#visualculture — Public Fediverse posts

Better Images of AI challenges the dominant visual clichés of artificial intelligence.
Instead of shiny humanoid robots and sci-fi tropes, the project calls for images that reflect how AI actually works: statistical, situated, human-made, and socially embedded.
#AIImagery #DigitalCulture #AIethics #VisualCulture #CriticalAI
https://betterimagesofai.org/

Nadia Piet & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

👀 Contemporary networked image cultures are inseparable from platform capitalism.

The international conference «React & Respond» (Zurich, 2–4 Oct 2025) explores the aesthetics, politics, and labour of platform capitalism with scholars and artists across disciplines.

Program: https://arthist.net/archive/50541
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#PlatformCapitalism #DigitalCulture #AlgorithmicInfrastructures #MediaStudies #VisualCulture #DigitalArt #CriticalAI @bildoperationen

📕 Online Museum Collections and Social Media by Katharina Geis (transcript, August 2025)
How do people engage with digitized museum images on Instagram, TikTok, or Pinterest?
Based on 90 interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, the study explores digital image curation as a mode of knowing—about, with, and through artefacts.

More info: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5914-6/online-museum-collections-and-social-media/

#MuseumStudies #DigitalMuseums #ImageCuration #DigitalHumanities #SocialMedia #MuseumsOnline #VisualCulture #Ethnography

How can collections of social media images be visually organised for interpretation according to their different features?

New #openaccess paper from @gabrielecolombo @lbngr
@jwyg on “Visual Models for Social Media Image Analysis: Groupings, Engagement, Trends, and Rankings” in International Journal of Communication (IJOC):
https://kingsdh.net/2023/03/03/visual-models-social-media-images/

#digitalmethods #visualmethods #visualculture #images #commodon #mediastudies #socialmedia #internetstudies