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Prof, Maynooth Univ www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/ro… PI Data Stories datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Publication day. The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning, edited by Danielle Hynes, Rob Kitchin and Samuel Mutter. Published by Policy Press. Open access download at: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-data-pol...
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The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning
The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning; This pioneering book critically examines how governments, industry and civil society use housing, property and planning data, offering a vital refl...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Housing in Ireland book forum, Oct 14th, iD8, Dublin, 18.00-19.30. Join me in conversation with Lorcan Sirr, @mickbyrne.bsky.social, @ronanlyons.bsky.social, Mike Allen, @danihynes.bsky.social & Lidia Manzo, each of whom have recently published a book on housing. www.eventbrite.ie/e/housing-ex...
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HOUSING EXPERTS PANEL — BOOK FORUM
Housing experts and writers discuss their books and the current housing emergency
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Symposium: Reflecting on the evidence base for housing and planning. Oct 15th, iD8, Dublin. Includes speakers from academia, DHLGH, Housing Agency, LDA, OPR, CSO, IPI, Jacobs. Come and participate in the discussion. Details & sign-up at: www.eventbrite.ie/e/symposium-...
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SYMPOSIUM: REFLECTING ON THE EVIDENCE BASE FOR HOUSING AND PLANNING
Experts discuss how housing and planning evidence is produced, shared & used, & the limits to our knowledge & its implications.
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exhibition: 'Fictions, Frictions & Evictions: Understanding Ireland’s Housing Emergency through Data Stories, Public Knowledge, Art & Activism'. Oct 16-24, The Bank/IDC, Dublin 8. 12 artists/writers & Data Stories project @maynoothuniversity.ie & 7 days of events. See fictions-frictions-evictions.ie
Poster for Fictions, Frictions & Evictions exhibition, 16-24 October in Dublin
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New paper in Urban Geography with Danielle Hynes. Calculating housing vacancy: the data politics and praxes of state data and official statistics. Examines how a national statistical office alters data measures and introduces new ones. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VFHGZ...
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Calculating housing vacancy: the data politics and praxes of state data and official statistics
Vacancy has long been considered a key housing and urban development issue, and many states produce datasets and official statistics that detail its extent and form. Yet, there is no internationall...
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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
reposting this which enthuses not only about Sarah Sharma's book but also the work of Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social. @dukepress.bsky.social @goodrobotpod.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @ahjackman.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social @alinau27.bsky.social
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HousingSupply.ie @housingsupplyie.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Some thoughts on the vacancy data debate. With thnks to @robkitchin.bsky.social hometruths.housingsupply.ie/p/the-census...
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The Census Wasn’t Wrong. We Changed the Question.
The third in a series on how housing figures in Ireland become “true.” The first two showed how a soft number gets accepted. This one shows how a hard number gets dismissed.
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Reframing data activism: Towards a broader understanding of datafied social movements by Juliette Davret, Danielle Hynes, Samuel Mutter and Joan Somers Donnelly in Big Data & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Reframing data activism: Towards a broader understanding of datafied social movements - Juliette Davret, Danielle Hynes, Samuel Mutter, Joan Somers Donnely, 2026
Social movements are adapting to datafication in diverse and complex ways. This paper refines existing conceptualisations of datafied social movements by analys...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My letter in today's Irish Times. Ireland is putting its international reputation for research at risk. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
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Ireland is putting its international reputation for research at risk
Devolving doctoral and postdoctoral recruitment seems to be about offloading administrative responsibility
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism by Prince K. Guma in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism
Existing studies across Geography and related fields have yet to develop a sustained account of how new and emergent digital technologies reconfigure popular resistance and dissent under authoritar...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities
Letter to Min Higher Ed
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
If you're concerned about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan then consider signing an open letter to the Minister openletter.earth/concern-abou...
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Concern about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Embodied data/subaltern datafication: Reimagining the Data-Based City Through Quantified Lived Experience by Andrés Luque-Ayala and Rodrigo Firmino in International Journal of Urban & Regional Research onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Now Open Access: Digital Timescapes: Technology, Temporality and Society by @robkitchin.bsky.social, published by Polity Books. The link is not that prominent on the publisher website; head to the red oval as per image below. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Embodied statecraft: The endurance of zhǐ jiè (pointing at the boundary) in Taiwan's land digitalisation by Wen-I Lin and @ayonadatta.bsky.social in Political Geography www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Embodied statecraft: The endurance of zhǐ jiè (pointing at the boundary) in Taiwan's land digitalisation
This paper examines the practice of "embodied statecraft" as fundamental to Taiwanese government’s ‘One Nation, One Map’ (ONOM) land digitalisation in…
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Negotiating Openness under Authoritarian Risk: Feminist Open Data Sharing in Hong Kong by Lucas Wong & Tak-Yin Yumi Wong in The Journal of Electronic Publishing 29(1). Charts the tension between visibility and vulnerability in open data. doi: doi.org/10.3998/jep....
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Negotiating Openness under Authoritarian Risk: Feminist Open Data Sharing in Hong Kong
Open data has become increasingly common in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) in recent years, but its promise falters when the “data” are people’s stories, such as i...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
12 month postdoc post working on my ERC funded Data Stories project. The role is to undertake a comprehensive data audit of the data terrain of housing, property and planning in Northern Ireland & compare to Republic of Ireland. Closing date 31 March 2026. Job details: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Geogames: The Future’s Language of Urban and Regional Planning. Special issue of 11 papers in the journal 'Urban Planning' edited by Bruno Andrade, Alenka Poplin, Marta Dodig and David Schwartz. doi.org/10.17645/up....
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Geogames: The Future’s Language of Urban and Regional Planning
Thematic Issue, Vol 11 (2026)
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The digital turn in planning and the production of ‘good enough’ planning systems by Carla Kayanan, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Sam Mutter & @robkitchin.bsky.social, now published in issue 34(4) of European Planning Studies. Access PDF at www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2CZIS...
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The digital turn in planning and the production of ‘good enough’ planning systems
The digitalization of planning has taken place in a context where planning work is on-going and cannot be halted, and in which there are embedded institutional and technical systems and practices, ...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The data politics of estimating housing need and demand: Evidence-informed policy, data debates, and data valences. New paper in International Journal of Housing Policy about Ireland's HNDA process by Carla Kayanan and Rob Kitchin. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The data politics of estimating housing need and demand: evidence-informed policy, data debates, and data valences
How many housing units need to be built to meet demand is a perennial question that governments in market economies must grapple with and act on. Build too few units and excess demand will drive up...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Digital Geographies of Hope: The Transformative Power of Media. Special issue of Media and Communication edited by Cornelia Brantner, Kaarina Nikunen and Georgia Aitaki. doi.org/10.17645/mac...
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Digital Geographies of Hope: The Transformative Power of Media
Thematic Issue, Vol 14 (2026)
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
12 month postdoc post working on my ERC funded Data Stories project. The role: undertake a data audit of the data terrain of housing, property and planning in Northern Ireland + interviews with key stakeholders. Closing date 31 March 2026. Details: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
person stood in front of 3D printed model of Dublin city centre with building data projected onto it.
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Conference on Democracy & Digital Citizenship, 27-28 August 2026, Aarhus, Denmark. conferences.au.dk/democracy-di... Pre-conference, 26 August: Social Media Influence: Understanding digital influence infrastructures
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Democracy and Digital Citizenship
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance, 12 open access papers in the journal, Media and Communication. www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...
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Counter Data Mapping as Communicative Practices of Resistance
Thematic Issue, Vol 14 (2026)
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
New paper by @juliettedavret.bsky.social The politics of counting homelessness: The case of Ireland. Housing Policy Debate, doi: 10.1080/10511482.2025.2599125. OA postprint: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...
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The Politics of Counting Homelessness: The Case of Ireland - MURAL - Maynooth University Research Archive Library
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Research Ireland Public Service Fellowship. These like a good opportunity to work with state agencies on projects www.researchireland.ie/funding/publ... 72 projects listed. Shame none of them relate to housing or planning. But then why would we need any research about those ...
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Research Ireland Public Service Fellowship - Research Ireland
The Research Ireland Public Service Fellowship offers researchers a unique opportunity to be temporarily seconded to Government Departments and Agencies (Host Organisations) to work on specific projec...
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mickbyrne.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My book is out on Friday in print and ebook. Get a 40% discount wit this code: MIB26 @robkitchin.bsky.social @maedhbhlikedave.bsky.social @maoiliosarey.bsky.social @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @javigil.bsky.social @fingalpimpernel.bsky.social @adrianasoaita.bsky.social tinyurl.com/kxunfkb4
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Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector
Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector, As societies struggle to respond to the revival of private renting, this book offers the first comprehensive and c...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
New housing and planning resource for Ireland – a publications hub. >1,800 academic, policy and sector publications relating to housing, property and planning in Ireland. Access at www.zotero.org/groups/55867... if there are pubs missing you want us to add, please send them to us and we will do so
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Zotero | Your personal research assistant
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards 2026-2027 at Maynooth University. 4 year scholarship (€25,000 stipend, €2,000 research expenses plus fees). Applicants can find more details and identify potential supervisors and the topics they are willing to supervise at www.maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-res...
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John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards at Maynooth University
John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards 2026-2027 The call for student applications for the John & Pat Hume Doctoral Scholarship Awards opens on Monday 1st December 2025 at 12 noon and closes on Friday 23rd
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, vol 1(3) in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social, edited by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, Jing Hiah, @robkitchin.bsky.social & @steelecat717.bsky.social y.social. All 49 pieces open access. journals.sagepub.com/toc/ddsa/1/3
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Dialogues on Digital Society - Volume 1, Number 3
Table of contents for Dialogues on Digital Society, 1, 3
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Situating automated infrastructure: (Dis)continuities, contingencies and spatialities by Weiqiang Lin, Peter Adey, Tina Harris and Dylan Brady. Intro to special section on automated infrastructure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Themed intervention: Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI. Papers appearing in online first list rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Engaging Publics in Media, Cities and Space – and Boosting the Impact of Your Research. An online one-day Conference by the ECREA Media, Cities and Space (MCS) section. Tuesday, 25 November 2025, 10:00–17:00 GMT. Register at docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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Engaging Publics in Media, Cities and Space - Online Conference 2025
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Authoritarianism in the digital age by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, Jing Hiah and @steelecat717.bsky.social in @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social. Intro to special issue with 48 papers on the topic. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Authoritarianism in the digital age - Kylie Jarrett, Rob Kitchin, Jing Hiah, Catherine Knight Steele, 2025
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data by @drnikko.bsky.social and @ameliadogan.bsky.social in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data - Nikko Stevens, Amelia Lee Doğan, 2025
Amidst proliferating threats to trans rights, transgender activists are using data and data activism to advocate for and to protect trans communities. This tran...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
On method, and the present and future of “doing” urban geography by Agnieszka Leszczynski in Urban Geography. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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On method, and the present and future of “doing” urban geography
Based on a survey of research articles published in Urban Geography between 2020 and 2024, I identify a tepidness in qualitative urban geographers’ relationship with method. This tepidness is marke...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New paper on housing data debates that traces arguments in news media between 2010 & 2025 about the number of #vacant dwellings & housing #completions in Ireland & examining the data politics of facts and counter-facts. In @journalurp.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6UCGN...
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Data debates in urban development: the data politics of facts and counter-facts
Data relating to urban development are often accepted and used at face value, treated as impartial, objective, incontrovertible facts. However, the validity and veracity of official datasets can be...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Call for papers. Workshop: Data Migration and Mobilities: Towards a New Research Agenda. Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Tallinn, Estonia, 8-9 April 2026. Organised by Anu Masso & @robkitchin.bsky.social. Deadline for submissions 15 Oct.
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland's property market by spoofing property websites by @virt-arch.bsky.social, Ella Harris, Carla Kayanan, Hannah Mumby. Session as part of Research Week at MU, October 23, 2025, 13:00 to 14:00 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Can AI Help Build Cities Better? Advancing urban planning with algorithmic urbanism by Samuel Greengard in Communications of the ACM, cacm.acm.org/news/can-ai-...
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Can AI Help Build Cities Better? – Communications of the ACM
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Navigating digital geographies: Black boxes, geospatial narratives, and the art of constructing location data by Thomas Cooke, @dancohen.bsky.social & @marxist.af journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets) New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’ mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20... Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’ New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets) mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20... Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Call for papers. Workshop: Data Migration and Mobilities: Towards a New Research Agenda. Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Tallinn, Estonia, 8-9 April 2026. Organised by Anu Masso & @robkitchin.bsky.social. Deadline for submissions 15 Oct.
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Japanese translation of Digital Geographies book just arrived in the post. Thanks to the Japanese editors, Masahiro Tanaka, Taro Futamura, and translators and the publishers, Akashi Shoten Co. for making the effort to translate the book for a new audience. Did a nice job
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Dialogues on Digital Society @dialoguesdigsoc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The second issue of Dialogues on Digital Society is now out. Explore it here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/DDS/curr... 1/6
Title of Dialogues on Digital Society with Volume 1 Issue 2 August 2025 written beneath
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
CFP. Beyond Community: Hybrid Practices of Mapping and Participation, Agnone (Molise, Italy), 24-25 Oct 2025. Will cover travel/accommodation. www.verrinomap.it/conference/
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Digital Twins special issue in New Media & Society edited by Christoph Borbach, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Tristan Thielmann. 15 papers including one by Oliver Dawkins & myself. Interdisciplinary exploration of the conceptualisation and practices of digital twinning. journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8
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New Media & Society - Volume 27, Number 8
Table of contents for New Media & Society, 27, 8
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