The Tate-space on YouTube: Ambient ideology and the limits of platform moderation - Bernhard Rieder, Bastian August, Brogan Latil, 2026 This article investigates the persistence and transformation of Andrew Tate’s presence on YouTube following the removal of his official channels in August 2022....

Cool new paper f/ @riederb.bsky.social. Compelling work on the Youtube manosphere focusing on Andrew Tate, combining smart theoretical perspectives + at scale empirical methods to teach us something new about the persistence of manosphere online. Some thoughts >
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Together with Bastian August and Brogan Latil, I spent decidedly too much time trying to understand how Andrew Tate remains present on YouTube after his two channels were suspended.

Full paper in New Media & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Forgetful by Design? A Critical Audit of YouTube's Search API for Academic Research This paper critically audits the search endpoint of YouTube's Data API (v3), a common tool for academic research. Through systematic weekly searches over six months using eleven queries, we identify m...

YouTube's API search function is "not adequate for robust academic research, especially concerning Digital Services Act requirements".

Clear and problematic conclusions by @riederb.bsky.social Adrian Padilla & Oscar Coromina

#commsky #DSA #dataacess #youtube

arxiv.org/abs/2506.11727

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Forgetful by Design? A Critical Audit of YouTube's Search API for Academic Research This paper critically audits the search endpoint of YouTube's Data API (v3), a common tool for academic research. Through systematic weekly searches over six months using eleven queries, we identify m...

two papers have just come out that evaluate the consistency and temporal coverage of the search endpoint of YouTube's API from a research perspective; both found pretty big problems; arxiv.org/abs/2506.11727 and arxiv.org/abs/2506.04422

Vacancy — Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information Studies Would you like to teach on cutting-edge theories, methods, and questions in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information? Then we have the perfect challenge for you!

We’re hiring: Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information Studies (Media Studies, @uvahumanities.bsky.social)! Join @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, myself, & other wonderful colleagues in the Critical Data & AI team. Applications due 28 May. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Sharing an opportunity to publish in our journal. Check out this call for papers led by @silvertje.bsky.social Rianne Riemens Donya Alinejad @juikei.bsky.social "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis." Deadline: 23.05 journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...

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Vacancy — PhD on Interface of Intelligence: How Generative AI Reshapes Knowledge, Media, and Interpretation Are you looking for a challenging position in a dynamic setting? ASCA currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the Starting Grant project Interface of Intelligence: How Generative AI Reshapes Kn...

we are hiring a PhD candidate for the project "Interface of Intelligence: How Generative AI Reshapes Knowledge, Media, and Interpretation"; details here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Multichannel networks in China's livestreaming industry: Failing industrial lore and limited intermediary roles amidst platformization - Zhen Ye, 2025 In this article, I offer a critical view of the significance of studying multichannel networks as a renewed form of cultural intermediaries, with the conceptual...

Some new and really great articles have been published in Platforms & Society recently, one of which is this eye-opening study by Zhen Ye on the complex and compromised role of multichannel networks in China’s livestreaming industry:

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Hurray my new publication with Dennis Nguyen is out in open access: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Vacancy — Postdoctoral Researcher in OSINT & Information Disorder Do you want to join the European Union-funded project Social Media for Democracy (SoMe4Dem) focusing on the role of social media in democracy? Then this position is for you!

Postdoctoral Researcher in OSINT & Information Disorder at Amsterdam University werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

so Google's Tensor Processing Units are actually quite the asset after all

the "Spotify artist network" tool is no longer working, since Spotify has restricted access to the "related artists" API endpoint (without warning, lots of unhappy devs); I am trying to get access again, but I'm not very optimistic

How ChatGPT (Mis)represents Publisher Content ChatGPT search — which is positioned as a competitor to search engines like Google and Bing — launched with a press release from OpenAI touting claims that the company had “collaborated extensively wi...

I have a new piece out with @aisvarya17.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social in which we test how OpenAI's new search feature surfaces and attributes news content. Our findings were not promising for news publishers (1/9) www.cjr.org/tow_center/h...

Two quick observations after skimming the first 5 DSA audit reports (ranging from 114 pages (Bing) to 344 pages (X).

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New platform, new paper! Talking about ideal first posts :) The platformization of the follower factory with my co-author Johan Lindquist: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Open access & just published:

Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society. Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention (Amsterdam University Press 2024) www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

On September 3 we are a hosting a workshop on Internet Research with Foundation Models? in Amsterdam. The call for participation is is open until June 7: cat4smr.humanities.uva.nl/index.php/bl...

so Sarah Burkhardt and I just published a paper on the political economy of large pre-trained AI models (aka "foundation models"); we are specifically focusing on the role of prompting, how it changes the way AI applications are built, and what that means; journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Call for Participation: Internet Research with Foundation Models? cat4smr.humanities.uva.nl/index.php/20...

testing the YTDT's new co-commenting module (here: 421 videos for search query [Ukraine]), I am surprised by how strong user "communities" around channels (color) are, with videos connected by up to 100+ users; the network is overall super dense, lots of hyperactive commenters...

Following recent changes in the YouTube Data Tools, I made a new overview video as well as detailed videos for each module, which include explanations, parameters, and directions for analysis with GSheets and Gephi; here's the playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...