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I found a copy of my work labelled as « impressive AI generation » and without any attribution… I created this animation for my shader coding tutorial a year ago: youtu.be/f4s1h2YETNY

The Political Film Archives group on archiving underground political films and the efforts to catalogue, preserve, and exhibit the films of Amsterdams Stadsjournaal, a radical filmmaking collective (70s-80s) Stadsarchief Amsterdam Eye Filmmuseum wp.me/p6zYkX-3pE

Their vision of computing was not about a mankind captured by machines. The tech they were building wanted to expand our horizons. They saw human relations, art and identity as open-ended, always-evolving ecologies. Read & listen Evgeny Morozov (evgenymorozov.bsky.social) masterpiece ft.com/content/c63dae…

From digital infrastructures to digital skills: the second yearly report on the State of the #DigitalDecade is out. With a call for strengthened action to #EU countries to be more ambitious, as achieving the Digital Decade goals set for 2030. europa.eu/!XmpNNK #DigitalEU

Read contributions from IIPP’s Francesca Bria (@francescabria.bsky.social), @rainerkattel & Fernando Fernández-Monge to the blueprint for cities where they argue for governing data with the guiding principle of democracy to improve their capabilities to tackle grand challenges ➡️ thenewhanse.eu/en/blueprint

Announcement: During ECREA 2024 (23-27 Sep in Ljubljana, Slovenia) Media, Cities and Space will hold elections for its Section Management Team. Anyone interested in running should submit their applications (individually or in teams) by 1 Aug 2024. More details: buff.ly/4bxpa0B

Looking for new books to read on architecture, landscapes and cities? This summer, we're launching "Bookshelf," a seasonal roundup of brief book reviews featuring titles of particular interest to Places editors & contributing critics. Find your next read:placesjournal.org/article/booksh…

Ireland’s energy-hungry datacentres consumed more electricity last year than all of its urban homes combined theguardian.com/world/article/…

I was lucky enough to visit Paris last week ahead of the Olympics, and see for myself the *huge* numbers of cyclists on the city's rapidly-growing network of routes. Here's my report for Bloomberg CityLab bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Understatement of the year...

Final conference programme has been published! ecrea.eu/news/13388034 #ECREA2024, #ECREA2024Ljubljana, #Ljubljana, #conference, #ECREA, #Slovenia, FDV

Cities may have expanded vertically more than they have horizontally since the 1990s, according to an analysis of three decades of satellite data from around the world published in Nature Cities. go.nature.com/4ccdOja

CfP: "AI and the City Conference", Bangalore, India 🇮🇳Jan 4-6, 2025; to participate in this international and interdisciplinary conference sponsored by School of Cities and IIIT-Bangalore, send your abstracts (200 words or less) by Sep 15, 2024! 👇 👇

CFP: 'Ordinary Democracy and Digital Cities' - an in-person/hybrid session #AAG2025 organised by Yu-Shan Tseng and @rodgers_scott. Welcomes affirmative/pragmatic explorations into what ‘democracy’ means in digital cities. Deadline 30 Sept, more details: bit.ly/3X7W3No

📢📢📢 The deadline for open-call papers and planned panels for #SCMS2025 is approaching—Friday, August 30, 2024, 5:00 PM US Central Time. Check your emails for a message from SCMS Urbanism, Geography, and Architecture SIG with a link to a Google Doc to share ideas and collaborate on potential panels!

My book is now available in paperback at an affordqble price (20 pounds sterling) in paperback from major online outlets and the MUP website (performance and urban studies): manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179067/… Dublin City University School of Comms DCU Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences @ DCU

CFP #AAG2025 - Media Matter(s) in Geography: On Theory, Genealogy, and Analysis of Media Spatiality. Addresses the diverse materialities of media, digital and otherwise, bringing into dialogue geographic scholarship on media. Deadline 18 Oct buff.ly/3TEDBKr

1/ Call for Applications until 15 January 2025: YECREA Representative for the Section Media, Cities and Space! More info online: yecrea.eu/2024/12/10/cal…

In the latest episode of our Voices podcast series, Caitlin bruce discusses with @rodgers_scott her recent book exploring shifting judgments of graffiti culture in urban Mexico, and how the book has taken on new life as socially-engaged scholarship. mediapolisjournal.com/2024/12/voices…