Gabriele Colombo
Biographic Data
| ID | 277327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriele Colombo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriele |
| FAMILY NAME | Colombo |
| SIGNATURE | COLOMBO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Politecnico di Milano |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0845-1757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring perceptions of Italian urban wildlife on TikTok
In Western cities, some animals are valued for their beauty, rarity or usefulness, while others are dismissed as unwelcome. This distinction reflects the cultural meanings attached to each species and frequently conflicts with ecological priorities. Understanding how urban animals are perceived is essential to link public attitudes with biodiversity conservation efforts. This study examined how Italian TikTok users perceive urban animals by analy…
From prompt engineering to prompt design
This demo introduces prompt design as a research approach to studying visual generative AI, distinguishing it from prompt engineering practices that focus on producing aesthetically pleasing or technically polished outputs. Drawing on the query design framework from digital methods, we outline several strategies for cultural and social research: ambiguous prompting for bias research; comparative prompting for cross-model and cross-term analysis; …
From salad bar feminism to denotative portraiture
This article investigates how three major generative AI systems—DALL·E 3, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion—visualize feminism through 2,400 images, using both quantitative and qualitative content analysis. We identify three overarching representational strategies: salad bar feminism in DALL·E 3, which combines diverse feminist icons and motifs, notably into pop-style collages; painterly touches of feminism in Midjourney, favouring aesthetic coher…
Un-indexing forest media
Geographical research is increasingly focused on how digital technology shapes human-nature relations. This article explores how internet search engines and their associated algorithms and indexing technologies order and produce homogenising accounts of forest places. We put forward ‘un-indexing’ as a critical and inventive method for un-ordering and re-ordering search engine results to complicate digital perspectives on forest-society relations.…
Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter
How was testing-and not testing-for coronavirus articulated as a testing situation on social media in the Spring of 2020? Our study examines everyday situations of Covid-19 testing by analyzing a large corpus of Twitter data collected during the first 2 months of the pandemic. Adopting a sociological definition of testing situations, as moments in which it is no longer possible to go on in the usual way, we show how social media analysis can be u…
Staging and storing data sprint-based research results
Data sprints are multidisciplinary, time-limited, practice-oriented, and group activities that explore complex issues through data gathering, visualization, and analysis. Data sprints usually conclude with final presentations where participants showcase the research process they followed and the achieved results. Although this activity is now widespread in some research centers, there does not appear to be a data-sprint tailored dissemination for…
Visual Geolocations. Repurposing online data to design alternative views
Data produced by humans and machines is more and more heterogeneous, visual, and location based. This availability inspired in the last years a number of reactions from researchers, designers, and artists that, using different visual manipulations techniques, have attempted at repurposing this material to add meaning and design new perspectives with specific intentions. Three different approaches are described here: the design of interfaces for e…
Visual Geolocations. Repurposing online data to design alternative views
Data produced by humans and machines is more and more heterogeneous, visual, and location based. This availability inspired in the last years a number of reactions from researchers, designers, and artists that, using different visual manipulations techniques, have attempted at repurposing this material to add meaning and design new perspectives with specific intentions. Three different approaches are described here: the design of interfaces for e…
Un-indexing forest media
Geographical research is increasingly focused on how digital technology shapes human-nature relations. This article explores how internet search engines and their associated algorithms and indexing technologies order and produce homogenising accounts of forest places. We put forward ‘un-indexing’ as a critical and inventive method for un-ordering and re-ordering search engine results to complicate digital perspectives on forest-society relations.…
Visual Geolocations. Repurposing online data to design alternative views
Data produced by humans and machines is more and more heterogeneous, visual, and location based. This availability inspired in the last years a number of reactions from researchers, designers, and artists that, using different visual manipulations techniques, have attempted at repurposing this material to add meaning and design new perspectives with specific intentions. Three different approaches are described here: the design of interfaces for e…
Staging and storing data sprint-based research results
Data sprints are multidisciplinary, time-limited, practice-oriented, and group activities that explore complex issues through data gathering, visualization, and analysis. Data sprints usually conclude with final presentations where participants showcase the research process they followed and the achieved results. Although this activity is now widespread in some research centers, there does not appear to be a data-sprint tailored dissemination for…
Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter
How was testing-and not testing-for coronavirus articulated as a testing situation on social media in the Spring of 2020? Our study examines everyday situations of Covid-19 testing by analyzing a large corpus of Twitter data collected during the first 2 months of the pandemic. Adopting a sociological definition of testing situations, as moments in which it is no longer possible to go on in the usual way, we show how social media analysis can be u…
Un-indexing forest media
Geographical research is increasingly focused on how digital technology shapes human-nature relations. This article explores how internet search engines and their associated algorithms and indexing technologies order and produce homogenising accounts of forest places. We put forward ‘un-indexing’ as a critical and inventive method for un-ordering and re-ordering search engine results to complicate digital perspectives on forest-society relations.…
From salad bar feminism to denotative portraiture
This article investigates how three major generative AI systems—DALL·E 3, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion—visualize feminism through 2,400 images, using both quantitative and qualitative content analysis. We identify three overarching representational strategies: salad bar feminism in DALL·E 3, which combines diverse feminist icons and motifs, notably into pop-style collages; painterly touches of feminism in Midjourney, favouring aesthetic coher…
Exploring perceptions of Italian urban wildlife on TikTok
In Western cities, some animals are valued for their beauty, rarity or usefulness, while others are dismissed as unwelcome. This distinction reflects the cultural meanings attached to each species and frequently conflicts with ecological priorities. Understanding how urban animals are perceived is essential to link public attitudes with biodiversity conservation efforts. This study examined how Italian TikTok users perceive urban animals by analy…
From prompt engineering to prompt design
This demo introduces prompt design as a research approach to studying visual generative AI, distinguishing it from prompt engineering practices that focus on producing aesthetically pleasing or technically polished outputs. Drawing on the query design framework from digital methods, we outline several strategies for cultural and social research: ambiguous prompting for bias research; comparative prompting for cross-model and cross-term analysis; …
Computer Science (4 works) · World Wide Web (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods (2 works) · Data science (2 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (2 works) · Generative grammar (2 works) · Mediation (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Repurposing (2 works)