YouTube's API search function is "not adequate for robust academic research, especially concerning Digital Services Act requirements". Clear and problematic conclusions by @riederb.bsky.social Adrian Padilla & Oscar Coromina #commsky #DSA #dataacess #youtube arxiv.org/abs/2506.11727

🚨 Call for Papers: Tech Oligarchy Forum 🚨 Science as Culture invites contributions on how digital elites shape science, tech, and society—from AI monopolies to platform power 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July Details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #TechOligarchy #ScienceAsCulture #STS

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’re hiring: Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information Studies (Media Studies, @uvahumanities.bsky.social)! Join @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, myself, & other wonderful colleagues in the Critical Data & AI team. Applications due 28 May. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Sharing an opportunity to publish in our journal. Check out this call for papers led by @silvertje.bsky.social Rianne Riemens Donya Alinejad @juikei.bsky.social "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis." Deadline: 23.05 journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...

Lecturer in Social Data Science at the University of Helsinki jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

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/vacancies...

Some new and really great articles have been published in Platforms & Society recently, one of which is this eye-opening study by Zhen Ye on the complex and compromised role of multichannel networks in China’s livestreaming industry: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hurray my new publication with Dennis Nguyen is out in open access: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Postdoctoral Researcher in OSINT & Information Disorder at Amsterdam University werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

so Google's Tensor Processing Units are actually quite the asset after all

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

I have a new piece out with @aisvarya17.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social in which we test how OpenAI's new search feature surfaces and attributes news content. Our findings were not promising for news publishers (1/9) www.cjr.org/tow_center/h...

Two quick observations after skimming the first 5 DSA audit reports (ranging from 114 pages (Bing) to 344 pages (X).

New platform, new paper! Talking about ideal first posts :) The platformization of the follower factory with my co-author Johan Lindquist: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

For the lovely 🦋 folks: #postdoc jobs: We have exciting post doc positions open in the U of Amsterdam's interdisciplinary research priority area "Human(e) AI". Applicants from eg communication, law, logic, and philosophy welcome! 🗓️: deadline December 13 Share 🫶 vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Two-...

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Open access & just published: Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society. Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention (Amsterdam University Press 2024) www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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/index.php/bl...

so Sarah Burkhardt 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/full/10....

Call for Participation: Internet Research with Foundation Models? cat4smr.humanities.uva.nl/index.php/20...

testing the YTDT's new co-commenting module (here: 421 videos for search query [Ukraine]), I am surprised by how strong user "communities" around channels (color) are, with videos connected by up to 100+ users; the network is overall super dense, lots of hyperactive commenters...

Following recent changes in the YouTube Data Tools, I made a new overview video as well as detailed videos for each module, which include explanations, parameters, and directions for analysis with GSheets and Gephi; here's the playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...