12 papers
High-Risk Memories? Comparative audit of the representation of Second World War atrocities in Ukraine by generative AI applications
Mykola Makhortykh, Victoria Vziatysheva, Maryna Sydorova
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) models poses new possibilities and risks for how the past is remembered by accelerating content production and altering the p…
Analyzing Far-Right Telegram Channels as Constituents of Information Autocracy in Russia
Polina Smirnova, Mykola Makhortykh
This study examines how Russian far-right communities on Telegram shape perceptions of political figures through memes and visual narratives. Far from passive spectators, these act…
Generic visuality of war? How image-generative AI models (mis)represent Russia's war against Ukraine
Mykola Makhortykh, MiglÄ BareikytÄ
The rise of generative AI (genAI) can transform the representation of different aspects of social reality, including modern wars. While scholarship has largely focused on the milit…
Invisible in Search? Auditing Aesthetic Bias in the Visual Representation of Holocaust Victims on Google
Mykola Makhortykh, Tobias Rohrbach, Maryna Sydorova
Information retrieval systems, such as search engines, increasingly shape the representation of the past and present states of social reality. Despite their importance, these syste…
Incorporation of journalistic approaches into algorithm design
Mariella Bastian, Damian Trilling, Mykola Makhortykh
The growing adoption of algorithm-powered tools in journalism enables new possibilities and raises many concerns. One way of addressing these concerns is by integrating journalisti…
Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Mykola Makhortykh, Aytalina Kulichkina, Kateryna Maikovska
This study examines elite-driven political communication on Telegram during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, the first large-scale European war in the social media era. Using a uni…