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🚨 ⚡ New article! "Based and confused: Tracing the political connotations of a memetic phrase across the web" by Sal Hagen and Daniël de Zeeuw. You can access it here ➡️ buff.ly/3JhW8Gg #Based #farrightmemes #hatespeech

Originally from Black Twitter, appropriated by far-right online, Sal Hagen's analysis of meaning change (2010-2021) across platforms shows varied meanings & subcultural functions, challenging assumptions about persistent problematic messages. buff.ly/3mTswr7

🌐Nieuwe aflevering!🌐 Zelfs als je maar weinig online bent valt het op: het Internet heeft een eigenzinnige cultuur die langzaam het echte leven binnensijpelt. Mediawetenschapper Daniel de Zeeuw schoof aan bij Tabe Bakker om dit fenomeen te bespreken. 🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/11T7jx…

Daniël de Zeeuw and Alex Gekker 🐘 @[email protected] summarised their recent QAnon research in this blog post for LSE: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2023…

Marc Tuters wrote about conspirituality, YouTube, and Russell Brand in this new MAST issue, edited by Jernej Markelj and Tony D. Sampson 👉mast-nemla.org/archive/MAST_V…

In this new publication for Issues in Science and Technology, Marc Tuters, Tom Willaert, and Trisha Meyer investigate mRNA-discussion networks, exploring how science becomes entangled with conspiracy theories and disinformation on Twitter. issues.org/science-mrna-c…

New YouTube radicalisation research for GNET 👇

New OILab publication in collaboration with @venturini_tom 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… x firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

New OILab publication by Sal Hagen 👇

🔗Brand new open access article by Emillie de Keulenaar, João C. Magalhães and Bharath Ganesh on the Twitter's "modularisation" of content moderation, pre and (slightly) post-Musk.

Marc Tuters spoke to Rijnmond about the 4chan-connection to the Rotterdam attacks of last week rijnmond.nl/nieuws/1721524…

🔗 Draft "field guide" on using & scrutinising LLMs for online conflict monitoring, using the #NagornoKarabach conflict as a case study: shorturl.at/evERV. Includes experimentations w/ mapping reconciliation processes and studying LLM biases with minority language prompts.

"The Affordances of Extreme Speech" by Emillie de Keulenaar. Dive into how online spaces shape extreme speech, focusing on 4chan, #Twitter, & #YouTube. A crucial read on the dynamics of digital communication and public discourse. buff.ly/49YPt08 #MediaStudies #OnlineDiscourse.

If you're in Amsterdam, on 24 June, Alan Finlayson will explain what “reactionary digital politics” is, how it is shaped by “ideological entrepreneurs,” and how this is reconfiguring our understanding of what it is to be political. Sign up here: spui25.nl/programma/diag…