🚨🚨New Research🚨🚨 Just out in Journal of Communication: One of the first academic studies uncovering the economy of digital misinformation networks doi.org/10.1093/joc/jq… Key Q: How do people involved in misinformation campaigns make money? 1/

Bark Text-to-Audio Model Full Text Input: "Why was six afraid of seven?" Ignore Bark's "I'm done with this input" token and tell Bark to just keep generating more audio anyway.

#SocArXiv: Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models osf.io/zvew4/

synthetic ethnography preprint out - me, Matti Pohjonen and Aleksi Knuutila sketch some field devices for the qualitative studies of generative models, feedback very welcome osf.io/preprints/soca…

#AIMonday Helsinki is back on January 15: How is AI being used in social influencing? Join the discussion online or at Tiedekulma. Speakers incl. Mikko Alasaarela, Essi Pöyry, Aleksi Knuutila ➡️ ai-monday.de/event/ai-and-s… cc DAIN Studios Taival

From algorithms amplifying political messages on social media to AI-generated deepfakes, there’s plenty to look out for in this mega-election year, says Aleksi Knuutila from Faculty of Social Sciences, HelsinkiUni. fcai.fi/news/2024/2/6/… cc HIIT Helsinki Sociology Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki University of Helsinki

Next meetup: Understudied Tubes: Disinformation and alternative publics on YouTube. Join us live in Helsinki or via Zoom on Monday, 4.3., 2 p.m.-4 p.m. This meetup is a joint effort by Rajapinta, Helsinki Institute of Social Sciences & Humanities & Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism & Polarisation. See you there! More information➡️fb.me/e/4WXMiD1ey

Suomessa toimiva Nahlieli-ryhmä on osa eri puolilla maailmaa kasvavaa rauhanliikettä. ku.fi/artikkeli/4980…

First in Morning Tech: As the far right keeps rising, a new study found that YouTube's algorithm disproportionately pushed right-wing, anti-immigration videos during Finland’s elections earlier this year. ➡️pro.politico.eu/news/youtube-r… ➡️crossover.social/finnish-far-ri…

Juuri julkaisemamme selvityksen mukaan Youtuben suosittelualgoritmi toimii kuin suppilo, joka ohjaa käyttäjiä perussuomalaisten ehdokkaiden pariin. Ketju -> #algorotimit #youtube #presidentinvaalit faktabaari.fi/fakta/faktabaa…

YouTube’s algorithm promoted right-wing content in the 2024 Finnish elections dlvr.it/T40SCM

Euractiv huomioi tuoreen raporttimme, Politico kirjoitti aiheesta jo eilen. "a new study found YouTube’s recommendation algorithm boosted right-wing content in the run-up to Finland’s 2024 elections." euractiv.com/section/artifi…

Selvitys: YouTube suosi perus­suomalaisia presidentin­vaaleissa is.fi/digitoday/art-…

'Mapping out Russian impersonated propaganda operations on Telegram during the war in Ukraine' — 9 April with Roman Kyrychenko , Aleksi Knuutila and Vasileios Maltezos from #HelsinkiUni: blogs.helsinki.fi/russianmediala… Helsinki Institute of Social Sciences & Humanities University of Helsinki Faculty of Social Sciences, HelsinkiUni

“Can we get a new text analysis tool?” “No—we have Topic Model at home” Topic Model at home: outputs vague keywords; needs constant parameter fiddling🫠 Is there a better way? We introduce LLooM, a concept induction tool to explore text data in terms of interpretable concepts🧵

The COMPTEXT Association is a cool place for dataset launches with so many potential users listening. A great example is tg.observer by Aleksi Knuutila and team focusing on Telegram data in the post-Twitter/X API landscape!

New publication! Here my entry on Political Brands and another one with Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @[email protected] and Aleksi Knuutila on Election campaigns on social media!

really proud of this article me, Matti Pohjonen and Aleksi Knuutila put together over the past couple of years. If your question is: "how to approach TBs of datasets, n-dimensional vectors and multimodal latent spaces ethnographically?", we might have some ideas journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Vapaaehtoisvoimin toteutettu Iltahuti-hanke seurasi suomalaisten iltapäivälehtien kansia 30 kuukauden ajan. Selvityksen mukaan kansissa Venäjän hyökkäyssodan tapahtumia käsiteltiin Putinin oletettujen kokemusten tai Venäjän armeijan toimien kautta. politiikasta.fi/missa-ukraina/

if you haven't yet read our "Synthethic ethnography" article yet, here's a brief summary of it by me, Matti Pohjonen & Aleksi Knuutila: bigdatasoc.blogspot.com/2025/03/guest-…