Giorgia Aiello
@giorgiaaiello.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Milan. Visual cultures, digital media, cities.
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📣 International Workshop on #VisualMethodologies
📅Dec. 2-3 at @liser.lu
Strengthen your methodological expertise & foster new competencies in qualitative visual approaches as they offer a powerful means to engage critically w/ contemporary societal issues.
🚨 Register: www.liser.lu/events/inter...
📅Dec. 2-3 at @liser.lu
Strengthen your methodological expertise & foster new competencies in qualitative visual approaches as they offer a powerful means to engage critically w/ contemporary societal issues.
🚨 Register: www.liser.lu/events/inter...
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
📣 International Workshop on #VisualMethodologies
📅Dec. 2-3 at @liser.lu
Strengthen your methodological expertise & foster new competencies in qualitative visual approaches as they offer a powerful means to engage critically w/ contemporary societal issues.
🚨 Register: www.liser.lu/events/inter...
📅Dec. 2-3 at @liser.lu
Strengthen your methodological expertise & foster new competencies in qualitative visual approaches as they offer a powerful means to engage critically w/ contemporary societal issues.
🚨 Register: www.liser.lu/events/inter...
On 10/12 I will be in Turin to participate in this conference on AI and visual communication as an invited speaker. My presentation will focus on the significance of types rather than stereotypes, of researching stock images, and of genericity w/r/t how gender is constructed through visual AI.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
On 10/12 I will be in Turin to participate in this conference on AI and visual communication as an invited speaker. My presentation will focus on the significance of types rather than stereotypes, of researching stock images, and of genericity w/r/t how gender is constructed through visual AI.
On December 2-3 I will be at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) for the invited seminar "Methodologies in Visual Narratives". tinyurl.com/msemhdh3
The title of my presentation is going to be "(Why) does visual-material criticism matter in (post)digital urban research?" 1/
The title of my presentation is going to be "(Why) does visual-material criticism matter in (post)digital urban research?" 1/
October 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
On December 2-3 I will be at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) for the invited seminar "Methodologies in Visual Narratives". tinyurl.com/msemhdh3
The title of my presentation is going to be "(Why) does visual-material criticism matter in (post)digital urban research?" 1/
The title of my presentation is going to be "(Why) does visual-material criticism matter in (post)digital urban research?" 1/
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📖 The #RoutledgeCompanionToVisualJournalism is now available for pre-order. It features a whopping 41 chapters over 524 pages and is richly accompanied by all types of visuals from photographs and screenshots to AI-generated images and data visualisations.
🇦🇺🇳🇿🔗: www.booktopia.com.au/the-routledg...
🇦🇺🇳🇿🔗: www.booktopia.com.au/the-routledg...
August 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
📖 The #RoutledgeCompanionToVisualJournalism is now available for pre-order. It features a whopping 41 chapters over 524 pages and is richly accompanied by all types of visuals from photographs and screenshots to AI-generated images and data visualisations.
🇦🇺🇳🇿🔗: www.booktopia.com.au/the-routledg...
🇦🇺🇳🇿🔗: www.booktopia.com.au/the-routledg...
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We invite applications for the 3rd edition of the Digital Methods for Consumer Studies summer school on the Lake Como (22-26 September).We have 3 fantastic keynotes: Joonas Rokka (Emlyon), @giorgiaaiello.bsky.social (University of Milan) & Gabriele Colombo (Density Design). Deadline June 6. Join us!
applications are open for the DMCS Summer School (Como, Sept 22–26)
great opportunity for anyone working on platforms, AI, media, consumer culture or digital culture
cooked by A. Caliandro, A. Gandini & M. Airoldi
deadline: June 6 – more info: dmcs.lakecomoschool.org
great opportunity for anyone working on platforms, AI, media, consumer culture or digital culture
cooked by A. Caliandro, A. Gandini & M. Airoldi
deadline: June 6 – more info: dmcs.lakecomoschool.org
May 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
We invite applications for the 3rd edition of the Digital Methods for Consumer Studies summer school on the Lake Como (22-26 September).We have 3 fantastic keynotes: Joonas Rokka (Emlyon), @giorgiaaiello.bsky.social (University of Milan) & Gabriele Colombo (Density Design). Deadline June 6. Join us!
Here's the latest article from the Generic Visuas in the News project, this time about how media workers from three different UK news organizations use and relate to simple data visualizations and stock photos in journalistic practice. 1/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849251342891
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May 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Here's the latest article from the Generic Visuas in the News project, this time about how media workers from three different UK news organizations use and relate to simple data visualizations and stock photos in journalistic practice. 1/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849251342891
My paper for the Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images conference is ready and I’m now on my way to Venice for this three-day international gathering: ai-venice2025.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:33 AM
My paper for the Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images conference is ready and I’m now on my way to Venice for this three-day international gathering: ai-venice2025.com
Looking forward to this event today with lovely colleagues and students from Paris, brilliant communication professionals and fab tutors and MA students from University of Milan!
April 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Looking forward to this event today with lovely colleagues and students from Paris, brilliant communication professionals and fab tutors and MA students from University of Milan!
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The New York Times has installed *Visual Studies*, a series that explores how images move through and shape culture.
Great to see this kind of public attention! Hopefully the academic field with its research traditions is reflected in future contributions too.
www.nytimes.com/card/2025/04...
Great to see this kind of public attention! Hopefully the academic field with its research traditions is reflected in future contributions too.
www.nytimes.com/card/2025/04...
Opinion | There’s More to Selfies Than Meets the Eye
Is a selfie embarrassing? It depends on how you think about it.
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April 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The New York Times has installed *Visual Studies*, a series that explores how images move through and shape culture.
Great to see this kind of public attention! Hopefully the academic field with its research traditions is reflected in future contributions too.
www.nytimes.com/card/2025/04...
Great to see this kind of public attention! Hopefully the academic field with its research traditions is reflected in future contributions too.
www.nytimes.com/card/2025/04...
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This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting.
Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
April 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting.
Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
Go Denmark, Go Greenland!
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons
April 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons
AI ambient imagery in the city.
April 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
AI ambient imagery in the city.
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🤔 How would you fare with trying to sort photos from synthetic #AI images? Here's your opportunity to try it out. I had fun working with Michael Lucy and Matt Garrow on this interactive for @aunz.theconversation.com.
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Can you tell the difference between real and fake news photos? Take the quiz to find out
As the tide of AI ‘slop’ rises, it’s more important than ever to hone your reality-checking skills.
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April 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM
🤔 How would you fare with trying to sort photos from synthetic #AI images? Here's your opportunity to try it out. I had fun working with Michael Lucy and Matt Garrow on this interactive for @aunz.theconversation.com.
theconversation.com/can-you-tell...
@admscentre.org.au @ntsnetwork.bsky.social
theconversation.com/can-you-tell...
@admscentre.org.au @ntsnetwork.bsky.social
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If you want to know more about the AI side of style transfer and how it aligns with capitalist extraction in the creative industry, take a look at our #chi2025 paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
March 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
If you want to know more about the AI side of style transfer and how it aligns with capitalist extraction in the creative industry, take a look at our #chi2025 paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
Here is the first article that was came out of the Generic Visuals in the News project in 2022, in the International Journal of Cultural Studies' special issue "COVID-19: The Cultural Constructions of a Global Crisis" (Paul Frosh and Myria Georgiou, Eds.). 1/
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
‘Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration - Giorgia Aiello, Helen Kennedy, C.W. Anderson, Camilla Mørk Røstvik, 2022
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, images of the virus molecule and ‘flatten-the-curve’ line charts were inescapable. There is now a vast visual repert...
journals.sagepub.com
March 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Here is the first article that was came out of the Generic Visuals in the News project in 2022, in the International Journal of Cultural Studies' special issue "COVID-19: The Cultural Constructions of a Global Crisis" (Paul Frosh and Myria Georgiou, Eds.). 1/
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Free University Brussels is opening 12 postdoc fellowships focusing specifically on attracting censored American researchers www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1490...
Brussels university VUB opens doors to 'censored' American researchers
"US universities and their scholars are the biggest victims of this political and ideological interference. They are seeing millions in research funding disappear for ideological reasons."
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March 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Free University Brussels is opening 12 postdoc fellowships focusing specifically on attracting censored American researchers www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1490...
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join us for a talk on "visual methods for digital research" with Sabine Niederer & @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social on Thursday 27th March, 5-7pm 🖼️✂️✨
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/visua... @politybooks.bsky.social
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/visua... @politybooks.bsky.social
Visual Methods for Digital Research: An Introduction
Visual Methods for Digital Research is the first textbook to bring the fields of visual methods and digital research together.
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March 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
join us for a talk on "visual methods for digital research" with Sabine Niederer & @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social on Thursday 27th March, 5-7pm 🖼️✂️✨
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/visua... @politybooks.bsky.social
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/visua... @politybooks.bsky.social
‘Traditional’ stock photography is still alive and well in the pursuit of generic urban ambience, but I have to say that its subjects seem to smile even harder than just a few years ago.
March 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
‘Traditional’ stock photography is still alive and well in the pursuit of generic urban ambience, but I have to say that its subjects seem to smile even harder than just a few years ago.
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Cracking the Magafacists code
March 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Cracking the Magafacists code
In 2023 I wrote this OA article for the relaunch of the fab @jvpcjournal.bsky.social, where I outlined ways to move beyond research on disinformation and effects to foreground the cultural and historical underpinnings of political visual meaning-making. 1/ intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
Visual communication has always been political | Intellect
This article is an invitation to engage with the small ‘p’ politics of visual political communication by highlighting the importance of both culture and history, in order to gain greater understanding...
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March 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
In 2023 I wrote this OA article for the relaunch of the fab @jvpcjournal.bsky.social, where I outlined ways to move beyond research on disinformation and effects to foreground the cultural and historical underpinnings of political visual meaning-making. 1/ intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
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In this #onlinefirst article, Helen Kennedy, @giorgiaaiello.bsky.social, @taylorannabell.bsky.social and C W Anderson argue that generic visuals in the news do, in fact, function as public images, connecting and engaging audiences in public life.
Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1367...
Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1367...
March 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
In this #onlinefirst article, Helen Kennedy, @giorgiaaiello.bsky.social, @taylorannabell.bsky.social and C W Anderson argue that generic visuals in the news do, in fact, function as public images, connecting and engaging audiences in public life.
Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1367...
Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1367...
A great way to end my second to last week of teaching for this academic year: a hands-on workshop on visual generative AI with the fab @giuliagiorgi26.bsky.social and Ilir Rama, where Visual Communication students used a variety of prompts to ‘generate generations’ through DALL-E on Bing.
March 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A great way to end my second to last week of teaching for this academic year: a hands-on workshop on visual generative AI with the fab @giuliagiorgi26.bsky.social and Ilir Rama, where Visual Communication students used a variety of prompts to ‘generate generations’ through DALL-E on Bing.
Many thanks to @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social for his brilliant lecture on prompt design for visual digital research as part of my Visual Communication seminar series at University of Milan today.
March 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Many thanks to @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social for his brilliant lecture on prompt design for visual digital research as part of my Visual Communication seminar series at University of Milan today.