Max van Drunen

Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

Come work with us 🚨

We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.

Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.

Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.

DL 🗓️ November 1

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Safeguarding media freedom from infrastructural reliance on AI companies: The role of EU law An emerging body of journalism studies research has shown how media organizations are growing dependent on external companies to provide AI tools used…

🚩New paper out!

I look at how big tech's control over the technologies used inside newsrooms (cloud, genAI, etc) threatens media freedom, and what EU law can do about it.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗜 & 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 📣
We evaluated public accountability and regulatory expectations for AI in journalism. We conducted focus groups with Dutch citizens.
Some results 👇🧵

Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This weekend, the Meta Ad Library turns seven, and the first ads in it, from back in 2018, will start to disappear. It would be trivial for Meta to keep a permanent archive of political ads, and they should. Here's more on that:
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An update on political advertising in the European Union Google will stop serving political advertising in the EU ahead of new regulation in October 2025.

I am still wrapping my head around Google's announcement to stop political advertising in the EU in 2025.

The decision to stop is allegedly due to regulation's broad definition of what a political ad is. But this is problematic.

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#commsky #polcom #csssky #polisky

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