We're starting 2026 with a public lecture with Dr Kosta Yannakopoulos on Male/Trans* feminities in Post-war Greek society. This is a joint event organised by Dr Silvia Posocco and Tanya Serisier ( Birkbeck's Institute for Gender + Sexuality). Registration here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
In exactly 1 week, Dr Eoin Fullam joins us for a talk on his new book on AI chatbots used in therapy, Technical Mental Health: How Therapy Became Automated, Malet St, 8pm, Thurs, 4th Dec.
Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... Find Dr Fullam's new book here: www.routledge.com/Chatbot-Ther...
There's an art to creating the perfect CD rip. Join BIRMAC and Dr Eomann Bell (Durham, UK) to learn more about the digital auditory extraction community (aka cd-rippers) on 30 October, 18-21:00 in Bloomsbury. Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Some snaps from the @birmac.bsky.social / Media & Democracy / Qualitative Methods Group workshop 'Exploring Quali-Quantitative Approaches in Social Media Research', where me, @robtoes.bsky.social & participants explored methods for approaching the messy, contradictory phenomena that is social media
@scott-rodgers.bsky.social + @robtoes.bsky.social will be giving a 1/2 day BIRMAC workshop at Birkbeck for ECRs and students on methods in quali-quantitative approaches to social media research. More info & sign up here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Excited for the first BIRMAC event for 2025 - a journey through the Bolivian Cloud forest in search of honey with artist Kate Daudy that provokes speculations on how we can think AI differently (w. Rebekah Cupitt) www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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A collage of images from the Dispatches event - Neil Wilson giving his talk about the Midget disc recorder; some buns on the snack table; a slide with a quote from Rabelais' Gargantua & Pantagruel with sound words like trr, trr, taack, bou, bou; a fluffy mic on a binaural recording device; and in the centre some wax cylinders, an Edison gramophone and a Midget disc recorder prototype, just visible in the background.
Playing around with 360 degree sound recordings after the successful Bloomsbury launch of BIRMAC's Dispatches from the Air series on sound recording technologies & transmission last Monday. Big thanks to our guest speakers Neil Wilson (RadioMuseum, Watchet) & Emily Best, Birkbeck.
