Dear all,

Apologies for cross-posting.

We are pleased to announce some fascinating talks coming up in the Spring Term 2014 Centre for e-Research seminar series. Seminars are held fortnightly on Tuesdays during term time at 6.15pm (unless otherwise stated) in the Anatomy Museum, on the 6th floor, King’s College London, Strand Campus. Seminars are followed by drinks and nibbles. 

 

The first seminar of this series is next week, on Tuesday 21st January, with Paolo Gerbaudo speaking on "Info-viz and political activism". More details and abstract below.

 

Also below, is the full programme for this term, with further details at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/seminars/2013-14.aspx. 

All the best,

Valentina Asciutti

21st Jan: Info-viz and political activism. Paolo Gerbaudo (King’s College London)

Abstract: Info-visualisation is a practice that has been widely utilised in contemporary digital culture, in order to get to grips with the complex patterns emerging from huge sets of data. Among the different categories utilising info-viz, including programmers, marketers, financial analysts, security personnel, and government advisors, also activists have found in info-viz a powerful visual language to get to grips with the complexity of social grievances and economic problems in a highly complex and globalised world. In my presentation I will look at the political positioning of info-visualisation as a radical political language in collectives such as Bureau d-Etudes and RTMark, as well as drawing on my own work infondoalmar.info. I will discuss the extent to which info-viz can constitute a platform for radical politics, and look at some possible lines of future development of these practices. 

Speaker bio: Paolo Gerbaudo (1979) is lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at King’s College London. He has worked as a reporter for the Italian Left newspaper Il Manifesto and has been involved in anti-corporate, global justice and ecologist campaigns. His current research focuses on the use of new media and social media by social movements and emerging digital parties. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets (2012), a book analysing social media activism in the popular protest wave of 2011, from the Arab Spring, to the indignados and Occupy Wall Street. He has a PhD from Goldsmiths College, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Nick Couldry. He has previously taught at Middlesex University and the American University in Cairo. He is currently the convenor of the Digital Culture and Political Protest module at King’s College London.

 

The event is free of charge but registration is required. 

Eventbrite link for registration:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cerch-seminar-info-viz-and-political-activism-paolo-gerbaudo-kings-college-london-tickets-10115123607

 

Spring Term (2014)

• 21st Jan: Info-viz and political activism. Paolo Gerbaudo (King’s College London)
• 4th Feb: Exploring very large collections of texts by creating structured unbiased samples. Pieter Francois (Oxford)
• 18th Feb: Let's consider some new technologies for musicians, music learners, and music teachers. Anita Pincas (Institute of Eduction)
• 4th March: Founders & Survivors: Tasmanian Convict Life Courses in Historical Context. Professor Janet McCalman (Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne), Dr Rebecca Kippen (Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne), Ms Sandra Silcot (Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne), Dr Len Smith (Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University).
• 25th March: Network analysis and distant reading on a Latin corpus. Thibault Clerice (King’s College London) and Anthony Glaise (UFR de Grec, Paris IV – Sorbonne)