Professor of AI, Memory and War, University of Edinburgh
Andrw Hoskin's research and teaching focuses on how and why human society is being transformed by AI, digital tech and media, and the consequences for forgetting, memory, privacy, security, and the nature, experience and effects of contemporary warfare.
From September 2025, he will lead WarShare, an ERC Advanced Grant/UKRI five year research project: The New War Front: Digital Participation in War. Through a focus on Ukraine, my project interrogates how and why digital participation is transforming how war is fought, perceived, experienced, legitimised, contested and remembered. This builds on his recent co-authored book: Radical War: Data, Attention & Control in the Twenty-First Century.
He has a career long trajectory of research that addresses the relationship between images of conflict, their mediatization/circulation, and assumptions around knowledge and response. This includes several books (Televising War 2004; Television & Terror 2009; War & Media 2010; Media & Radicalisation 2012; Risk & Hyperconnectivity 2016).
His current research with the Center for Peace, Hiroshima University, involves working with survivors of the Atomic bombings (hibakusha) to explore how and why they remember in relation to state sanctioned forms of public remembrance and cultures of stigma and forgetting. He is also a founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Digital War, and the Journal of Memory Studies, and founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Memory, Mind & Media.