My latest for the London Review of Books dives into the roots of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in Gaza It's a story about a military obsessed with building its killing capacities to scale, to the detriment of regional security lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

I'm co-organising the Safer Sextech event at the Univeristy of Manchester, just before the #AoIR2024 conference. This event will be held only in person and we kindly ask you to register if you plan to attend: qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_3P… School of Arts, Languages and Culture Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media

Tomorrow (Wed, 16th Oct), we will be launching on Zoom our brand new Special Issue on 'Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media' (with Mustafa Yeneroğlu & Cyberdivalive). Join us at 4:00pm UK time. PM me for Zoom details. Full SI: academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3

Must read special issue! Congrats to editors and contributors.

We had a blast launching our Special Issue on 'Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media', which I co-edited with Yener Bayramoğlu & Cyberdivalive. Now, please read all the amazing contributions, engage with them and cite them! It matters. academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3

Join us this Friday in Manchester for the fascinating discussion about Safer Sextech with Kath Albury & Yigit Aydinalp. For more information and registration see qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_3P…

Baltic Sexualities in Global Perspective is next week! We have brilliant papers, a keynote from Riikka Taavetti, and a roundtable on transnational approaches to sexualities with Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Richard Mole, Kath Browne & Yulia Gradskova. Register here tinyurl.com/5a8382c8

⚡️🚗On Thursday 21st November (16-17.30 GMT) I'll be in conversation with Alex Gekker (University of Amsterdam/Alex Gekker 🐘 @[email protected]) launching Driving Decisions (Palgrave). The event is supported by Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media. To sign-up to the (online) event, follow the link: qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_eD… 🚗⚡️

Remember folks: every time you use the word 'comprehensive' in your research proposal, a puppy dies.

I organised some very cool events this year at Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media 😊 (and look at the cute posters!). Thanks to everyone who agreed to speak at the events and who joined the discussions! More cool stuff coming soon! 🙃

FYI #AoIR2024, the panel that has won the unofficial best panel name award, "Dating <3", takes place today at 1:30pm in Alfred Denny Conference Room. ❤️conftool.org/aoir2024/index…

Reminder: This Thursday (21st Nov, 4pm GMT), Sam Hind Sam Hind will be launching online his new book 'Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World' (with a response from Alex Gekker). Register here to join us: qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_eD… Sam Hind

I'm very happy to see that people are engaging with the Special Issue I co-edited with Yener Bayramoğlu and Radhika Gajjala for Communication, Culture & Critique. It's about 'Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media' and you should read it too. :) academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3

We're organising a Digital Methods summer school in Manchester, UK! (30 June - 4 July) What you can expect to learn: - text mining - creative AI methods - sensing methods - geospatial methods - visual methods - data visualisation For more, see: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/db5oUk…

A reminder about our Digital Methods Summer School in Manchester between 30 June & 4 July 2025: - text mining - creative AI methods - sensing methods - geospatial methods - visual methods - data visualisation (+ ethics and open science) For more, see: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/db5oUk…

We welcome outline applications for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (deadline: 23 May 2025). alc.manchester.ac.uk/research/fundi…