We’d find journalistic and commercial sites used as the main evidence for how ChatGPT-4o integrates web search. And we’d only get critical, robust answers if we prompt at that level—otherwise, a generic, flat response is what awaits us.

✨ What if LLMs Are Our New (Re)search Engines?
We’d see conflicting responses and shifting discourse traits from time to time. We’d get source references that are mostly US-based and commercial.
Project poster: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Report: www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSc...

"Synthetic data performs well, but it remains without a ground truth"; one of the takeaways of Richard Rogers' talk on LLM Analysis (or LLMs for digital methods research) at the #dmi25.

Oscar Javier Maldonado Castañeda and an outstanding team organised the event: Jaime Eduardo Cuellar Cuellar, Isabella Jaimes Rodríguez Victor Manuel Hernández, Sergio Daniel Sánchez Pulido and Alicia Duque Abarca. (sicss.io/2025/bogota/...).

It was a privilege to Unpack Digital Methods 👩🏻‍💻✨❣️(www.researchgate.net/publication/...) and deliver a master class on Mapping Visual Methods: The Practice of Network Vision Methods at the Summer Institute in Computational Social Sciences in Colombia, known as #SICSSBogotá2025 sicss.io/2025/bogota/

🎭 How is bias reproduced in text-to-image generative AI models? Join Dr. Stephanie Diepeveen for a public talk on Power, Representation & GenAI.

📅 26 February | 5PM
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Follow-up 🇧🇷 Digital Methods in Brazil roundtable, here you can find the presentations and the video recording of the session:

Presentation slides
github.com/jannajoceli/...

Video
youtu.be/weX5GwUewEs

🇧🇷 What is the current state of #digital methods for Internet research in #Brazil?
Join us in person or online ✨👩🏻‍💻❣️ to celebrate emerging research practices in Brazil and kick off a Global South network! www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...