@lukaszszulc
Senior Lecturer in Digital Media & Culture at The University of Manchester and Co-Director of The Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media; queer and transnational perspectives; first generation; he/him
Come to do a PhD with Scott Midson and me at The University of Manchester on Love in the Time of AI: Online Dating, AI Bots and Romantic Relationships of Young Adults. Deadline: 30 March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
What’s app got to do with it? 💘 Premium love in times of emotional capitalism.
From the archives @lsemedia.bsky.social, @lukaszszulc.bsky.social & co-authors explain how dating apps bring capitalism into the process of finding love.
Read more 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
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Amazing two fully funded PhD studentships for projects on Queer and Trans Healthcare and Creativity at the University of Manchester! www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...
I'm excited to chair the discussion with Prof Mirca Madianou on 'How do AI and digital innovation practices harm refugees and crisis-affected people'. It’ll take place in one week (Wed, 4 February, 4:00-5:30pm) at the University of Manchester. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/technocolo...
Next week online! digitalgood.net/opening_up_a...
Jess Walmsley, my PhD student co-supervised with Luca Scholz, just published a great review of 'Abolitionist intimacies: Queer and trans migrants against the deportation state' by Eithne Luibhéid. Congrats, Jess! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
CFP: Transnational Queer and Feminist Archives
This collection seeks to publish work demonstrating transnational strategies for preserving queer and feminist activist archives.
Abstracts due: 30 March 17:00 PST
Learn more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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You can support the QueerMuzeum Warszawa by donating money using this link: pomagam.pl/en/waedpb
Management at Sheffield have aggressively ramped up their attacks on striking staff, but we @sheffielducu.bsky.social are unbowed: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The University of Manchester is offering fully-funded Bicentenary PhD Studentships. One of the projects will be based in our Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media and is about 'Generative AI and Informational Crisis'. Spread the word! www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...
The next three weeks, I'll spend in Canada talking about my new research project on transnational dating cultures. I'll first visit Concordia University (5th Nov) and then the University of Toronto (13th Nov).
Concordia: www.digslab.net/events/talk-...
Toronto: dhn.utoronto.ca/event/guest-...
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Manuscript Monday! New on our feed📲 Sad Dating Apps: Emotional Technological Determinism and Agency in Late Modernity - Łukasz Szulc, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky
List of events for 2025-26 Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar organised by Lancaster University and University of Manchester.
The 2025-26 schedule for the Lancaster-Manchester & @n8cir.bsky.social Environmental #DH Seminar is up!
Next:
@ehameeteman.bsky.social on Nov 12 (online)
Details: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
#envhist #envhum #skystorians @dsilu.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social
A print grab of the Social Media + Society journal’s website presenting the article published by Łukasz Szulc entitled sad dating apps emotional technological determinism and agency in late modernity.
Dating apps, so sad... 😢 My new article on emotional technological determinism, universalist theories of love and queer migrants dating is now out and available open access in Social Media + Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reunited with @norocel.bsky.social at Lund University - Department of Gender Studies. It was great to present my work in progress to the very engaged members of the amazing gender studies team. Thank you for your invitation! www.soc.lu.se/en/calendar/...
🎉 We're excited to welcome Dr @lukaszszulc.bsky.social as a new theme lead for Digital Cultures at the @manchester.ac.uk!
His work explores the deeper power dynamics of digital media, focusing on gender and sexuality.
🔗 Discover more: lnkd.in/eN45PHW4
With my students, we wrote a blog post about the use of AI in dating apps. We also critically reflect on the imaginations of digital dating futures. blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
This year was the second time we organised the Digital Methods Summer School with Methods@Manchester. Great group of participants and tutors from across diverse disciplines and cultures, full-day workshops and lively discussions. 😍 new.express.adobe.com/webpage/db5o...
Join us for our next School Research Seminar which will take place in-person on 12 February from 12:15pm.
Co-hosted by @cigsleeds.bsky.social and CERS, @yenerbayramoglu.bsky.social and @lukaszszulc.bsky.social will discuss queer migration and digital practices.
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Out now! The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe with my chapter entitled 'Between East and West and Digital Elsewhere: Polish queer migrants making sense of Brexit'. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
You can now read the introduction to our Special Issue on ‘Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media’, co-edited with Yener Bayramoğlu & Radhika Gajjala for Communication, Culture & Critique. ☺️ academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...
What’s app got to do with it? In this short article, we explain the logic behind dating apps' premium features and the commodification of love, sex and desire. #datingapps blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
One week left to apply for our jobs at the University of Manchester (7th Feb)!
- Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
I wrote an extended bibliography on 'Digital Gender Diversity' for Oxford Bibliographies in Communication. It's behind the paywall but pm me if you want a free copy. www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
Very excited about this book by Mathias Foit! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
