Andrew Hoskins
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social
PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR
University of Edinburgh
AI & MEMORY
https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.16
https://www.andrewhoskins.net/about
ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War
5 year project
https://tinyurl.com/yjem9a4w
University of Edinburgh
AI & MEMORY
https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.16
https://www.andrewhoskins.net/about
ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War
5 year project
https://tinyurl.com/yjem9a4w
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Andrew Hoskins
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social
· Feb 20
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
link.springer.com
NEW BOOK OUT TODAY!!
SHARDED MEDIA
Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream
@williammerrin.bsky.social
Tech bros, Trump and trolls, have not toxified the Mainstream Media...
they have replaced it.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
SHARDED MEDIA
Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream
@williammerrin.bsky.social
Tech bros, Trump and trolls, have not toxified the Mainstream Media...
they have replaced it.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Comics, Memory, Activism Collection
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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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
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
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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
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
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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...
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social & I discussed data surveillance in the context of war in our 2022 book Radical War.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT3s...
Means of Control, Byron Tau book talk and discussion
YouTube video by Patrick Smith
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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...
@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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🚨 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.
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.
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
www.cambridge.org
October 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🚨 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.
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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@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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
@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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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
#AI and #Memory special collection. doi.org/10.1017/mem....
#criticalAI @universitypress.cambridge.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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
#AI and #Memory special collection. doi.org/10.1017/mem....
#criticalAI @universitypress.cambridge.org
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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!
Watch: ow.ly/EQFC50WQin8
CFP: ow.ly/M43J50WQin7
Thanks to James @intellectbooks.bsky.social and do consider writing a book on this!
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.
ow.ly
September 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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!
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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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
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
September 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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
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
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...
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...
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 …
www.sciencedirect.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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...
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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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
By Atay Kozlovski & Mykola Makhortykh
#digitalduplicate #Holocaust #testimony #artificialintelligence #ethics
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
cup.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
By Atay Kozlovski & Mykola Makhortykh
#digitalduplicate #Holocaust #testimony #artificialintelligence #ethics
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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
Read it here: cup.org/40QIkfG
#Kodak #amateurphotography #visualmemory
August 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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
Read it here: cup.org/40QIkfG
#Kodak #amateurphotography #visualmemory
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My book series with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social - we're getting good proposals and welcome more:
www.intellectbooks.com/ai-politics
www.intellectbooks.com/ai-politics
August 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
My book series with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social - we're getting good proposals and welcome more:
www.intellectbooks.com/ai-politics
www.intellectbooks.com/ai-politics
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@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
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
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
amzn.eu
August 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
@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
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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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
By Alexa Schincariol, Henry Otgaar, et al.
#fakenews #falsememories #falsebeliefs
June 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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
By Alexa Schincariol, Henry Otgaar, et al.
#fakenews #falsememories #falsebeliefs
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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
Read the introductory article, written by Ana Belén Martínez García, Monika Arnez and Anita Lunić here: cup.org/4mOLlpQ
#Migration #Memory #Media
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
cup.org
June 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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
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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June 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Check this out link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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 ...
link.springer.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Check this out link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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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...
Wisdom Weavers & Media Ecology: A Conversation with Dr. Tom Cooper
The Human Voice with Bob Hutchins · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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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Great article in @digitalwarjnl.bsky.social on when humans are there just to service the AI targeting machine…
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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 ...
link.springer.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Great article in @digitalwarjnl.bsky.social on when humans are there just to service the AI targeting machine…
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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THE ALIBI OF AI
Fantastic new article by @atpdowney.bsky.social
Open access in @digitalwarjnl.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fantastic new article by @atpdowney.bsky.social
Open access in @digitalwarjnl.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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 ...
link.springer.com
June 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
THE ALIBI OF AI
Fantastic new article by @atpdowney.bsky.social
Open access in @digitalwarjnl.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Fantastic new article by @atpdowney.bsky.social
Open access in @digitalwarjnl.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
June 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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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
Panel discussion “Washing away memory. New realities emerging.”
📢 Riga StratCom Dialogue 2025
📅 10–11 June | 📍 Riga, Latvia
🔗 rigastratcomdialogue.org
May 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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
Panel discussion “Washing away memory. New realities emerging.”
📢 Riga StratCom Dialogue 2025
📅 10–11 June | 📍 Riga, Latvia
🔗 rigastratcomdialogue.org
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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...
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...
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
www.amazon.co.uk
June 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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...
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...