Lab: advanced digital methods

The laboratory will introduce the theoretical and practical skills for auditing and analysing social media algorithms and generative artificial intelligence outputs. The focus will be on the socio-cultural biases embedded within algorithmic systems recommending content on the one hand, and on the other, on content created by generative AI models and chatbots

At the end of the laboratory students will be able to:
- conduct a comparative analysis of a recommender algorithm or generative AI output
- identify the limits and strengths of a variety of qualitative and computational approaches for doing so