Sandra Ristovska
@sristovska.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media Studies (courtesy appointment in Law) at CU Boulder. Founding Director, Visual Evidence Lab @visualevidencelab.bsky.social Studies video evidence, AI, justice, and human rights. Author of Seeing Human Rights (MIT Press, 2021)
So excited that Judge Grimm has joined the advisory board of the @visualevidencelab.bsky.social. Welcome to the team!
Following our Friday tradition, today we're introducing another member of our advisory board, Judge Paul W. Grimm, who brings unparalleled insights to our team. 1/3
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
So excited that Judge Grimm has joined the advisory board of the @visualevidencelab.bsky.social. Welcome to the team!
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Our inaugural report, "Video's Day in Court: Advancing Equitable Legal Usage of Visual Technologies and AI," was just covered in CU Boulder Today: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/1... 1/4
Deepfakes and AI in the courtroom: Report calls for legal reforms to address a troubling trend
The inaugural report of CU Boulder's new Visual Evidence Lab warns that the legal system is unprepared for the flood of video, including AI-enhanced or
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November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Our inaugural report, "Video's Day in Court: Advancing Equitable Legal Usage of Visual Technologies and AI," was just covered in CU Boulder Today: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/1... 1/4
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There is hope, and we must use it! Join us at our annual symposium next month to envision new possibilities for media research and practice at this time of profound upheaval. Register here: bit.ly/beyondendurance @asc.upenn.edu
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
There is hope, and we must use it! Join us at our annual symposium next month to envision new possibilities for media research and practice at this time of profound upheaval. Register here: bit.ly/beyondendurance @asc.upenn.edu
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At a convening of our board of directors, CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social presented on public & legal concerns about AI & deepfakes' effects on the integrity & reliability of video evidence
A new report from @visualevidencelab.bsky.social explores some of the thorny issues Sandra discussed (🧵)
A new report from @visualevidencelab.bsky.social explores some of the thorny issues Sandra discussed (🧵)
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
At a convening of our board of directors, CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social presented on public & legal concerns about AI & deepfakes' effects on the integrity & reliability of video evidence
A new report from @visualevidencelab.bsky.social explores some of the thorny issues Sandra discussed (🧵)
A new report from @visualevidencelab.bsky.social explores some of the thorny issues Sandra discussed (🧵)
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Informed by dialogues taking place at the intersection of media, technology, and law, our work is inherently interdisciplinary, multi-methodological, and multi-modal. But what do we mean by multi-modal work? 1/5
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Informed by dialogues taking place at the intersection of media, technology, and law, our work is inherently interdisciplinary, multi-methodological, and multi-modal. But what do we mean by multi-modal work? 1/5
Extremely happy that Judge Bailin is a member of the advisory board of the @visualevidencelab.bsky.social. Her insights and contributions make a difference to the work we do to advance equitable and responsible use of video and AI technologies in the pursuit of justice.
Today we're introducing Judge Roxanne Bailin, a member of our advisory board. She was chief judge of the 20th Judicial District (1998-2013). Before that, she was named to the county bench in 1983 and to the district court bench in 1987. She brings unparalleled insights and dedication to our team.
November 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Extremely happy that Judge Bailin is a member of the advisory board of the @visualevidencelab.bsky.social. Her insights and contributions make a difference to the work we do to advance equitable and responsible use of video and AI technologies in the pursuit of justice.
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📣 Inaugural report from @visualevidencelab.bsky.social, directed by CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social
With insights from 20 experts, it identifies key challenges w/video access, interpretation & AI, and proposes ways of improving legal processes regarding the use of video & AI tools as evidence
With insights from 20 experts, it identifies key challenges w/video access, interpretation & AI, and proposes ways of improving legal processes regarding the use of video & AI tools as evidence
Publication alert! Our inaugural report is here! Video's Day in Court: Advancing Equitable Legal Usage of Visual Technologies and AI: www.colorado.edu/lab/visualev... Immensely grateful for the insights from 20 experts and the research assistance from 4 grad students at @cumediastudies.bsky.social
Inaugural Report: "Video’s Day in Court: Advancing Equitable Legal Usage of Visual Technologies and AI"
At its launch in April 2025, the Visual Evidence Lab gathered experts from across academia, law, media forensics, journalism and human rights practice to
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November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
📣 Inaugural report from @visualevidencelab.bsky.social, directed by CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social
With insights from 20 experts, it identifies key challenges w/video access, interpretation & AI, and proposes ways of improving legal processes regarding the use of video & AI tools as evidence
With insights from 20 experts, it identifies key challenges w/video access, interpretation & AI, and proposes ways of improving legal processes regarding the use of video & AI tools as evidence
Reposted by Sandra Ristovska
There is hope, and we must use it! Join us at our annual symposium next month to envision new possibilities for media research and practice at this time of profound upheaval. Register here: bit.ly/JournalistsUnderFire @asc.upenn.edu
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
There is hope, and we must use it! Join us at our annual symposium next month to envision new possibilities for media research and practice at this time of profound upheaval. Register here: bit.ly/JournalistsUnderFire @asc.upenn.edu
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"How we choose to act now will determine whether our shared basis for reality — what we see and hear — remains trustworthy."
Generative video's threat to visual truth and what we can do about it, and why concerted action matters now, in @transformernews.ai
www.transformernews.ai/p/sora-is-he...
Generative video's threat to visual truth and what we can do about it, and why concerted action matters now, in @transformernews.ai
www.transformernews.ai/p/sora-is-he...
Sora Is Here. The window to save visual truth is closing
Opinion: Sam Gregory argues that generative video is undermining the notion of a shared reality, and that we need to act before it’s lost forever
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November 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"How we choose to act now will determine whether our shared basis for reality — what we see and hear — remains trustworthy."
Generative video's threat to visual truth and what we can do about it, and why concerted action matters now, in @transformernews.ai
www.transformernews.ai/p/sora-is-he...
Generative video's threat to visual truth and what we can do about it, and why concerted action matters now, in @transformernews.ai
www.transformernews.ai/p/sora-is-he...
Video’s Day in Court, the inaugural report by @visualevidencelab.bsky.social, maps the challenges with video evidence (access and retrieval, interpretation, and AI) and proposed ways forward because civil rights and human rights are at stake. Read and/or download via link below.
Publication alert! Our inaugural report is here! Video's Day in Court: Advancing Equitable Legal Usage of Visual Technologies and AI: www.colorado.edu/lab/visualev... Immensely grateful for the insights from 20 experts and the research assistance from 4 grad students at @cumediastudies.bsky.social
Inaugural Report: "Video’s Day in Court: Advancing Equitable Legal Usage of Visual Technologies and AI"
At its launch in April 2025, the Visual Evidence Lab gathered experts from across academia, law, media forensics, journalism and human rights practice to
www.colorado.edu
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Video’s Day in Court, the inaugural report by @visualevidencelab.bsky.social, maps the challenges with video evidence (access and retrieval, interpretation, and AI) and proposed ways forward because civil rights and human rights are at stake. Read and/or download via link below.
Reposted by Sandra Ristovska
Biases & context shape how we view videos, but courts lack guidelines about videos as evidence. Now w/AI & deepfakes, "we’re adding another layer of complexity to a system that hasn’t even fully addressed the challenges of authentic video,” says CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social in @thenation.com
Our Racist, Terrifying Deepfake Future Is Here
A faked viral video of a white CEO shoplifting is one thing. What happens when an AI-generated video incriminates a Black suspect? That’s coming, and we’re completely unprepared.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Biases & context shape how we view videos, but courts lack guidelines about videos as evidence. Now w/AI & deepfakes, "we’re adding another layer of complexity to a system that hasn’t even fully addressed the challenges of authentic video,” says CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social in @thenation.com
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Founding director, @sristovska.bsky.social, and advisory board member, @riana.bsky.social, discussed the legal issues that AI and deepfakes pose in The Nation. Read more about the implications of this technology for justice, civil rights, and human rights here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Our Racist, Terrifying Deepfake Future Is Here
A faked viral video of a white CEO shoplifting is one thing. What happens when an AI-generated video incriminates a Black suspect? That’s coming, and we’re completely unprepared.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Founding director, @sristovska.bsky.social, and advisory board member, @riana.bsky.social, discussed the legal issues that AI and deepfakes pose in The Nation. Read more about the implications of this technology for justice, civil rights, and human rights here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Subscribe to the monthly email newsletter of the @visualevidencelab.bsky.social to learn more about the use of video and AI technologies in court. The newsletter will feature updates about the lab's work, publications, events, fellowship and internship opportunities. @cumediastudies.bsky.social
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Congrats to CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social, director of the new Visual Evidence Lab @colorado.edu
The lab releases its inaugural report next week 📰
The lab releases its inaugural report next week 📰
Introducing the Visual Evidence Lab, an interdisciplinary research hub for scholars, judges, attorneys, forensic experts, media makers, journalists, and human rights practitioners, advancing equitable and responsible technology in the pursuit of justice: www.colorado.edu/lab/visualev...
October 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Congrats to CASBS fellow @sristovska.bsky.social, director of the new Visual Evidence Lab @colorado.edu
The lab releases its inaugural report next week 📰
The lab releases its inaugural report next week 📰
Excited to announce the @visualevidencelab.bsky.social at CU Boulder!!
Introducing the Visual Evidence Lab, an interdisciplinary research hub for scholars, judges, attorneys, forensic experts, media makers, journalists, and human rights practitioners, advancing equitable and responsible technology in the pursuit of justice: www.colorado.edu/lab/visualev...
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Excited to announce the @visualevidencelab.bsky.social at CU Boulder!!
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The 2025-26 CASBS class.
Resent them, if you must, for their unbridled beauty.
But love them, you must, for their spectacular talent.
Fellows: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...
Visiting scholars: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...
Resent them, if you must, for their unbridled beauty.
But love them, you must, for their spectacular talent.
Fellows: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...
Visiting scholars: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...
September 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The 2025-26 CASBS class.
Resent them, if you must, for their unbridled beauty.
But love them, you must, for their spectacular talent.
Fellows: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...
Visiting scholars: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...
Resent them, if you must, for their unbridled beauty.
But love them, you must, for their spectacular talent.
Fellows: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...
Visiting scholars: casbs.stanford.edu/people/curre...
Thrilled about the 2025-26 Leonore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication at @casbsstanford.bsky.social So excited to learn from and with the other fellows this year.
DAY 21 introducing members of the 2025-26 CASBS class
We're diggin' this. @sristovska.bsky.social will write a book situating the rise of generative AI & deepfakes within a longer legal & social history of tech manipulation of evidentiary images...
Bio & project: casbs.stanford.edu/people/sandr...
We're diggin' this. @sristovska.bsky.social will write a book situating the rise of generative AI & deepfakes within a longer legal & social history of tech manipulation of evidentiary images...
Bio & project: casbs.stanford.edu/people/sandr...
August 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Thrilled about the 2025-26 Leonore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication at @casbsstanford.bsky.social So excited to learn from and with the other fellows this year.
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The CU Boulder Media Studies Department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor! We’re seeking candidates with expertise in global media, screen cultures, and digital production cultures. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Assistant Teaching Professor of Media Studies
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January 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The CU Boulder Media Studies Department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor! We’re seeking candidates with expertise in global media, screen cultures, and digital production cultures. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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The Department of Media Studies at CU Boulder is hiring! We’re seeking an open-rank scholar with a critical, interdisciplinary approach to media, culture, and the environment.
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jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Professor in Environmental Media Studies
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November 20, 2024 at 4:06 PM
The Department of Media Studies at CU Boulder is hiring! We’re seeking an open-rank scholar with a critical, interdisciplinary approach to media, culture, and the environment.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
So wonderful to see this interdisciplinary issue on video evidence published! Grateful to the wonderful group of contributors like @alexakoenig.bsky.social and the ABA’s Science & Tech Law Section. Non ABA members, please DM if you want a copy. ow.ly/9evS50QFI79
Video Evidence
The Winter 2024 issue (Vol. 20, Issue 2) of The SciTech Lawyer includes articles on the veracity, interpretation, and presentation of video evidence and the lack of current guidance for video evidence...
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February 27, 2024 at 2:44 PM
So wonderful to see this interdisciplinary issue on video evidence published! Grateful to the wonderful group of contributors like @alexakoenig.bsky.social and the ABA’s Science & Tech Law Section. Non ABA members, please DM if you want a copy. ow.ly/9evS50QFI79
I’m excited to share a new ACLS report I co-authored, “Preparing Publicly Engaged Scholars: A Guide for Innovation in Doctoral Education.” The report offers recommendations and examples of how to best support public engagement in the humanities & social sciences: www.acls.org/resources/pr...
Preparing Publicly Engaged Scholars
Preparing Publicly Engaged Scholars: A Guide to Innovation in Doctoral Education draws on the experiences of Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society faculty fellows and graduate students to offer insights an...
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February 1, 2024 at 6:18 PM
I’m excited to share a new ACLS report I co-authored, “Preparing Publicly Engaged Scholars: A Guide for Innovation in Doctoral Education.” The report offers recommendations and examples of how to best support public engagement in the humanities & social sciences: www.acls.org/resources/pr...