Natalia Stanusch

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Human Economy Behind Platform-Ready AI Slop, with Martin Degeling and Salvatore Romano. Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI, University of Siegen. Siegen, Germany. 22–25 September 2026.

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

(Im)Material Problems. Challenges in Researching AI with Digital Methods in the Time of AI, with Richard Rogers. EASST2026 More than now: exploring resilient futures, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. Krakow, Poland. September 8-11, 2026.

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Keep Calm and AmaZen: Materialities of Energy-as-Work in Mindfulness Technologies. In Digital Exhaustion: Burnout, Fatigue, and Overload in the Age of Constant Connectivity, Intellect. 2026.

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Workshop presenter and co-organizer, Where do chatbots live? For ARIAS Platform for Research through the Arts & Sciences / Slow AI. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. July 6, 2026.

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Second report on systemic risks of very large online platforms and search engines under the Digital Services Act. European Commission, July 2, 2026.

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI and its (Dis)Contents: Methods of Mapping AI as and with Digital Media, with Ruchard Rogers and Natalia Sánchez Querubín. Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital, King’s College London. London, UK. 23–26 June 2026.

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Artificial Intelligence And Its Collective Ideation: Doing A Media Archaeology On Wikipedia, with Richard Rogers and Natalia Sánchez Querubín. Preprint. June 2026.

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Wenn das Internet im KI-Müll versinkt. mediendiskurs, 30 May 2026.

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The AI future looks nothing like we expected, it’s learning human emotions | Anatomy of Disinformation. TVP World, 19 May 2026.

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Invited speaker, Inaugurazione la mostra dell’incomputabile. NINA FESTIVAL. Arrivano le intelligenze collettive. For NINA: NÉ INTELLIGENTE NÉ ARTIFICIALE. Milan and Rome, Italy. 8-10 May 2026.

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Artificial Elections 2.0: Exposing the Use of Generative Al Imagery in the 2026 French Municipal Election campaigns, with Miazia Schueler, Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano. AI Forensics. 2026.

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Förintelsen som AI-slop: ‘Jag kan inte nog understryka hur illa det kommer att bli’. Sydsvenskan, 15 March 2026.

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Human Guide to Detecting AI Imagery. AI Forensics. 2026.

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

From ‘Googling’ to ‘Asking ChatGPT’: the Regulation and Moderation of AI-Powered Search, with Buse Ryze Çetin, R. B., Salvatore Romano, Marc Faddoul. The DSA and Platform Regulation Conference Amsterdam, DSA Observatory. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 16–17 February 2026.

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

From Promise to Practice: Evaluating Research Data Access Under the DSA, with Salvatore Romano, Martin Degeling, Natalie Kerby, Miazia Schueler, Buse Ryze Çetin. The DSA and Platform Regulation Conference Amsterdam, DSA Observatory. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 16–17 February 2026.

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Algorithm Investigators. Limelight Foundation, February 1, 2026.

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How AI is imagined by industry during the Sam Altman controversy, with Richard Rogers. In New Media and Society, 2026.

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Fact Check: Macron did not say he was ready for war in January 2026 speech to French military. Reuters, 29 January 2026.

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Fact Check: Farage was not on Time magazine’s list of 2025’s most influential people. Reuters, 7 January 2026.

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Online Media Archeology as AI Critique: Wikipedia’s Links and Edits as Spatial and Temporal Fields, with Richard Rogers and Natalia Sánchez Querubín. In AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. 2026.

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

How AI is influencing Europe’s elections. Euractiv, 10 December 2025.

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

KI vs Realität: Jetzt beweisen Videos wirklich nichts mehr. ZAPP (NDR), 5 December 2025.

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Anti-immigrant material among AI-generated content getting billions of views on TikTok. The Guardian, 3 December 2025.

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Jeunes femmes sexualisées, contenus xénophobes et chats qui patinent : comment l’IA récolte des milliards de vues sur TikTok. Le Parisien, 3 December 2025.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

LLMs, DSA, and AI Act: Introducing Methods and Approaches to Auditing LLMs Moderation across Languages and Interfaces in the Electoral Contexts, with Raziye Buse Cetin, Salvatore Romano, Miazia Schueler, Meret Baumgartner, Bastian August, Alexandra Rosca. In Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms, Routledge. Forthcoming, online as a Preprint.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Prompt, Upload, Repeat: The Clutched Entanglement of Platform Economy and Governance in the Face of Agentic Al Accounts, with Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano, Raziye Buse Çetin, Miazia Schueler, Silvia Semenzin. PlatGovNet 2025: Transitions, frictions and new realities in global platform governance. Online. December 1, 2025.

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Wir versinken in Schrott. Wissenschaftskommunikation, 23 November 2025.

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Workshop presenter, DSA Gaps: LLMs as VLOSEs, with Raziye Buse Çetin. For DSA Civil Society Roundtable - Strengthening Cooperation with Public Interest Stakeholders in Enforcement, Brussels, Belgium. 21 November 2025.

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AI-generated scenes ‘from France’s 2025 Louvre heist’ circulate in Hong Kong. South China Morning Post, 17 November 2025.

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

From ‘Googling’ to ‘Asking ChatGPT’: Governing AI Search, with Buse Ryze Çetin and Marc Faddoul. AI Forensics, 2025.

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Networked artifacts analytics: Interdisciplinary methods of investigating synthetic AI imagery. Seeing Through Complexity: Entanglements in Visual Cultures, ECREA Visual Cultures Section. Online. 6 November 2025.

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Prompt, Upload, Repeat: How Agentic AI Accounts Flood TikTok with Harmful Content, with Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano, Raziye Buse Çetin, Miazia Schueler, Silvia Semenzin. AI Forensics, 2025. Also online as a Preprint.

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Online Media Archeology as AI Critique: Wikipedia’s Links and Edits as Spatial and Temporal Fields, with Richard Rogers and NAtalia Sánchez Querubín. The AoIR2025 Conference, Association of Internet Researchers. Niterói, Brazil. 15–18 October 2025.

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Invited speaker, Artificial Intelligence, Mental Health & Youth. For Swiss Youth Internet Governance Forum 2025, 8 October 2025.

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience With Tech Giants Is Running Out. Newsweek, 3 October 2025.

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

#TargetedAds, or Memeing Dataveillance on TikTok: How Users Comply, Oppose, and Imagine Datafication Practices through Memes. In Big Data & Society, 2025.

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Fakt oder Fake? So gefährlich sind KI-Videos. Der Spiegel, 29 September 2025.

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

KI-Fakevideos: Wie künstliche Intelligenz die Wahrheit ertränkt. Der Spiegel, 18 September 2025, online and in print.

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AI Love You. Society Magazine, 11 September 2025.

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Platformatted Hype: How to Operationalize the Formalities of AI ‘Slop’. (DON’T) BELIEVE THE HYPE, Hype Studies. Barcelona, Spain. 10–12 September 2025.

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

From a (Magical) Analogue to a (Mythical) Digital: Reassembling Imaginaries of Algorithms from (Black) Boxes to Diagrams. 4S 2025 Conference, Society for Social Studies of Science. Seattle, WA, USA. 3–6 September 2025.

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Generating Algorithmic Virality: How synthetic AI imagery and agentic AI accounts try to game TikTok and Instagram, with Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano, Buse Ryze Çetin, Miazia Schueler, Silvia Semenzin. AI Forensics, 2025. Also online as a Preprint.

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Bigfoot, Hasen & Hitler: Wer füttert unsere Feeds mit KI-Müll?. SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, 31 July 2025.

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Instagram and TikTok failing to flag AI-generated content, NGO finds. Euractiv, 31 July 2025.

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

TikTok a wybory: trzy raporty o dezinformacji i wpływie na kampanię. TVN24, 15 June 2025.

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Disinformation on Polish TikTok. Rigged elections and insults against Trzaskowski. Demagog, 10 June 2025.

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

TikTok’s Polish Elections Labels: Only Sometimes, and Only for Some, with Martin Degeling and Salvatore Romano. AI Forensics, 2025.

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Esoteric AI. In Slow AI, AIxDESIGN, 2025.

Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Death of an Image - Again? Using the ‘Digital Forensic Gaze’ to See (like) Deepfakes, with Richard Rogers. Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images. IUAV University of Venice. Venice, Italy. 8–10 May 2025.

Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Workshop presenter and co-organizer, AI Auditing through LLM Séance. AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI, for AIxDESIGN. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 1–3 May 2025.

Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Invited speaker, Summoning Esoteric AI, with Gaston Welisch. For AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI, Amsterdam. 1–3 May 2025.

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Natalia Stanusch (AALLM) - NGI Search Beneficiary. Next Generation Internet (NGI) Community, 14 April 2025.

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Panelist, Chatbot as a Mirror. For Feelings Inc. Symposium, Privacy Salon, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 13 February 2025.

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Network Mediality: (Re)assembling the Imaginaries of Black-Boxed Technologies from the Stars to the Data Points. ECREA Communication History Workshop ‘Communication Networks Before and After the Web: Historical and Long-term Perspectives’, CERN. Geneva, Switzerland. 5–7 February 2025.

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Pay-to-Play: Meta’s Community (Double) Standards on Pornographic Content, with Paul Bouchaud, Buse Ryze Çetin, Salvatore Romano, Marc Faddoul. AI Forensics, 2025.

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AI Imaginaries Have Issues: Mapping an AI Controversy with Social Media, with Richard Rogers. In AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. Sheffield, UK. 2025.

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Così l’estrema destra in Francia ha usato l’intelligenza artificiale, che è gratis e opaca. Intervista. Il Foglio, November 29, 2024.

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Searching for Moderation: Inconsistent Moderation and Links to EU-Banned Russian Media in OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT Search’, with Salvatore Romano, Miazia Schueler, Buse Ryze Çetin, Paul Bouchaud, Marc Faddoul. AI Forensics. 2024.

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

L’estrema destra in Europa punta sull’intelligenza artificiale. Tag24, November 27, 2024.

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

L’extrema dreta europea es llença a l’ús de la IA: imatges falses per generar por i moure vots, El Nacional, November 26, 2024.

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Πώς η ακροδεξιά οπλίζεται με περιεχόμενο AI στην Ευρώπη. HuffPost Greece, November 26, 2024.

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

How the far right is weaponising AI-generated content in Europe, Irish Examiner, November 26, 2024.

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Far right ‘weaponising’ AI-generated content in Europe. The Guardian, November 26, 2024.

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

AI Forensics stellt erneut Mängel bei Moderation fest. Tagesspiegel Background, November 20, 2024.

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Panelist, The Role of AI in Political Elections. For AI & Politics RPA, University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 15 November 2024.

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Imgur, Image Macros, and Algorithms: Memes as Imaginary Issue Spaces of Users’ Encounters with Algorithmic Recommendations. In Information, Communication & Society, 2024.

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

AI Imaginaries Have Issues: Mapping an AI Controversy with Social Media, with Richard Rogers. The AoIR2024 Conference, Association of Internet Researchers. Sheffield, UK. 30 October – 2 November 2024.

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

AI Can’t Solve Tech’s Trust Problem. Bloomberg, October 16, 2024.

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Memo — Known information interference operations during EP elections. European Commission, October 16, 2024.

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Panelist, Exploring the Margins of the Magic, The Design & AI Symposium. For TU Delft, TU Eindhoven, and Dutch Design Week. Eindhoven, the Netherlands. 2 October 2024.

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Chatbots mogen niets zeggen over verkiezingen, maar dat lukt niet altijd. NOS Nieuwsuur, 5 August, 2024.

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Chatbots: (S)elected Moderation. Measuring the Moderation of Election-Related Content Across Chatbots, Languages and Electoral Contexts, with Salvatore Romano, Miazia Schueler, Riccardo Angius, Buse Ryze Çetin, Sonia Tabti, Marc Faddoul, Meret Baumgartner, Bastian August, Pavlos Ferlachidis, Alexandra Rosca, Gizem Brasser, Luca Bottani. AI Forensics, 2024.

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Testing Cross-National Moderation in the Context of the EU and the US Elections on Chatbots, with Salvatore Romano and Miazia Schueler. For ‘Digital Methods Summer School and Data Sprint 2024: Visual methods for digital research’, Digital Methods Initiative. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 8–12 July 2024.

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Workshop presenter, (Dis)enchantment: Esoteric AI Zine-Making Workshop, for Internet Teapot & AIxDESIGN, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 6 July 2024.

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

What Do Deepfakes Want? Using the ‘Digital Forensic Gaze’ and Digital Methods to See (like) Deepfakes, with Richard Rogers. For ‘Digital Methods Summer School and Data Sprint 2024: Visual methods for digital research’, Digital Methods Initiative. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 1–5 July 2024.

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Artificial Elections: Exposing the Use of Generative AI Imagery in the Political Campaigns of the 2024 French Elections, with Salvatore Romano, Miazia Schueler, Buse Ryze Çetin, Sonia Tabti, Marc Faddoul, Ibis Lilley. AI Forensics, 2024.

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Workshop co-organizer,EU Parliamentary Election ‘VERIFICATHON’ Workshop, with Salvatore Romano and Miazia Schueler. For University of Amsterdam, AFP, and AI Forensics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 6–7 June 2024.

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Mapping, Tracking, and (Re)Making of the Counter-Imaginaries of AI across the Web, with Richard Rogers. For ‘Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2024: Digital research methods and the investigative turn (now with AI)’, Digital Methods Initiative. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 8–12 January 2024.

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Wor(l)d-Image Trans-formation: Looking Through DALL-E 2 and Midjourney. In La Valle dell’Eden #41: ‘The algorithmic images between media, art, and society’, University of Turin. 2023.

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Undertaking digital ethnography on and with Instagram, with Marissa Willcox, Richard Rogers, Marije Peute. For UNESCO and The LiiV Center for Digital Anthropology, Global Partnership to Advance the Field of Digital Anthropology, 2023.

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Memeing Algorithmic Imaginaries. The Value of Digital Data: Advancing Empirical Research on Surveillance Capitalism Conference, University of Pavia. Pavia, Italy. 7–8 September 2023.

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Relationship Between Knowledge Production and Google in Framing and Reframing AI Imaginary. A Comparative Algorithmic Audit between the US and Italy. In Proceedings of International Conference on Research in Education and Science 2023. ISTES Organization, 2023.

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Wearables and the Practice of Self-Surveillance as Self-Knowledge. In Proceedings of International Conference on Research in Education and Science 2023. ISTES Organization, 2023.

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Video Essay Author and Presenter, With a View of Rome, for Contemporary Rome: Living the Eternal City, British School at Rome. Rome, Italy. July 7-8, 2023.

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Generating AI: A Historical, Cultural, and Political Analysis of Generative Artificial Intelligence, with Carolina Aguerre, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Gry Hasselbalch, Frank Pasquale, Nathalie Smuha, Aimee van Wynsberghe. For DataEthics.eu, 2023.

Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Desiring the Data, Desiring the Self: Datafication, Wearables and the Practices of Self-Surveillance as Self-Knowledge. International Conference on Research in Education and Science (ICRES), Cappadocia, Turkey. 18–21 May 2023.

Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Relationship Between Knowledge Production and Google in Framing and Reframing AI Imaginary. A Comparative Algorithmic Audit between the US and Italy. International Conference on Research in Education and Science (ICRES). Cappadocia, Turkey. 18–21 May 2023.

Sat, 13 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

AI Art - Are We There Yet? Generative AIs as Actors and Actants across the Digital Vernacular. Technology, Art, and the Posthuman: The End or a New Beginning for Humanism? Conference, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 13–14 May 2023.

Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

What Happens If You Google ‘Qatar World Cup’ in 18 Different Countries. For DataEthics.eu, 2022.

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Taming the Uncanny: How the Surreal Inhabits the Ideology of the Metaverse. In Meta.space. Visions of Space from the Middle Ages to the Digital Age. OÖ Landes-Kultur / Distanz. 2022.

Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Look Me in the Eyes: Witkacy’s ‘Portrait Gaze’ as a Critique and Anticipation of Culture Industry. Inquiries Journal, 2022.

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Video Essay Author, Memory Ephemera. The Hauntology of Online Connections. For Institute of Network Cultures. Nov. 29, 2021.

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Raw Memory. Ephemerality of the Eternal in WhatsApp. For Institute of Network Cultures, 2021.

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The HaHa of Digital Deterritorialization: Looking at Memes through the Lens of Dada Laughter. For The Meme Studies Research Network, Centre for Data, Culture and Society. 2021.

Thu, 27 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Disruptive Laughter: Dada and Memes. ‘Video Vortex #13. Play, Pause and Reset’ Conference, Video Vortex & John Cabot University. Rome, Italy. 27 May 2021.

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Contributor to desktoPostcards, for DESKTOPIA, Albert Figurt and Institute of Network Cultures. Apr. 17, 2021.

Sat, 28 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Pixelated Truth: The Digital Image as a Medium. The 5th JCU Posthuman Studies Workshop, John Cabot University. Rome, Italy. 28 November 2020.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Video Essay Author and Presenter, Reserved for Social Distancing for Affect & Social Media#4.5 and The Sensorium Art Show: ‘Media Virality and the Lockdown Aesthetic’ Conference, University of South London. July 16, 2020.

Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Video Essay Author, Alienation. A Digital Autoethnography, Selfies under Quarantine, for Institute of Network Cultures. 27 June, 2020.

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I Present You with Myself: Facebook Avatars and Apple Memoji, or a Brief Account of the Evolution of Emoji. For Institute of Network Cultures, 2020.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Natalia Stanusch is a researcher at AI Forensics, a PhD Candidate in media studies at the University of Amsterdam, and a member of the Digital Methods Initiative. Her research critically examines the entanglements between technology, society, and policy, taking forms of independent investigations into platform harms, contributions to methods and concepts central to technology and society research, and public engagements via spoken and written word.

Contact: n.b.stanusch[at]uva[dot]nl

Natalia’s research foci meet at a crossing of critical data and algorithm studies, science and technology studies, and digital visual culture. She is an author of book chapters, articles, and video essays which range in scope from methodological interventions to original empirical and theoretical piecies.