Giota Alevizou

The Web of Knowledge: Authority, Encyclopedias, and Power in the Digital Age | King's College London Join us for a book launch event for Dr Giota Alevizou’s The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age.

🧩 Who gets to define knowledge today?

Join us on 11 March for the launch of Dr Giota Alevizou's @giotita.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social 'The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age' (@politybooks.bsky.social, 2026).

Register to attend ⬇️

Radio Scotland Breakfast - 16/02/2026 - BBC Sounds News from across Scotland and the world, plus sport, weather and big name interviews.

🗣️ 'Isolating children from social media is likely to cut them off from a lot of support and help that they need.'

Listen to Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social on BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast speak about social media ban for under-16s.

Listen now, from 2:07:51 🎧⬇️

More details (and events) soon.
Critical readers especially welcome.
#BookAnnouncement #CriticalMedia #KnowledgePolitics #Encyclopedias #AI #PlatformStudies #Trust

The Web of Knowledge: Encylopedias and Authority in the Digital Age The Web of Knowledge: Encylopedias and Authority in the Digital Age, The encyclopedia—a medium rooted in enlightenment visions of intellectual rationality—has expanded in scope, scale, and popularity ...

📘 My new book, The #WebofKnowledge, is on its way. tinyurl.com/encylop
It follows the long arc from encyclopedic institutions to digital platforms and emerging AI systems — not to mourn lost expertise, but to ask how authority is reorganised, governed, and contested under platform capitalism.

Erasmus live updates: Scheme to return for UK students from 2027 The EU provides funding under the scheme for people to study, train or volunteer in other European countries for up to a year.

Hallelujah

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

book covers for Nick Srnicek's Silicon Empires, Maya Ganesh's Auto-Correct and Jonathan W. Y. Gray's Public Data Cultures.

📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social

I and @photini.bsky.social have a new publication The article reconceptualises London as ‘A Learnt City’, a dynamic learning ecosystem shaped through digital mediation, affective experience, and embodied practices.

Read OA here: www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

#DigitalUrbanism #urbanpedagogies

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway).

📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring

📢 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

DIGITALK - EP 13 : WHAT’S IT LIKE TO STUDY THE DIGITAL FUTURES MA? (Student Q&A) KCL RADIO · Episode

🎙️ Hosted by @alexgreen.bsky.social, the episode dives into:

1️⃣ Why students chose the MA
2️⃣ What they love most about it
3️⃣ Their advice for future applicants

🎧 Listen now ⬇️

open.spotify.com/episode/1FLl...

Nothing better than students casually dropping gold in a podcast—Digital Futures MA voices, you’re sharp, thoughtful, and a joy to hear.

Links to pod below 🔥🎧 #DigitalFutures

Not intentionality on AI preferences, but lots of imagination needed esp as my book w/ @polity will be added there in the autumn…can’t wait

Very happy about this pod on our #digitalfuturesMA hosted by our own @aleexgreen.bsky.social

Is there a future for a public AI?

Digital Futures of Diversity How can we design and implement digital systems that genuinely enhance diversity rather than simply digitising existing inequalities?

WOKE?! Come to our panel on Digital Futures of Diversity on 23 June at King's College London as part of @kings-dfi.bsky.social 'Living Well with Technology' series, with @birgitneunews.bsky.social , @lewisiwu.bsky.social, & @nessakeddo.bsky.social and Elisabeth Kelan.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...

Strawberry moon, Butlers Wharf.
@se1.news @shad-thames.bsky.social

Launching London Tech Week, the CEO of Nvidia has just remarked on the UK’s ‘fantastic universities and research communities’. That’s great — but around 90 of the UK’s 166 universities are currently making job cuts. Half are closing courses.

Media Industries and AI: An Introduction - Orçun Can and Paul McDonald (King’s College London) Media Industries Podcast · Episode

🎙️ Series 2 of the Media Industries Podcast hosted by our colleague @aorcuncan.bsky.social‬ and Paul McDonald is here! This season dives deep into AI + the media industries.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3GX5... or Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

#AI #Media

There are only two sides right now. One side has tanks and drones and data and tear gas. The other side has solidarity and that’s it. That’s what we have.

A movement isn’t something you design in an Artisan Protest Lab. But you are welcome to come down here and see what kind of reception you get.

Digital Futures MA (online, part-time) Understand how to apply to study an online master’s degree with King’s College London. We’ll support you throughout the application process. Apply today.

These are the conversations that define the #DigitalFutures MA at King’s: tinyurl.com/munhw4hr where we interrogate the cultural, ethical, and creative dimensions of tech.
#KingsCollegeLondon #livingwellwithtech #culturalproduction #creativeindustries #digitalfutures

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Really proud of our @kingsdh.bsky.social student posting a reflective post on last week’s event on #AIandLiterature chaired by @drkatedevlin.bsky.social

Last week, I attended the launch of the Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal book at King’s College London, hosted by the ‪@ kingscmci.bsky.social‬
the ‪@ digitalculturekcl.bsky.social���, and the DISCO Network.
#digitalfutures #technoskepticism #KCL

Digital Futures MA (online, part-time) Understand how to apply to study an online master’s degree with King’s College London. We’ll support you throughout the application process. Apply today.

This aligns with the ethos of the #DigitaFuturesMA @kingsartshums.bsky.social, which explores how to engage critically with emerging technologies. I would definitely look into applying this for my MA: tinyurl.com/munhw4hr

Study finds links between social media and loneliness depend on the app New research finds that although overall time spent online is linked with higher levels of loneliness, use of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter is not.

The overall time spent online is linked with higher levels of loneliness, however the use of #socialmedia platforms is not.

A new study found that it's the type of digital platform that's associated with loneliness, rather than using social media itself.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/social-...

You Autocomplete Me: Our intimate and emotional encounters with technology Please join us for this Inaugural Lecture as we celebrate Professor Kate Devlin's appointment as Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Society.

👏 On 6 June, join us, @kingsdh.bsky.social ‬and ‪@kings-dfi.bsky.social‬ as we celebrate Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social ‬'s appointment as Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Society.

⏰ 18:00-20:00
📍 Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre

Register via the link below ⤵️

another good one from the german guy who uploads 360 degree panoramas to wikipedia

Magic, Minds, and the Mysteries of AI Step into a world where magic and technology collide in a fascinating exploration of AI and deception.

🪄 Few tickets left for tonight's live magic show!

Dr @mattltompkins.bsky.social, professional magician and researcher in visual cognition, discusses the psychology behind magic tricks and how this relates to our understanding of black box technologies with @drkatedevlin.bsky.social ⤵️

🎟️ Book now ⤵️

We are spoiled with e
Vents today @drkatedevlin.bsky.social aren’t we?

Israel just launched its offensive to permanently ‘conquer’ Gaza as Trump’s Arab Gulf tour wraps up Israel announced the initial phase of “Gideon’s chariots,” the expanded ground invasion to permanently “conquer” Gaza, amid reports that Trump reneged on his deal with Hamas to lift the blockade, and ...

The complete and utter depravity of this. There are no words. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...