We are delighted to welcome visiting PhD student Laura Dunne (University College Dublin, Ireland) to the Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab at King’s College London for a research visit from February to May 2025. Under the supervision of Andrea Ballatore, Laura will be advancing her PhD research on optimizing bus networks using machine learning, with a focus … Continue reading New visiting PhD student at the lab: Laura Dunn 📊🚌
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How the pandemic changed what we eat and drink: A look at food purchases in England
New journal article out in Public Health Nutrition led by Alexandra Kalbus, from her PhD co-supervised at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. [open access article] 📄📊🍔😷 Reference: Kalbus A, Cornelsen L, Ballatore A, Cummins S. (2024) Changes in food and drink purchasing behaviour in England during the first three months of the … Continue reading How the pandemic changed what we eat and drink: A look at food purchases in England
Eating during the English lockdown
New journal article out in Plos ONE led by Alexandra Kalbus, from her PhD co-supervised at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. [open access article] 📄📊🍔😷 Reference: Kalbus AI, Cornelsen L, Ballatore A, Cummins S (2024) Associations between the neighbourhood food environment and food and drink purchasing in England during lockdown: A repeated … Continue reading Eating during the English lockdown
An attempt at exhausting a place in Barcelona
My abstract for the AMPS Cultural Pasts conference (July 2024, Barcelona) 🇪🇸 An attempt at exhausting a place in Barcelona: Digital augmentations as intangible heritage? Andrea Ballatore (King's College London) Sitting in a café in Paris in 1974, French writer George Perec started to record the seemingly mundane minutiae of what could be observed in … Continue reading An attempt at exhausting a place in Barcelona
From Cagliari to King’s
A new post by our visiting student Filippo Astori (University of Cagliari): "With these few lines, I would like to describe what has been my experience at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College of London and the King’s Digital Lab (KDL). Several weeks have now passed since my return to Italy. The leaden English sky has given … Continue reading From Cagliari to King’s
Museum maps at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) has selected our museum mapping work as notable geo-visualisations! Andrea Ballatore, Lecturer in Social and Cultural Informatics at King’s College London, and Fiona Candlin, Director of the Mapping Museums research project, were interested in understanding the spatial unevenness of the cultural sector by studying the location of museums in … Continue reading Museum maps at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Museums’ Online Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
New open-access journal article in the realm of museum analytics from the Museums in Pandemic project 🏛️. 📜 Andrea Ballatore, Valeri Katerinchuk, Alexandra Poulovassilis, and Peter T. Wood. 2024. Tracking Museums’ Online Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study in Museum Analytics. ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage. 17, 1, Article 2 (2023), 29 pages. … Continue reading Museums’ Online Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Enter the Facebook City
New open-access journal article on urban/spatial social media from the Local Content Governance project 🌍📈🌆! 📜 Ballatore, A., Rodgers, S., McLoughlin, L., & Moore, S. (2024). Facebook city: Place-named groups as urban communication infrastructure in Greater London. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. DOI:10.1177/23998083231224136 [web] [pdf] Figure 1: Distribution of groups and … Continue reading Enter the Facebook City
Digital Placemaking & Soft City Sensing 🌆📊
Very happy to be part of this amazing research network led by Prof Anders Koed Madsen of Aalborg University (Denmark)! Original announcement from Anders (source): I am really grateful that Independent Research Fund Denmark have awarded me a grant to lead an explorative explorative academic network on: ⚡ 'Digital Placemaking & Soft City Sensing' ⚡The network will … Continue reading Digital Placemaking & Soft City Sensing 🌆📊
Technological failures, controversies and the myth of AI
Pleased to have a new book chapter out in a book edited by Simon Lindgren, the leading digital sociologist: 📜 A. Ballatore & S. Natale (2023) Technological failures, controversies and the myth of AI. S. Lindgren (ed.) Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar. [web] "In the popular imagination, the history of computing is often represented … Continue reading Technological failures, controversies and the myth of AI
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