Before AI agents act for us, we need to know how AI searches for us - LSE Impact Generative AI agents are pitched as being a new gateway to engaging with the Internet, but the way AI sees the Internet is both "conservative" and "stubborn”.

What happens when AI searches the web for you?

Our own Janna Joceli Omena @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social examines GPT-4o's web search over time — and finds that citation diversity only appears when users know how to push the system.

👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... via @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

We’re proud to see our colleague Dr Gregory Asmolov featured in the @economist.com for his expert insight on internet blackouts in Russia

Children don't need locking out of the internet. They need us to… On Monday 9 March, MPs voted 307 to 173 against a ban on social media for under-16s, rejecting an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. This development will surprise proponents…

📵 'Protection does not have to mean exclusion.'

As calls to ban social media for children intensify around the world, Dr Astrid Van den Bossche @kingsdh.bsky.social says: children need safe‑by‑design platforms and support to build judgement and resilience, not exclusion from digital spaces ⬇️

Our own @zaborowski.bsky.social in @nytimes.com on the “succulent Chinese meal” video – and why it makes for the perfect memeable and spreadable content.

🎉 Congratulations to @mrsbunz.bsky.social on her new article "On the Calculation of Meaning, or Doing Words without Things"!

📣 New project alert: Assembling Certainty

Exploring how AI is used to document civilian harm — and the ethical questions involved.

Co-led by our colleague Dr David Young, with partners at University of Sussex and Airwars.

More info here: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

Select tickets – Digital Investigations Lab – Launch Event – KCL Waterloo Campus, Franklin Wilkins Building, room FWB 1.11 Digital Investigations Lab – Launch Event – KCL Waterloo Campus, Franklin Wilkins Building, room FWB 1.11, Tue 24 Mar 2026 - To launch King’s College London’s new Digital Investigations Lab (DIL), we ...

Launch of the Digital Investigations Lab at King’s College London:
Explore how investigations are evolving across journalism, research & design in the digital landscape.
Panel + Q&A + drinks.

🗓 24 March, 6:30–8:30pm
📍 Waterloo Campus

Speakers & tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

Event organised by Daniel Chávez Heras (KLC) @dchavezheras.bsky.social

Select tickets – From Radical Accounting to Visceral Data Analysis: Rethinking Motion Data for Dance Historical Inquiry - Kate Elswit – Embankment Room (MAC106), Strand Campus, King’s College London From Radical Accounting to Visceral Data Analysis: Rethinking Motion Data for Dance Historical Inquiry - Kate Elswit – Embankment Room (MAC106), Strand Campus, King’s College London, Tue 24 Mar 2026 -...

Upcoming talk by Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama):

“From Radical Accounting to Visceral Data Analysis” explores how dance + digital methods reshape data, embodiment & history

🗓 24 March, 4–6pm
📍 Strand Campus
🎟 www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

The Web of Knowledge: Authority, Encyclopedias, and Power in the Digital Age | King's College London Join us for a book launch event for Dr Giota Alevizou’s The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age.

🧩 Who gets to define knowledge today?

Join us on 11 March for the launch of Dr Giota Alevizou's @giotita.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social 'The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age' (@politybooks.bsky.social, 2026).

Register to attend ⬇️

New on the King’s Digital Humanities blog:
A Social Critique of AI amid the Climate Crisis by Paul Schütze (University of Osnabrück)

AI as a system that sustains extractive logics and narrows our imagination for climate action
kingsdh.net/2026/02/27/a-social-critique-of-ai-amid-the-climate-crisis/

Digital X Climates network launches at King's | King's College London Academics from the Department of Digital Humanities lead the new network examining digital infrastructures and climate realities.

🌿 The Digital X Climates network has officially launched 🌎

Led by colleagues in the Department of Digital Humanities, the network advances research and public engagement on the entanglements of digital technologies with environmental, social and political ecologies.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/digital...

Congratulations to our colleagues Andrea Ballatore (@aballatore.bsky.social), Rachael Kent, and Astrid Van den Bossche on being awarded the Digital Futures Fellowship for 2026–27! 🎉

“Destruction of heritage is not limited to crumbling bricks and mortar. It is also about lived experiences that once took shelter in those places.” – Dr Gabriele Salciute Civiliene, reflecting on the efforts to safeguard #Ukraine’s cultural heritage on the fourth anniversary of Russia's invasion.

Listen to our colleague Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social discussing the risks of banning children under 16 from social media on BBC Radio Scotland.

Thrilled to see Giota Alevizou's @giotita.bsky.social 'The Web of Knowledge' out in the world!

A timely and original contribution to debates on knowledge, power, and AI. The book asks not what expertise we’ve lost, but how authority is being reorganised and governed under platform capitalism.

📣 Public talk: Appropriated Intelligence — Making AI Training Fair

Ed Newton-Rex (Fairly Trained) on unlicensed AI training, creators’ rights, and what fairness could look like.
Chaired by @markgotham.bsky.social

📅 11 Feb, 17:30
📍 KCL Embankment Room
Register www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

👏 Great to see this write-up of Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Embodied Technologies, led by Rikke Amundsen @rikkeamundsen.bsky.social with Laura Gibson, in collaboration with the Real Period Project.

Thanks to King’s A&H Impact & Knowledge Exchange for highlighting this important work 🌱

TODAY at 5:30pm!
Join us for a public talk with Dr Rolien Hoyng (Lancaster University) on Modelling the Climate Crisis: The Politics of Paradigmatic Logics.
Register here: lnkd.in/eqekK5c8

Our next #OpenAccess training session for academic and professional staff takes place on Wednesday, 11 February, on Strand Campus. There are still places available! tinyurl.com/6femkfnx
@kingsnmes.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Rolien Hoyng (Lancaster University) for a public talk hosted by Dr Güneş Tavmen
📅 28 Jan, 5:30pm
🎤 Modelling the Climate Crisis: The Politics of Paradigmatic Logics
Exploring how AI-driven models in smart farming shape how we see climate change
Register lnkd.in/eqekK5c8

New PhD Funding for Spanish Researchers! 🇪🇸🎓

King’s & Ramón Areces Foundation are offering a full scholarship for a Spanish national to study Digital Humanities starting Oct 2026.

Deadline: 13 February 2026
Info Session: 12 January, 15:00 UK time.

All info here: www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

We are delighted to share that our colleague Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social, Lecturer in Digital Labour and Marketing, is launching her new book Global South Creator Cultures (Routledge, 2025):

📅 Tuesday, 20 January 🕠 17:30–19:00 📍 King's College London

Register here: lnkd.in/egBp6wCY

COMMENT: How Stranger Things went from Netflix Original to a global franchise | King's College London Warning: this article contains spoilers for the first four seasons of Stranger Things.

☎️ Netflix’s Stranger Things didn’t just break the internet – it built a global empire.

How did a small-town mystery turn into a billion-dollar franchise? Dr @aorcuncan.bsky.social explains for @theconversation.com 🔗⬇️

Exciting news from our very own Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social who co-edited this upcoming volume on Global South Creator Cultures! 🎉📖
An essential read on the working conditions of social media creators and the geographical challenges of their labour.
Pre-order details and intro preview below👇

How do #AI & #data risks shape trade & policy? Join a lively chat + networking at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social with @karishmabanga.bsky.social and a panel of top experts.
🗓 Wed 3 Dec | 10:30–12:00
🔗 Register: www.ciip.group.cam.ac.uk/events/gover...
#DigitalGovernance #AIpolicy #AIRisks

Joint book launch at King’s 🌟
Featuring:
• @jwyg.bsky.social, Public Data Cultures
• @nsrnicek.bsky.social, Silicon Empires
• @mayameme.bsky.social, Auto-Correct

In conversation with @noortjem.bsky.social &
@joannazylinska.bsky.social

📅 3 Dec, 19:00-21:00
www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

Very happy to share @jenkidd.bsky.social and my contribution to @theconversation.com on AI Afterlives and memory @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @cujournmedcul.bsky.social

Dr Rachael Kent wins historic case against Apple in £1.5 billion collective action | King's College London The case, Kent v Apple, was brought by Dr Rachael Kent, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, who made history as the first female Class Representative in the UK’s collective action regime.

👏 Dr Rachael Kent @kingsdh.bsky.social wins historic case against Apple in £1.5 billion collective action.

The decision paves the way for £1.5 billion in compensation to be returned to nearly 36 million UK consumers and businesses ⬇️

🌍 Yesterday @slehuede.bsky.social spoke at the 5th session of the UN Forum on Human Rights, Democracy & the Rule of Law. His talk explored community mobilisations to align AI with their unique, rich ecological visions.

📺 You can watch a recording of the session here webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q...