Rob Kitchin

Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance Thematic Issue, Vol 14 (2026)

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

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 ...

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...

My book is out on Friday in print and ebook. Get a 40% discount wit this code: MIB26

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Thanks to @mickbyrne.bsky.social, Lorcan Sirr & Richard Waldron for sharing their reference libraries to aid the database construction, and to Lorena Borges Dias, Kerry-Ann D’Arcy and Elina Micah Musa for working on compiling the hub.

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...

Dialogues on Digital Society - Volume 1, Number 3 Table of contents for Dialogues on Digital Society, 1, 3

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

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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...

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...

Authoritarianism in the digital age - Kylie Jarrett, Rob Kitchin, Jing Hiah, Catherine Knight Steele, 2025

Authoritarianism in the digital age by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, Jing Hiah and @steelecat717.bsky.social in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social. Intro to special issue with 48 papers on the topic. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data - Nikko Stevens, Amelia Lee Doğan, 2025 Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, transgender activists are using data and data activism to advocate for and to protect trans communities. This tran...

Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data by @drnikko.bsky.social and @ameliadogan.bsky.social in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

On method, and the present and future of “doing” urban geography Based on a survey of research articles published in Urban Geography between 2020 and 2024, I identify a tepidness in qualitative urban geographers’ relationship with method. This tepidness is marke...

On method, and the present and future of “doing” urban geography by Agnieszka Leszczynski in Urban Geography. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Data debates in urban development: the data politics of facts and counter-facts Data relating to urban development are often accepted and used at face value, treated as impartial, objective, incontrovertible facts. However, the validity and veracity of official datasets can be...

New paper on housing data debates that traces arguments in news media between 2010 & 2025 about the number of #vacant dwellings & housing #completions in Ireland & examining the data politics of facts and counter-facts. In @journalurp.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6UCGN...

Call for papers. Workshop: Data Migration and Mobilities: Towards a New Research Agenda. Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Tallinn, Estonia, 8-9 April 2026. Organised by Anu Masso & @robkitchin.bsky.social. Deadline for submissions 15 Oct.

Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland's property market by spoofing property websites by @virt-arch.bsky.social, Ella Harris, Carla Kayanan, Hannah Mumby. Session as part of Research Week at MU, October 23, 2025, 13:00 to 14:00 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Can AI Help Build Cities Better? Advancing urban planning with algorithmic urbanism by Samuel Greengard in Communications of the ACM, cacm.acm.org/news/can-ai-...

Navigating digital geographies: Black boxes, geospatial narratives, and the art of constructing location data by Thomas Cooke, @dancohen.bsky.social & @marxist.af
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New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)

New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’

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Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO

New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’

New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)

mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...

Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO

I'm not aware of a national open dataset of this. SEAI are most likely to have the data through grant applications

Call for papers. Workshop: Data Migration and Mobilities: Towards a New Research Agenda. Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Tallinn, Estonia, 8-9 April 2026. Organised by Anu Masso & @robkitchin.bsky.social. Deadline for submissions 15 Oct.

Japanese translation of Digital Geographies book

Japanese translation of Digital Geographies book just arrived in the post. Thanks to the Japanese editors, Masahiro Tanaka, Taro Futamura, and translators and the publishers, Akashi Shoten Co. for making the effort to translate the book for a new audience. Did a nice job

Title of Dialogues on Digital Society with Volume 1 Issue 2 August 2025 written beneath

The second issue of Dialogues on Digital Society is now out. Explore it here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/DDS/curr... 1/6

CFP. Beyond Community: Hybrid Practices of Mapping and Participation, Agnone (Molise, Italy), 24-25 Oct 2025. Will cover travel/accommodation. www.verrinomap.it/conference/

New Media & Society - Volume 27, Number 8 Table of contents for New Media & Society, 27, 8

Digital Twins special issue in New Media & Society edited by Christoph Borbach, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Tristan Thielmann. 15 papers including one by Oliver Dawkins & myself. Interdisciplinary exploration of the conceptualisation and practices of digital twinning. journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8

Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction - Benjamin N. Jacobsen, 2025 The last few years have seen the rollout of several generative AI applications. Yet, it is often claimed by commentators and social scientists that these have o...

Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction by @bnjacobsen.bsky.social in The Sociological Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Is data material? Toward an environmental sociology of AI by Maximilian Pieper in AI & Society link.springer.com/article/10.1...