Aleksi Knuutila
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View article: Contested Meanings of Hate Speech and the Post-Truth Condition on Digital Platforms
Contested Meanings of Hate Speech and the Post-Truth Condition on Digital Platforms Open
In the everyday context, the term “hate speech” has become increasingly politicized and emotionally charged, yet these vernacular constructions of hate speech remain under-explored. Used as both a rhetorical weapon and an object of genuine…
View article: Correction to: The Spread of Anti-vaccination Memes on Facebook
Correction to: The Spread of Anti-vaccination Memes on Facebook Open
View article: Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models Open
Advancements in generative artificial intelligence have led to a rapid proliferation of machine learning models capable of synthesizing text, images, sounds, and other kinds of content. While the increasing realism of synthetic content sto…
View article: Challenging and Enhancing Legitimacy Through Humor: A Comparative Study of Candidates’ Use of Humor on Facebook before the 2019 and 2023 Finnish Parliamentary Elections
Challenging and Enhancing Legitimacy Through Humor: A Comparative Study of Candidates’ Use of Humor on Facebook before the 2019 and 2023 Finnish Parliamentary Elections Open
A prevalent aspect of contemporary digital campaigning is the use of humor to attract attention, elicit amusement, and mark group boundaries. This study investigates the humor in digital campaigns during two recent Finnish parliamentary el…
View article: The Spread of Anti-vaccination Memes on Facebook
The Spread of Anti-vaccination Memes on Facebook Open
False claims about vaccines can find large audiences online, leading to vaccine hesitancy. The most influential content on social media is often visual, but studies about misinformation largely focus on text instead of images. This study u…
View article: Generative models for visualising abstract social processes: Guiding streetview image synthesis of StyleGAN2 with indices of deprivation
Generative models for visualising abstract social processes: Guiding streetview image synthesis of StyleGAN2 with indices of deprivation Open
This paper presents a novel application of Generative Adverserial Networks (GANs) to study visual aspects of social processes. I train a a StyleGAN2-model on a custom dataset of 14,564 images of London, sourced from Google Streetview taken…
View article: Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models Open
The development of generative artificial intelligence sustains a proliferation of machine learning models capable of synthesizing text, images, sounds, and other kinds of content. While the increasing realism of synthetic content stokes fe…
View article: The political economy of digital profiteering: communication resource mobilization by anti-vaccination actors
The political economy of digital profiteering: communication resource mobilization by anti-vaccination actors Open
Contemporary communication requires both a supply of content and a digital information infrastructure. Modern campaigns of misinformation are especially dependent on that back-end infrastructure for tracking and targeting a sympathetic aud…
View article: Verkkoviha väkivaltana – vihapuhetutkijoiden näkökulmia
Verkkoviha väkivaltana – vihapuhetutkijoiden näkökulmia Open
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View article: Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram
Misinformation and professional news on largely unmoderated platforms: the case of telegram Open
To date, there is little research to measure the scale of misinformation and understand how it spreads on largely unmoderated platforms. Our analysis of 200,000 Telegram posts demonstrates that links to known sources of misleading informat…
View article: Who is afraid of fake news? Modeling risk perceptions of misinformation in 142 countries
Who is afraid of fake news? Modeling risk perceptions of misinformation in 142 countries Open
Using survey data from 154,195 respondents in 142 countries, we investigate internet user perceptions of the risks associated with being exposed to misinformation. We find that: 1) The majority of regular internet users globally (58.5%) wo…
View article: A dataset of Covid-related misinformation videos and their spread on social media
A dataset of Covid-related misinformation videos and their spread on social media Open
This dataset contains metadata about all Covid-related YouTube videos which circulated on public social media, but which YouTube eventually removed because they contained false information. It describes 8,122 videos that were shared betwee…
View article: A dataset of Covid-related misinformation videos and their spread on social media
A dataset of Covid-related misinformation videos and their spread on social media Open
This dataset contains metadata about all Covid-related YouTube videos which circulated on public social media, but which YouTube eventually removed because they contained false information. It describes 8,122 videos that were shared betwee…
View article: A Dataset of COVID-Related Misinformation Videos and their Spread on Social Media
A Dataset of COVID-Related Misinformation Videos and their Spread on Social Media Open
This dataset contains metadata about all COVID-related YouTube videos which circulated on public social media, but which YouTube eventually removed because they contained false information. It describes 8,122 videos that were shared betwee…
View article: Viraali vihaisuus ja tahmea nauru : tunteet ja algoritmit digitaalisessa vaalikampanjoinnissa
Viraali vihaisuus ja tahmea nauru : tunteet ja algoritmit digitaalisessa vaalikampanjoinnissa Open
View article: Vihapuhe : demokratian uhka, rangaistava teko vai melua tyhjästä?
Vihapuhe : demokratian uhka, rangaistava teko vai melua tyhjästä? Open
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