Publications on 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.

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.

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, 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

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

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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, 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, 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.

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.

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

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, 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, 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.