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PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR University of Edinburgh AI & MEMORY doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.16 www.andrewhoskins.net/about ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War 5 year project tinyurl.com/yjem9a4w

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Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
MEMORYBOT AI and the END OF HUMAN MEMORY @politybooks.bsky.social Just published! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Memorybot: AI and the End of Human Memory
Memorybot: AI and the End of Human Memory, From a murdered teenager being interviewed as though he were alive, to a widow speaking with a chatbot made through voice cloning the digital relics of her l...
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Dr Benjamin Thorne @benjaminthorne.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Andrew Hoskins has recently written very insightfully on LLM's and implications for memory work - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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AI and memory | Memory, Mind & Media | Cambridge Core
AI and memory - Volume 3
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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is an interesting paper on the interaction of AI and journalism, and the memorial and intentional functions of journalism that AI cannot replicate. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
When LLMs are trained on journalistic archives, they absorb the text but dissolve its intentionality. The framing decisions, the editorial choices, the acts of contextualisation that made the production of news content a mnemonic act - are obscured in its ingestion.
What remains is pattern, not agency. The result is a memory synthesised by a machine from a corpus whose human intentionality has been evacuated, generating a past that never actually existed. The historical extinction diagnosed by Mir then changes register; it no longer designates only the end of an economic model, but the erasure of a mnemonic function.
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Anna Colom @annacolom.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026
Fascinating read. 'We are an input, now. Generative AI and the death of the journalist as human memory-maker' by @lauraguien.bsky.social and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social in the Journal of Memory, Mind & Media doi.org/10.1017/mem....
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Laura Guien @lauraguien.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Journalistes, sommes-nous devenus de simples semi-conducteurs ? 📱🤖 News Corp a signé en mars un accord de licence donnant accès aux contenus et archives du groupe pour alimenter MetaAI. A l'occasion, son CEO Robert Thomson qualifiait les organes de presse de "ressource" (input) précieuse pour l'IA.
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Laura Guien @lauraguien.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Le passé existe-t-il encore? Et, si oui, qui l'écrit? Entretien avec @andrewhoskins.bsky.social titulaire de la chaire IA, mémoire et guerre à l'université d'Édimbourg sur @next.ink 🧵 #IA #Memory #Past
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Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
New article on prophets and AI (with Amanda Lagerkvist and Blazenka Scheuer) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Prophetic memory: AI intermediaries and the end of the world | Memory, Mind & Media | Cambridge Core
Prophetic memory: AI intermediaries and the end of the world - Volume 5
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Laura Guien @lauraguien.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
L'IA est-elle en train d'intoxiquer notre passé ? Pour Next.ink, j'ai interviewé @andrewhoskins.bsky.social prof d'IA, mémoire, et conflits. Sa thèse: l’IA générative produit un passé hybride, au-delà du consentement et du contrôle de ceux qui l’ont vécu 👇 next.ink/225351/a-hos...
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Actualités informatiques et numériques au quotidien
Actualités informatiques et numériques au quotidien. Articles de fond, nouvelles du quotidien, dossiers, dessins, débats, venez vous affûter sur Next
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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social and I discuss this happening in 2022 in our book Radical War amzn.eu/d/7EaRZQY
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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Check out our new COMICS MEMORY ACTIVISM collection! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Comics, Memory, Activism Collection
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Who has control of the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings if survivors are now dead? AI #memorybots? Should there be moral worth for forgetting rather than assuming all memory is valuable? New by Luli van der Does and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Fall of Living Memory
It has been over 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Luli van der Does and Andrew Hoskins pose the question of what can fill the place and function of human testimony, and...
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University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science @uoe-sps.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
3 Funded PhD Scholarships Supervisor-led Closing date for applications: 11 December 2025 WARSHARE: The New War Front: Digital Participation in War Supervisor: Professor Andrew Hoskins PROFESSOR of AI, MEMORY & WAR @andrewhoskins.bsky.social edin.ac/4hVNTAL
text reads: Supervisor-led 3 Funded PhD Scholarships WARSHARE: The New War Front: Digital Participation in War. This project will produce new interdisciplinary understanding of how and why digital participation is transforming how individuals and societies (including militaries and states) fight, experience, and understand (perceive, explain, and de/legitimise) warfare.
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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
How are you unwittingly involved in your own surveillance? @byrontau.bsky.social's interesting discussion of his book Means of Control, explains how. @andrewhoskins.bsky.social & I discussed data surveillance in the context of war in our 2022 book Radical War. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT3s...
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Means of Control, Byron Tau book talk and discussion
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Samuel Merrill @socmerrill.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 I’m proud of this interdisciplinary, co-authored piece on how memory studies might handle the AI hype. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... It has just been added, open access, to Memory, Mind and Media’s special collection on AI and Memory.
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Handling the hype: Demystifying artificial intelligence for memory studies | Memory, Mind & Media | Cambridge Core
Handling the hype: Demystifying artificial intelligence for memory studies - Volume 4
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Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social has a sense #AI won't be good for #memory, collective or otherwise. We are sharded and swimming alone in slop: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Nataliia Laba @nataliialaba.com · 23/09/2025
New study in Memory, Mind & Media: "Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated #images of #war; #AI and #Memory special collection. doi.org/10.1017/mem.... #criticalAI @universitypress.cambridge.org
Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated
images of war

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This study addresses how AI-generated images of war are changing the making of memory. Instead of
asking how AI-generated images affect individual recall, we focus on how they communicate specific
representations, recognising that such portrayals can cultivate particular assumptions and beliefs.
Drawing on memory of the multitude, visual social semiotics, and cultivation/desensitisation theories,
we analyse how visual generative AI mediates the representation of the Russia-Ukraine war. Our
corpus includes 200 images of the Russia-Ukraine war generated from 23 prompts across proprietary
and open-source visual generative AI systems. The findings indicate that visual generative AI tends to
present a sanitised view of the war. Critical aspects, such as death, injury, and suffering of children and
refugees are often excluded. Furthermore, a disproportional focus on urban areas misrepresents the
full scope of the war. Visual generative AI, we argue, introduces a new dimension to memory making in
that it blends documentation with speculative fiction by synthesising the multitude embedded within
the visual memory of war archives, historical biases, representational limitations, and commercial risk
aversion. By foregrounding the socio-technical and discursive dimensions of synthetic war content,
this study contributes to an interdisciplinary dialogue on collective memory at the intersection of
visual communication studies, media studies, and memory studies by providing empirical insights into
how generative AI mediates the visual representation of war through human-archival-mechanistic
entanglements.
Keywords: visual generative AI; AI-generated images; memory of the multitude; war representation
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Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Our video: What is AI Politics - our book series and a thing out there in the world? @andrewhoskins.bsky.social and I mull it over: Watch: ow.ly/EQFC50WQin8 CFP: ow.ly/M43J50WQin7 Thanks to James @intellectbooks.bsky.social and do consider writing a book on this!
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In Conversation with Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
James Campbell is joined by Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin. They discuss their new book series, AI Politics, which will interrogate and shape debate on the artificial intelligence. Watch👉ow.ly/EQFC50WQin8 CFP👉ow.ly/M43J50WQin7 @benoloughlin.bsky.social @andrewhoskins.bsky.social
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Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
AI & COLLECTIVE MEMORY The agentic turn shatters collective memory through three key forces: (1) The war on human agency. (2) The sharding of the self (3) The new haunting My latest article in Current Opinion of Psychology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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AI & Collective Memory
In this review, I show how Generative AI (GAI) utterly transforms how we represent, access, expose and cover, find and lose, sanitise and toxify, use …
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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
From the AI and Memory Collection - Digital Dybbuks and virtual Golems: the ethics of digital duplicates in Holocaust testimony - cup.org/4fH7W4R By Atay Kozlovski & Mykola Makhortykh #digitalduplicate #Holocaust #testimony #artificialintelligence #ethics
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Digital Dybbuks and virtual Golems: the ethics of digital duplicates in Holocaust testimony | Memory, Mind & Media | Cambridge Core
Digital Dybbuks and virtual Golems: the ethics of digital duplicates in Holocaust testimony - Volume 4
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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New Article: Peace in every shot: How Kodak changed the way we see war by Hadas Zahavi Read it here: cup.org/40QIkfG #Kodak #amateurphotography #visualmemory
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Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
My book series with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social - we're getting good proposals and welcome more: www.intellectbooks.com/ai-politics
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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social and I picked up this point in our book Radical War. It isn't a surprise to me that the software optimisation tends to ignore the legal requirements that the armed forces remain accountable to their legislators and in the courts. amzn.eu/d/0WMoRjm
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Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century : Ford, Matthew, Hoskins, Andrew: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century : Ford, Matthew, Hoskins, Andrew: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Featured Article: Fake memories: A meta-analysis on the effect of fake news on the creation of false memories and false beliefs - cup.org/3SlXXGY By Alexa Schincariol, Henry Otgaar, et al. #fakenews #falsememories #falsebeliefs
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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
New Special Collection: Navigating migration, memory and media Read the introductory article, written by Ana Belén Martínez García, Monika Arnez and Anita Lunić here: cup.org/4mOLlpQ #Migration #Memory #Media
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Navigating migration, memory and media: Introduction to the collection | Memory, Mind & Media | Cambridge Core
Navigating migration, memory and media: Introduction to the collection - Volume 4
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Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Great to be here at NATO #RigaStratComDialogue @stratcomcoe.bsky.social rigastratcomdialogue.org
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PaulLev @paullev.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Check this out link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The alibi of AI: algorithmic models of automated killing - Digital War
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Automated Target Recognition (ATR) optimises martial prophecies of perpetual threat while simultaneously exonerating the politically inclined prosecution of ...
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PaulLev @paullev.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Just up: Bob Hutchins' riveting interview with Tom Cooper, about his new book, Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, published May 1 by Connected Editions open.spotify.com/episode/6jHa...
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Wisdom Weavers & Media Ecology: A Conversation with Dr. Tom Cooper
The Human Voice with Bob Hutchins · Episode
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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Great article in @digitalwarjnl.bsky.social on when humans are there just to service the AI targeting machine… link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The alibi of AI: algorithmic models of automated killing - Digital War
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Automated Target Recognition (ATR) optimises martial prophecies of perpetual threat while simultaneously exonerating the politically inclined prosecution of ...
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Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Review: “The Alibi of AI” by Anthony Downey aoav.org.uk/2025/review-...
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Review: "The Alibi of AI" by Anthony Downey - AOAV
Anthony Downey’s essay argues that artificial intelligence systems used by the Israeli military in Gaza have transformed warfare by automating the designation of targets, eroding human oversight, and ...
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Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
THE ALIBI OF AI Fantastic new article by @atpdowney.bsky.social Open access in @digitalwarjnl.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The alibi of AI: algorithmic models of automated killing - Digital War
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Automated Target Recognition (ATR) optimises martial prophecies of perpetual threat while simultaneously exonerating the politically inclined prosecution of ...
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Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Great to be here at NATO #RigaStratComDialogue @stratcomcoe.bsky.social rigastratcomdialogue.org
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NATO StratCom COE @stratcomcoe.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Understanding identity’s cognitive roots is key to addressing conflict. What variables shape it? Panel discussion “Washing away memory. New realities emerging.” 📢 Riga StratCom Dialogue 2025 📅 10–11 June | 📍 Riga, Latvia 🔗 rigastratcomdialogue.org
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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I've just read @williammerrin.bsky.social and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social's fast paced book "Sharded Media". If you who want to understand the highly fragmented state of our media ecologies and how this framed/shaped Trump's 2024 election then this is for you. www.amazon.co.uk/SHARDED-MEDI...
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SHARDED MEDIA: Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream eBook : Merrin, William, Hoskins, Andrew: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
SHARDED MEDIA: Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream eBook : Merrin, William, Hoskins, Andrew: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
From the Open Collection: Sharing memory and wisdom across generations: A scaffolded community reminiscing programme for adolescents and older adults - cup.org/42YuSGK By Penny Van Bergen, Tanya Evans, et al. #reminiscing #intergenerational #lifestory
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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
From the AI and Memory Collection: Myopic memory: Capitalism's new continuity in the age of AI - cup.org/4ifOxaJ By Danny Pilkington #AI #Capitalism #Neoliberalism
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Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
JOB KLAXON - 5 year Research Fellowship for experienced postdoc working with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social on digital war @edinburghuni.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Fellow (WARSHARE)
We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral Research Fellow with demonstrated success in delivering complex research projects, and advanced knowledge in conceptual and theoretical work on the appli...
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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
From the AI & Memory Collection: Myopic memory: Capitalism's new continuity in the age of AI cup.org/4ifOxaJ By Danny Pilkington #AI #Capitalism #Neoliberalism
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williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
From Merrin and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social Sharded Media, written in November: 'Very simply, Reform are going to become one of the most important and powerful voices in UK politics (perhaps the most)' (p. 112)...
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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Trending article in Memory, Mind & Media: AI and memory - cup.org/42EoeGC By Andrew Hoskins #generativeAI #humanagency #digitalparticipation
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Did I mention that the fabulous Memory, Mind & Media journal is on Bluesky? You might want to check out @mmmjournal.bsky.social if you're interested in all things mediating memory.
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Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Invitation to potential authors - AI Politics: new book series by @intellectbooks.bsky.social / @uchicagopress.bsky.social edited by @andrewhoskins.bsky.social & I. View the full call here>> www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2536/a...
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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
New article from Memory, Mind & Media: Sharing photographs on social media enhances recollection of photograph-related details - cup.org/4lLXX0G By Angelina N. Vasquez, Shayla J. Dockery, Jessica M. Karanian, Qi Wang and Charles B. Stone #memory #socialmedia #captureddetails
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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Recently published in Memory Mind & Media: Remembering/imagining: Shona Illingworth’s time present and Trinh-T Minh-Ha’s forgetting Vietnam - cup.org/42lGNxW By Caterina Albano #memory #amnesia #imagination #TrinhTMinha @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🙂 news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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Book examines how digital culture is affecting our memory | Cornell Chronicle
A new book co-written by Cornell professor Qi Wang probes key issues on how our digital culture affects our memory, including recalling personal memories of events and information.
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Andrew Hoskins @andrewhoskins.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The uncanny of AI memory #pulpband www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27a...
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williammerrin.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
(1) The markets and commentators make the mistake of thinking what Trump says is real... hence the crash and recovery and panicked analyses of the global impact. They all make the mistake that #shardedmedia by myself and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social point out ...
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Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Noticing my dissertation students are writing about #deepfakes, #mistrust, #illiberalism, I'm telling them to read at least the first chapters of Sharded Media by @andrewhoskins.bsky.social & @williammerrin.bsky.social, as the book is about more than just Trump: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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SHARDED MEDIA
This book shows how the election of Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2024 is not a fluke but rather a symptom of a deep crisis within representative democracy
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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Six funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...
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PhD Studentships 2025
We are recruiting six PhD studentships to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory, and how people navigate together in space and time.
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MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA @mmmjournal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Our co Editor-in-Chief @andrewhoskins.bsky.social on SYNTHETIC MEMORY and deadbots, in this great essay by @lauraguien.bsky.social @usbeketrica.bsky.social usbeketrica.com/fr/article/l...
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L’IA permettra t-elle aux générations futures de mieux nous connaître ?
Jamais l'humanité n'aura partagé autant de données. De quoi permettre à nos descendants de mieux nous connaître ? Pas sûr : si de nombreux outils d’IA proposent de prendre soin de nos traces numérique...
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