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Bernhard Rieder @riederb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Together with Bastian August and Brogan Latil, I spent decidedly too much time trying to understand how Andrew Tate remains present on YouTube after his two channels were suspended. Full paper in New Media & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this study Encheva, @kfvanes.bsky.social & Nguyen show how students navigate the impact of #GenAI on their learning experiences with awareness, reflexivity, and a high degree of personal judgment. Read more: tinyurl.com/2xexdv83

Relational dynamics at the intersection of technology and higher education: perspectives on GenAI use among humanities master’s students
by Ani Encheva , Karin van Es and Dennis Nguyen
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The rapid uptake of generative AI (GenAI) tools in academic contexts has prompted a wave of responses regarding pedagogical reconfiguration, assessment, shifting academic norms, values, and practices. While scholarly discourse increasingly examines the benefits, limitations, and ethical implications of GenAI in higher education, students’ perspectives remain underrepresented and often limited to survey-based research focused on academic integrity and plagiarism. To gain a deeper understanding of the multifaceted role GenAI plays in students’ academic lives, this study draws on 14 semi-structured interviews with Humanities (Research) Master’s students at a major Dutch university and is guided by the following research question: How do students navigate their use of GenAI tools in academic contexts? The findings reveal critical self-reflections on skills development, learning trajectories, and the institution’s role in shaping their perspectives, decision-making, and lived experiences. We find that students do not accept GenAI’s role in education as a fait accompli, but instead actively engage in boundary-making practices and legitimization strategies in context-dependent, reflective, and relational ways. These insights serve as a critical counterpoint to dominant techno-solutionist and technologically deterministic discourses, drawing attention to the need for ethical guidelines grounded in the relational dynamics at the intersection of technology and higher education.

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Karin van Es @kfvanes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Our paper studying Netflix #datadonations is out. We reflect on the method and use computational methods to analyze trace data from 126 #Netflix subscribers to consider bingeing, popularity and diversity. journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...

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Sandra Ponzanesi @gimko.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Join my team: Postdoc: VR and Immersive Technologies - Postcolonial and Creative Approaches. Utrecht Universities, Department of Media and Culture Studies DEADLINE: 23 April 2025 Part of the NWO project “VR As Empathy Machine led by Prof Sandra Ponzanesi vrmigration.sites.uu.nl tinyurl.com/26ndfw2n

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Postdoc: VR and Immersive Technologies - Postcolonial and Creative Approaches

Do you want to critically investigate the role of VR as an immersive technology and its relation to emotions and embodiment and knowledge production? Join us!

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Already a time capsule, but back in January a bunch of us working at the intersection of the humanities and AI/ML came together to sketch out eight provocations from the humanities for genAI research. Here's a 🧵 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190

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Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research

This paper presents a set of provocations for considering the uses, impact, and harms of generative AI from the perspective of humanities researchers. We provide a working definition of humanities res...

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Christine Bauer @christinebauer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Excited to see our paper, "Where Are the Values? A Systematic Literature Review on News Recommender Systems" (doi.org/10.1145/3654...), selected as a #TORS EIC Featured Article for 2024! Great collaboration with @kfvanes.bsky.social 🚀📚 #ACMTORS #RecSys #News #vales #EXDIGIT #PLUS #UniSbg

TORS EIC Selected 2024 Featured Articles
ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS) publishes high quality papers that address various aspects of recommender systems research, from algorithms to the user experience, to questions of the impact and value of such systems, on a quarterly basis. The journal takes a holistic view on the field and calls for contributions from different subfields of computer science and information systems, such as machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, web-based systems, data science and big data, and human-computer interaction. Moreover, interdisciplinary research works are welcome as well. Such works may either be based on insights from related fields, e.g., marketing or psychology, or apply recommendation technology in novel application areas.

Recommender Systems

TORS EICs are pleased to announce the following 2024 Featured Articles:
Values into Recommender Systems: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis
Where Are the Values? A Systematic Literature Review on News Recommender Systems
Revisiting Bundle Recommendation for Intent-aware Product Bundling
Towards a Causal Decision-Making Framework for Recommender Systems
Assessing the Impact of Music Recommendation Diversity on Listeners: A Longitudinal Study

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Karin van Es @kfvanes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This AUP open access book edited with José van Dijck, Anne Helmond, and Fernando van der Vlist is coming soon. Very fortunate to be part of such a wonderful community at Utrecth University. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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Karin van Es @kfvanes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Hurray my new publication with Dennis Nguyen is out in open access: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

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Karin van Es @kfvanes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Today at the Streaming Video Network in Utrecht I am presenting research on data donations and Netflix more specifically. Exploring binge watching, diversity and popularity with 126 data donations from users in NL.

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Karin van Es @kfvanes.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

First read of 2025. So far, so good ... #dontbelievethehype #AI

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Karin van Es @kfvanes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My open access article: "Exploring Netflix myths: Towards more media industry studies and empirical research in studying video-on-demand" in Critical Studies in Television journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Karin van Es @kfvanes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

@mtschaefer.bsky.social and I are launching the open-access edited volume Collaborative Research in a Datafied Society (2024, AUP) in Utrecht on 22 Jan. 2025 15.30. More info and registration: cdh.uu.nl/events/book-...

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Marcel Broersma @mjbroersma.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Calling all PhD candidates and motivated RMA students affiliated with RMeS to join @kfvanes.bsky.social and I in Rome first week of April 2025 to do research on media in the city with an intro to datawalking! RMeS KNIR course Media in the (Eternal) City is back! www.rmes.nl/rmes-knir-co...

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RMeS KNIR Course | Media in the (Eternal) City - Research school for Media Studies (RMeS)

31 March – 6 April 2025 | KNIR - Rome In collaboration with the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome, RMeS will organize a course on Media in the (Eternal) City. Media are ambiguous in cities, whether we thi...

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