Sal Hagen
@hetsalwel.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher @ UvA | @d-eepculture.bsky.social | @digitalmethods.net | @oilab.bsky.social
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louravn.bsky.social
Super fun to contribute to this brief interview with Terminally Online, a student-led organization on New Media at the University of Amsterdam.

We spoke about my wonderful team‘s research (@d-eepculture.bsky.social), who inspires me, and some of my own work.

🔗: www.linkedin.com/pulse/interv...
Interview with Louis Ravn
Louis Ravn is a PhD Candidate on Deep Culture at the University of Amsterdam, working in the fields of science and technology studies and critical data/AI studies. Moreover, he is assistant editor for...
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jaapkooijman.bsky.social
Dit is de omgekeerde wereld. De academische vrijheid wordt bedreigd doordat onze onderzoekers die zich uitspreken in het publieke debat over “omstreden” onderwerpen als snel het doelwit worden van online bedreigingen, met name uit extreemrechtse hoek.
'Nederlandse universiteiten schuwen debat met andersdenkenden'
Is er op Nederlandse universiteiten nog wel ruimte voor een open debat? "Radicale vrijheid van meningsuiting bestaat in Nederland niet."
nos.nl
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dluitse.bsky.social
🚨The Critical AI Seminar Series returns in 2025/2026 ✨

This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social

Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...
Critical AI seminar series 

Register via https://bit.ly/uvacriticalai2526

Program and Invited Speakers: 

Upcoming seminars  

November 12, 5-6:30 PM (CEST): Invited talk by Louise Amoore and Alexander Campolo, ‘On reading machine learning‘

January 13, 5:30-7 PM (CEST): Invited talk by Fabian Offert on 
‘Vector Media‘

March 18, 3-4:30 (CEST): Invited talk by Helene Ratner and Nanna Thylstrup on ‘Ecologies of evaluation’

May 20, 12-1:30 PM (CEST): Invited talk by Thao Phan on ‘Testing-in-the-wild’
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ddzeeuw.bsky.social
Together with Marc Tuters and @robtoes.bsky.social I wrote an essay on the Charlie Kirk assassination, the Groypers - Nick Fuentes connection and the state of memetic political violence today oilab.eu/frozen-antag...
Frozen Antagonisms: Charlie Kirk, Groypers, and the Meme Politics of Violence – OILab
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hetsalwel.bsky.social
The last few weeks I worked 4CAT's LLM features. We're not free from Silicon Valley APIs yet, but you have more options in terms of providers (including Mistral) and it's also possible to use local LLMs through LM Studio and Ollama.

Check it out:
4cat.nl
4CAT @4cat.nl · Jul 18
🧠 New: 'LLM Prompter' processor
A much more robust and flexible way to analyse datasets with LLMs
• More APIs: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Mistral
• Support for LM Studio and Ollama to use local (and free) LLMs
• Batching of input values to increase speed and reduce cost
• Structured outputs
hetsalwel.bsky.social
This was also one of the more interesting methodologies I've worked on. We sourced ~3000 questions from 4chan and leftychan, rephrased them through LLMs, queried them on Google and Bing, and scraped the SERP contents through Selenium, 4CAT, and Zoekplaatje.

Code: github.com/sal-uva/radi...
hetsalwel.bsky.social
Google relies heavily on Reddit, showing up in 75% of SERPs(!). Controversial topics that are not enriched are thus often "relayed" to the amateur interpretations of Redditors (see below).

We call for continued SERP audits to interrogate the volatility of enrichment amidst changing political tides.
hetsalwel.bsky.social
We find that controversial searches get less components. Some keywords were even blacklisted from enrichment altogether, including "trump" and "biden".

This suggests Google and Bing tend avoid burning their fingers on certain political topics, raising concerns on the reliability of these systems.
hetsalwel.bsky.social
🔎New paper! Guillén Torres and I study "enrichment" on Google and Bing as a form of content moderation.

Main finding: enrichment can be erratic, with components like "AI Overviews" even being banned for certain political queries like those including "trump".

Pre-print: ssrn.com/abstract=528...
hetsalwel.bsky.social
We find that controversial searches get less components. Some keywords were even blacklisted from enrichment altogether, including "trump" and "biden".

This suggests Google and Bing tend avoid burning their fingers on certain political topics, raising concerns on the reliability of these systems.
Components added to Google and Bing for controversial and non-controverisal queries Components added to Google and Bing by controversiality and toxicity Components added to Google and Bing by different categories
hetsalwel.bsky.social
Op nos.nl ging de laatste vijftien jaar even vaak over klimaatverandering als over Erik ten Hag.

(2853 vs. 2766 artikelen/updates)

@xrnl.bsky.social @nieuws.nos.nl
nos.nl artikelen met verwijzingen naar klimaatverandering en Ten Hag
hetsalwel.bsky.social
Tired of looking at Excel rows when investigating social media data? 4CAT's new Explorer feature is here to help!
4cat.nl
4CAT @4cat.nl · Jun 4
🔎The Explorer lets you examine datasets in a rich environment where social media posts are "reassembled" to look like their original appearance.

You can sort data, make manual annotations like field notes, or let (LLM-)processors add categories and notes.

How to use: github.com/digitalmetho...
4CAT Explorer
hetsalwel.bsky.social
yes een nieuwe kans voor Schier
hetsalwel.bsky.social
Nog steeds aan het bijkomen van de race tussen Schier en Vlieland
hetsalwel.bsky.social
Juist het minst door AD en de Telegraaf! De grafiek is 'stacked' dus hun aandeel is het minst tov NRC en de Volkskrant. Maar andere manieren van meten zouden interessant zijn inderdaad (bv. om te corrigeren voor lengte van artikelen of te kijken hoe centraal het thema is).
hetsalwel.bsky.social
Nee, omdat je geen volledig archief tot je beschikking hebt. Maar wat wel mogelijk is is om andere trefwoorden pakken en het daarmee vergelijken (bv. "ajax").
hetsalwel.bsky.social
tijd om NRC te shorten
hetsalwel.bsky.social
Na ons artikel uit 2021 over klimaatverslaggeving (www.groene.nl/artikel/we-h...) was het tijd voor een data-update.

Gelukkig is meer aandacht voor de klimaatcrisis in de vier grootste kranten. Maar er is nog steeds een golfbeweging gaande en aandacht is de laatste maanden weer afgenomen.
Krantenartikelen per maand met verwijzingen naar klimaatverandering
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ondermediadoctoren.bsky.social
Waarom gaan extreem-rechts en memecultuur zo goed samen? In deze nieuwe aflevering verwonderen ons met @hetsalwel.bsky.social over 4chan ondermediadoctoren.nl/afl-202-4chan/
Afl 202: 4chan | Onder Mediadoctoren
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hetsalwel.bsky.social
New search engine scraper tool by @best.wel.moe and @digitalmethods.net!

I added the feature to collect widgets from Google and Bing (it was a lot of work, please use it 😂).

Feedback welcome.
digitalmethods.net
🔍Introducing Zoekplaatje: a Firefox extension that scrapes search engine data 🔍

Currently supported: Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Baidu, Marginalia, Najdi & Seznam.

It also collects ✨widget data✨ from Google and Bing, like 'People also ask' and AI summaries!

👉 github.com/digitalmetho...
Zoekplaatje