reposting this which enthuses not only about Sarah Sharma's book but also the work of Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social. @dukepress.bsky.social @goodrobotpod.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @ahjackman.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social @alinau27.bsky.social

gillian rose@profgillian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I just wrote a very enthusiastic review of Sarah Sharma's new book. @dukepress.bsky.social @dgrgrgs.bsky.social

Some thoughts on the vacancy data debate. With thnks to @robkitchin.bsky.social hometruths.housingsupply.ie/p/the-census...

The Census Wasn’t Wrong. We Changed the Question.

The third in a series on how housing figures in Ireland become “true.” The first two showed how a soft number gets accepted. This one shows how a hard number gets dismissed.

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Reframing data activism: Towards a broader understanding of datafied social movements by Juliette Davret, Danielle Hynes, Samuel Mutter and Joan Somers Donnelly in Big Data & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Reframing data activism: Towards a broader understanding of datafied social movements - Juliette Davret, Danielle Hynes, Samuel Mutter, Joan Somers Donnely, 2026

Social movements are adapting to datafication in diverse and complex ways. This paper refines existing conceptualisations of datafied social movements by analys...

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My letter in today's Irish Times. Ireland is putting its international reputation for research at risk. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

Ireland is putting its international reputation for research at risk

Devolving doctoral and postdoctoral recruitment seems to be about offloading administrative responsibility

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My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.

Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism by Prince K. Guma in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism

Existing studies across Geography and related fields have yet to develop a sustained account of how new and emergent digital technologies reconfigure popular resistance and dissent under authoritar...

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University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities

Letter to Min Higher Ed

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If you're concerned about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan then consider signing an open letter to the Minister openletter.earth/concern-abou...

Concern about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan

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Embodied data/subaltern datafication: Reimagining the Data-Based City Through Quantified Lived Experience by Andrés Luque-Ayala and Rodrigo Firmino in International Journal of Urban & Regional Research onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now Open Access: Digital Timescapes: Technology, Temporality and Society by @robkitchin.bsky.social, published by Polity Books. The link is not that prominent on the publisher website; head to the red oval as per image below. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Embodied statecraft: The endurance of zhǐ jiè (pointing at the boundary) in Taiwan's land digitalisation by Wen-I Lin and @ayonadatta.bsky.social in Political Geography www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Embodied statecraft: The endurance of zhǐ jiè (pointing at the boundary) in Taiwan's land digitalisation

This paper examines the practice of "embodied statecraft" as fundamental to Taiwanese government’s ‘One Nation, One Map’ (ONOM) land digitalisation in…

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Negotiating Openness under Authoritarian Risk: Feminist Open Data Sharing in Hong Kong by Lucas Wong & Tak-Yin Yumi Wong in The Journal of Electronic Publishing 29(1). Charts the tension between visibility and vulnerability in open data. doi: doi.org/10.3998/jep....

12 month postdoc post working on my ERC funded Data Stories project. The role is to undertake a comprehensive data audit of the data terrain of housing, property and planning in Northern Ireland & compare to Republic of Ireland. Closing date 31 March 2026. Job details: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Geogames: The Future’s Language of Urban and Regional Planning. Special issue of 11 papers in the journal 'Urban Planning' edited by Bruno Andrade, Alenka Poplin, Marta Dodig and David Schwartz. doi.org/10.17645/up....

Geogames: The Future’s Language of Urban and Regional Planning

Thematic Issue, Vol 11 (2026)

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The digital turn in planning and the production of ‘good enough’ planning systems by Carla Kayanan, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Sam Mutter & @robkitchin.bsky.social, now published in issue 34(4) of European Planning Studies. Access PDF at www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2CZIS...

The digital turn in planning and the production of ‘good enough’ planning systems

The digitalization of planning has taken place in a context where planning work is on-going and cannot be halted, and in which there are embedded institutional and technical systems and practices, ...

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The data politics of estimating housing need and demand: Evidence-informed policy, data debates, and data valences. New paper in International Journal of Housing Policy about Ireland's HNDA process by Carla Kayanan and Rob Kitchin. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The data politics of estimating housing need and demand: evidence-informed policy, data debates, and data valences

How many housing units need to be built to meet demand is a perennial question that governments in market economies must grapple with and act on. Build too few units and excess demand will drive up...

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Digital Geographies of Hope: The Transformative Power of Media. Special issue of Media and Communication edited by Cornelia Brantner, Kaarina Nikunen and Georgia Aitaki. doi.org/10.17645/mac...

Digital Geographies of Hope: The Transformative Power of Media

Thematic Issue, Vol 14 (2026)

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12 month postdoc post working on my ERC funded Data Stories project. The role: undertake a data audit of the data terrain of housing, property and planning in Northern Ireland + interviews with key stakeholders. Closing date 31 March 2026. Details: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Conference on Democracy & Digital Citizenship, 27-28 August 2026, Aarhus, Denmark. conferences.au.dk/democracy-di... Pre-conference, 26 August: Social Media Influence: Understanding digital influence infrastructures

Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance, 12 open access papers in the journal, Media and Communication. www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance

Thematic Issue, Vol 14 (2026)

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New paper by @juliettedavret.bsky.social The politics of counting homelessness: The case of Ireland. Housing Policy Debate, doi: 10.1080/10511482.2025.2599125. OA postprint: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...

Research Ireland Public Service Fellowship. These like a good opportunity to work with state agencies on projects www.researchireland.ie/funding/publ... 72 projects listed. Shame none of them relate to housing or planning. But then why would we need any research about those ...

My book is out on Friday in print and ebook. Get a 40% discount wit this code: MIB26 @robkitchin.bsky.social @maedhbhlikedave.bsky.social @maoiliosarey.bsky.social @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @javigil.bsky.social @fingalpimpernel.bsky.social @adrianasoaita.bsky.social tinyurl.com/kxunfkb4

Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector

Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector, As societies struggle to respond to the revival of private renting, this book offers the first comprehensive and c...

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New housing and planning resource for Ireland – a publications hub. >1,800 academic, policy and sector publications relating to housing, property and planning in Ireland. Access at www.zotero.org/groups/55867... if there are pubs missing you want us to add, please send them to us and we will do so

John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards 2026-2027 at Maynooth University. 4 year scholarship (€25,000 stipend, €2,000 research expenses plus fees). Applicants can find more details and identify potential supervisors and the topics they are willing to supervise at www.maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-res...

Special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, vol 1(3) in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social, edited by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, Jing Hiah, @robkitchin.bsky.social & @steelecat717.bsky.social y.social. All 49 pieces open access. journals.sagepub.com/toc/ddsa/1/3

Dialogues on Digital Society - Volume 1, Number 3

Table of contents for Dialogues on Digital Society, 1, 3

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Situating automated infrastructure: (Dis)continuities, contingencies and spatialities by Weiqiang Lin, Peter Adey, Tina Harris and Dylan Brady. Intro to special section on automated infrastructure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Themed intervention: Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI. Papers appearing in online first list rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...

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Engaging Publics in Media, Cities and Space – and Boosting the Impact of Your Research. An online one-day Conference by the ECREA Media, Cities and Space (MCS) section. Tuesday, 25 November 2025, 10:00–17:00 GMT. Register at docs.google.com/document/d/e...