I’m an Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków.
Right now, I’m working on 2 questions:
1) What is a digital public sphere?
In particular, how does this technological transformation shape what we perceive as unjust? This project is funded by an MSCA Actions Grant/Polonez (€260,000).
2) What is the impact of Generative AI on education?
How do we need to adapt our pedagogy? What needs to change and what shouldn’t? This project is funded by Una Europa (€27,000).
My research covers 4 main areas:
Before coming to Krakow, I was a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge; a Lecturer at King’s College London; a Research Fellow at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; a Research Fellow on an AHRC-DFG project; and, a Teaching Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. You can find out more here.
With the RECIND project coming to a close, at least in its current form, I have also completed the 8-part blog series designed to reach a broader public. Some of them need some work and are a bit speculative, but I have collected them all…
Keep readingThis March, I am organising an international conference on Community & Injustice in the Digital Public Sphere at the Jagiellonian University. The goal of the conference is to interrogate how community and injustice through structural shifts in the public sphere, particularly digitalization and AI. This…
Keep readingAs part of AIHUMS101, we’ve produced one of the largest survey of European academics to date on AI & Pedagogy in the Humanities & Social Sciences. This is a crucial issue for teaching and one which we still know too little about. This survey, with…
Keep readingNovember: as part of my RECIND (MSCA COFUND) project, I’m organising a social media exhibit, with posts from a range of social media activists. The aim is to highlight how they view politics, what activities they think social media makes possible and how they understand…
Keep readingWith Prof. Valeria Zotti, I co-organised the first hybrid workshop of our Artificial Intelligence & Humanities (101) research network. We were hosted in the spectacular Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna. The workshop was our first hybrid…
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Cillian 