2024-25 in review: our international visitors
Over the academic year, we have had the pleasure of hosting a number of international scholars.
Our first Visiting Fellow is Dr Nataliia Laba. Nataliia’s work focuses on multimodal generative artificial intelligence and works at the intersection of critical data studies, discourse studies, and techno-ethics. Her current research projects address human-machine agency and a range of representational issues in the context of visual generative media adoption and use. During her visit, Dr Laba gave a talk on Generative AI and the visual politics of war representation; and delivered a workshop on creative agency in the age of AI.
Our second Visiting Fellow is Dr Katie MacKinnon. Katie’s work focusses on the politics and ethics of data, specifically in preservation-oriented projects like web archives and in the production of internet histories and futures. Her work engages with critical feminist ethics of care methodologies while exploring ageing web materials across platforms of the live and dead web. During her visit, Dr MacKinnon gave a talk on temporal politics of platform power and a workshop on early internet memories.
Our last visiting academic is Dr Kenzie Burchell. Kenzie’s work focusses on Journalism and Information Studies with additional focus on digital surveillance and identity in the context of disinformation, lawfare, and marketcraft. During his visit, Dr Burchell gave a talk on the weight of connectivity and the inescapable grip of digitality, in conversation with DISC member Adi Kuntsman.
These wonderful visiting researchers highlight the importance of building an international research community to promote a diversity of ideas and approaches!
