King's College London's African Creativity Beyond Borders initiative seeks PhD candidates to explore African creativity's role in academia and policy. One proposed project studies Nigerian theatre's development and audience engagement using online data, addressing both urban and rural landscapes. The project aims to analyze and map Nigeria's vibrant theatre ecosystem.
Tag: cultural analytics
Movies from foreign lands: Computing the geographies of cinema
The article discusses President Trump's proposed tariffs on foreign film productions, aiming to boost domestic cinema and challenge "woke" Hollywood. With a decline in traditional cinema attendance and a shift towards globalized filmmaking, the authors highlight the complexities of film geography and the industry's reliance on international markets amid rising nationalism and protectionist tendencies.
Charting cultural events on Eventbrite
Here's a new paper led by our PhD student Yue Wang, to be presented at GISRUK 2025 in Bristol! 🌎 🎹🎭 Abstract: This study explores the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of cultural life by investigating the dynamics of cultural events in Greater London. We leverage over 50,000 data points retrieved from Eventbrite to analyse the … Continue reading Charting cultural events on Eventbrite
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)
[job] 2-year postdoc on cultural analytics/DH @Birkbeck/King’s College London
📢 Come to work with us on museum analytics! 💡📊🏛️ URL: https://cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/postdoctoral-research-assistant-531235.html This is a full time, fixed term appointment until 30 September 2024 at Birkbeck, University of London. Please note, the successful candidate will be employed at Birkbeck for Year 1 and KCL for Year 2. Are you a recent PhD graduate or a … Continue reading [job] 2-year postdoc on cultural analytics/DH @Birkbeck/King’s College London
New AHRC project on museum analytics
Museum Closure in the UK (2000-2025) We are pleased to announce that the Mapping Museums Lab has been awarded £1M Arts and Humanities Research Council funding for their project ‘Museum Closure in the UK 2000-2025’. Museums are defined as permanent institutions and are intended to preserve collections for posterity. Yet their closure is common. Our previous … Continue reading New AHRC project on museum analytics
W2GIS keynote speech: “Beyond GIS? The future of Cultural Geo-Analytics”
I look forward to giving this keynote speech next week at the 19th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2022). See the slides here. Photo by Samson Katt on Pexels.com Title: Beyond GIS? The future of Cultural Geo-Analytics Abstract: Cultural geo-analytics (CGA) is an emergent area that studies the geographical dimension … Continue reading W2GIS keynote speech: “Beyond GIS? The future of Cultural Geo-Analytics”
Webinar • Demarcating place in cultural geo-analytics • 17 Feb 2022
I look forward to giving this ISPRS (online) talk in a few days: Webinar Series by ISPRS TC IV: Geospatial Knowledge Representation and Analytics Date/Time: February 17th, 2022; 9:00 PCT, 12:00 EST, 17:00 UTC, 18:00 CET ISPRS WG IV/2 (Ontologies, Semantics, and Knowledge Representation for Geospatial Information) Webinar Moderator: Dr Margarita Kokla (National Technical University … Continue reading Webinar • Demarcating place in cultural geo-analytics • 17 Feb 2022
Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab 