Publications

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Esoteric AI. In Slow AI, AIxDESIGN, 2025.

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.

Closing the accountability gap for AI Search: Why DSA Risk Assessments Cannot Work Without AI Act Transparency, with R. Buse Çetin. DSA Observatory, 2026.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

(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. doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17362.52163.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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