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Lecturer, Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, UoL. ➧ Study digital and computational journalism/media/arts with me https://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-digital-journalism/ ➧ https://outtodry.org.uk/
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Looking forward to being part of this #London event with Mona Chalabi on Monday 16 December to promote the new #VisualizingPalestine book. Moderated by Hazem Jamjoum & chaired by Lama Tawakkol www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-story...

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The @digitalmethods.net Winter School in Amsterdam will take place on 6-10th January 2025 with the theme “Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research?”. Apply by 9th December. 📝✨ publicdatalab.org/2024/11/29/d... #digitalmethods

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How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this we’re launching a call for screenshots. Further details can be found at: troubling-ai.glitch.me

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A great primer and teaching resource on the work of Frantz Fanon by my brilliant @mediacomgold.bsky.social colleague Marcela Pizzaro

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Join us at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies and senior lecturer Terry Kirby & Ian Burrell to discuss how #tabloids changed #journalism, politics, society, culture. Thurs, Nov 21. Reception to follow. Details www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

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The Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust's current funding round is now open. This includes applications which fall under the theme 'Building the Left, countering the far-right’. More here: amielandmelburn.org.uk/apply-for-an...

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Some great work here by @mediacomgold.bsky.social MA digital journalism alumnus Tom Prater and his colleagues at Carbon Brief.

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I've been looking at donations to Labour MPs declared following the 2024 election, and have made a number of charts showing where the donations came from. Here you can see a selection of donors, from the biggest groups to some small ones. #DataViz

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Today I will remember the sacrifice made by my great uncle Private Frank Mann, Parachute Regiment (4 Para), who gave his life on 27th October 1944 fighting fascism. He was 20 years old. www.paradata.org.uk/people/frank...

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Hot off the presses: our team's analysis of several prominent rumors spreading on social media over the last few days about voting and election administration: uwcip.substack.com/p/rapid-rese...

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Just ordered my copy of 'Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful' by my colleague Mirca Madianou who has looked closely at the way technology is being used in aid www.wiley.com/en-ie/Techno...

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After sacking 700 last year, Reach are now taking on 60 staff for social video. Why? At least with YouTube you get a cut of the adspend unlike display where Google basically extract 100% of the spend from the UK content ecosystem. pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/ad...

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My colleague Dan MacQuillan has written this piecefor Joseph Rowntree Foundation that summarises the risk of corporate capture of public policy making inherent in data driven decision making. www.jrf.org.uk/ai-for-publi...

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"Fees were not covering salaries" = a heart of the tragedy. The fees/tuition-driven model is failing--has been for over a decade in USHE and it's now happening here too. Increasing I think that the origin = failure to recog that teaching-costs are simply non-negotiable.

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Hong Kong journalists convicted under colonial-era sedition law https://www.ft.com/content/cb4c58cd-330d-466c-b4d8-17d94ec93259

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Print still falling but an encouraging boost for UK local news websites. pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

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Who is Balaji Srinivasan and his 'greyshirts'? What is it with the wealthy tech bros and their fascist leanings? www.thenerdreich.com/balaji-srini...

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Interested in learning more about digital #journalism? We have places in our MSc in digital journalism at Goldsmiths in the heart of South #London. Skills taught include scraping, scrollytelling and interactives, mapping, data analysis in R, ML/AI and visualisation. www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-digita...

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To be fair, basic data analysis where you get the jupyter notebook to check the code is pretty cool. But ChatGPT just keeps making howlers.

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neweconomics.org/2024/06/scra... We are subsidising banks in the UK to the tune of £11 billion a year for historical QE. Politicians from Gordon Brown to Nigel Farage agree this is dumb and needs to change. The NEF have some ideas.

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A sneak peek at 2 of our upcoming fall titles, as advance copies just so happened to arrive this week! Feminism, Young Women and Cultural Studies by Angela McRobbie Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities) by Pippa Goldschmidt Keep your eyes peeled for more information...

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