at @rgsibg.bsky.social

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Big thanks to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social for allowing us to think with their work !

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📣 Pleased to announce response paper with @fennaimara.bsky.social out on @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social responding to brilliant commentaries by @andretwp.bsky.social Jack Odeo @jpaddie.bsky.social @xazaaradjame.bsky.social @princeguma.bsky.social Nancy Odendaal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Ever wondered whether all those health-related apps are any good? Spoiler: not so much. We just showed it in: "An App a Day will (Probably Not) Keep the Doctor Away: An Evidence Audit of Health and Medical Apps Available on the Apple App Store" link.springer.com/ar... OA: papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

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📣 We're still accepting abstracts! Reach out if you've got an interesting paper on the tensions between creativity and codeability in digital urban governance. We'd love to hear from you! @ayonadatta.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social

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Delighted to announce new publication from the Regional Futures team post doctoral fellows on methodical insights into researching the state in India, Kenya and Mexico. 👇🏽

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🙌 Our research led by Mariana Reyes and in collaboration with Neha Gupta, Dennis Muthama, and Jesus Flores is out in @ijurresearch.bsky.social! We hope it serves others working in international and intercultural research projects. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

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What kind of study is this?

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📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE @rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham. Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇 www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

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Accelerated statecraft in the Silicon Savannah - Jack Odeo and I wrote a short commentary to @ayonadatta.bsky.social and @fennaimara.bsky.social 's piece on time and digitalization in Kenya journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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👋 CfP for 'Algorithmic refusal: creativity and codeability in digital urban governance' @rgsibg.bsky.social in Birmingham. Organised with @ayonadatta.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes and sponsored by DGRG! Submit your abstracts by the 21 Feb 2025 ✌️ www.regionalfutures.org/all-outputs/...

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It’s great to see AI taken down a peg — but last night I RT’d threads from several copyright lawyers who are a bit more ambiguous about all this. What’s more, TR is known for harvesting others’ data for predictive policing, surveillance + other questionable analytics programs.

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