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✨job✨ assistant or associate professorship in platform studies at medialab, University of Geneva. Deadline 1st September. please share with those who might be interessted! https://publicdatalab.org/2025/06/26/platform-studies-professorship/

Special issue on Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research co-edited by Public Data Lab members Daniela van Geenen, @kfvanes@akademienl.social & @jwyg@post.lurk.org is now out!

Featuring contributions on machine learning, digital methods, art-based interventions, one-click network trouble, web page snapshotting, social media tool-making, sensory media, supercuts, climate futures and more: https://publicdatalab.org/2024/04/24/critical-technical-practices/

If you’re interested in critical technical practices, there's also a new list: https://jiscmail.ac.uk/CRITICAL-TECHNICAL-PRACTICES

New article on GitHub and the platformisation of software development by @lbngr@assemblag.es in Convergence: https://publicdatalab.org/2023/12/08/github-platformisation/

The article is accompanied by a set of free tools codeveloped with @dmi@mastodon.digitalmethods.net for researching Github.

#platformstudies #platformisation #newmedia #mediastudies #softwarestudies #digitalmethods #commodon #socialmedia #github #opensource

A new article examining COVID-19 testing situations - moments in which it is no longer possible to go on in the usual way - on Twitter published in Social Media + Society, co-authored by @NoortjeMarres@mstdn.social @gabrielecolombo@mastodon.social @lbngr@assemblag.es @jwyg@post.lurk.org Carolin Gerlitz & James Tripp.

https://publicdatalab.org/2023/09/25/covid19-testing-situations/

#sts #feministsts #methods #visualmethods #commodon #socialmedia #covid19 #testing #situationalanalysis #situationalimageanalysis #testingsituations #nolongerpossibletogooninusualway

New working paper on "Testing ‘AI’: Do we have a situation?" based on conversation between @NoortjeMarres@mstdn.social and Philippe Sormani: https://publicdatalab.org/2023/06/08/testing-ai/

#ai #testing #commodon #sts #scienceandtechnologystudies

zeehaven – a tiny tool to convert data for social media research: https://publicdatalab.org/2023/12/18/zeehaven-social-media-data/

drag and drop ndjson data gathered with @dmi@mastodon.digitalmethods.net's zeeschuimer tool, and download a csv file. ✨📦✨

#digitalmethods #csv #ndjson #tinytools #osint #newmedia #commodon #mediastudies #data #dataviz

The Digital Methods Winter School in Amsterdam will take place on 6-10th January 2025 with the theme “Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research?”. Apply by 9th December. 📝✨ https://publicdatalab.org/2024/11/29/dmi25-chatbots-llms/

How can generative soundscape composition enable different perspectives on forests in an era of planetary crisis? Join our forestscapes listening lab at #republica23 in Berlin:
https://publicdatalab.org/2023/06/04/forestscapes-republica/ #rp23

What is @Gephi@vis.social Lite? Who and what is it for? What can it do? An interview with developers of new #opensource web-based network exploration tool:
https://publicdatalab.org/2023/05/23/gephi-lite-interview/

@ouestware@mastodon.social
@jacomyal@vis.social @paulanomalie@piaille.fr
@logisima@floss.social
@jacomyma@mas.to
@dmi@mastodon.digitalmethods.net

#gephi #networks #networkanalysis #socialmediaanalysis #newmedia #commodon #dataviz

do you have screenshots of troubling interactions with AI? submit them to our call for screenshots to be featured in an online publication and workshop - now extended until 10th december 2024: https://publicdatalab.org/2024/10/24/troubling-ai-call-for-screenshots/

Call for papers: “Generative Methods: AI as collaborator and companion in the social sciences and humanities”, Copenhagen, 6-8th December 2023 📝https://publicdatalab.org/2023/08/03/cfp-generative-methods/

Join us for launch of special issue on critical technical practice(s) in digital research on Wednesday 10th July, 2-4pm (CEST).

This will include an introduction to the special issue, brief presentations from several special issue contributors, followed by discussion about possibilities and next steps.

You can find further details and register here: https://publicdatalab.org/2024/06/14/ctp-special-issue-launch/

What next for Memespector-GUI? Seeking feedback and input to inform next steps with this #opensource tool providing a graphical user interface for research with and about computer vision APIs: https://publicdatalab.org/2025/03/13/memespector-gui-what-next/

✨job✨ - the Media of Cooperation Research Centre at the University of Siegen is hiring a Digital Methods Research Associate. Read more and apply here: https://publicdatalab.org/2024/12/16/job-digital-methods-siegen/

✨ new article ✨ on cross-platform bot studies published in special issue about visual methods 📝
https://publicdatalab.org/2024/03/24/bolsobots-article/

applications open for Summer School in Digital Methods for Critical Consumer Studies in Como, 22-26 September 2025: https://publicdatalab.org/2025/05/28/como-summer-school/