ALGOpod #8: Craig Ryder
Gabriele de Seta banters with Craig Ryder about Sri Lankan influencer activism and small platform dynamics.
Algorithmic Folklore
Blog & newsletter updates from the research project "Algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular creativity and automation" (ALGOFOLK), funded by a TMF Starting Grant (2024-2028) at the University of Bergen, Norway.
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ALGOpod #7: Bokar N'Diaye
Gabriele de Seta discusses generative creativity and stochastic parrots with Bokar N'Diaye.
Tung Tung Tung Sahur’s sensonarrative power
Or, how Italian Brainrot became Indonesian.
ALGOpod #6: Santtu Raisanen
Gabriele de Seta and Hanna Lauvli geek out with Santtu Raisanen about the weirdness of convenience content.
The material life of Italian Brainrot
Some observations on how the synthetic mythos of nonsensical characters might also be the first repertoire of AI-generated content to take physical form at a global scale.
ALGOpod #5: Anya Shchetvina
Gabriele de Seta follows Anya Shchetvina down the historical rabbithole of internet manifestos.
ALGOpod #4: Nick Seaver
Gabriele de Seta asks Nick Seaver to explain how mouse jigglers and steering wheel hacks materialize the contested relationship between attention and algorithms.
ALGOpod #3: Minna Ruckenstein
Gabriele de Seta invites Minna Ruckenstein to chart her journey into algorithms via folklore, datafication, and feelings.
ALGOpod #2: Guro Flinterud
Gabriele de Seta chats with Guro Flinterud about folklore in the age of algorithms and social media
ALGOpod #1: Joan Mukogosi
Gabriele de Seta chats with Joan Mukogosi about algorithmic folklore and strategic knowledge on TikTok
Salmon in the river
An archaeological excavation of AI-generated salmon fillets, and what these say about the narrative circulation of algorithmic folklore
Synthetic media as wish fulfillment
Some notes on Indofuturism, daydreaming and labour folklore
Narrative convergence
On being sexted by automated agents
"thinking about thailand"
An ethnographic entrée into Butterflies AI, the fully-automated social media platform, plus some light jailbreaking and a bunch of unanswered research questions
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