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giorgiaaiello.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Milan. Visual cultures, digital media, cities.
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Today @abri1s.bsky.social gave a brilliant guest lecture in my MA course on Visual Communication at University of Milan, where she spoke about her insightful research on AI images of the Israel-Palestine war. A meaningful way to end yet another teaching week.

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Finally online: My essay on #PlatformRealism for #Transbordeur. There couldn't be a more appropriate day to publish it, even though when I wrote it last year I couldn't have imagined the extent to which the aesthetics of AI slop would become the basis of a new #MemeFascism

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ICYMI

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**Hot off the press** A new open-access article from the Generic Visuals in the News project on news audiences' engagements with stock photos and simple data visualizations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/

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I really enjoyed this conversation about AI-generated imagery and more - very many thanks to @melhogan.bsky.social and @bildoperationen.bsky.social.

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These guys love AI slop because it perfectly encapsulates their contempt for all that is true and meaningful, their narcissistic need for control, and their utter lack of imagination

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Here's some more ambient AI imagery, this time not in physical urban space, but in the digital spaces of banal, everyday online consumption.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

A great (so to speak) example of AI-generated urban ambient imagery. Thanks @bildoperationen.bsky.social!

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Racist Technology in Action: Grok’s total lack of safeguards against generating racist content racismandtechnology.center/2025/02/10/r...

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Well, it’s here. AI images (or AI slop?) as urban ambient imagery. Pictured here, an ad for the Italian national lottery.

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It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right argues @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

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Milano

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Another thing: if you have serious disagreement with an analysis that also addresses issues that you are concerned with, choose the long form, write substantially, avoid snide social media remarks

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Read to Respond: Trans Rights/Trans Studies - a reading list addressing trans rights and politics on a global scale. View the full list of books, journals, and articles on our blog: https://buff.ly/4aIkfuW All articles are free to read through 6/30/2025!

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Today, in my Visual Communication class, I covered the research on trans self-representation that @katyjparry.bsky.social and I included in our book five years ago. Then, the issue of trans visibility was timely from a social/cultural standpoint but also vital on a political level. And so it is now.

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I’m in Oslo this week — info for my talk on Friday: www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/englis...

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Michel Pastoureau is one of my favorite scholars of the visual ever, so much so that Theo Van Leeuwen and I have even written a journal article about him. Still going strong, now with a new book on the cultural history of the color pink.

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If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...

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I've been invited to join the editorial board of the top journal Critical Studies in Media Communication. My tenure will begin in 2026, but I may very well start reviewing submissions in my areas of expertise this year. shorturl.at/tASVh

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TIL about the mathematics of animating Black hair: www.allure.com/story/first-...

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There appears to be a Korean... fashion brand(?) called "Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies" and I don't know what's going on any more.

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