Let´s talk digital networks! But not exactly information or neural networks, neither the networks build from marketing places for work, such as Amazon´s Mechanical Turk, Lucid, YouGov, CrowdFlower or Prolific. I want to talk digital networks both “as captured by digital data”
Continue reading “Reading Digital Networks: Climate Emergency, Bolsonaro & Bot Image Circulation by Vision API.”Insta Bots and the black market of social media engagement
This post attempts to address very specific questions on the black market of automated engagement on Instagram, giving special attention to applications created to support the practice of botting, and also the functioning of botted accounts. Continue reading “Insta Bots and the black market of social media engagement”
Does context matter?
This piece of work was developed in the first year of my PhD as an effort to reflect on how platforms moderate content and whether they take context into account. I look at the content moderation policy of Instagram, drawing particular attention to the case of #belarecatadaedolar. Continue reading “Does context matter?”
#BrasilEmGreve: Most popular vs. Latest posts on Instagram
This is an experiment: the ideia is to visualise the most popular posts using Continue reading “#BrasilEmGreve: Most popular vs. Latest posts on Instagram”
Instagram Data Analysis: the pros and cons of co-tag network and key actors.
A wide variety of approaches or ways of seeing social media data have been undertaken, the question is whether they are technically adequate or a simple depiction of what you get. Continue reading “Instagram Data Analysis: the pros and cons of co-tag network and key actors.”