📣CFP PhD summer school in gender, AI and inclusive work: AI/automation and gender inequality,
women in the platform economy, masculinist algorithmic bias, and more ✊🏼 Berlin Sept 2024 FES Future of Work Apply: futureofwork.fes.de/our-projects/p…

if you're in that job market, you might find my post about writing your cv and covering letter useful too: wordpress.com/post/visualmet…

I blogged a few tips about giving a presentation for academic jobs in the social sciences in the UK. wordpress.com/post/visualmet…

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS OPEN
On June 26-29, 2024, the #InternationalVisualSociologyAssociation will meet at #UniversidadVeracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico for its 41st #conference titled “Visual Accountability - Show, Don’t Tell”.
➡️Register now at visualsociology.org/?page_id=6522

Marie Antoinette loves this paper👸: We investigated practices of remembrance and memory work on Instagram and were able to identify four types of presentation, ranging from professional, institutionalized memory practices to playful meme creation:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

My latest Life in Pixels conversation, ft. Shane Denson and Brooke Belisle, authors of 'Postcinematic Bodies' (@meson_press) and 'Depth Effects' (@ucpress) is now available at vimeo.com/929156098. We chatted about phenomenology, algorithms, photography, and metabolism!!

📝 📚 For scholars interested in converting their dissertation into a book, here is a helpful list of differences between the two, with thanks to Alison Kirk at Routledge. 🙏🏽

👉Today we're launching this investigation into LAION-5B, the blockbuster dataset behind Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. It's a deep dive into how the dataset was made, and where the images come from. The brilliant Christo Buschek & Jer Thorp follow the models all the way down.

New #OpenAccess article by Monica Degen and gillian rose: Conceptualising aesthetic power in the digitally-mediated city
ow.ly/IzU850QXSwB
#embodiment #sensory #SocialDifference

🚨Call for submission for the Digital RGS (DGRG) symposium on Mobilities and the Digital!

Submit papers, practice-based interventions, panels or digital shorts on topics & contexts where mobilities and the digital intersect #DGRGSymposium24 RGS-IBG Higher Ed

Info:
digitalgeographiesrg.org/digital-geogra…

ah, thanks Rebecca Solnit for this - I now need to edit my blog post on the masculinity that structures #Oppenheimer : visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/2024/03/11/on-…

I wrote about #Oppenheimer again, and what it has to say about the digital tech bros: wordpress.com/post/visualmet… agnieszka leszczynski sarah banet-weiser Sara Smith Sarah Elwood Prof Gina Neff Dr Kerry McInerney (Mackereth)

On a glace: #qualitative #visual #creative #artsbased methods in #geography and beyond with a small piece on #zines by Nora Küttel | @norakuettel.bsky.social and me. Browse here: visqual.leibniz-ifl-projekte.de/methodbox/
RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum SCGeog Journal

This year's Digital Methods Summer School (Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, 1-12 July) is dedicated to 'Visual Methods'. Call for participation out at digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerScho…. Digital Methods vera.ai We're celebrating the new book by Sabine Niederer and Gabriele Colombo

Urban media job alert: A very enticing job Humanities Utrecht with a focus on urban new media.

We're hiring in New Media & Digital Culture, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam! There are three Assistant Professor jobs on offer in 'Digital Aesthetics and Platform Vernaculars', 'New Media Histories' and 'Digital Research Methods for AI Platforms'. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/search/

I blogged about planning research leave - for those academics who still have that entitlement, and I know far too many do not: visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/tip…

'Spaces: Exploring Spatial Experiences of Representation and Reception in Screen Media' BIMI event at Birkbeck Cinema, 8 Mar 2024. Booking & info: bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_…

Spider-Man: Across the #SpiderVerse wins the VES Award for Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature.

Life in Pixels Spring/Summer 2024 is up and running! Our first conversation features Joanna Zylinska and Jussi Parikka in conversation about their recent books, The Perception Machine (The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social) Operational Images (@UMinnPress). See the video at vimeo.com/913978687