This paper is timely in relation to debates about AI images. With the increasing uptake of synthetic visuals across factual and fictional media, it is important to know more about how audiences engage with generic visuals: not so much w/r/t their indexicality but through an (inter)personal lens. 8/ - ThreadSky

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This paper is timely in relation to debates about AI images. With the increasing uptake of synthetic visuals across factual and fictional media, it is important to know more about how audiences engage with generic visuals: not so much w/r/t their indexicality but through an (inter)personal lens. 8/

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giorgiaaiello.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Generic Visuals in the News project was first conceived in 2017, was funded by a UK AHRC grant from 2020 to 2023, and this part of our research took a long time from the data collection to the final revision stage. This project was prescient vis-a-vis the 'publicness' of visual generative AI. 9/

giorgiaaiello.bsky.social•6 days ago

Here is a link to the first project idea and data sprint that led to the development of this project: https://www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/TakingStock 10/

giorgiaaiello.bsky.social•6 days ago

And here's another open-access journal article related to the visual analysis strand of the Generic Visuals in the News project: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779211061415 11/

giorgiaaiello.bsky.social•6 days ago

Last but not least, we had a great international advisory group, including, among others who are not on BlueSky, @merbroussard.bsky.social, @karinwahlj.bsky.social, @profgillian.bsky.social, @theboysmithy.ft.com, @jwyg.bsky.social, @clairemiller.bsky.social, @fullfact.org. Thanks to all! 12/

jwyg.bsky.social•6 days ago

big congrats! 🎊 look forward to reading this 😌

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