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📢So excited to share my new article 'AI Competitions as Infrastructures of Power in Medical Imaging' (icsjournal, w/Tobias Blanke & Thomas Poell), which demonstrates how platform-based #AI competitions structure power relations in medical imaging research. rb.gy/dy9v7p

🔆The new week brings a new paper: ‘Foundation models are platform models: Prompting and the political economy of AI’ by Sarah Burkhardt and Bernhard Rieder (Bernhard Rieder) #AI #platformization #prompting #materiality 🔗 Link to paper: buff.ly/3Ud0fsP

having our students bulldozed away, beaten, and arrested in the name of 'security' after not even 12 hrs of occupying a small piece of park space is not my understanding of how we should handle protests UvA Amsterdam at5.nl/artikelen/2265…

“My content is good enough to scrape and summarize,” he said. “But it’s not good enough to show in your normal search results, which is how I make money and stay afloat.” How Google's AI search summaries steal from content creators to benefit Big Tech: washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Very pleased to share my latest article: Outside the Black Box: From Algorithmic Transparency to Platform Observability in the Digital Services Act ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds…

Can democracy be upcycled? Today @JoelvdWeele and I will deliver our *joint* inaugural lecture as UvA Amsterdam Prof: an interdisciplinary conversation on how to make democracy work. Streamed live at 1630 hva-uva.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/…

On September 3 we are a hosting a workshop on Internet Research with Foundation Models? in Amsterdam. The call for participation is is open until June 7: cat4smr.humanities.uva.nl/index.php/blog/

📣Out now! I’m beyond excited to share that our book “The Platformisation of Consumer Culture. A Digital Methods Guide” has just been published with Amsterdam Univ Press 🔓Available #openaccess here: library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.… Alessandro Caliandro Alessandro Gandini Guido Anselmi

So my 14-year old got into Ableton last year to make music ("synthwave" apparently). Now he got two reverb plugins for his birthday and that's the result: Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/2q6eyWAq… YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=QQG7_D…

We're hiring! 😎Two lectureships on offer in New Media & Digital Culture, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Deadline for applications is 1 August. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Lectur…

🚨Thrilled to share my new article “Platform power in AI: The evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence” ✨OA policy repay as part of the🔥SI “Locating and Theorizing Platform Power” Read: policyreview.info/articles/analy…

New article! In “User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube,” Blake Hallinan and I investigate how YouTube creators act to hold the platform accountable in the face of policy failures and make noise to draw attention to their concerns.

Our article with the Journal of Children and Media is now out open access! From my days working at ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child with the brilliant kate mannell . You can download it here shorturl.at/faok3

✨Very proud and honoured to be one of the joint winners of this year's AoIR ➡️ 🐘 @[email protected] Student Paper Award together with my fantastic co-author YarSk for our work on 'How Fact-Checkers are Becoming Machine Learners: A Case of Meta’s Third Party Programme' 🎉 #AoIR2024

#MetSem 🗓️ RV le 21/11 à 10h “Les modèles de fonda° sont des plateformes – implica° pour leur utilisa° en tant qu’outils de recherche en SHS” Bernhard Rieder UvA Amsterdam Ins° ➡️ metsem.hypotheses.org/1716 cc Recherche SciencesPo ScPo médialab CEVIPOF - Sciences Po CEE, Sciences Po/CNRS CDSP Sciences Po Bibliothèque de Sciences Po

the "Spotify artist network" tool is no longer working, since Spotify has restricted access to the "related artists" API endpoint (without warning, lots of unhappy devs); I am trying to get access again, but I'm not very optimistic

📣🇧🇷 What is the current state of digital methods for Internet research in Brazil? Join us in person or online ✨👩🏻‍💻❣️ to discuss and celebrate emerging research practices in Brazil and kick off a Global South network. 📆 31 January 2025, 2pm - 4.15pm 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/digital…

Postdoctoral Researcher in OSINT & Information Disorder at Amsterdam University werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/p…

we are hiring a PhD candidate for the project "Interface of Intelligence: How Generative AI Reshapes Knowledge, Media, and Interpretation"; details here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/p…

two papers have just come out that evaluate the consistency and temporal coverage of the search endpoint of YouTube's API from a research perspective; both found pretty big problems; arxiv.org/abs/2506.11727 and arxiv.org/abs/2506.04422