Andrew Hoskins

Andrew Hoskins is a Professor in AI, Memory & War at the University of Edinburgh. His interdisciplinary research explores how AI and digital technologies transform human society, focusing on memory, forgetting, privacy, security, and contemporary warfare. From September 2025, he will lead WarShare, an ERC-funded (€2.25M) five-year project on digital participation in war.

His work bridges human/social studies of memory with digital technology, examining AI’s impact on memory, data-driven warfare, and the ethical consequences of digital media in conflict zones. He has co-founded and edited several journals, including Memory Studies, Digital War, and the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies book series, which has published 100 books since 2010.

• Collaborations: Long-term partnership with cognitive scientist Prof. Amanda Barnier (Macquarie University) and artist Shona Illingworth, notably the Airspace Tribunal project.
• Publications: Recent books include Sharded Media: Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream (Palgrave 2025, with William Merrin), The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media (OUP 2024, co-edited with Qi Wang), and Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the 21st Century (Hurst/OUP 2022, with Matthew Ford).
• Projects: Co-founder of the Journal of Memory, Mind & Media (Cambridge University Press) and the Airspace Tribunal, addressing trauma, memory, and media in warfare.