Niklas Strüver
@enriya.bsky.social
Studying voice assistants as a PhD Student @media of cooperation at Uni Siegen Germany.
Interests are: digital infrastructures and platforms | sociology of technology & STS (he/him)
https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/personen/struever-niklas/
Interests are: digital infrastructures and platforms | sociology of technology & STS (he/him)
https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/personen/struever-niklas/
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Niklas Strüver
@enriya.bsky.social
· Feb 1
New Publication just out! ✨Super happy to show the next article in my PhD to the world. It has the (very elegant and not clunky at all😅) title: "Innovating #Alexa amid the Rise of #LargeLanguageModels Sociotechnical Transitions in Algorithmic Development Practices" #OpenAccess Link👇Small🧵
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This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
From the OpenAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community
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July 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Amazon announced a new #Alexa+ option involving new generative AI models to make Alexa seem relevant in times of #LLMs. Ultimately, this is a last ditch effort, considering the devices' company history. But it's a bit more than chasing a trend. Thread🧵👇 1/7
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYbA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYbA...
Meet the new Alexa
YouTube video by Amazon Alexa
www.youtube.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Amazon announced a new #Alexa+ option involving new generative AI models to make Alexa seem relevant in times of #LLMs. Ultimately, this is a last ditch effort, considering the devices' company history. But it's a bit more than chasing a trend. Thread🧵👇 1/7
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYbA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYbA...
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Fast ein Drittel der Zeit dieses 90-(!)-Minuten-Duells ging es um Asyl, Abschiebungen und Abweisungen.
Null Respekt für alle, die hier die journalistische Verantwortung tragen. Was für eine Bankrotterklärung.
Null Respekt für alle, die hier die journalistische Verantwortung tragen. Was für eine Bankrotterklärung.
February 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Fast ein Drittel der Zeit dieses 90-(!)-Minuten-Duells ging es um Asyl, Abschiebungen und Abweisungen.
Null Respekt für alle, die hier die journalistische Verantwortung tragen. Was für eine Bankrotterklärung.
Null Respekt für alle, die hier die journalistische Verantwortung tragen. Was für eine Bankrotterklärung.
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If you're by any chance interested in writing a review, feel free to drop me a line for a review copy...
#VoiceAssistants #HumanMachineInteraction #PrivacyMatters #AIResearch #SurveillanceStudies #OpenAccess #DataEthics
#VoiceAssistants #HumanMachineInteraction #PrivacyMatters #AIResearch #SurveillanceStudies #OpenAccess #DataEthics
January 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
If you're by any chance interested in writing a review, feel free to drop me a line for a review copy...
#VoiceAssistants #HumanMachineInteraction #PrivacyMatters #AIResearch #SurveillanceStudies #OpenAccess #DataEthics
#VoiceAssistants #HumanMachineInteraction #PrivacyMatters #AIResearch #SurveillanceStudies #OpenAccess #DataEthics
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Happy to announce the open-access volume "Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse", edited by Stephan Habscheid, @dagmarhoffmann.bsky.social, David Waldecker and myself. You can download it here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
January 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Happy to announce the open-access volume "Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse", edited by Stephan Habscheid, @dagmarhoffmann.bsky.social, David Waldecker and myself. You can download it here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
New Publication just out! ✨Super happy to show the next article in my PhD to the world. It has the (very elegant and not clunky at all😅) title: "Innovating #Alexa amid the Rise of #LargeLanguageModels Sociotechnical Transitions in Algorithmic Development Practices" #OpenAccess Link👇Small🧵
February 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
New Publication just out! ✨Super happy to show the next article in my PhD to the world. It has the (very elegant and not clunky at all😅) title: "Innovating #Alexa amid the Rise of #LargeLanguageModels Sociotechnical Transitions in Algorithmic Development Practices" #OpenAccess Link👇Small🧵
Arrived last week's Monday in Melbourne for a three month research stay @monashuniversity.bsky.social's Emerging Technology Lab led by Sarah Pink. Thrilled to be here!Temporarily in the gorgeous Victoria State Library while not at the ETL✨Thanks to @daadworldwide.bsky.social for help with funding.🙏
January 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Arrived last week's Monday in Melbourne for a three month research stay @monashuniversity.bsky.social's Emerging Technology Lab led by Sarah Pink. Thrilled to be here!Temporarily in the gorgeous Victoria State Library while not at the ETL✨Thanks to @daadworldwide.bsky.social for help with funding.🙏
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Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
Anyway, AI has already stolen friends’ work, and is going to put other people out of work.
I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
December 26, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
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Elon Musk does not want you to donate to Wikipedia, which is itself a good reason to donate, but the much better reason is that it's Wikipedia. Just donated again last night.
December 27, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Elon Musk does not want you to donate to Wikipedia, which is itself a good reason to donate, but the much better reason is that it's Wikipedia. Just donated again last night.
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BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time.
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
How Amazon Ruined Christmas
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:05 PM
BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time.
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
Short notice registration🌿: Join us @University of Siegen for our Mixing Methods Winter School “AI Methods: From Probing to Prompting”. Registration is open until Dec 15
👉Programme & registration: u-si.de/FScqv
#mixedmethods #AI #digitalmethods #probing #prompting
👉Programme & registration: u-si.de/FScqv
#mixedmethods #AI #digitalmethods #probing #prompting
Call for Participations: Mixed Methods Winter School on AI Methods » SFB 1187 – Medien der KooperationCall for Participations: Mixed Methods Winter School on AI Methods – SFB 1187 – Medien der Koopera...
u-si.de
December 12, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Short notice registration🌿: Join us @University of Siegen for our Mixing Methods Winter School “AI Methods: From Probing to Prompting”. Registration is open until Dec 15
👉Programme & registration: u-si.de/FScqv
#mixedmethods #AI #digitalmethods #probing #prompting
👉Programme & registration: u-si.de/FScqv
#mixedmethods #AI #digitalmethods #probing #prompting
Has anyone written about modern AI "products" from a perspective of Walter Benjamin's Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction yet? If so, I would really like to read that.
an accidental thread🧵
an accidental thread🧵
December 10, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Has anyone written about modern AI "products" from a perspective of Walter Benjamin's Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction yet? If so, I would really like to read that.
an accidental thread🧵
an accidental thread🧵
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With input from friends, I’ve made a starter pack of early-career researchers across digital geography, STS, and critical AI studies. It isn’t meant to be definitive or exhaustive (though somewhat arbitrary at this stage), so please feel free to comment your own or others’ names for inclusion!
November 26, 2024 at 12:46 PM
With input from friends, I’ve made a starter pack of early-career researchers across digital geography, STS, and critical AI studies. It isn’t meant to be definitive or exhaustive (though somewhat arbitrary at this stage), so please feel free to comment your own or others’ names for inclusion!
Lots of people are migrating to this place and I wanted to share some of my work; e.g. the first english article from my dissertation on power hierarchies surrounding Amazon's Alexa. The article is open access here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Frustration Free: How Alexa Orchestrates the Development of the Smart Home
PDF | Niklas Strüver studies the sociotechnical relations that surround the voice assistant Alexa and the smart home it inhabits. In this, he identifies... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
www.researchgate.net
November 13, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Lots of people are migrating to this place and I wanted to share some of my work; e.g. the first english article from my dissertation on power hierarchies surrounding Amazon's Alexa. The article is open access here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Super happy to have been part in the organising of this years program for the CRC's lecture series "Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance". Come and pay us a visit, if you're interested in any of the talks and discussions. :)
October 2, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Super happy to have been part in the organising of this years program for the CRC's lecture series "Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance". Come and pay us a visit, if you're interested in any of the talks and discussions. :)
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📢We are pleased to announce the #program of our upcoming #lecture series in the winter semester 2024/25 on “Expanding Science and Technology Studies”.
➡️Find out more about the topic, lectures and speakers: khk.rwth-aachen.de/2024/09/17/1...
#rwth #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #sts
➡️Find out more about the topic, lectures and speakers: khk.rwth-aachen.de/2024/09/17/1...
#rwth #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #sts
September 26, 2024 at 9:20 AM
📢We are pleased to announce the #program of our upcoming #lecture series in the winter semester 2024/25 on “Expanding Science and Technology Studies”.
➡️Find out more about the topic, lectures and speakers: khk.rwth-aachen.de/2024/09/17/1...
#rwth #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #sts
➡️Find out more about the topic, lectures and speakers: khk.rwth-aachen.de/2024/09/17/1...
#rwth #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #sts
Currently on my way to Amsterdam for the EASST/4s conference to present some research on voice assistants as a platformized infrastructure for the smart home together with @timmoritz.bsky.social (absent🥲) tomorrow morning in P060! Very excited to be back at #EASST4S2024 ✨
July 16, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Currently on my way to Amsterdam for the EASST/4s conference to present some research on voice assistants as a platformized infrastructure for the smart home together with @timmoritz.bsky.social (absent🥲) tomorrow morning in P060! Very excited to be back at #EASST4S2024 ✨
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Wie ruiniere ich mein Land und meine Demokratie?
Deutschland: Ja.
Deutschland: Ja.
June 26, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Wie ruiniere ich mein Land und meine Demokratie?
Deutschland: Ja.
Deutschland: Ja.
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Ngl, this is bizarrely interesting from an art historical perspective as a kind of reverse Aby Warburg Mnemosyne atlas - as the LLM is a statistical tool it will reproduce somehow normative poses & formal compositions, which it ofc synthesized from whatever images were looted from the internet /1
April 25, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Ngl, this is bizarrely interesting from an art historical perspective as a kind of reverse Aby Warburg Mnemosyne atlas - as the LLM is a statistical tool it will reproduce somehow normative poses & formal compositions, which it ofc synthesized from whatever images were looted from the internet /1
A phantastic article on (albeit not surprising) data practices in large AI companies, perfectly summarised by this banger:
"Researchers are divided on whether this method will work.
A.I. executives are barreling ahead nonetheless.
'It should be all right,' Mr. Altman said at the conference."
"Researchers are divided on whether this method will work.
A.I. executives are barreling ahead nonetheless.
'It should be all right,' Mr. Altman said at the conference."
Gift: Giant Tech Platforms Want All The Data and They're Breaking All The Rules To Get it.
[my headline]
5 of the NYT most seasoned tech reporters tell us what's going on.
Gift link!
[my headline]
5 of the NYT most seasoned tech reporters tell us what's going on.
Gift link!
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems...
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2024 at 3:09 PM
A phantastic article on (albeit not surprising) data practices in large AI companies, perfectly summarised by this banger:
"Researchers are divided on whether this method will work.
A.I. executives are barreling ahead nonetheless.
'It should be all right,' Mr. Altman said at the conference."
"Researchers are divided on whether this method will work.
A.I. executives are barreling ahead nonetheless.
'It should be all right,' Mr. Altman said at the conference."
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Cartography of generative AI:
cartography-of-generative-ai.net
Yes, give me the map-splaining. Give me the materiality of digital media. Show me the labour.
cartography-of-generative-ai.net
Yes, give me the map-splaining. Give me the materiality of digital media. Show me the labour.
April 2, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Cartography of generative AI:
cartography-of-generative-ai.net
Yes, give me the map-splaining. Give me the materiality of digital media. Show me the labour.
cartography-of-generative-ai.net
Yes, give me the map-splaining. Give me the materiality of digital media. Show me the labour.
There's a big job opening as a scientific coordinator (post doc, four years, full time) at the CRC 1187 media of cooperation in Siegen. If you're interested in STS and or media studies and want to work with international and interdisciplinary folks, here you go!
jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Research...
jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Research...
January 19, 2024 at 9:23 AM
There's a big job opening as a scientific coordinator (post doc, four years, full time) at the CRC 1187 media of cooperation in Siegen. If you're interested in STS and or media studies and want to work with international and interdisciplinary folks, here you go!
jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Research...
jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Research...
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Neuer Artikel im Journal: Wieso eigentlich Alexa? von Niklas Strüver, Uni Siegen.
Ein Artikel zur Plattformökonomie, K@G 24(1)
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges...
Ein Artikel zur Plattformökonomie, K@G 24(1)
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges...
November 24, 2023 at 3:04 PM
Neuer Artikel im Journal: Wieso eigentlich Alexa? von Niklas Strüver, Uni Siegen.
Ein Artikel zur Plattformökonomie, K@G 24(1)
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges...
Ein Artikel zur Plattformökonomie, K@G 24(1)
journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges...