Liliana Bounegru

📚 I look forward to giving a workshop next week on critical data practices and digital media research methods with @jwyg.bsky.social‬ at the 2025 Fudan University Summer School on Communication Theory and Research Methods in Shanghai.

#criticaldatastudies #communicationstudies #researchmethods

✨ Grateful for the invitation to speak at Seoul National University next week w/ @jwyg.bsky.social on digital methods, critical data practice, @publicdatalab.bsky.social‬, and the Data Journalism Handbook (buff.ly/bYrnCzC). Excited to learn from SNU colleagues in STS & digital media and culture!

The Data Journalism Handbook The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a…

📚 I look forward to speaking this Thursday at the University of Milan-Bicocca about The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice - a book I had the privilege to co-edit with @jwyg.bsky.social buff.ly/JRywQB8

🔗 Event details:
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Central & Eastern European Diasporic (CEED) Feminisms Reading Group A bi-monthly reading group exploring the untold stories from the central and eastern european diaspora.

📖 Join us on 18 May at the Feminist Library in reading “East–West Inequalities and the Ambiguous Racialisation of ‘Eastern Europeans’” by Alexandra Lewicki as part of the bi-monthly Central & Eastern European Diasporic (CEED) Feminisms Reading Group: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/central-ea... 📚✨

✨ Excited to speak @ National School of Political Science & Public Administration in Bucharest tomorrow about growing an Eastern European feminist digital methodologies network.

Inspired by @publicdatalab.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @medialab-scpo.bsky.social, CEED Feminisms, feminist labs

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Sharing an opportunity to publish in our journal. Check out this call for papers led by @silvertje.bsky.social Rianne Riemens Donya Alinejad @juikei.bsky.social "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis." Deadline: 23.05 journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...

KingsCAT: Capture and Analysis Tool for Social Media Research at King’s College London KingsCAT is an instance of the open source 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit set up to support interdisciplinary and collaborative social media research.

Looking forward to speaking later today at King’s e-Research Symposium 2025 📚 about kingsCAT 🐈 — our new cross-faculty instance of the open-source @4cat.nl toolkit for social media data capture and analysis 🛠️,

More about kingsCAT here: buff.ly/bcXzxiq
More about the event here: buff.ly/fZbncFw

Looking forward to sharing work on digital methods for critically engaging with environmental issues at this session with inspiring colleagues Mike Duggan, @jwyg.bsky.social, @tavmos.bsky.social Gavin Williams and Maud Borie. Thank you @slehuede.bsky.social for convening this panel!

an image for forestscapes listening lab at Science Gallery London, Friday 21st March 2025, 6.30pm. There is a collage featuring images of forest related plants, creatures, infrastructures and objects. Concentric circles represent fields of sound. The background is a gradient from purple to yellow. In the top right is an image of the moon.

Looking forward to forestscapes listening lab at @scigallerylon.bsky.social's Pulse of the Planet, Friday 21 March, 6.30pm: publicdatalab.org/2025/03/12/f...
with @maudbo.bsky.social @lboungr.bsky.social @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social & Angela YT Chan

🔔 We just released a new 4CAT version, v1.47!

Some highlights:
📥 Data capture from Bluesky, Pinterest and RedNote/Xiaohongshu
🤖 Prompt-based coding and annotation of data via the OpenAI API
🛠️ New & updated data fields for datasets from TikTok, Instagram, & co

Read more: github.com/digitalmetho...

Release v1.12.1 Pinterest fixes · digitalmethodsinitiative/zeeschuimer This public release of Zeeschuimer incorporates the following updates and fixes: Enable capture on Pinterest subdomains (e.g. https://nl.pinterest.com) Full Changelog: v1.12.0...v1.12.1

🦜 New Zeeschuimer release 🦜

📌📕 New modules for Pinterest and RedNote/Xiaohongshu!

Capture data from these platforms directly with Zeeschuimer—and export them to the newest version of 4CAT (also out now) for further analysis.

github.com/digitalmetho...

Updates automatically if installed already!

Central & Eastern European Diasporas (CEED) Feminisms Reading Group A bi-monthly hybrid reading group exploring the untold stories from the central and eastern european diaspora.

I’ve recently joined the organising team for the CEED Feminisms Reading Group at the Feminist Library in London! 🎉 Our next session is on 16 March, discussing Transfeminists and Transmigrants Perspectives in Europe 💜. Sign up details here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1217701831... #Feminism
#GenderStudies

📢 Happening today! Excited to see our colleague Dr Zeena Feldman speak on Social Media and Drag Culture at the Barbican Centre #DigitalMedia #digitalculture

Looking forward to this event 💛

Generative AI exists because of the transformer The technology has resulted in a host of cutting-edge AI applications — but its real power lies beyond text generation

Well written & designed AI explainer from FT.

"LLMs are not search engines looking up facts; they are pattern-spotting engines that guess the next best option in a sequence."

The great Romanian election TikTok replay – Public Data Lab In December 2024, the European Commission launched an investigation following “serious indications that foreign actors interfered in the Romanian presidential elections using TikTok.” The elections…

🔍 How can creative coding techniques like soundscaping and video recomposition help us unpack political issues + influencer practices on TikTok? 🎵📹

📖 Insights from explorations w/ @publicdatalab.bsky.social around the 2024 Romanian elections at @digitalmethods.net winter school:

publication day of ✨digital ecologies✨ book - including our chapter with @lboungr.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social on #amazonfires and the online composition of ecological politics: jonathangray.org/2024/12/10/a...

looking forward to this 💛

New article in Social Media + Society: “Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods”, co-authored w/ Noortje Marres, Gabriele Colombo, @lboungr.bsky.social, Carolin Gerlitz & James Tripp: jonathangray.org/2023/09/25/t...