Digital Methods Summer School 2025 Social media at a crossroads, and the sensitivity of AI platforms 30 June 11 July 2025 Opening day location:Roeterseiland c...
Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms A study commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior June 2025 Book abstractHow well do social media platf...
People Richard Rogers is University Professor and holds the Chair in New Media Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is Director of Govcom.org, th...
Main.AlicePicco 12 Aug 2024 Exploring political narratives around the 2024 European Elections Team Members * Fabio Daniele * Lorenzo Vernetti * Energy ...
Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research? Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2025 Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2025 6 10 January 2025ht...
The 4CAT Web Studies extension adds functionality to 4CAT. You can add this extension to any version of 4CAT including installing it on your own computer or lapto...
The Tracker's Guide to the Cloud Team Members Research by: Diego Dacal, Kalina Dancheva, Carolin Gerlitz, Anne Helmond, Sara Minucci, Sabine Niederer, Lonneke va...
DMI App Tracker Tracker is built on top of Ghostery, a privacy browser extension for the web: https://www.ghostery.com/ . An updated version of this tool has b...
The Platformization of Migration Management Across the Global South Team members Project facilitators: Esther Weltevrede (University of Amsterdam, DMI), Johan Li...
Malicious Earworms: How the far right surfs on TikTok audio trends Team Members Facilitators and designers: Marloes Geboers and Benedetta Riccio Canjie Kuang, Ei...
The Facebook of Tomorrow: An analysis of the Irish far right channels on Telegram Team Members Project facilitators: Salvatore Romano, Fraser Crichton. www.aifor...
Digital Methods Summer School Program 2025: Social media at a crossroads and AI platform sensitivity 2024: Visual methods for digital research2023: Prompting and ...
Formats of ideology: Investigating video genres across issue spaces Team Members Bernhard Rieder, Dominik Vrabič Dežman, Sammy Chen, Düet Turgay, Vasilisa Kuznet...
Digital Methods Initiative Tool Archive This is an archive of tools developed by the DMI affiliates in the past years. Note that not all tools are still availab...
What are coding skills worth in the age of AI? Team Members Eva Otto · Andrea Nye · Kristijan Tevcev · Iida Palosuo Poster link: https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/...
Who's my host?Exploring chatbot personas through comparative experimentation with prompt engineering for public engagement. Team Members Matilde Ficozzi (Aalborg...
Benchmarking AI Chatbots in Sociology and the Humanities: Evaluating the Capabilities and Limitations of Six Large Language Models What kind of sociologist is yo...
Exploring Labor Rights and Institutional Critique in #AntiworkMemes Communities on Instagram Xinyi Wu 15491757 * Links * 1. Introduction * 2. Research Qu...
Dmi Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the Dmi web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in . and , and can b...
Main.KamilaKoronska 09 Jan 2025 UK Southport Riots: Reverse engineering ‘dis influencer’ and far right networks with CIB and AI methods Team Members Links * ...
Prompting and other algorithmic curiosities Digital Methods Summer School and Data Sprint 2023 Digital Methods Summer School and Data Sprint 2023 3 14 July 2023ht...
Papers and Publications 2024 * Koronska, K., Rogers, R. (2024). Fact checks versus problematic content in search rankings: SEO effects and the question of G...
Affordances for expressing collective identities The case of the 2024 French parliamentary elections Team Members Tom Willaert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) ...
Spring Data SprintDay to Day Schedule The opening day keynotes take place in OMHP D1.08. All other activities will take place at the Buzzhouse space, located at t...
Visual methods for digital research Digital Methods Summer School and Data Sprint 2024 Digital Methods Summer School and Data Sprint 2024 1 12 July 2024https://wi...
Prompting for biodiversity. Visual research with AI (2024) Team Members Facilitators Gabriele Colombo, Carlo De Gaetano, Sabine Niederer Participants Catherine...
SynthViz: Enhancing Interpretative Summarization and Visualization Techniques Team Members Dr Jonathan Albright (Project Facilitator)Piyush AggarwalDr Jan Babn...
War, Memes, Art, Protest, and Porn: Jail(break)ing Synthetic Imaginaries Under OpenAI ’s Content Policy Restrictions Jail(break)ing Poster I Jail(break)ing Poste...
Digital Methods Winter School Program 2025 Chatbots and LLMs for internet research?2024 Digital research methods and the investigative turn2023 The use and misuse...
LLMs: Languages Least Moderated. Testing Cross National Moderation in the context of the EU and the US Elections on Chatbots Team Members Facilitators: Natalia S...
⛓️🪂 Digital Methods for Blockchain Research Exploring the Social Media Vernacular in Crypto Finance with a Focus on Airdrops Team Members Janna Joceli Omena, Joh...
Note: History Flow is an old, deprecated tool and it is not trivial to get it running nowadays. This tool is provided as a historical artefact and no longer activ...
Note: this version of the tool has been deprecated and may not be functional. University of Amsterdam students and staff can access the latest version of the tool...
Note: this version of the tool has been deprecated and may not be functional. University of Amsterdam students and staff can access the latest version of the tool...
Note: this version of the tool has been deprecated and may not be functional. University of Amsterdam students and staff can access the latest version of the tool...
A field guide to using LLMs for online conflict analysis Google doc version here Team members in alphabetical order Erik Borra (assistant professor at University...
Audience Capture: Rethinking Influencer Audience Relationships within the Alternative Influence Network Team Members Daniel Jurg Martin Trans Marc Tuters Giulia ...
Coding, prompting, “deprompting”: testing AI generated images against the “broken telephone” game, based on images from the Ad Library Political Observatory Tea...
“Hey Alex…”: (Re)constructing Parasocial Relationships with Alex Jones Through YouTube Comment Sections Team Members Daniel Jurg Marc Tuters Emily Jane Godwi...
Title Team Members Kunchi Wu Contents 1. Introduction Football, unlike many other sports, often features a lower frequency of scoring, which can sometimes obsc...
What Do Deepfakes Want? Using ‘Digital Forensic Gaze’ and Digital Methods to See (like) Deepfakes Team Members Facilitators: Natalia Stanusch, Richard Rogers Des...
Main.GiuliaTucci 06 Aug 2024 Uncovering visual narratives about human mobility on Telegram Participants*: Aliki Livada, Benedetta Riccio, Daniel Lundgaard, He...
Main.BiaCarneiro 08 Aug 2024 TeleCatch is an open source tool to visualise, filter and extract data from a list of Telegram groups and/or channels. Within the ev...
It's Giving AI: exploring and investigating generative AI aesthetics Team Members Facilitators: Houda Lamqaddam, Gabriel Pereira, Kwan Suppaiboonsuk Participan...
Open Source Intelligence on Budgets for Bits: An Analysis of EU Funding Allocation Team Members Anvee Tara, Bastian August, Brogan Latil, Fieke Jansen, Furkan Da...
Ethnic minorities in Russia on Telegram: Clusters of concerns, 2022 2024 Team Members Participants: Artom Banissi, Haohan (Lily) Hu, Richard Rogers, Mila Rossokh...
Main.KamilaKoronska 16 Jul 2024 Mapping Uncharted Waters: The Presence and Influence of Post Truth Spaces in European Mainstream media Team members: Sofia Bonfant...
Main.KamilaKoronska 07 Jun 2024 Tarantino, Cameron and Donald Tusk: How Law and Justice party appropriated Hollywood movies and used face swap technology for thei...
Rassemblement National usesSensationalizing Generative AI Imagery in its EU Electoral Campaign. Authors: Salvatore Romano, Miazia Schueler, Denis Teyssou, Natacha...
European Hellscape versus Polish Acradia: How Polish Parties Confederation and New Hope Weaponized the Fire of Notre Dame and “World War Z” in their 2024 EU Elect...
The Disinformation Laundormat Team Members Alicia Bargar, Peter Benzoni, Gaurika K. Chaturvedi, Helena Schwertheim, Bret Schafer Contents 1. Introduction A consi...
Zeeschuimer is in active development. .xpi files that you can use to install it in your browser are available on the releases page. These are signed and can be in...
DMI Tools firefox extension The DMI toolbar is a Firefox extension that provides extra functionality to the DMI tools. Currently it provides off loading of HTTP r...
Main.DenisTeyssou 20 Feb 2024 Detecting synthetic images Main takeaways Our goal was to explore the disparity of results of the vera.ai project synthetic image ...
Spring Data Sprint 2024 Content laundering: Spread and source identification Content or information laundering is a form of strategic communication that disguise...
Digital investigation with AI Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2024 Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2024 8 12 January 2024https://wiki....
Synthetic AestheticsAI generated photos and their lives on Instagram Team Members: Giorgia Aiello, Carlo De Gaetano, Sabine Niederer, Leah Aaron, Rowena Jamal, Ju...
Research Persona as Digital Method Team Members Project lead: Esther Weltevrede, Wendy Chun, Liliana Bounegru, Alexandra Juhasz, Ganaele LangloisParticipants: Ca...
The sad fate of small Facebook audiences: Mexico Team Members Meg Kitamura Natalia Alvarez Milan Contents 1. Introduction Parts of this report are redacted fo...
The sad fate of small Facebook audiences: USA Team Members Nora Svensson Hahr Jesper Brinkhof Fem AkcanCong Hung Dinh Contents 1. Introduction Download this r...
The sad fate of small Facebook audiences: India Team Members Anushikha Chaudhuri Laura Dea Vamper Anabella Villanueva Contents 1. Introduction This research p...
Instagram Diary Keeping: Between Introspection and Self Disclosure Team Members Marije Peute, John Boy, Justus Uitermark, Richard Rogers, Ruben Hazenbos, Sam Gou...
YouTube Narratives on the Al Shifa Hospital Raid: Grasping the Debate around the Al Shifa Hospital Attacks Yu Hu, Yunuo Wang, Yuxiao Ye, Yuqi Zhang Introduction ...
The Israel–Hamas war on YouTube and TikTok Team Members Introduction Over the last decades, YouTube has become a central site for audiovisual news reporting, pol...
The Israel Hamas War on YouTube and TikTok: Visibility of videos and their use for humanitarian organisations Aleks Berditchevskaia, Lequisha Girjasing, Yu Pei, Y...
LLMs and the generation of "moderate speech" Team Members Emillie de Keulenaar, Yuhe Ma, Etienne Grenier, Angeles Briones and Ivan Kisjes Special thanks to João...
OSINT Census: Amsterdam Protocol On the reliability of open source intelligence on social media Team Members Facilitators: Tomás Dodds, Guillén Torres, Deniz Di...
The sad fate of Facebook Audiences: Algeria. Team Members Jacky Loos Maria Noujaim Sara Sousa Guimaraes Sikharin Yotin Contents 1. Introduction https://driv...
Unveiling the Digital Battlefield: Chinese Information Manipulation on Twitter and the Shaping of Hong Kong Narratives Groupd members: Dechun Zhang, Bobo Huang, ...
From Hashtags to Ballots Social Media's Role in the Recent Dutch Elections Team Members Facilitators: Eveline Van Duffel, Reinier Kist, Richard Rogers, Rik Wass...
Mapping, Tracking, and (Re)Making of the Counter Imaginaries of AI across the Web poster1 websites ; poster2 wikipedia ; poster3 twitter ; poster4 linkedin Team ...
APIcalypse Now: Redefining data access regimes in the face of the Digital Services Act Martin Trans (facilitator, UvA), Davide Beraldo (facilitator, UvA), Luca Dr...
Data critique and platform dependencies: How to study social media data? Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2022 Digital Methods Winter School and Data...
Designing Digital Inclusivity: Mapping and Shaping Online Environments for the LGBTQ Community (Data Donation Research) Team Members Daniel JurgLuuk ExWouter N...
How do TikTok videos under specific hashtags depict the role of women in the Palestine Israel war, particularly in relation to their sexuality? Fatima Ali, Rebecc...
Exploring Genocide Discourse on YouTube: A Case Study of the Israel Hamas War Mila Georgieva, Valerie Cortés, Shiyun Qian, Talida Munteanu, Steven Delmotte Int...
The Israel–Hamas war on YouTube and TikTok Team Members Introduction Over the last decades, YouTube has become a central site for audiovisual news reporting, pol...
Main.KamilaKoronska 19 Sep 2023 Mapping Post Truth Narraties: Understanding Brazilian narratives about the war on Telegram through prompting Team Members Giulia ...
Exploring the Impact of LLM powered Search Engines on Political Candidates Team Members Facilitators: Claudio Agosti, Margherita Di Cicco, Natalie Kerby, Salvat...
From Ranking to Clustering Cultures towards a time varying network analysis of YouTube algorithms on Global Warming and Climate Change Team Members Facilitat...
The Divine Online? Mapping Algorithmic Conspirituality on TikTok Team Members Gabrielle K. Aguilar (facilitator), Miazia Schueler (facilitator), Alexander Tegg...
Examining Web Detection Algorithms Team Members Janna Joceli Omena, Eduardo Leite, Ángeles Briones, Scott Rodgers, Simon Ceh, Giulia Tucci, Michael Achmann, Dan...
Main.KamilaKoronska 30 Aug 2023 Title Multi layered Structure of Narratives relating to Ukrainian Refugees on Polish Telegram Team Members Maria Lompe, Kamila Ko...
Title Reverse engineering the work of Telegram ‘political technologists’: Mapping entities involved in building narratives surrounding Russian President on Polis...
The force of falsity? When AI prompts guesses or narratives about debunked images sow more confusion about the fake. Team members * Denis Teyssou, Bertrand Gou...