Political Microtargeting on Social Media in Diverse Democracies

This post was written by Ursula Daxecker and Stefania Milan as part of the GDC-funded project “Political Microtargeting on Social Media in Diverse Democracies”.  Digital platforms and mobile apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook have become important political tools in elections in the Global South. People increasingly receive political information online rather than through real-life…

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Deplatforming Politicians and the Implications for Europe

This post was written by Ronan Fahy, Judith Möller and Rocco Bellanova as part of the GDC-funded project “Digital Platforms and the Digitisation of Expression and Surveillance“.   Global digital platforms deplatforming prominent politicians has brought widespread public attention to the “unchecked power” these platforms have over online freedom of expression. Some companies, in an…

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Artificial Intelligence for Ethical Integrity? Questions and Challenges for AI in Times of a Pandemic 

This post by Dieuwertje Luitse is part of our series “Global Digital Cultures in times of COVID-19”, written by students of the research master Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics are on the rise. As is increasingly clear, big data and algorithmic systems risk reproducing bias and inequalities towards historically disadvantaged…

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From Performativity to Behavioral Data: The Algorithmic Configurations of Sexuality on Social Media in China

By Shuaishuai Wang (Faculty of Humanities), Rachel Spronk (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences). This project explores how gendered content and sexual classifications on social media come to be algorithmically aggregated and processed to regulate sexual identifications of users. Gender has been theorized as a repetitive and ritual performativity, which is discursively enabled, hence regulated…

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Global digital art: Perspectives on categories, place, and economic value in the crypto art market

By Monika Kackovic (University of Amsterdam Economics and Business), Giovanni Colavizza (Faculty of Humanities), Andrea Leiter (Faculty of Law). We focus on the intersection between categories and place, and investigate the impact on economic value. Using categorization as our theoretical lens, we study the extent to which the meaning of categories in one market context…

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