🔊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 https://t.co/w6ud8jXpOP and stay tuned for more content!
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. https://t.co/vsWoGsizYX
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 https://t.co/6yJfZJNmXV
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 ... https://t.co/rJTcXrohhd
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: https://t.co/xpbYQ1VHSR
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 https://t.co/PJ5YFu0xm9
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: https://t.co/wCxEcs4hXn
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 https://t.co/xFmRCue7Vf
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
What can be learned from algorithms when things go wrong?
@algoglitch + @jwyg + @Optichiasm explore ‘Algorithmic Trouble’ in A New AI Lexicon: https://t.co/tbA6Fgprze