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Our Summer School opens its online doors for the first year running! This year, we are focusing on theorising and challenging digital harms. The School will consist of a roundtable […]

Artificial witness: Generative AI and the visual politics of war representationOne application of generative AI is the production of highly realistic war images, often indistinguishable from photographs taken by human […]

Please join us to celebrate the newest publications by our members (and get publisher discounts, too!) Theorising Drones in Visual Culture: Views from the Blue authored by Elisa Serafinelli significantly contributes […]

Can generative AI be creative, or is it merely a copy machine that recycles stolen data it has been trained on? Adopting a usage-oriented perspective, this workshop invites a critical […]

Over the past couple years several deep time data archival projects have emerged, and with them the politics of data loss in deep time archival processes reveal how platform centralization […]

Have you ever wondered what happens to your data when a platform dies? Have you ever tried to find an old account? Have you ever deleted your website and regretted it?  In this […]

Kenzie Burchell and Adi Kuntsman in conversation about dis/connection, dis/engagement, and digital life. Kenzie Burchell, the author of Constant Disconnection: The Weight of Everyday Digital Life (Stanford UP) and Adi Kuntsman, the […]

Location: Brooks Building, Room BR 2.18 and BR 2.19, M156GX Understanding the impact of AI on social, cultural and political life has been at the heart of our new initiative […]

Our Digital Politics Summer School is celebrating its fifth anniversary! This year, the school is focusing on visual generative AI. When AI image generators were first popularised in 2023, they were […]

Masterclass with Dr Sam Martin 26 June 10am-12noon , online (Teams) What you’ll learn: This interactive workshop introduces academics to the expanding world of visual generative AI tools. Led by […]