Events
Mar
4
Thu
5:00 pm
Peace on Facebook?
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Peace on Facebook?
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Mar 4 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Peace on Facebook? Problematising Social Media as Spaces for Intergroup Contact in Divided Societies As far back as the late sixties, renowned peace theorist Johann Galtung (1967) predicted that the rapid growth of new media[...]
Mar
18
Thu
5:00 pm
Data Theory: Interpretive Sociol...
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Data Theory: Interpretive Sociol...
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Mar 18 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

The ongoing and intensifying datafication of our societies poses huge challenges as well as opportunities for social science to rethink core elements of its research enterprise. Prominently, there is a pressing need to move beyond[...]
Apr
8
Thu
5:00 pm
The Politics of Location: Mobili...
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The Politics of Location: Mobili...
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Apr 8 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Didem Özkul (Karlstad University) – The Politics of Location: Mobilities, Data and Machine Learning Our lives are populated with connected devices which sense and record where we are at any given point in time, how[...]
Research
Decolonising the Curriculum? Which Curriculum? How? and by Whom?
The epistemological underpinnings of knowledge in today’s world were shaped during colonial times for purposes …Selector PRO 2021: Mental health in music industry
To get a record deal, release new music, connect with fans, make some videos, plan …The Arab uprisings a decade on: Egypt and Tunisia
A decade ago on 14th January 2011, after weeks of historic protests, Tunisians deposed their …Tim Berners-Lee’s plan to save the internet: give us back control of our data
Releasing his creation for free 30 years ago, the inventor of the world wide web, …How Did Donald Trump Incite a Coup Attempt?
Abstract: On 6 January 2021, supporters of Donald Trump after a Trump rally stormed the …Cornel West and Marxist Humanism
Public service media in the age of SVoDs: A comparative study of PSM strategic responses in Flanders, Italy and the UK
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Doug Specht interviewed by Devex about why we need to think about ethics when using satellite data for development
The War Against the BBC – Barnett and Barwise
RGS Digital Geographies Research Group launches undergraduate dissertation prize
Jean Seaton speaks to The Guardian about Paul Potts’ role in choosing a new Ofcom chair
Whatever happened to local TV? Steven Barnett speaks to BBC News
Steven Barnett interviewed by NPR about Fox News and deplatforming
Pieter Verdegem interviewed by USA Today about the future of the internet
Winston Mano speaks to Democracy Paradox about African Politics and Social Media
The future of diversity regulation in the UK broadcast industry – models and ownership
Does online hate end with the end of Parler? Ed Bracho-Polanco speaks to the Media Diversity Institute
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