Andrew Hoskins
PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR
University of Edinburgh
AI & MEMORY tinyurl.com/2znk9jy7
andrewhoskins.net/about
ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War
€2.2M, 5 year project
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- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsFrom Merrin and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social Sharded Media, written in November: 'Very simply, Reform are going to become one of the most important and powerful voices in UK politics (perhaps the most)' (p. 112)...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsTrending article in Memory, Mind & Media: AI and memory - cup.org/42EoeGC By Andrew Hoskins #generativeAI #humanagency #digitalparticipation
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsDid I mention that the fabulous Memory, Mind & Media journal is on Bluesky? You might want to check out @mmmjournal.bsky.social if you're interested in all things mediating memory.
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsInvitation to potential authors - AI Politics: new book series by @intellectbooks.bsky.social / @uchicagopress.bsky.social edited by @andrewhoskins.bsky.social & I. View the full call here>> www.intellectbooks.com/asset/2536/a...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsNew article from Memory, Mind & Media: Sharing photographs on social media enhances recollection of photograph-related details - cup.org/4lLXX0G By Angelina N. Vasquez, Shayla J. Dockery, Jessica M. Karanian, Qi Wang and Charles B. Stone #memory #socialmedia #captureddetails
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsRecently published in Memory Mind & Media: Remembering/imagining: Shona Illingworth’s time present and Trinh-T Minh-Ha’s forgetting Vietnam - cup.org/42lGNxW By Caterina Albano #memory #amnesia #imagination #TrinhTMinha @cambridgeup.bsky.social
- The uncanny of AI memory #pulpband www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27a...
- Reposted by Andrew Hoskins(1) The markets and commentators make the mistake of thinking what Trump says is real... hence the crash and recovery and panicked analyses of the global impact. They all make the mistake that #shardedmedia by myself and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social point out ...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsNoticing my dissertation students are writing about #deepfakes, #mistrust, #illiberalism, I'm telling them to read at least the first chapters of Sharded Media by @andrewhoskins.bsky.social & @williammerrin.bsky.social, as the book is about more than just Trump: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsSix funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsOur co Editor-in-Chief @andrewhoskins.bsky.social on SYNTHETIC MEMORY and deadbots, in this great essay by @lauraguien.bsky.social @usbeketrica.bsky.social usbeketrica.com/fr/article/l...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsThis is an extraordinary book: turbo-written since Nov with incisive intelligence and passionate conviction. I literally couldn't put it down - read it in one sitting. #commsky this is a 'must read'. Kudos to @williammerrin.bsky.social and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social for their tour de force
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsTrump's attack on Higher Education speech, DEI, etc. is just doing exactly what Curtis Yarvin suggested he do ... This is an assault on 'the Cathedral'. And it's still not yet April. ... From our 'Sharded Media' book... @andrewhoskins.bsky.social
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New, from me: Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America. Here is a partial inventory. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi... - Reposted by Andrew HoskinsAll @voanews.com.web.brid.gy staff placed on administrative leave. #commsky #mediafreedom red alert - that's...what, THOUSANDS of journalists? rsf.org/en/trump-adm...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsNew chapter in "The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media", edited by Qi Wang and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/book/59599/c... It critiques simplistic claims about effects of technology on memory. DM if you can't access it.
- Sharded Media is here 🙃 @williammerrin.bsky.social
- Reposted by Andrew Hoskins👇📖 Book tips for the weekend readings
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsIs it just the US population that lives in 'sharded', splintered realities, or is it a general trend in other places? New book by William Merrin and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social gets at the stakes: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsOn the NY subway, I was reading the first chapter of Sharded Media and shouting YES! so often, loudly, and passionately, I must have sounded like Meg Ryan in Katz's Deli--and that was before I even got to the bits nicely quoting me. @andrewhoskins.bsky.social
- 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...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsLooking forward to reading it! Appears to be a highly interesting and carefully crafted volume!
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsPierre Poilievre isn't Donald Trump but I see him and what he does in this paragraph.
- 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...
- 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...
- THE REMAKING OF MEMORY IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA Co-edited with the great Qi Wang. OUP Finally published online today, physical copies published first 🙃🙃 academic.oup.com/book/59599
- The past that never existed is here. Nice to be cited in Helen Pearson's excellent essay @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsNotre futur passé est en jeu avec le Handmusk's tale: arrivé par la poste et dans la bibliothèque @uqam.ca: ouvrage critique sur comment nos mémoires se (trans)forment avec les domaines de l’IA et du numérique. bit.ly/3CzAr5l, article co-signé avec Emily Keightley. @andrewhoskins.bsky.social
- Proofs on their way 🙂 @williammerrin.bsky.social "The Mainstream Media couldn’t see or accept that the illicit was already the norm." link.springer.com/book/9783031...
- THE FORGETTING ECOLOGY The past beyond human control. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsYou are more than welcome Andrew. 'What will the past look like when deadbot memories both outnumber and outlive the human?' www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Wow - what a question - you are now delving into the diverging worlds of AI and philosophy.
- Finally. The realisation that you can't fact check reality. #ShardedMedia @catherinehapper.bsky.social @williammerrin.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsNEW BOOK!! co-edited with the great Qi Wang: THE REMAKING OF MEMORY IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA Just published by OUP in US!! www.amazon.com/Remaking-Mem...
- We said something like this in 2009 @benoloughlin.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- What we know from 4 decades of violent extremism research: “No clear profile has ever been found, not just across the ideological spectrum, but even w/in specific grps. That is not a failure of research—that is the *outcome* of it…. If anything, *diversity* is the profile”- @johnhorgan.bsky.social
- Reposted by Andrew Hoskins'AI and memory' by Andrew Hoskins www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Article explores the impact of Generative AI systems on human memory and collective memory. These could change the way we access the past by creating an artificial image of the past and constantly reshaping it through interactions.
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsReally looking forward to this!
- at://did:plc:rwvx7nvhwavvyi75m43lup6z/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lan4aep6tf2u
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsTHE FORGETTING ECOLOGY 'The UNREMEMBERED SELF is perpetually open to disruption and discovery, enmeshed in the data we have scattered... but it is also forged by a past made from us that we cannot recognise, an alienation of memory.' In The Remaking of Memory tinyurl.com/2xvz6zu6
- It’s been a great year for memory events!
- My final day in this office! My job title was a bit long anyway. 13 years at the University of Glasgow. Time to move on. Of course I will miss my friends, but onto Edinburgh in the new year, and other cool people to meet 😊
- Reposted by Andrew Hoskins100%!! Fascinating survey and lovely to see such a robust effect across so many domains. Interesting to consider the overlap between memory and liking, which is what Alex Lamont and I chewed over in this paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- This is all memory bump, isn’t it? @catherineloveday.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsHere's the link to the book - pls read. The paperbacks and ebooks are cheap! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsTHREAD: How easy would it be to turn Voice of America into state controlled media? I wrote a book about this with @martinscott2010.bsky.social @melbunce.bsky.social, focusing on what happened to #VOA during the last #Trump administration.
- I later discovered she was taking photos of me as I paced up and down giving my lecture 🙃
- We have now commissioned 20 amazing papers for our definitive AI & Memory collection. for the gold open access Cambridge Journal of Memory, Mind & Media. We have left our call open to the end of January in case you missed it! tinyurl.com/4tdtx432
- Nice to see Bluesky now showing up in CUP journal altmetrics. tinyurl.com/2ms9y2f4
- The bargain past.
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsHow do you compete with a "news" environment unmoored from reality or sanction?
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsThe moral duty to remember fallen soldiers on social media. by Sacha van Leeuwen in Journal of Digital War link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsNew Research Alert How does Holocaust memory take shape on social media platforms? Discover the dynamics of digital memory in the new open-access article by our Lab Director, Professor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden and Lab Research Fellow, Dr Kate Marrison: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsWELCOME TO THE DEADBOT SOCIETY **AI and MEMORY** New Gold Open Access Original Article doi.org/10.1017/mem....
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsOn the collective memory of Bloody Sunday Great analysis by Kelsey Hanson Latest original open access work in the Cambridge Journal of Memory, Mind & Media doi.org/10.1017/mem....
- INFLUENCING MACHINES How does AI encode our perception of the world? Agenda setting as ever from TREVOR PAGLEN @paglen.studio and ANTHONY DOWNEY Open Access in Journal of Digital War link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- After 13 years. My last ever lecture at the University of Glasgow! Edinburgh bound in the new year... Daughter not interested (yet) in media, war & memory 🙃
- What’s at the heart of the most documented society in history? Deletion. Erasure. Forgetting. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/t...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsVery excited that I get to lead this society of awesome people over the next few years! As Jim would say, bring on the sciencey goodness! #SARMAC2025
- Announcing your new SARMAC President, Annelies Vredeveldt! @anneliesvrede.bsky.social // mailchi.mp/ceb8a4083cf5...
- Reposted by Andrew HoskinsON AI, CAPITALISM & MEMORY Superb intervention by Danny Pilkington In the only GOLD OPEN ACCESS Memory Studies Journal, CUP's MEMORY, MIND & MEDIA doi.org/10.1017/mem....
- Reposted by Andrew Hoskins@warmatters.bsky.social Bought this Ain't read it yet
