Early career and international submissions Q&A for #ICA26 @icahdq.bsky.social Join the upcoming Q&A Zoom Event organized by the ICA Visual Communication Studies Division (VCSD) to know more about our call for abstracts and papers in response to the theme "Communication and Inequalities in Context"

New study in Memory, Mind & Media: "Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated #images of #war; #AI and #Memory special collection. doi.org/10.1017/mem.... #criticalAI @universitypress.cambridge.org

Some of my thoughts on the politics of visual generative #AI documented in a beautiful graphic recording in the 2025 Digital Politics Summer School curated by the Digital Society research group at The Manchester Metropolitan University 😍 digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/2025/09/03/v...

Preparations are in full swing and we look forward to welcoming everyone in Groningen soon for #12ICOM: 12th International Conference on Multimodality 29-31 October 2025, House of Connections, Groningen bit.ly/12ICOM Watch our website for the full program to be online soon!

The program and (free) registration for online 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 "𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 / 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜", 𝟮𝟰-𝟮𝟳 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲, are available! digitalpoliticsmanmet.bloggi.co/visual-ai-po...

Nataliia Laba @nataliialaba.com on text-to-image generators, the resulting artefacts and our interpretation. Her food for thought: Can human qualities really be translated to AI? We should continue addressing how people's experiences shape their expectations towards AI.

CfP Digital Politics Summer School at Manchester Metropolitan University, 23-27 June (online). This year, the school is focusing on visual generative AI, and invites applications for participation in a networking and co-production session. More info: digitalpoliticsmanmet.bloggi.co/visual-ai-po...

New OA book. Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity by Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Are you researching the role of AI for workers in the media, arts and culture sectors? Consider submitting an abstract to our special issue for AI & Society journal on the topic. link.springer.com/collections/...

Visual Communication, a leading journal published by SAGE, is now on BlueSky 🎉 To celebrate, here’s a look at some of our most-read articles from the past 6 months. Give us a follow and join our BlueSky community to connect with readers and visual communication scholars ✨

NEW! MCCS are awarding a limited no of 100% fee waivers for 2025–26 for students who are the first in their family to attend university on these MAs: • MA Cultural Studies • MA Gender, Media and Culture • MA Race, Media and Social Justice Full details: www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

#12ICOM Update 🔴 You can now register for the conference and save your spot for the conference dinner. 🔴 A preliminary schedule is also available to plan your travel to and stay in Groningen: bit.ly/12ICOM 💥 I am so looking forward to this conference and everyone coming to Groningen! 💥

Glad to occasionally write for that ‘not much of a magazine’, @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

You can now register at www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-prese... ⏰Friday April 11 9am-12pm PDT | 12pm-3pm EDT | 6pm-9pm CEST | 7pm-10pm EAT

Registrations open for the workshop “Pixel vs. protocol: Negotiating the role of multimodal generative AI in study, work, and play” on May 7 (14:00-17:00) in Groningen, the Netherlands, organized by @neous.bsky.social and I ✨

Tapping this sign again. By @emilymbender.bsky.social buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... "As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access."

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

🙋🏼‍♂️question AI-critical scholars and artists etc: Recommendations for readings, films, and podcasts for a grad level syllabus pertaining to AI and curatorial practices? I’ve got a total mess of an outline going here docs.google.com/document/d/1... anyone can edit, adapt, repurpose, improve

On March 7, DOGE got one of the things it seemed to want most from GSA: a chatbot that could automate work previously done by federal employees. Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’:

DSM is very pleased to host @dugstef.bsky.social next month. Come along to her seminar on "Why Tinder matters: Exploring how the app has shaped sexual and dating culture." Tuesday April 1, 4pm AEDT. Registration is necessary and you can attend in person or online events.humanitix.com/why-tinder-m...

This. But also the impossibility of escaping convenience, the limits of utility to moralizing it as well - as we & others outline here networkcultures.org/blog/publica...

"Regulators are waking up to the need to think about social media, and they’re worrying about the social impact of social media, its effect on mental health... dating apps haven’t been folded into that conversation" - @lukebrunning.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

just what everyone has been asking for: more AI overviews! 🫠

for my @newyorker.com column this week, I talked to the people who made the AI Trump Gaza video, who originally intended it as satire: “What if Trump really will take over Gaza? I mean, it’s not such a bad thought. I’m not totally against it" Solo Avital told me. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

For more, check out the 2019 D&S report “Data Voids: Where Missing Data Can Easily Be Exploited,” in which @zephoria.bsky.social & Michael Golebiewski demonstrate how data voids are manipulated by those eager to expose people to falsehoods, misinfo, and disinfo. datasociety.net/library/data...

“Artificial witness: Generative AI and the visual politics of war” - for those interested - here is a recording of my talk that addresses the uses of generative AI in imaging and imagining wars: youtu.be/XX5HpVlXkIQ | part of Visiting Research Fellowship at Manchester Metropolitan University |

With Google removing their Responsible AI Principles, they no longer state that they will *not* engage in "Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights". Concerns about surveillance and injury are also erased. ai.google/responsibili...

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

Sometimes you get to speak with people whose work has been essential in developing your own thinking. This was one of those experiences. I had the chance to talk with @melhogan.bsky.social about ed-tech, AI, and what forms of resistance and refusal are available to us as educators.

We know what happens when we prioritize one technology — one way of doing things — without considering the social effects of that investment. With “Stargate” & a $100b commitment to AI infrastructure, I look to the highways we’ve built only to tear them down. In @techpolicypress.bsky.social today:

Interested in #generativeAI and #journalism? If so, you’re warmly invited to the launch of a report on this topic next month. The report brings together six research and engagement activities conducted over a three-year period in seven countries and focuses on three domains.

We are hosting the 2025 @aoir.bsky.social Flashpoint Symposium in Bremen! 🎯 CfP "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance" 📆 3-4 June 2025, Bremen, DE 🗒️ Deadline for Abstracts: 15 February 2025 platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

🔔🚨 Two weeks left to submit an abstract to our Divisional ICA pre-conference on visual communication in times of social change (deadline Feb 1) -

Registrations open for my talk on #genAI and visual politics of war at Manchester Metropolitan University, the Digital Society Research Group, next Tues, Jan 21, 12-1 pm (GMT +01:00 London). Hope to see you there! More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artificial...

my brief 2024 on bsky @skircle.bsky.social: @eryk.bsky.social, @wasielewski.bsky.social, @bildoperationen.bsky.social doing great work on critical AI and synthetic image cultures @neous.bsky.social driving multimodality research @socialmedialab.ca making computational social science accessible

I’m dreaming of a slop Xmas…

August: I've been enjoying @jwherrman.bsky.social‘s writing a lot and this piece on gen AI tools as universal shorteners has especially stayed with me nymag.com/intelligence...

"More than two-thirds of 100 companies behind the AI tools most commonly used and recommended by journalists are insufficiently transparent about their ownership, finances and other critical data, according to a new report" reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/who-own...

📢 CfP: Join us for the #ICA 2025 Pre-conference: Frames of Transition: Visual Communication in Times of Social Change on June 11, 2025, at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA! Please check our full CfP and spread the word: cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.o... #ICA2025 #VisualCommunication 1/2

Study shows a gap in how AI is perceived: experts are more optimistic about its benefits and less concerned about risks compared to the general public. Is this just a case of expertise leading to realism—or are experts overlooking public fears? #AI #Ethics #TrustInAI arxiv.org/abs/2412.01459

Pair these stories up with the OpenAI team up with Anduril and you have a fully fledged turn to the military in the GenAI space. A reminder to never, ever believe tech companies when they talk about their “values” and “principles”

Folks, now that @timnitgebru.bsky.social is here I want to encourage you all to check out the *extended* critical AI starter pack because it’s got some stellar recent additions :) go.bsky.app/B2kmVWg

🚨Registration is now open for the AlgoSoc Conference 2025: The Future of Public Values in the Algorithmic Society! 🗓️ April 10-11, 2025 📍Amsterdam We encourage early registration to secure your spot! conference.algosoc.org/home #AlgoSoc2025 #AI #PublicValues

📣Join us on Dec 6 2024, 15-17.00 - TaalX2: #Discourses of #Discrimination 👉Ksenija Bogetić Pejović on #Metaphors of #hate: The new figurative vocabularies of #gender, #sexuality and #race in #online misogynist communities sites.google.com/rug.nl/taalx2 @unigroningen.bsky.social

Stabilising Generative AI as a Public Concern? Mike Ananny on the interplay between "seeing something as having gone wrong as an indication of what people think it means for a system to go right" at #CriticalAI seminar series, program & sign up at www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/2-cri... 🧵/1

From a purely technical point of view, this is certainly remarkable. But I'm more intrigued by the promise made here and what it says about our current understanding of digital images – a thread ... 1/

Me after realizing I have 8 peer reviews due this month #AcademicSky