Digital Culture 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.