Family uses AI to create video for deadly Chandler road rage victim's own impact statement Christopher Pelkey was killed in a road rage incident in Chandler in 2021, but last month, artificial intelligence brought him back to life during his killer’s sentencing hearing.

www.abc15.com/news/region-... @tamigraph.bsky.social

From Gaza to Vietnam, what is the value of a photo? Two maimed children, two iconic images – and no end to barbarity in sight.

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202... @kimatiwagner.bsky.social

UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010 The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.

The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010

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It's notable that these topics always become shocking for academia when it's white academics from the Global North who are impacted. But if you work in the UK, there are people at your university who cannot travel to archives or conferences because of their immigration status! For sure!

Close up photo of seminar room - Jonas Valente sits at a table in front of the projector screen. The table has microphones and a jug of water. Jonas looks at his laptop. on the projector screen behind him, the title screen of the workshop reads 'Global Southing Internet, Data, and AI Studies Workshop'

screenshot of the title card of Emma's powerpoint presentation - 'Digital Public History and Generative AI in Nigeria' - logos of African Studies Centre, Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Oxford, and Oxford School of Global and Area Studies arranged along the bottom of the screen.

spent the last two days at the 'Global Southing Internet, Data, and AI Studies Workshop', organised by @jonasvalente.bsky.social at the Oxford Internet Institute - so many brilliant papers and generative conversations - and enjoyed presenting my own research on Nigeria

AI chatbots are still anti-thinking plagiarism machines that are wrong most of the time. I don’t care who uses them or says they’re great or thinks they’re our collective future. My future involves a lot of thinking, original work, and getting things right, so I have no use for them

Does anyone have access to Samaila Suleiman’s article ‘Archives as spaces of power: The social life of National Archives of Nigeria’? Published in Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies, vol. 31, no. 1 (2021). Thanks in advance! #historiansky #nigeria

Thank you, I am trying to remember this!

thank you so much for your kind and helpful words Rob - I’m very grateful for your advice, as always!

2025-1&2 African Independences and the Avatars of Coloniality Guest EditorsVíctor Barros, Instituto de História Contemporânea, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa / IN2PAST – Laboratório Associado para a Investigação e Inova...

CFP: double issue of journal "Lusotopie", entitled
"African Independences and the Avatars of Coloniality"

Deadline prop: 31 January 2025
AfroLuso Afriposlky #Africa #Lusophone #History #sociology #anthropology #Portugal #Angola #Mozambique
Details: journals.openedition.org/lusotopie/7907

Against Platforms w/ Mike Pepi Podcast Episode · Joshua Citarella · 09/01/2025 · 48m

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Really enjoyed this episode @joshuacitarella.bsky.social and Mike Pepi, with an interesting critique of Bluesky towards the end…

front cover of a book “Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism” by Ariella Aisha Azoulay

currently reading 📚

Future proofing the present through the past Historical research has always been political and indeed the very act of memorialization is necessarily partial, selective and therefore exclusionary.  No-one can write a comprehensive history…

This from @christophersmith.bsky.social will (like the blog-post immediately before it) be of interest for @kawulf.bsky.social , @alanlester.bsky.social , @sathnam.bsky.social , @nevillemorley.bsky.social and others. Good to see the inherently collaborative nature of historical research recognised.

Will do! Thank you :)

The Hypothetical Image — Cybernetic Forests. The history of AI images as data analytics, and AI art as the aestheticization of Big Data’s politics.

@kimatiwagner.bsky.social another one for you www.cyberneticforests.com/news/social-...

@eryk.bsky.social's ‘The Hypothetical Image’ essay is a great read. I am currently writing a thesis chapter that uses similar frameworks of generative AI, nostalgia, imagination, and history, to analyse historical meaning-making through photography and generative AI in Nigeria.

screenshot of Instagram from the dyke project. It reads: Phone and email blockage 12pm - 5pm Thursday 12 December Tell Wes Streeting: Drop the puberty blockers ban! Parliamentary office number: 020 7219 6131 Constituency (Ilford North) number: 0203 475 7901 Email: wes.streeting.mp@parliament.uk

TODAY: phone & email blockade organised by the dyke project on wes streeting between 12pm and 5pm. everyone should be able to find some time today to send an email or make some phone calls. mass involvement is key

phone and email script available here: bit.ly/3ZyWGQ5

insta post: surl.li/cahdyn

the title of my project has changed since i made this BUT i am still looking for more people to interview about Nigerian history and social media! please share and get in touch if you know someone who might be interested 🙏🏻 #nigerianhistory #nigeria #phdresearch

(PDF) The walls spoke when no one else would: Autoethnographic notes on sexual-power gatekeeping within avant-garde academia PDF | To our readers: thanks for considering to support this Open Letter to Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group: Academic censorship on sexual misconduct... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

In this book chapter, some of the women used auto-ethnographic methods to describe the experience. Santos tried to have the book retracted.

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thanks anyway! i hope the re-proposal is successful!

Would love to look at the reading list for this module if it’s possible! no worries if not 🙏🏻

This is so cool! why do you think students are largely non-receptive to creative methods? 🤔

People of Bluesky - @thecontinent.bsky.social is your thing: a *finishable* weekly English-language paper, readable in Signal/WhatsApp, full of crisp, excellent #journalism from across #Africa.

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Remembering Margaret Ekpo and the Enugu strike massacre After the killing of 20 protesters during a mining strike in Nigeria, Ekpo made her name as a feminist and activist.

There's also a great article by Tayo Agunbiade (who sadly died recently) about the feminist anti-colonial politician Margaret Ekpo and her role in the dispute:

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

ooo will definitely be reading this!! thanks for sharing 🙏🏻

The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.

My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

This is happening now in Beirut.

X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.

the title of my project has changed since i made this BUT i am still looking for more people to interview about Nigerian history and social media! please share and get in touch if you know someone who might be interested 🙏🏻 #nigerianhistory #nigeria #phdresearch

Alex Newson, the Chief Curator from Young V&A will be presenting on the “Creating Joyous Exhibitions” panel!