Karin van Es

But it’s still almost 6 hours and the prices have almost tripled.

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/...

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 ABSTRACT 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.

🟨 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

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/...

Governing the Digital Society Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarizat...

📢✨ New OA book out now with Amsterdam University Press: Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values, edited by José van Dijck, @kfvanes.bsky.social, @silvertje.bsky.social, & @fvandervlist.bsky.social. Access: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

‘Wetenschapper moet zich opstellen als kritische vriend’ Steeds meer wetenschappers zoeken de samenwerking met bedrijven of maatschappelijke organisaties. Hoe moeten ze zich opstellen om het meeste effect te sorteren? Volgens de Ierse geograaf Rob Kitchin, ...

@dataschool.nl @robkitchin.bsky.social (article also in English available)

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!

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

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

I didn't see these in your materials, which I always love to use: ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

Our Collaborative Research conference is on April 7-8 in Utrecht (right before @algosoc.org conference). See amazing program w. keynotes @robkitchin.bsky.social, Payal Arora & Minna Ruckenstein + awesome workshops with a.o.
@annettemarkham.bsky.social and societal partners

impact.dataschool.nl

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

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/...

@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-...

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...

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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