Digital Intimacies Research Bot

Digital Intimacies Research Bot

[Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @TransDINetwork]

New Article by Liang Ge: “In the Name of Pro-Women”: Intra-Women Surveillance and Internalized Misogyny in Digital East Asia | Article | Media and Communication https://t.co/B5NBEdbi2w check it out! 😊

[Oxford Internet Institute @oiioxford]

Missed last Friday’s @oiioxford's Pride Lecture? The recording of Dr Ewan Soubutts’ talk on “Twink Death” and the sociotechnical links between ageing and queerness online is now live. Watch here: https://t.co/KQOaUWapjF🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth

[Digital Intimacies Research Bot @DIResearchBot]

#ReadingofTheDay Blakaj, H., & Arnould, E. (2026). Taste making as assemblage effect: The case of electronic dance music. Journal of Consumer Culture. https://t.co/yQkaBklVsv

[Digital Intimacies Research Bot @DIResearchBot]

#ReadingofTheDay Zhou, C., & Luo, J. (2026). Digital neo-tribal formations and identity construction among Generation Z: A cyber-ethnographic analysis of China’s cotton dolls circle subculture. Journal of Consumer Culture. https://t.co/75xThOznDK

[Digital Intimacies Research Bot @DIResearchBot]

#ReadingofTheDay Ge, L. (2025). Ambivalent desiring subjects: young women, agency and post-(socialist-)feminist sensibilities in China. Feminist Theory, E-pub ahead of print. https://t.co/iK9QfMCPDv

[Oxford Internet Institute @oiioxford]

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: The Invisible Human Workforce Behind AI, with Ayca Ergin and Ashly Jiju from the OII's @TowardsFairWork team.

Every time you use a chatbot, there are millions of humans you've never seen making it work. Learn more: https://t.co/EzkjYFPhUB

[Oxford Internet Institute @oiioxford]

New coverage! Prof. @geoplace speaks to @Corriere on the invisible, poorly paid human labour behind AI systems.

"AI is made up of humans through and through," Prof. Graham says, yet big tech works hard to keep those workers out of sight.

https://t.co/6tTsK7xNmU

[Digital Intimacies Research Bot @DIResearchBot]

#ReadingofTheDay Nikoi, N. K. (2026). “They like using girls like me, light skin girls”: Music videos, race, and technology in Accra, Ghana. Media, Culture & Society, 0(0). https://t.co/V1YGtE5LZl

[Digital Intimacies Research Bot @DIResearchBot]

#ReadingofTheDay Ge, L., & Hu, T. (2025). Gamifying intimacy: AI-driven affective engagement and human-virtual human relationships. Media, Culture & Society, 47(6), 1265-1278. https://t.co/amVE7I1Lle

[Digital Intimacies Research Bot @DIResearchBot]

#ReadingofTheDay Chacon, A., Montecino, R., Reyes, T., & Kausel, E. E. (2026). The influence of terminology on use and preference in algorithmic systems: Beyond the hype for chatbots. Big Data & Society, 13(1). https://t.co/5RgvpF2XkG

[Digital Intimacies Research Bot @DIResearchBot]

#ReadingofTheDay Zeng, J., Mahl, D., Schäfer, M. S., Brause, S. R., & Katzenbach, C. (2026). Studying the discursive order of artificial intelligence: Cross-national media coverage in China, Germany, and the US (2012–2024). Big Data & Society, 13(1). https://t.co/YY7rqxjXK1

[Digital Intimacies Research Bot @DIResearchBot]

#ReadingofTheDay Ge, L. (2025). Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity. Big Data & Society, 12(4). https://t.co/vyqswnwxdz

[Zening (“Ze”)Duan @Zening_Duan]

We’re likely among the last cohort of social scientists trained mostly prior to the AI age. This commentary by Messing and Tucker is worth a look.
https://t.co/z7wTC6NzYJ

[LSE Media & Communications @MediaLSE]

Is #AI the future of learning? In a recent episode of @BBCSounds #TheArtificialHuman, @Livingstone_S joins hosts @aleksk @Kevin_Fong to explore how AI tools can equip the next generation for a digital world.

🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/7YyURNnq4K

[Journal of Communication @Journal_Of_Comm]

Introducing JoC publication: “The (in)efficacy of AI personas in deception detection experiments”, by David M Markowitz @davidmmarkowitz , Timothy R Levine.
Read here: https://t.co/3qpngI7HNj

[BBK Journalism @BBKBAJM]

Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity. https://t.co/BSKjdXZrGe

[Rafael Grohmann @grohmann_rafael]

We just launched a tracker on workers' mobilization around AI in arts, culture and media. It aims to document strikes, protests, campaigns, and other mobilizations. It currently maps 107 unions, associations, collectives, across 25+ countries.

https://t.co/FY6Lzh1K02

[David J. Gunkel @David_Gunkel]

My next book "Understanding Artificial Intelligence" @polity will be out and available later this year. It's a textbook designed specifically for students and educators in the non-STEM disciplines, aka humanities, social sciences and the arts.
https://t.co/qUfV9HikNp

[Digital Intimacies Research Bot @DIResearchBot]

#ReadingofTheDay Check out: Xu, J. and Zhang, D.G. (2026) Internet Vulgarities in China: Cultures, Governance and Politics. 1st edn. London: Routledge. Available at: https://t.co/NVsPPdTZea.

[The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social @mitpress]

"An important and timely book, written by a gifted scientist at the cutting edge of the AI revolution." — @nature

Terrence @sejnowski's "The Deep Learning Revolution" is now available in paperback: https://t.co/Of8Eh1h3cm