Cemore's Monika Büscher and Malé Luján Escalante will take the game isITethical to the Public Safety Communications Europe Conference in Munich, 3-5 May 2017. Abstract IsITethical? The Board Game: experimenting with ethical impact assessment as creative collaborative...
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Infrastructuring Mobile Utopia: Global Challenges, Global Responses
Cemore's Monika Buscher is giving a keynote at the Living Infrastructures, Volgograd, 27-28 April 2017. https://livinginfrastructures.wordpress.com/about/ Abstract: Since the 1992 Earth Summit, 4.4 billion people or 64% of the world’s population have been affected by...
Mobile Cultures of Disaster Conference
Cemore Director Monika Büscher is giving a keynote at the Mobile Cultures of Disasters Conference in Adelaide. A Mobile Utopia of Radically Reflexive Resilience Since the 1992 Earth Summit, 4.4 billion people or 64% of the world’s population have been affected by...
Mobile Utopia: Pasts, Presents, Futures Cemore|T2M|Cosmobilities Conference
Cemore is hosting the 2017 Mobilities Conference. This is jointly organised by Cemore, the International Association for Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), and the Cosmobilities network, in association with the Institute for Social Futures. We're delighted to host...
Knowledge Exchange on ELSI in Disaster Risk Management
Sharing information in disasters can raise complex ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI). At a workshop with emergency practitioners, commercial and academic developers of information sharing platforms, and experts on digital ethics and law, the SecInCoRe project...
Researching and communicating disasters, one tweet at a time
How to navigate through the noise of social media and communicate effectively in disaster situations? Lise Ann St Denis, from the University of Colorado, Boulder, has visited CeMoRe to give a seminar on this topic. Lise Ann St Denis has looked at a grassroots...
Deep mapping the Duddon Valley
Artist Nikki Pugh has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship to help support a collaboration with Dr Christopher Donaldson (Lecturer in Regional History and Co-Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust-funded Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities: A Deep Mapping of...
Death Studies Special Issue
All papers for The Death Studies Special Issue have been received and are currently being reviewed. The issue will be published in February 2018. This issue was inspired by the Futures of the End of Life Symposium hosted at Lancaster University in January 2016. It...
Reframing Drone Methodologies
What drones are capable of in our hands? This is the question raised by Bradley Garrett and Adam Fish in a guest blog post about drone methodologies. Lost in the concern that the drone is an authoritarian instrument is the possibility that it might...