Join us for the book launch of Global South Creator Cultures on Tuesday, 20 January, 17:30–19:00, at King’s College London. Further information and registration details: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit... @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @mediaindustries.bsky.social

Join us for the book launch of Global South Creator Cultures on Tuesday, 20 January, 17:30–19:00, at King’s College London. Further information and registration details: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit... @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @mediaindustries.bsky.social

I am advertising a funded PhD scholarship on my new project LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem. More details here: www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...

📚 Book Announcement Our edited volume Global South Creator Cultures is coming soon from @routledgebooks.bsky.social - pre-order on 24 November, out on 15 December 2025! 🎉 @mediaindustries.bsky.social

✨Reminder: CFP still open for our Digital Humanities Today conference (23–26 June 2026, King’s College London) — do consider submitting!

Tuğçe Bidav@tugcebidav.bsky.social · last yr.

My department at King’s College London is organising a conference on all things digital — from AI and platforms to creative practice, labour, and digital ecologies — on 23–26 June 2026. 📝 Do consider submitting paper or panel abstracts! 📣 CFP: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...

✨ A must-read article by my brilliant co-author @mediaindustries.bsky.social on how privilege & precarity shape academia and media industries. Reflecting on these issues is essential if we are to foster more inclusive knowledge production in academia. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (Academic Education Pathway)! 📅 Start date: 29 September 2025 (or soon after) 📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term until 30 September 2026 🗓 Apply by: 27 August 2025 Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... #AcademicJobs

Calling GPT-5 “PhD-level” is a provocative marketing strategy that devalues the depth of academic work—critical thinking, creative research design, original data collection and analysis, ethical reflection, and engagement in peer review, among much else. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ - BBC News

GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

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My department at King’s College London is organising a conference on all things digital — from AI and platforms to creative practice, labour, and digital ecologies — on 23–26 June 2026. 📝 Do consider submitting paper or panel abstracts! 📣 CFP: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...

Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital

From the 23-26 June 2026, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London will host an international conference exploring the evolving role of Digital Humanities in a world increasingly ...

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Announcing the new journal: "Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital" We've launched a new Historical Materialism project with a CfP for the first issue. Abstracts due 31st of October Full details and the new website here: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/jo...

So grateful to have read this chapter with @tugcebidav.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing the book out soon!

Cecilia Ka Hei Wong@ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · last yr.

Crashed an anthropologists’ conference in Seoul✨Shoutout to Yuna, Soojin & Reagan for inviting me🫶Spent my time talking about a HK feminist creator—super stoked that this paper will be published w/ ‘Global South Creator Studies’ edited by @tugcebidav.bsky.social & @mediaindustries.bsky.social

Join a great network of scholars researching creator cultures and industries — check out the Discord link in the post below! ⬇️

CCSN@weareccsn.bsky.social · last yr.

CCSN begins its Discord era! ✨ 🧑‍🏫 We are fortunate to be collaborating with the Discord Academic Research Community (D/ARC) to provide you a NEW means to connect with other scholars! Join us: discord.gg/KkFBy9MJ

A quick announcement from the editors @julieychen.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social that we are now live on bsky. We will be posting updates about Platforms & Society on here. Follow to keep abreast!

Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki... @kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social

King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post)

King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...

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Following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a boycott movement has emerged. Amidst all this, public attention is also on creators, once again highlighting how the creator economy is deeply embedded in national contexts.

Next week, I’ll be presenting our book project Global South Creator Cultures with @mediaindustries.bsky.social at the Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop at the Oxford Internet Institute. www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social

OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop

This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.

oii.ox.ac.uk

Delighted to be welcoming @roopikarisam.bsky.social to give the second King's Public Lecture in Digital Humanities in May: "Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis". Details and registration here - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every... @kingsdh.bsky.social

Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis

King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities delivered by Professor Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College.

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🎭 How is bias reproduced in text-to-image generative AI models? Join Dr. Stephanie Diepeveen for a public talk on Power, Representation & GenAI. 📅 26 February | 5PM 📍 King’s College London | Free event 🔗 Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit... #AI #GenerativeAI #digitalmedia

If you missed #AoIR2024, read CCSN’s blog post for key takeaways and insights on creator studies! @mediaindustries.bsky.social @arturoarriagada.bsky.social

Zoë Glatt@zoeglatt.bsky.social · 2y ago

Latest blog just dropped from the Content Creator Scholars Network (CCSN), a round-up of #AoIR2024 ❤️‍🔥 Made me relive my FOMO all over again!! READ HERE: www.ccsn.site/the-ccsn-tak...

Startup pack of my academic colleagues doing amazing digital research at @kingsdh.bsky.social! go.bsky.app/SXpvQhQ These are the ones I know who are on Bsky - drop me a message if I missed anyone 😅 #academia #digitalhumanities

✨Excited to announce my first solo-authored paper is out now! I’m thrilled to be part of the new special issue ‘Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production’ with a piece on localised precarity. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 New publication alert with an amazing co-author @mediaindustries.bsky.social 🎊 Our paper “Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey” is out in Social Media + Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

✨Excited to share that Smith @mediaindustries.bsky.social and I just signed a book contract with Routledge to publish an edited collection provisionally titled 'Global South Creator Cultures'.

Howth seascapes 🌅🚤

I went sailing for the first time in Ireland (From Dún Laoghaire to Killiney Bay)⛵️☘️

A piece of art in an Irish pub, aka the best door painting ☘️

Hiya! I'm here too; a digital media academic lurking in a new platform 🫣