Huw C Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 3888980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Huw C Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Huw C |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES H C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2659-1465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A great awakening of men of action’: What does the ‘right-wing Davos’ represent
The Financial Times called the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship’s 2025 conference the ‘right-wing Davos’. The Alliance involves academics from elite universities, current and former members of government from the UK, Australia, Hungary, and the USA, global media personalities, international capital investors, and CEOs of major companies. Superficially, it appears to represent a motley association of self-described Classical Liberals, evangeli…
An anatomy of the British war on woke
The British war on woke is an intensive ideological campaign against social justice movements that is mobilising far-right tropes and conspiracy theories within mainstream British political discourse. It sees itself in a battle of good versus evil, reason against the dark forces of pre-modernity, ‘Cultural Marxists’ and a ‘globalist elite’ intent on ruining ‘western civilisation’ and replacing ‘white’ British culture with woke multiculturalism. T…
When public policy ‘fails’ and venture capital ‘saves’ education: Edtech investors as economic and political actors
Educational technology (Edtech) investors have become increasingly influential in education; however, they remain under-researched.We address this deficit and introduce the grammar and landscape of Edtech investment into education research.We empirically examine venture capital Edtech investors and argue that they are economic and political actors.Investors construct the Edtech industry through their investment and advancing particular imaginarie…
Chapter 6 Rescuing Data Literacy From Dataism
The Mobilisation of AI in Education: A Bourdieusean Field Analysis
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently hailed as a 'solution' to perceived problems in education. Though few sociologists of education would agree with its deterministic claims, this AI solutionist thinking is gaining significant currency. In this article, using a relatively novel method for sociology - a knowledge graph - together with Bourdieusean theory, we critically examine how and why different stakeholders in education, educational tech…
Platformizing Knowledge: Mess and Meaning in Web 3.0 Infrastructures
This panel focuses on the way that platforms have become key players in the representation of knowledge. Recently, there have been calls to combine infrastructure and platform-based frameworks to understand the nature of information exchange on the web through digital tools for knowledge sharing. The present panel builds and extends work on platform and infrastructure studies in what has been referred to as “knowledge as programmable object” (Pla…
Garstang Stela E.31 and the Family of Iy at Abydos
Publication of E.31, a Middle Kingdom stela from cenotaph 321 A’07, discovered by John Garstang at Abydos, currently housed in the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool. The stela contains information about the family of the Bearer of Soil Iy at Abydos in the late Middle Kingdom, adding to Simpson’s ANOC 19. The archaeological context of the object is explored, and a full translation of E.31 is provided, as well as discussion of…
Is digital upskilling the next generation our ‘pipeline to prosperity’
The British government is claiming digital skills will deliver economic growth to the country and social mobility to young people: its ministers call it ‘a pipeline to prosperity’. While declaring this pipeline, the government assumes the needs of the economy and young people’s needs are (or should be) synchronised. We challenge this assumption and the policy it sustains with data from questionnaires, workshops and interviews with 50 young people…
Redefining Filter Bubbles as (Escapable) Socio-Technical Recursion
Personalisation of media content is not a new phenomenon. Now, however, by configuring our search results and data feeds, algorithms that 'learn' from our digital footprint are determining what we see and hear. Pariser calls this the 'Filter Bubble Effect'. Yet, despite concerns that this effect is a threat to deliberative democracy, we are told there is relatively little evidence to substantiate its existence. This article draws on a case study …
Neoliberal gremlins? How a scheme to help disadvantaged young people thrive online fell short of its ambitions
Numerous academic studies highlight the significant differences in the ways that young people access, use and engage with the Internet and the implications it has in their lives. Trying to address such inequalities is complex, and the outcomes of digital inclusion schemes are rarely uniformly positive or transformative for the people involved. Therefore the hope of such schemes that if sufficiently empowered, incentivised and aspirational, the di…
Learning to Google: Understanding classed and gendered practices when young people use the Internet for research
This article builds on existing research by examining two groups of young people, one from an elite fee-paying school and the other from a vocational college, as they engage with information on the Web about, for example, conspiracies, climate change and immigration. The data include the results of group and individual interviews, digital search terms and web (http) traffic, videos of discussions and downloads of arguments on social media. This s…
Social media and personal relationships: Online intimacies and networked friendship
Conformity to observations and the development of weather prediction
Conformity to observations takes on a particular significance in relation to weather prediction. Day-to-day weather changes constitute the temporal evolution of a complex and highly chaotic system, and yet the accuracy of weather forecasts can be, and are, readily and regularly assessed by both practitioners and the general public. Here, the development of weather prediction is portrayed against the backcloth of the role played by the criterion o…
Storms in nature
Storms occurring in the natural environment are distinguished by their rarity, unpredictability and severity, and are notable for their diversity and complexity. Their study is characterized by the acquistion and analysis of empirical data, consideration of the pertinent natural processes, identification of the key contributory factors, and the development of models to understand, predict, and mitigate a storm's influence. The transferability of …
When public policy ‘fails’ and venture capital ‘saves’ education: Edtech investors as economic and political actors
Educational technology (Edtech) investors have become increasingly influential in education; however, they remain under-researched.We address this deficit and introduce the grammar and landscape of Edtech investment into education research.We empirically examine venture capital Edtech investors and argue that they are economic and political actors.Investors construct the Edtech industry through their investment and advancing particular imaginarie…
The Mobilisation of AI in Education: A Bourdieusean Field Analysis
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently hailed as a 'solution' to perceived problems in education. Though few sociologists of education would agree with its deterministic claims, this AI solutionist thinking is gaining significant currency. In this article, using a relatively novel method for sociology - a knowledge graph - together with Bourdieusean theory, we critically examine how and why different stakeholders in education, educational tech…
Is digital upskilling the next generation our ‘pipeline to prosperity’
The British government is claiming digital skills will deliver economic growth to the country and social mobility to young people: its ministers call it ‘a pipeline to prosperity’. While declaring this pipeline, the government assumes the needs of the economy and young people’s needs are (or should be) synchronised. We challenge this assumption and the policy it sustains with data from questionnaires, workshops and interviews with 50 young people…
Learning to Google: Understanding classed and gendered practices when young people use the Internet for research
This article builds on existing research by examining two groups of young people, one from an elite fee-paying school and the other from a vocational college, as they engage with information on the Web about, for example, conspiracies, climate change and immigration. The data include the results of group and individual interviews, digital search terms and web (http) traffic, videos of discussions and downloads of arguments on social media. This s…
Redefining Filter Bubbles as (Escapable) Socio-Technical Recursion
Personalisation of media content is not a new phenomenon. Now, however, by configuring our search results and data feeds, algorithms that 'learn' from our digital footprint are determining what we see and hear. Pariser calls this the 'Filter Bubble Effect'. Yet, despite concerns that this effect is a threat to deliberative democracy, we are told there is relatively little evidence to substantiate its existence. This article draws on a case study …
Storms in nature
Storms occurring in the natural environment are distinguished by their rarity, unpredictability and severity, and are notable for their diversity and complexity. Their study is characterized by the acquistion and analysis of empirical data, consideration of the pertinent natural processes, identification of the key contributory factors, and the development of models to understand, predict, and mitigate a storm's influence. The transferability of …
Conformity to observations and the development of weather prediction
Conformity to observations takes on a particular significance in relation to weather prediction. Day-to-day weather changes constitute the temporal evolution of a complex and highly chaotic system, and yet the accuracy of weather forecasts can be, and are, readily and regularly assessed by both practitioners and the general public. Here, the development of weather prediction is portrayed against the backcloth of the role played by the criterion o…
Social media and personal relationships: Online intimacies and networked friendship
Neoliberal gremlins? How a scheme to help disadvantaged young people thrive online fell short of its ambitions
Numerous academic studies highlight the significant differences in the ways that young people access, use and engage with the Internet and the implications it has in their lives. Trying to address such inequalities is complex, and the outcomes of digital inclusion schemes are rarely uniformly positive or transformative for the people involved. Therefore the hope of such schemes that if sufficiently empowered, incentivised and aspirational, the di…
Learning to Google: Understanding classed and gendered practices when young people use the Internet for research
This article builds on existing research by examining two groups of young people, one from an elite fee-paying school and the other from a vocational college, as they engage with information on the Web about, for example, conspiracies, climate change and immigration. The data include the results of group and individual interviews, digital search terms and web (http) traffic, videos of discussions and downloads of arguments on social media. This s…
Is digital upskilling the next generation our ‘pipeline to prosperity’
The British government is claiming digital skills will deliver economic growth to the country and social mobility to young people: its ministers call it ‘a pipeline to prosperity’. While declaring this pipeline, the government assumes the needs of the economy and young people’s needs are (or should be) synchronised. We challenge this assumption and the policy it sustains with data from questionnaires, workshops and interviews with 50 young people…
Redefining Filter Bubbles as (Escapable) Socio-Technical Recursion
Personalisation of media content is not a new phenomenon. Now, however, by configuring our search results and data feeds, algorithms that 'learn' from our digital footprint are determining what we see and hear. Pariser calls this the 'Filter Bubble Effect'. Yet, despite concerns that this effect is a threat to deliberative democracy, we are told there is relatively little evidence to substantiate its existence. This article draws on a case study …
Garstang Stela E.31 and the Family of Iy at Abydos
Publication of E.31, a Middle Kingdom stela from cenotaph 321 A’07, discovered by John Garstang at Abydos, currently housed in the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool. The stela contains information about the family of the Bearer of Soil Iy at Abydos in the late Middle Kingdom, adding to Simpson’s ANOC 19. The archaeological context of the object is explored, and a full translation of E.31 is provided, as well as discussion of…
Platformizing Knowledge: Mess and Meaning in Web 3.0 Infrastructures
This panel focuses on the way that platforms have become key players in the representation of knowledge. Recently, there have been calls to combine infrastructure and platform-based frameworks to understand the nature of information exchange on the web through digital tools for knowledge sharing. The present panel builds and extends work on platform and infrastructure studies in what has been referred to as “knowledge as programmable object” (Pla…
The Mobilisation of AI in Education: A Bourdieusean Field Analysis
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently hailed as a 'solution' to perceived problems in education. Though few sociologists of education would agree with its deterministic claims, this AI solutionist thinking is gaining significant currency. In this article, using a relatively novel method for sociology - a knowledge graph - together with Bourdieusean theory, we critically examine how and why different stakeholders in education, educational tech…
Chapter 6 Rescuing Data Literacy From Dataism
An anatomy of the British war on woke
The British war on woke is an intensive ideological campaign against social justice movements that is mobilising far-right tropes and conspiracy theories within mainstream British political discourse. It sees itself in a battle of good versus evil, reason against the dark forces of pre-modernity, ‘Cultural Marxists’ and a ‘globalist elite’ intent on ruining ‘western civilisation’ and replacing ‘white’ British culture with woke multiculturalism. T…
When public policy ‘fails’ and venture capital ‘saves’ education: Edtech investors as economic and political actors
Educational technology (Edtech) investors have become increasingly influential in education; however, they remain under-researched.We address this deficit and introduce the grammar and landscape of Edtech investment into education research.We empirically examine venture capital Edtech investors and argue that they are economic and political actors.Investors construct the Edtech industry through their investment and advancing particular imaginarie…
A great awakening of men of action’: What does the ‘right-wing Davos’ represent
The Financial Times called the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship’s 2025 conference the ‘right-wing Davos’. The Alliance involves academics from elite universities, current and former members of government from the UK, Australia, Hungary, and the USA, global media personalities, international capital investors, and CEOs of major companies. Superficially, it appears to represent a motley association of self-described Classical Liberals, evangeli…
Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Elite (3 works) · Geography (3 works)