Katherine Pittalis

Congratulations to @katpittalis on successfully defending her PhD thesis! 🎉 Her research explores how algorithmic bots manipulate streaming, social media, and ticketing markets in the music industry, and proposes policy reforms to strengthen UK regulatory responses. Well done!👏

That's a wrap on the 2025 LINAS Postgraduate Conference! A massive thank you to all our speakers, organisers and attendees for making the conference an engaging and insightful day! #LINAS25

Panel Session 2: 'Implications of AI in Culture and Creative Industries' took place in the Lanyon Room. The panel was chaired by Dr Tomás McInerney. Speakers: Ayesha Alam, Katherine Pittalis and Jack Whatley. #LINAS25

The Third annual LINAS Conference on ‘AI Crossroads: Bridging Disciplines for Innovation’ kicked off this morning @QUBelfast.📍 We’ll be live tweeting the event ! Follow along here for updates throughout the day📷 #LINAS25

@NiharikaSalar Congratulations Niharika !

New publication in Asian Journal of Legal Education titled "Are we Heading Towards a Changed Order of International Legal System? A Post COVID 19 Approach". (A pre-print version is available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…)

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - LINAS Postgraduate Conference AI Crossroads: Bridging Disciplines for Innovation We welcome abstract submissions that do not exceed 250 words. Please send your submission to linaspgconference@qub.ac.uk Deadline for submissions is Friday 17th February 2025

Host @NiharikaSalar & PhD candidate @katpittalis discuss the challenges of buying concert tickets at face value in the digital age. Talking about ticketing bots, dynamic pricing, and the broader impacts on fans and the music industry. #Oasis #TaylorSwift bit.ly/49GyRdV

Prof Martin Husovec @hutko @LSEnews meeting with PhD candidates for an informal coffee meeting @QUBelfast @qubschooloflaw @GIPTechCentre. A great opportuniy for our PhDs form exchanging views with Martin on platform regulation and more!

Join us for the next @GIPTechCentre @qubschooloflaw with Prof Husovec @hutko @LSEnews. Prof Husovec will discuss the Digital Services Act, its risk-based framework, and its role in addressing disinformation. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/g-iptech-lec…

@FairTicketing @RhonddaBryant There’s lots of content appearing on Reddit as well discussing how to “hypothetically” get tickets using bots and even people responding with links to these types of discord groups.

Here are a few to be going on with ⁦@RhonddaBryant⁩. It is the tip of the iceberg unfortunately. We have been monitoring this since well before the #oasis scandal and our door has always been open for discussion and progression towards a solution that works for everyone.

Great to see the PhD Law Conference underway in the Moot Court.⚖️ Pictured is @katpittalis, @linas_qub PhD student talking about her research and the use of bots and the effects of dynamic pricing algorithms during the recent @oasis ticket sale controversy.

@faisalislam We have been trying to get this story out there for years.£150 tickets now £400 in Ireland where resale of tickets is banned thus creating a monopoly for @Ticketmaster. They are the root cause to high prices & are the real #touts. You should do an expose on it for #consumers

Once upon a time, Conservative ministers urged fans to boycott viagogo. Yesterday, @kevinhollinrake openly endorsed the UK's biggest ticket touting website. Fascinating to hear Government's rationale for rejecting policies that benefit British audiences over rogue traders

An absolute pleasure presenting an excerpt of my thesis : “Algorithmic Bots in the Music Ticket Industry - Private and Public Regulation” at the LINAS “Automation Generation”Conference 2024. A big thank you @GCFrosio for chairing the panel. @linas_qub @QUBMitchell

@QUBMitchell @kieranmcevoy2 @EdoCeles @DCU @QUBEEECS @LeverhulmeTrust @MuirisMac @HAPPatQUB Panel Session 2 ‘Implications of AI on the Creative Industry’ took place in the Moot Court Room. The panel was chaired by Professor Giancarlo Frosio. Speakers included: Anıl Bayindir; Weiwei Yi, Kat Pittalis and Laura Filiung

The second annual LINAS Conference on ‘The Automation Generation’ kicked off this morning @QUBelfast.📍 We’ll be providing updates throughout the day. Follow along here 🧵 #LINAS24

FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The second LINAS student-led conference is taking place on the 22nd April 2024 at Queen’s University Belfast. The conference theme, ‘The Automation Generation’ aims to bring together PhD scholars and early career researchers from various disciplines to discuss the societal implications of artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data. If you would be interested in submitting an abstract, registering to attend, or would like further details on what this conference is about, please follow this link buff.ly/47R1fZa Many thanks, The LINAS Conference Team.

| Call for Abstracts | The LINAS DTP is holding its conference, 'The Automation Generation' on the 22nd April 2024 at Queen's University Belfast. Please see the attached flyer if you would be interested in submitting an abstract / registering! Link : lnkd.in/ejKwMqPx