Digital Methods Summer School 2025: Social media at a crossroads, and the sensitivity of AI platforms

Date: 30.06.2025 - 11.07.2025
Workshop / training
Format: onsite
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Event Fee: Fee

Organizer(s):
New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam

This year’s Digital Methods Summer School has two related themes. The first is ‘social media at a crossroads’ and the second the ‘sensitivity of AI platforms’; they are related given that mainstream social media seem to lost their normative compass while AI platforms strive to improve theirs through enhanced content moderation. AI platform are now occasionally called ‘oversensitive’, however. This oversensitivity charge is reminiscent of attacks on Dorsey’s Twitter and other social media platforms with active content moderation. How to consider the rising critique of the oversensitivity of AI platform moderation in light of the turn to free-for-all expression on social media? The Summer School takes up this larger question, but first breaks it down into the two individual areas of study.

https://www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSchool2025

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