Prof. of IR. Director, New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway | Co-Editor: Media, War and Conflict journal | Co-author: Strategic Narratives | Book series editor: AI Politics
Ben O'Loughlin
We're hiring! Permanent Lecturer in IR, esp. if can research one or two of: Russia, China, Race/Ethnicity, and Environment/Climate Change. Deadline 20 August. Details here: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
New article out now on Russia's strategic narratives about its war against Ukraine
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@europeansecurity.bsky.social
If you work on AI + war/violence, do submit an abstract to us:
Actors' use AI videos of speculative futures (Gaza as luxury resort) to justify, reward action (+investment) in the present, to commit mass violence = a big take on the #temporality of #media and #security. Its not #premediation. Well done Donatella Della Ratta:
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Trump =first non-hypocritical president because he doesn't hide his selfish agenda behind a cloak of universal values? Does the world like his amorality? #Flailing: physically (coercion) + figuratively (confusion). Matias Spektor & @kevcomms.bsky.social:
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South-to-North Dialogues on AI: Launch of the Favel IA Report (A Global Classroom Event), 18 June from 2pm UK time, w/ @andreamedrado.bsky.social - join online, register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/south-to-n...
Q: Shrimp Jesus was two years ago taken as a sign AI was killing the version of the internet of humans interacting with humans. In what ways is the internet more dead or alive in 2026? www.sciencealert.com/is-the-dead-...
Our CfP: AI, War, Conflict, and Political Violence, 21 July London, with @akilnawan.bsky.social . Abstract deadline 1 July. How to submit here: www.newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/npcu-blog/20...
Just found a folder of acknowledgements footnotes I drafted for articles that then got rejected 😕
If we look past Trump and notice the consistent statements by Vance, Rubio and Hegseth, we get a reliable indicator of roughly where Trump stands on foreign policy. New by @kevcomms.bsky.social: theconversation.com/trumps-cabin...
