amsterdam univ; lisboa; history & politics of software; mechanology; platforms; digital methods; en/fr/de/nl/pt; @riederb@mastodon.top
Lisbon, Amsterdam, Klagenfurt
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so @SBrkhrdt and I just published a paper on the political economy of large pre-trained AI models (aka "foundation models"); we are specifically focusing on the role of prompting, how it changes the way AI applications are built, and what that means; journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
New preprint, "Larger, younger, faster, harder: expansion, transformation, and inequality in YouTube's creator economy (2019–2026)", comparing the channel landscape above 1k subscribers six years apart. Lots changed. Full text: lnkd.in/eFPz9B89
Together with Bastian August and Brogan Latil, I spent decidedly too much time trying to understand how Andrew Tate remains present on YouTube after his two channels were suspended.
Full paper in New Media & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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
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/vacancie…
Postdoctoral Researcher in OSINT & Information Disorder at Amsterdam University werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancie…
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📣🇧🇷 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-met…
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
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#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” @RiederB @UvA_Amsterdam
Ins° ➡️ metsem.hypotheses.org/1716
cc @ScPoResearch @medialab_ScPo @CEVIPOF @SciencesPo_CEE @CDSP_ScPo @ScPoBibli
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Our article with the Journal of Children and Media is now out open access! From my days working at @digitalchildau with the brilliant @KateMannell . You can download it here shorturl.at/faok3
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New article! In “User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube,” @blakeplease 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.
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🚨Thrilled to share my new article “Platform power in AI: The evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence” ✨OA @PolicyR as part of the🔥SI “Locating and Theorizing Platform Power” Read: policyreview.info/articles/a…
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📢So excited to share my new article 'AI Competitions as Infrastructures of Power in Medical Imaging' (@icsjournal, w/@tobias_blanke & @tpoell), which demonstrates how platform-based #AI competitions structure power relations in medical imaging research. rb.gy/dy9v7p
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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/Lec…
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/2q6ey…
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=QQG7_DHE…
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📣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 @AmsterdamUPress
🔓Available #openaccess here: library.oapen.org/handle/20.…
@Caliviral @afrontiercity @novemillimetri
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/in…
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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/Pan…
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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/i…
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“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/technolog…
