Rafael Grohmann's article in the special #LatinAmerica issue moves beyond #datacolonialism to explore #datafication with insights from the region's rich social thought. A call for nuanced understanding and critical theories in #CriticalDataStudies . buff.ly/49wr7JT

my paper on covid-scepticism and conspiracy theories in Russell Brand's YouTube comment section is out in New Media & Society

I show how conspiracy theorising binds the online community together, and how Brand's followers first prompted his shift to right-wing conspiracy content

📢 Very excited to share my latest article ‘Big AI: Cloud Infrastructure and the Industrialisation of AI’, substantiating the pivotal role of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the AI landscape. #BigAI 🥳 Read: doi.org/10.1177/205395… (OA Big Data & Society) w/ Anne Helmond Fabian Ferrari

Come and work with me Tobias Blanke houda lamqaddam, phd Paula Helm ([email protected]) Fernando van der Vlist Bernhard Rieder stefania milan (@[email protected]) and my other great colleagues at UvA Geesteswetenschappen Department of Media Studies in Amsterdam. We are hiring an assistant professor in Cultural Data Analysis: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assist…

a bit short notice (deadline Jan. 26), but we are looking for a postdoc researcher in computational methods: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdo…

Bóxī Wú 吴泊曦 Zoe Hawkins Oxford Internet Institute We estimate countries' cloud infrastructure alignment—the degree to which cloud infrastructure physically located in a country belongs to U.S. versus Chinese hyperscalers. This matters because cloud infrastructure can be 'weaponized' and used as a source of infrastructural power.

Together with Joanne Kuai, I'm editing a special issue on generative AI governance in Information, Communication & Society.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2024 🗓️

Details: bit.ly/generative-ai-…

💥the first paper out of my phd and my first ever first-author paper is out💥
together with Bernhard Rieder & Sarah Brkhrdt @[email protected] we compare 5 webcam platforms by looking at performer ranking, viewership, and labor practices journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

X has - rather quietly - rolled out a new way to provide researchers access to public data on X, as required per article 40.12 of the Digital Services Act. How can you do get access? See the thread below 👇 #dsa

testing the YTDT's new co-commenting module (here: 421 videos for search query [Ukraine]), I am surprised by how strong user 'communities' around channels (color) are, with videos connected by up to 100+ users; the network is overall super dense, lots of hyperactive commenters...

For our course Data Ethics in Applied Data Science master Faculty of Science, Utrecht University we combined lectures on Critical Data & AI studies, & Ethics, w. hands-on application. We started w. a critical inspection of datasets using the questions from Datasheets for Datasets (@timnitGebru et al 2021) 1/8

Following recent changes in the YouTube Data Tools, I made a new overview video as well as detailed videos for each module, which include explanations, parameters, and directions for analysis with GSheets and Gephi; here's the playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

small update to the YouTube Data Tools: the video list module can now search by location (as specified by the video creator) with and without a search query ytdt.digitalmethods.net/mod_videos_lis…

Interested in internet infrastructure, politics, and society. Join Dr. Corinne Cath-Speth ᗪᖇ. ᑎIEᒪᔕ 🔎📡〰️🗼 Gurshabad and me on 31 Oct 2023 SPUI25 25 for the book launch 'Eaten by the Internet' UvA Geesteswetenschappen spui25.nl/programma/eate…

The latest results from our work on Alternative Publishing Platforms is now available to read. If you’re a platform working in #openaccess , publishing & communication, you can still contribute to our survey and help inform the next phase of our work here –knowledge-exchange.info/event/alternat…

If you want to attend this awesome SSH tool maker panel this Thursday ONLINE, just register on this page! We'll send the link to everyone. en.ssh.aau.dk/masshine-talk-…

#CfC : Christian Katzenbach @[email protected]& the “Shaping AI” project are looking for contributions for their conference on AI #controversies . How do we succeed in articulating society-centred AI? ScPo médialab, CIM Warwick, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, ZeMKI

Deadline is 30 October:
hiig.de/en/cfc-shiftin…

New paper on the 'consent-or-pay' GDPR hack pioneered by Austrian news website Der Standard, which then spread to Germany and other EU countries and is now not restricted to news any longer, but spread into business, tech and entertainment sites (and now even FB aims to use it):

Job Position at University of Toronto: Assistant Professor, Critical Advertising/Marketing Studies and Digital Culture
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug…

after losing the video network module (following the removal of relatedVideos from YouTube's API), the YouTube Data Tools have a new module: video co-commenting networks; first tests (image: search for [ukraine]) show that users comment quite a bit across videos