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Cornelia Brantner
@corneliabrantner.bsky.social
Austrian in Sweden. Professor in the Department of Geography, Media and Communication at Karlstad University.
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🗳️ Joined a great EODS (Election Observation and Democracy Support) webinar on #AI & #Elections with @corneliabrantner.bsky.social & @profkarlsson.bsky.social
We discussed AI chatbot info flows during Taiwan’s 2024 election. Thanks to Claudia Aranda for the invite 💛
#GenAI #Media #Democracy #News
July 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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🚀 New paper out in Telecommunications Policy! We studied how Copilot retrieves election news in 5 languages using the 2024 Taiwan election as a case. @corneliabrantner.bsky.social @profkarlsson.bsky.social
Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#AI #Journalism #DigitalPolicy #OpenAccess
Sourcing behavior and the role of news media in AI-powered search engines in the digital media ecosystem: Comparing political news retrieval across five languages
This study examines the role of news media in the context of generative AI-enhanced search engines, focusing on the 2024 Taiwan presidential election.…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us

🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
January 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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With Google removing their Responsible AI Principles, they no longer state that they will *not* engage in "Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights".
Concerns about surveillance and injury are also erased.
ai.google/responsibili...
February 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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🗳️ Can we trust AI chatbots for political info? Our new study on the 2024 Taiwan presidential election finds troubling disparities in LLM chatbot responses across languages.
🔗 Read more on @aoir.bsky.social: spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.ph...
#PoliticalInfo #AlgorithmicBias #TaiwanElection #DigitalMedia
February 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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New: the company behind Pokemon Go has announced it is using data collected by its millions of players to build an AI model that can navigate the real world, and could be used for robots. Doubt Pokemon Go players anticipated contributing data to this project www.404media.co/pokemon-go-p...
Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World
Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a “Large Geospatial Model” that can navigate the real world and power robots.
www.404media.co
November 19, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Join our next Geomedia Speaker Series online seminar!

URBAN ECONOMIES OF DISPLAY
3 December 2024
14:00-15:30 (Sweden)

We will explore how cities and their economies are increasingly shaped by displays of identity, authenticity, and social media.

More info and Zoom-link
lnkd.in/dPPdyVWA
November 19, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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Since we're all making starter packs, here's one dedicated to journals and conferences in communication, political science, media, public opinion, etc. Let me know what I've missed! go.bsky.app/B4h2y66 #polisci #comm
November 16, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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I’ve created a starter pack for #scholars of (digital) #activism and social movements. Please check it out to find people you might be interested in connecting with!

Let me also know if you’d like to be included in the pack.

#protests #research #AcademicSky
go.bsky.app/DN73Mqz
November 15, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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Open post-doctoral researcher position in Computational Social Science @TU_Muenchen - please share the information! #CSS More info here: www.hfp.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
www.hfp.tum.de
November 8, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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Congrats to Siegfried Müller for successfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis "The Influence of Communication and Support Networks on Leadership and Team Dynamics in Massively Multiplayer Online Games". Thank to @corneliabrantner.bsky.social for co-supervising & Florian Egli for chairing the defense. 🎉🥳
July 25, 2024 at 7:54 PM
GEOMEDIA PANEL: DIGITAL WORK GEOGRAPHIES February 22, 2024, 14:00-16:00 More info and Zoom Link: kau.se/.../conferen...
#geomedia #karlstaduniversitet #geomediaspeakerseries #digitalwork #geographies
February 6, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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🥁 AI Act deal: Key safeguards & dangerous loopholes

After a negotiation marathon in the global spotlight, EU lawmakers closed a deal last night on the #AI Act.

Read AlgorithmWatch‘s statement: algorithmwatch.ch/en/ai-act-de...
AI Act deal: Key safeguards and dangerous loopholes - AlgorithmWatch CH
After a negotiation marathon in the global spotlight, EU lawmakers closed a deal late Friday night on the AI Act, the EU’s law on regulating the development and use of Artificial Intelligence system...
algorithmwatch.ch
December 9, 2023 at 11:21 AM
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The Geomedia Centre has an exciting online seminar coming up! Just tune in on Nov 14 at 1:00pm and enjoy the talk by
Bernard Dionysius Goeghegan on "SEEING AND SEAFARING: HOW THE SCOPIC REGIME OF COMPUTATION WAS MOBILISED" +discussion with Visiting Prof Pablo Abend. Info: shorturl.at/ryCK8
October 26, 2023 at 11:11 AM
📢 Our study explores Austrian media discourses on responsibility regarding social media algorithms and social companions. Inter alia, findings reveal distinct perspectives on the agency and responsibility of social media algorithms and social robots themselves. doi.org/10.1177/1461...
October 26, 2023 at 11:56 AM
The Geomedia Centre has an exciting online seminar coming up! Just tune in on Nov 14 at 1:00pm and enjoy the talk by
Bernard Dionysius Goeghegan on "SEEING AND SEAFARING: HOW THE SCOPIC REGIME OF COMPUTATION WAS MOBILISED" +discussion with Visiting Prof Pablo Abend. Info: shorturl.at/ryCK8
October 26, 2023 at 11:11 AM