Dear Critters,

On behalf of the Digital Geographies Working Group I'm delighted to let you know about the great range of sessions we are sponsoring and co-sponsoring at this year's RGS-IBG. For full details on each session as we receive them, please check our website (http://www.digitalrgs.org/rgs-ibg-2018-sessions/) or our twitter feed (@digital_RGS). For further information on the sessions themselves, or to submit an abstract, please contact the organisers directly.

‘Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice’, organised by Mark Graham ([log in to unmask]) and Martin Dittus ([log in to unmask]), both of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.


‘Theorising space and spatiality in digital geographies’, organised by Clancy Wilmott, Geography, University of Manchester, ([log in to unmask]) and Emma Fraser, Sociology, University of Manchester ([log in to unmask]).


‘Geographical considerations of Digital Landscapes’, organised by Tess Osborne ([log in to unmask]), University of Birmingham, and Isabel Williams ([log in to unmask]), University of Newcastle.


‘Do algorithms ‘dream’ of space and place? AR and VR as a new frontier of software-mediated spatiality’, organised by Michal Rzeszewski ([log in to unmask]), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, and Leighton Evans ([log in to unmask]), Swansea University.


‘CFP RGS Cardiff 2018: Publics In-formation: re-thinking smart cities, people, and processes’, organised by Caspar Menkman ([log in to unmask]), Maynooth University and Aoife Delaney ([log in to unmask]) Maynooth University and visiting Fulbright scholar, Urban Planning and Community Development, University of Massachusetts Boston.


‘Understanding the uneven landscapes of smart cities, organised by Gillian Rose ([log in to unmask]) and Oliver Zanetti ([log in to unmask]), both of the University of Oxford.


‘A Critical Geopolitics of Data? Territories, topologies, atmospherics?’, organised by Andrew Dwyer ([log in to unmask]), University of Oxford, and Nick Robinson ([log in to unmask]) Royal Holloway, University of London.


‘Methods and approaches in working with digital social media’, organised by Jamie Halliwell ([log in to unmask]), Manchester Metropolitan University.


‘Digital and Society: Emerging ICT tapestries of exploitation and empowerment’, organised by Megan Palmer-Abbs ([log in to unmask]), University of Aberdeen, and Matt Reed (m[log in to unmask]), Countryside and Community Research Institute.


‘Interface geographies’, organised by James Ash ([log in to unmask]), University of Newcastle.


Best wishes
Oliver Zanetti on behalf of the Digital Geographies Working Group

www.digitalrgs.org
@digital_RGS