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Nataliia Laba
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asst.-prof. in digital & multimodal communication / humane AI @rug.nl | genAI at the intersections of critical data studies & discourse studies ✨| SECR of the #ICA Visual Comm Division | https://nataliialaba.com
Reposted by Nataliia Laba
🔗 The open-access study can be read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🙏 Thanks to @nataliialaba.com for inspiring this study and to she and @neous.bsky.social for organising a panel on visual style that we presented at #ADDA5 and that helped sharpen my arguments in this paper.
Computer-mediated representations: a qualitative examination of algorithmic vision and visual style - TJ Thomson, 2025
To the general public, text-to-image generators, such as Midjourney and DALL-E, seem to work through magic and, indeed, their inner workings are often frustrati...
journals.sagepub.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Thanks so much for reading and spreading the word.
September 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Our article in Memory, Mind & Media argues that that AI-generated images of the Russia-Ukraine war create an
unreliable ‘clean war’ narrative that systematically excludes human suffering and the
experiences of civilians, women, children, and the elderly.
September 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I'm part of roundtable "𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐈 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬/𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜" on 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟳, 𝟵:𝟬𝟬–𝟭𝟭:𝟯𝟬 𝗮𝐦 (𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞) – with Miriyam Aouragh, Roger Canals, Donatella Della Ratta, and Yoav Galai – hope to see you there! digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk/event/visual...
Visual AI politics/politics of visual AI: a roundtable - Digital Society Research Cluster
Location: online This roundtable brings together experts on digital media, visual cultures and politics, misinformation, political violence, and generative AI. Curated by Adi Kuntsman and Jessica Elia...
digitalsociety.mmu.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Reposted by Nataliia Laba
Nataliia Laba @nataliialaba.com on text-to-image generators, the resulting artefacts and our interpretation.

Her food for thought:
Can human qualities really be translated to AI?
We should continue addressing how people's experiences shape their expectations towards AI.
May 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
To be considered, please send a 200 word description of your research and a short bio (no longer than 50 words) to digitalpoliticsmanmet@gmail.com by 19th May 2025. Hope to see you there!
April 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Join us for an afternoon of lightning talks, a panel discussion of student experiences with #genAI, and hands-on activities on how to use multimodal generative AI critically and creatively.
March 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM