Rob Kitchin
@robkitchin.bsky.social
Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
PI Data Stories https://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
· Jan 6
New open access book – Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods – published by Polity Books. 413 key terms defined & described. Also available as a paperback or hardback. To download or buy visit the publishers website: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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...
Engaging Publics in Media, Cities and Space - Online Conference 2025
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November 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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...
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/...
Authoritarianism in the digital age - Kylie Jarrett, Rob Kitchin, Jing Hiah, Catherine Knight Steele, 2025
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November 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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/...
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....
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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October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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....
On method, and the present and future of “doing” urban geography by Agnieszka Leszczynski in Urban Geography. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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October 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
On method, and the present and future of “doing” urban geography by Agnieszka Leszczynski in Urban Geography. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
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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October 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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...
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.
October 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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.
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/...
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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/...
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-...
Can AI Help Build Cities Better? – Communications of the ACM
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October 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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-...
Navigating digital geographies: Black boxes, geospatial narratives, and the art of constructing location data by Thomas Cooke, @dancohen.bsky.social & @marxist.af
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October 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Navigating digital geographies: Black boxes, geospatial narratives, and the art of constructing location data by Thomas Cooke, @dancohen.bsky.social & @marxist.af
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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’
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Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO
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
September 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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
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
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
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
September 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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
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
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.
September 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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.
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
August 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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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The second issue of Dialogues on Digital Society is now out. Explore it here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/DDS/curr... 1/6
August 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The second issue of Dialogues on Digital Society is now out. Explore it here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/DDS/curr... 1/6
CFP. Beyond Community: Hybrid Practices of Mapping and Participation, Agnone (Molise, Italy), 24-25 Oct 2025. Will cover travel/accommodation. www.verrinomap.it/conference/
August 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
CFP. Beyond Community: Hybrid Practices of Mapping and Participation, Agnone (Molise, Italy), 24-25 Oct 2025. Will cover travel/accommodation. www.verrinomap.it/conference/
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
New Media & Society - Volume 27, Number 8
Table of contents for New Media & Society, 27, 8
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August 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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
Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction by @bnjacobsen.bsky.social in The Sociological Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction - Benjamin N. Jacobsen, 2025
The last few years have seen the rollout of several generative AI applications. Yet, it is often claimed by commentators and social scientists that these have o...
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July 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction by @bnjacobsen.bsky.social in The Sociological Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Is data material? Toward an environmental sociology of AI by Maximilian Pieper in AI & Society link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Is data material? Toward an environmental sociology of AI by Maximilian Pieper in AI & Society link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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📢: Read this new article on "Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system" by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla M Kayanan, and Samuel Mutter!
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#dataassemblage #dataecosystem
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#dataassemblage #dataecosystem
July 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
📢: Read this new article on "Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system" by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla M Kayanan, and Samuel Mutter!
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#dataassemblage #dataecosystem
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#dataassemblage #dataecosystem
Toward a geographical stack: Reworking state-less and scale-less conceptions of the digital in China and California by Dylan Brady in Progress in Human Geography journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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July 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Toward a geographical stack: Reworking state-less and scale-less conceptions of the digital in China and California by Dylan Brady in Progress in Human Geography journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New paper (OA): Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla Kayanan and Sam Mutter in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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July 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
New paper (OA): Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla Kayanan and Sam Mutter in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Job ad: 25-month contract lecturer post, Human Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland. Details at: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
July 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Job ad: 25-month contract lecturer post, Human Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland. Details at: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency by @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and @casey-lynch.bsky.social in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency
This article interrogates the reconfiguration of human-technology relationships through urban artificial intelligence (AI), complicating how the human subject is understood and invoked within urban...
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June 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency by @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and @casey-lynch.bsky.social in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial Data Science by Teanna Barrett, Chinasa T. Okolo, B. Biira, Eman Sherif, Amy X. Zhang, Leilani Battle. arxiv.org/abs/2502.16043
African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial Data Science
The shift towards pluralism in global data ethics acknowledges the importance of including perspectives from the Global Majority to develop responsible data science practices that mitigate systemic ha...
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June 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial Data Science by Teanna Barrett, Chinasa T. Okolo, B. Biira, Eman Sherif, Amy X. Zhang, Leilani Battle. arxiv.org/abs/2502.16043
Indigenous Environmental Data Justice: Confronting Colonial Data and Activating Indigenous Sovereignty by Maria Fernanda Yanchapaxi & Michelle Murphy in Science, Technology, & Human Values. doi.org/10.1177/0162...
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June 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Indigenous Environmental Data Justice: Confronting Colonial Data and Activating Indigenous Sovereignty by Maria Fernanda Yanchapaxi & Michelle Murphy in Science, Technology, & Human Values. doi.org/10.1177/0162...