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🔊New issue OUT🔊 Inside you will find a timely Symposium on "Repurposing Generative AI for Social Research" edited by Federico Pilati, Anders Kristian Munk and Tommaso Venturini. Read the whole issue here sociologica.unibo.it/issue/view/1317 and stay tuned for more content!

@meier_flo Thanks so much!

@MASSHINE_AAU @meier_flo @komaau Interested to learn more about this. Could you share a link to this research?

Just out: with @ekborra, @ocoromina and @andairamf, we analyzed 570M URLs from video descriptions to better understand how YouTube channels are making money. Results show a lot of heterogeneity between countries and categories. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Out now! Making a Living in the Creator Economy: A Large-Scale Study of Linking on YouTube - Bernhard Rieder, Erik Borra, Òscar Coromina, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, 2023 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Allemaal hartstikke leuk die protesten. Maar heb na al die tijd nog altijd geen antwoord op de vraag waarom uitgerekend deze drassige postzegel per se de koeiencapital van Europa moet zijn.

RIP academic Twitter API. Access has been discontinued. It is hard to square Twitter's actions with the self proclaimed commitment to transparency and regulations like the #DSA. The actions also remind us of the academic over-reliance of Twitter for research. But still 🤯

Alette Schoon and Henri-Count Evans oriented the Winter School participants to the use of Digital Methods Initiative’s 4Cat. This open source tool scrapes and sorts data from social media platforms, such as TikTok, 4chan, Instagram and Tumblr. We ❤️ 4Cat #digimethods2023

Watch this really important discussion on A.I. safety. Especially if you are in a public function such as journalism, academia, or policy ... youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj…

on May 8 (13:00-16:00) in Amsterdam, we are organizing another workshop on social media analysis with 4CAT and the YouTube Data Tools, more info here: cat4smr.humanities.uva.nl/index.php/2023…

a big deal: @elonmusk, Y. Bengio, S. Russell, ⁦⁦@tegmark⁩, V. Kraknova, P. Maes, ⁦@Grady_Booch, ⁦@AndrewYang⁩, ⁦@tristanharris⁩ & over 1,000 others, including me, have called for a temporary pause on training systems exceeding GPT-4 futureoflife.org/open-letter/pa…

On November 22nd, we are organizing an online workshop on 4CAT (data capture and analysis for many platforms, including Twitter and TikTok) and the YouTube Data Tools. Info and registration here: cat4smr.humanities.uva.nl/index.php/2022…

Today we had the chance to meet the wonderful team @cat4smr @digitalmethods to learn about their tools for social media research. Make sure to check out 4CAT to capture and analyze images across platforms. Great feature: the image wall! @stijnstijn @RiederB #bildprotesteMETHODS

on May 23rd, we are organizing a workshop on data-driven social media analysis in Amsterdam, presenting 4CAT and the YouTube Data Tools, and discussing participants' research projects cat4smr.humanities.uva.nl/index.php/2022…

Graag breng ik onder jullie aandacht: een topvacature. Met nog leuke collega's ook! vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Prakti…

Yay for Research Software Engineers! Many are academics and do this mostly for love. Some want it to be a career but academic institutions often don't see the benefit @ResearchSoftEng is doing great work so that the research software you need continues to be developed

.@Sci_for_Ukraine will be collecting information and tweeting about the help universities and research institutions offer to students and researchers from #Ukraine. Please use #ScienceForUkraine hashtag to help us to find your tweet! #standForUkraineNow #RussiaInvadesUkraine

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What can be learned from algorithms when things go wrong? @algoglitch + @jwyg + @Optichiasm explore ‘Algorithmic Trouble’ in A New AI Lexicon: medium.com/a-new-ai-lexic…