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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">Join us in Siegen for the collaborative event "Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">When & Where?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">22-25 September 2026, CRC Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">About the Event<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">Social media platforms are increasingly shaped by the integration of generative AI alongside
long-standing analytical and predictive models. Today's algorithmic systems are moving from the background infrastructure to the forefront of digital social life ¡V where autonomous AI agents operate in coexistence with (or independently of) human users. They
intervene in the content feeds as conversational agents like xAI's Grok, reshape identity play through synthetic likenesses of OpenAI's Sora-2, and expand the social ecosystem itself through experimental projects like Butterflies AI and Moltbook. As these
developments rapidly outpace existing research frameworks, the need for mixed critical methodologies to explore the nested integration of GenAI into platforms grows more urgent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">The 2026 Autumn School edition of the CRC ¡§Media of Cooperation¡¨ explores these developments
by focusing on generative AI as an infrastructural, cultural, and regulated component of social media platforms across three intersecting dimensions: At the cultural level of everyday use, it refers to the routinized practices of prompting or interacting with
platform-embedded generative systems through multimodal inputs. Infrastructurally, it signals a shift in agency, as platforms keep multiplying affordances that nudge us into co-producing synthetic outputs. Finally, it foregrounds research techniques for probing
AI models in their entanglements with the platform governance and moderation regimes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">Call for Contributions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">Please submit a proposal (max. 500 words) outlining how your work engages with the event¡¦s
main theme, inspired by, though not limited to, one of the following "how to" prompts:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">¡´ How to account for the ambiguities emerging from human-machine co-creation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">¡´ How to rethink walkthrough methods in light of platforms¡¦ generative affordances<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">¡´ How to study AI moderation as platform policy in action<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">¡´ How to approach cultural biases conditioned by AI systems and prompt cultures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">¡´ How to explore platform agency and its steering ideologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">¡´ How to integrate screenshots as a method for capturing synthetic situations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">¡´ How to repurpose AI personas as research personas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">¡´ How to develop non-extractive approaches to researching AI platforms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">Submission Deadline: 30. April 2026. <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Accepted proposals will
be grouped into thematic sessions and discussed in a collaborative, dialogue-focused format.
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Presentations (max. 15 mins) should raise questions or provocations rather than present finished research. </span>We encourage especially Early Career Researchers to apply. For full details, including the submission link, please visit our website:</span><br>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">The event opens with a one-day conference and moves into hands-on workshops and project work.
Accepted abstracts will be grouped into thematic sessions curated by the organising team. Presenters will be connected via email ahead of time to coordinate their contributions. The first day is about presentations and discussions. The next three days are
dedicated to exploring and developing methods - hands-on! We invite you to join a team of interdisciplinary scholars and data designers in probing new methodological combinations. Each of our project teams will present a research question alongside a specific
method to be collaboratively explored. The event is free of charge, though attendees are responsible for arranging and covering their travel and accommodation in Siegen. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.3333px; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><br>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-">Feel free to get in touch:</span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-">elena.pilipets@uni-siegen.de</span><br>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-">We look </span><span class="highlight"><span style="background-image: initial; background-"><span name="searchHitInReadingPane" id="0.3968299166520708">for</span></span></span><span style="background-image: initial; background-">ward
to your contributions!</span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-">Elena<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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