CFP: Language Diversity in Games Studies CFP for a Special Collection at OLHJ (Open Library of the Humanities Journal) Language Diversity in Game Studies Para ver la versión en español de la convocatoria para artículos por …

#CFP/ Call for Abstracts: #OLHJournal Special Collection "Language Diversity in Game Studies", guest edited by Stanisław Krawczyk, Mary Anne Argo Chávez, Antonia Hargreaves Bueno, Zahra Rizvi, and Rachael Hutchinson: www.openlibhums.org/news/813/

📅 Deadline: 10 June 2025

Trump's attempt to defund public broadcasting feels taken straight out the Javier Milei playbook.

#mediatizationstudies

Another interesting case for the mediatisation scholars after the Mr Bates vs The Post Office TV programme's impact last year.

Project Maven for example

Revealed: Microsoft deepened ties with Israeli military to provide tech support during Gaza war Leaked documents shed light on how Israel integrated the US tech giant into its war effort to meet a growing demand for cloud and AI tools

It would be nice to imagine a future in which the tech infrastructures we use do not support war crimes. This article could read [insert any of the major tech companies here]

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Revealed: bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud Exclusive: Age, disability, marital status and nationality influence decisions to investigate claims, prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach

The problem of bias is well explored in Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's Discriminating Data book and her discussions of software used to judge recidivism rates in the US prisons system.

Full transparency of how these algorithms work and are employed is vital.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Palestinian artists plan Gaza Biennale as ‘act of resistance and survival’ Project involves showing work in Gaza but also sending works across Israeli siege lines for exhibiting worldwide

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

How the far right is weaponising AI-generated content in Europe Experts say fake images raising fears around issues such as immigration have proliferated since EU elections

This resonates a lot with Naomi Klein's latest book on how the far right are quick to exploit/manipulate mirror images. One wonders if it is too late to regulate now that the AI cat is out of the bag.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies Special Issue: Rethinking Obscenity in Latin America: Abjection, Art, and Performance. Volume 33, Issue 2 of Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies

Check out our new special issue "Rethinking Obscenity in Latin America: Abjection, #Art, and #Performance," including articles on #trans identities in early and late-20C Argentina and a rpundtable with Archivo El Insulto! tinyurl.com/nt278w8f

Hey #AcademicSky, I'm part of the conference committee for
@csdhschn.bsky.social for a second year. If you could kindly share our CFP for Congress 2025, that would be great. csdh-schn.org/csdh-schn-co...

@tom--white.bsky.social

beautiful likeness of His Bobness.

Red Threads The red flag: there is no symbol, perhaps other than the crucifix and the crescent moon, that so many people have lived and died for. A standard of hope and ...

Henry Bell's new history of the red flag is out. Check it out

@plutobooks.bsky.social

www.plutobooks.com/978074534769...

Is this still the finest place on the planet for an egg butty?

Ultimate disappointment from the cat after she realises that I was only printing one page.

[Re]-appearances online: photography, mourning and new media ecologies for representing the Southern Cone’s disappeared on two digital memory platforms The practice of enforced disappearances fundamentally alters memorialisation rituals as relatives do not have a body to localise mourning as is possible with processes of death. Families in the Sou...

Sharing recent article on photography, disappearance in the Southern Cone following the digital turn.
[Re]-appearances online: photography, mourning and new media ecologies for representing the Southern Cone’s disappeared on two digital memory platforms

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