Prof Katy Parry
@katyjparry.bsky.social
war and media; conflict photography; veterans and the media; political communication; visual comm (she/her). Co-Editor @MWC_Journal ; co-convenor PSA Media and Politics group
So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...
What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
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Thrilled to have won this grant! 🎉 And excited to be running our workshop "Growing Up Digital: Young People & Technology" w @psampg.bsky.social *THIS* Wed 16 Sep, bringing together practitioners & academics to discuss and deliberate digital policy in the UK and its (potential) impact on young people
Political Studies Association@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · last wk.🌟PSA E&I Fund - winning projects🌟 Congratulations @techpolicy.bsky.social on funding for ‘Growing Up Digital: Young People & Technology Workshop’, which they are running in collaboration with @psampg.bsky.social Demonstrating excellence & impact across #Politics & #Policy ➡️ buff.ly/usiWI9r
“How to write criticism in the time of AI? By writing criticism in such a way that no AI could.” www.boundary2.org/2026/05/arne...
Arne De Boever–The Essay vs. AI: On the Literary Value of Criticism
This text is part of the b2o: an online journal special issue "EXOCRITICISM", edited by Arne De Boever and Frédéric Neyrat. The Essay vs. AI: On the Literary Value of Criticism Arne De Boever All im...
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Of interest to some folks here, Lauren Goodlad on LLM text, literary theory and stochastic parrots — (Goodlad is the editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) : online.ucpress.edu/representati...
We Have Always Been Action TheoristsToward a Critical Theory of Language for the Era of “Large Language Models”
Scholars of literature and culture understandably place themselves among the world’s premiere experts on matters of language. But they also know that fields like linguistics and communication have the...
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Thanks so much @herazhar.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about war images with you!
Hirah Azhar@herazhar.bsky.social · 2mo ago'The War We See' podcast is back with a second season! 🎙️ First episode out today. I’m joined by the absolutely wonderful Professor Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social for a really special chat! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6IXx... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Questions now for our panel on how journalists manage risks and ethical considerations @mwcjournal.bsky.social
Next up are Reema Altamimi and Lise Dabrowski exploring the reporting of Gaza on Instagram.
Maha Bashri starts off with an exploration of witnessing and archive building on TikTok.
How, she asks, do we think about (and visualise) war and peace? How does this affect our imagination? What else might be possible?
Omar al-Ghazzi talks next about the politics of war reporting in the Arab Media System.
In our afternoon panel our first paper from Lesego Phale looks at the persecution of female journalists in South Africa - how do they continue working despite ongoing threats? Are the public aware of this harassment? Lesego uses a podcast to explore these questions
Hala Gupta, Maha Bashri and Carolyn Wallcot present their paper on three challenges Sudanese female journalists face in reporting the conflict. There is a tension between personal experiences and professional objectivity. How to make Sudan relatable for audiences who don't know Sudan?
The final paper in this panel is Oleksandr Chubko talking about his ethnographic research with Ukrainian and international photojournalists noting how quickly the war is changing, and its unique intensity in terms of the sheer amount of soldiers and weaponry
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
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Today's round-up features pieces on news produced for and by people with learning disabilities, a UK Labour 'think tank' investigating journalists, and an 'excruciating' Trump-NBC interview Click to read, subscribe and share www.linkedin.com/pulse/news-p...
News by and for people with learning disabilities
Journalism Today. 6 Feb 2026 Research | Reporting | Fellowships | Leadership 🗞️ Our top story A ground-breaking project.
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Michael Sheen raises the curtain on the new Welsh National Theatre www.channel4.com/news/michael...
Michael Sheen raises the curtain on the new Welsh National Theatre
The arts scene in Wales was left reeling more than a year ago - after funding cuts led to the end of an institution - National Theatre Wales.
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register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️
This is a quick reminder that Media, War and Conflict will be hosting an ICA preconference on challenges to contemporary conflict reporting. Deadline for abstracts is 31 Jan and you can read the full CfA at bit.ly/mwc2026cfa
NEW book by Guy Woodward: Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing features chapter on special forces memoirs including accounts by Fitzroy Maclean and Jasper Rootham of their time in occupied Yugoslavia. Published today by OUP: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Somebody scraped & shared every song on Spotify, with metadata — a boon for research into music and algorithms, but also, inevitably, what the training data is going to be for every AI music company in 2026. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirro...
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Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
I was asked to give a keynote on the future of soft power and strategic narrative, in a room in DC in 2025 where the intensity and stakes could not be higher. Please read here: blogs.gwu.edu/ipdgcsmartpo...
25 Year Anniversary Special Blog Series: The Future of Soft Power and Strategic Narratives
Written By: Ben O’Loughlin …it is a national security imperative for the United States to achieve and maintain unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance. (Trump, cited in 2025 US AI...
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I am hiring for two postdocs in the creator economy, hosted at Aarhus University. One is on monetization and governance with flexible methods and area focus: www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #commsky #academicchatter #polisky
Postdoctoral Researcher in Monetisation, Governance, and the Creator Economy at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Afdeling for Medievidenskab og Journalistik, Aarhus Universitet
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Big CfP: ICA preconference in Cape Town, 3 June 2026, for our Media, War and Conflict journal. Theme: Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting bit.ly/mwcpreconfer... - any questions can be emailed to the organisers at: r.j.stupart@liverpool.ac.uk. Thanks to @icahdq.bsky.social!
Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting Preconference
The journalism of war and conflict is facing extraordinary threats. Israel's ongoing assault in Gaza has killed a historically unprecedented number of journalists at a time when the norms protecting t...
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🚨 Deadline today! 🚨 Join us on 19 Nov at our OfcomxTIP in-person workshop on 'Future Directions of Academic Research in Online Safety, Tech & Policy' in London. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity for networking and future collaborations! Link w info 🔗 ofcom.eventogy.com/c/technology...
Technology, Internet and Policy and Ofcom: future directions for academic research
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Introducing our editors: @saradominici.bsky.social, Gary Bratchford, Victoria Horne, and @ecoomasaru.bsky.social. Interested in publishing with us? Please do get in touch!
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A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik
It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Ma...
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