AI will make us beautiful, vapid strangers to ourselves

This netnographic study examines how World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) fans on Reddit discursively construct and negotiate the possibility of artificial intelligence‑generated or AI‑assisted storyte...

Welcome to Memetic Warfare.

Facebook is hosting huge numbers of horrifying AI-generated videos of violent child abuse, and Meta is barely taking them down.

the future of media is metaphorical

Content creators are creating content about creating content without actually creating any content, but are we content?

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Vincent Bevins recently wrote a great essay re-evaluating the effects of the Musk reign over the platform formerly known as Twitter.

A CASE STUDY by DIGITAL CULTURE RESEARCH STUDIO People on the internet have been eulogising meme culture for at least a decade. Yet memes persist.

von Eva-Sophie Lohmeier Elon Musk hat gerade einen Lauf. Daran, dass er vollmundig etwas ankündigt, was dann doch nie umgesetzt wird, – in…

The planet’s most beguiling documentarian and the world’s least boring art critic discuss the future of everything you ought to care about.

TikTok's global growth has made it a prime platform for both entertainment and political discourse, prompting increased social science research. However, this rapidly evolving research field faces a f...

As generative AI becomes embedded in platform-based cultural production, new forms of creative labour are emerging that challenge established understandings of what it means to be a “creator.” This ar...

I'm not saying they're not entertaining, but I AM saying they're engineered for comfort.

"Maximizing outcomes," scripted Flockaganda, and more in this week's roundup.

What happens when AI image models meet social media algorithms? What is the infrastructure of Slop? How does it get made, and how can we make sense of it? In this 15-minute video, I walk through the...

How a company called Rosabella used AI content to market its supplements: "If you’re trying to sell health products to a 50-year-old, well, make your avatar 50 years old."

"UGC creators" are posting fake skits about bad bosses and toxic mother-in-laws to sell products. Consumers are falling for it.

Artist Simon Denny offers a close reading of the dark art of defense tech in an essay for Artforum's May issue.

A rotating cast of AI-generated soldier, veteran, recruiter, and rabbi personas racked up 20+ million views pushing anti-military and anti-migrant narratives across Ukrainian social media in early 202...

Misinformation influences cognition—shaping memory, beliefs, attitudes, reasoning, and decision-making. While intentionally disseminated misinformation (i.e., disinformation) has long served persuasiv...

Introduction The video shows a man smiling as his reflection stares at him. There is an eerie feeling about this man: his eyes are odd, his facial expressions shift unsteadily. I generated this vide...

How do archives become infrastructures for generative AI -- and what histories remain in the images we generate?

Shira Braun sidelined from military’s international communications unit and given suspended jail sentence after appearing with looksmaxxing star during his divisive Israel visit

We are in a culture of optimization, which means we are in a culture of slop.

Some reflections on the UN AI for Good Summit

Indigo festival will be organised from From 7–9 October 2026 at Cukrarna which will once again become a meeting place

13, 14 & 15 January 2027 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Supported by a Van Oostrom grant, MOCReN will host its second Winter Workshop at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, on Wednesday 13, Thursday 14, and F...

A single 2026 World Cup match rebuilt as a living data-portrait — two territory blankets, a momentum pulse, honest football made beautiful.

Vibes are having a moment and academics seem increasingly serious about understanding whatever the vibe is. Many qualitative methodological approaches are alrea...

The rise of TikTok has sparked a debate on the consequences of algorithmic content curation for social experience. My thesis is that TikTok represents a second ...