Davide Beraldo
Biographic Data
| ID | 296695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davide Beraldo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davide |
| FAMILY NAME | Beraldo |
| SIGNATURE | BERALDO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8501-596X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Public Attention Towards Sustainability in the EU: An Exploration of Google Trends Data
This research explores public attention towards sustainability in the European Union (EU) using Google Trends data. By leveraging Google’s Trends API, the study assesses the evolution and composition of public interest in sustainability across EU member states. Sustainability is a multi-dimensional concept and its definition has evolved over time to encompass several environmental, social and economic factors. Public attention to sustainability h…
Mapping Platform-Mediated Proximities With the TikTok Global Observatory
Considering TikTok’s increasing geopolitical influence, this article presents the TikTok Global Observatory (TKGO) as a case of data-reappropriation and introduces the concept of platform-mediated proximity as a counter-data mapping framework for data activist research. While TikTok enables global connection beyond local and cultural boundaries, its content is sensitive to locally specific conditions to which the platform provides no public insig…
Accounting for Personalization in Personalization Algorithms: YouTube’s Treatment of Conspiracy Content
This article investigates under which video watch conditions YouTube’s recommender system tends to develop a preference for conspiracy-classified videos. Whereas existing research on so-called filter bubbles and rabbit holes tends to rely on non-personalized recommendations and on standard watch patterns, this study puts personalization and diversified user strategies at the center of its design. 20 authenticated bots have been instructed to watc…
Data in movement: The Social Movement Society in the Age of Datafication
Data has increased currency in contemporary activism and has become an integral part of the action repertoire of today’s social movements. But data and data infrastructure are not only tools to support a movement’s struggle: they are constitutive parts of the environment in which movements operate, and objects of contention in their own right. These developments challenge scholars of social movements and collective action. How are movements chang…
The Impact of Tiktok Policies on Information Flows During Times of War: Evidence of ‘Splinternet’ and ‘Shadow-Promotion’ in Russia
This research discusses how TikTok’s adaptation to Russian war censorship laws after the invasion of Ukraine affected content accessibility and prioritization on the platform. The study uses a combination of scraping and sock-puppet algorithmic audits to understand the impact of platform policy on information flows during times of war. The first test found that TikTok restricted access to non-Russian content in Russia, resulting in a 95% reductio…
The World According to Tiktok: An Observatory on Cross-National Content Prioritization and Platform-Mediated Proximities
The present paper showcases a research tool that makes data for a global, cross-national analysis of TikTok available to and navigable by the research community. Next to justifying the necessity for this approach and providing an overview of to the tool, the paper illustrates its potential by presenting the analysis of a dataset comprised of daily snapshots of TikTok’s homepage collected over 4 months from 197 countries and territories in the wor…
Movements as multiplicities and contentious branding: Lessons from the digital exploration of #Occupy and #Anonymous
This conceptual paper wishes to contribute to the debate on digitally mediated movements by developing the perspective of ‘contentious branding’. The empirical research has followed the #Occupy and #Anonymous hashtags around popular social media, reconstructing their highly heterogeneous adoption. A branding perspective on contentious politics is aimed at highlighting the diverse and sometimes contradictory appropriations of the ‘semiotic reperto…
Unfolding #Anonymous on Twitter: The networks behind the mask
This paper presents a comprehensive empirical investigation of the range of actors, issues and sub-groups related to the hashtag Anonymous on Twitter between 2012 and 2015. Complementing existing studies that have provided in-depth accounts of Anonymous from a specific point of view, this research provides an overview of the network related to the discursive construction of Anonymous on Twitter from a synoptic standpoint. In particular, the analy…
Dividing by Zero. Tautology and Paradox in the Self-Descriptions of Anonymous
This paper engages with the loosely bounded, ill-defined Anonymous movement, in order to develop a theoretical reflection on the process of self-reference within contemporary collectives. It is grounded on a socio-cybernetic framework and builds on a computationallly-assisted interpretative analysis of a huge dataset of Facebook posts related to Anonymous' self-descriptions. As selected examples show, Anonymous results inherently contradictory. I…
Anonymous
Anonymous identifies an amorphous entity that has been active on the Internet and beyond from 2003 onward. It is a collective label, and a related set of symbols, adopted by several groups and individuals for a variety of goals, ranging from pranking to political activism. Three phases in the evolution of Anonymous can be identified, from prank‐oriented activities to explicitly political ones. Its tactics embrace a combination of disruptive actio…
From data politics to the contentious politics of data
This article approaches the paradigm shift of datafication from the perspective of civil society. Looking at how individuals and groups engage with datafication, it complements the notion of "data politics" by exploring what we call the "contentious politics of data". By contentious politics of data we indicate the bottom-up, transformative initiatives interfering with and/or hijacking dominant processes of datafication, contesting existing power…
Reputation and trust on online labour markets: The reputation economy of Elance
This article examines profile data about 9,593 freelancers from 121 countries active in the Design and Multimedia section of Elance, a major online labour market existing up until 2015. Using statistical analysis, the article evidences that the earnings a contractor obtains from working through Elance positively correlates with higher reputation scores and suggests that the conception of trust among actors operating on an online labour market res…
Follow the algorithm: An exploratory investigation of music on YouTube
This article presents an exploratory study of the network of associations among 22,141 YouTube music videos retrieved by ‘following’ the platform's recommender algorithm, which automatically suggests a list of ‘related videos’ to the user in response to the video currently being viewed. As YouTube's recommendations are predominantly based on users’ aggregated practices of sequential viewing, this study aims to inductively reconstruct the resultin…
Follow the algorithm: An exploratory investigation of music on YouTube
This article presents an exploratory study of the network of associations among 22,141 YouTube music videos retrieved by ‘following’ the platform's recommender algorithm, which automatically suggests a list of ‘related videos’ to the user in response to the video currently being viewed. As YouTube's recommendations are predominantly based on users’ aggregated practices of sequential viewing, this study aims to inductively reconstruct the resultin…
From data politics to the contentious politics of data
This article approaches the paradigm shift of datafication from the perspective of civil society. Looking at how individuals and groups engage with datafication, it complements the notion of "data politics" by exploring what we call the "contentious politics of data". By contentious politics of data we indicate the bottom-up, transformative initiatives interfering with and/or hijacking dominant processes of datafication, contesting existing power…
Data in movement: The Social Movement Society in the Age of Datafication
Data has increased currency in contemporary activism and has become an integral part of the action repertoire of today’s social movements. But data and data infrastructure are not only tools to support a movement’s struggle: they are constitutive parts of the environment in which movements operate, and objects of contention in their own right. These developments challenge scholars of social movements and collective action. How are movements chang…
Dividing by Zero. Tautology and Paradox in the Self-Descriptions of Anonymous
This paper engages with the loosely bounded, ill-defined Anonymous movement, in order to develop a theoretical reflection on the process of self-reference within contemporary collectives. It is grounded on a socio-cybernetic framework and builds on a computationallly-assisted interpretative analysis of a huge dataset of Facebook posts related to Anonymous' self-descriptions. As selected examples show, Anonymous results inherently contradictory. I…
Reputation and trust on online labour markets: The reputation economy of Elance
This article examines profile data about 9,593 freelancers from 121 countries active in the Design and Multimedia section of Elance, a major online labour market existing up until 2015. Using statistical analysis, the article evidences that the earnings a contractor obtains from working through Elance positively correlates with higher reputation scores and suggests that the conception of trust among actors operating on an online labour market res…
Follow the algorithm: An exploratory investigation of music on YouTube
This article presents an exploratory study of the network of associations among 22,141 YouTube music videos retrieved by ‘following’ the platform's recommender algorithm, which automatically suggests a list of ‘related videos’ to the user in response to the video currently being viewed. As YouTube's recommendations are predominantly based on users’ aggregated practices of sequential viewing, this study aims to inductively reconstruct the resultin…
Anonymous
Anonymous identifies an amorphous entity that has been active on the Internet and beyond from 2003 onward. It is a collective label, and a related set of symbols, adopted by several groups and individuals for a variety of goals, ranging from pranking to political activism. Three phases in the evolution of Anonymous can be identified, from prank‐oriented activities to explicitly political ones. Its tactics embrace a combination of disruptive actio…
From data politics to the contentious politics of data
This article approaches the paradigm shift of datafication from the perspective of civil society. Looking at how individuals and groups engage with datafication, it complements the notion of "data politics" by exploring what we call the "contentious politics of data". By contentious politics of data we indicate the bottom-up, transformative initiatives interfering with and/or hijacking dominant processes of datafication, contesting existing power…
Dividing by Zero. Tautology and Paradox in the Self-Descriptions of Anonymous
This paper engages with the loosely bounded, ill-defined Anonymous movement, in order to develop a theoretical reflection on the process of self-reference within contemporary collectives. It is grounded on a socio-cybernetic framework and builds on a computationallly-assisted interpretative analysis of a huge dataset of Facebook posts related to Anonymous' self-descriptions. As selected examples show, Anonymous results inherently contradictory. I…
Movements as multiplicities and contentious branding: Lessons from the digital exploration of #Occupy and #Anonymous
This conceptual paper wishes to contribute to the debate on digitally mediated movements by developing the perspective of ‘contentious branding’. The empirical research has followed the #Occupy and #Anonymous hashtags around popular social media, reconstructing their highly heterogeneous adoption. A branding perspective on contentious politics is aimed at highlighting the diverse and sometimes contradictory appropriations of the ‘semiotic reperto…
Unfolding #Anonymous on Twitter: The networks behind the mask
This paper presents a comprehensive empirical investigation of the range of actors, issues and sub-groups related to the hashtag Anonymous on Twitter between 2012 and 2015. Complementing existing studies that have provided in-depth accounts of Anonymous from a specific point of view, this research provides an overview of the network related to the discursive construction of Anonymous on Twitter from a synoptic standpoint. In particular, the analy…
The Impact of Tiktok Policies on Information Flows During Times of War: Evidence of ‘Splinternet’ and ‘Shadow-Promotion’ in Russia
This research discusses how TikTok’s adaptation to Russian war censorship laws after the invasion of Ukraine affected content accessibility and prioritization on the platform. The study uses a combination of scraping and sock-puppet algorithmic audits to understand the impact of platform policy on information flows during times of war. The first test found that TikTok restricted access to non-Russian content in Russia, resulting in a 95% reductio…
The World According to Tiktok: An Observatory on Cross-National Content Prioritization and Platform-Mediated Proximities
The present paper showcases a research tool that makes data for a global, cross-national analysis of TikTok available to and navigable by the research community. Next to justifying the necessity for this approach and providing an overview of to the tool, the paper illustrates its potential by presenting the analysis of a dataset comprised of daily snapshots of TikTok’s homepage collected over 4 months from 197 countries and territories in the wor…
Data in movement: The Social Movement Society in the Age of Datafication
Data has increased currency in contemporary activism and has become an integral part of the action repertoire of today’s social movements. But data and data infrastructure are not only tools to support a movement’s struggle: they are constitutive parts of the environment in which movements operate, and objects of contention in their own right. These developments challenge scholars of social movements and collective action. How are movements chang…
Accounting for Personalization in Personalization Algorithms: YouTube’s Treatment of Conspiracy Content
This article investigates under which video watch conditions YouTube’s recommender system tends to develop a preference for conspiracy-classified videos. Whereas existing research on so-called filter bubbles and rabbit holes tends to rely on non-personalized recommendations and on standard watch patterns, this study puts personalization and diversified user strategies at the center of its design. 20 authenticated bots have been instructed to watc…
Public Attention Towards Sustainability in the EU: An Exploration of Google Trends Data
This research explores public attention towards sustainability in the European Union (EU) using Google Trends data. By leveraging Google’s Trends API, the study assesses the evolution and composition of public interest in sustainability across EU member states. Sustainability is a multi-dimensional concept and its definition has evolved over time to encompass several environmental, social and economic factors. Public attention to sustainability h…
Mapping Platform-Mediated Proximities With the TikTok Global Observatory
Considering TikTok’s increasing geopolitical influence, this article presents the TikTok Global Observatory (TKGO) as a case of data-reappropriation and introduces the concept of platform-mediated proximity as a counter-data mapping framework for data activist research. While TikTok enables global connection beyond local and cultural boundaries, its content is sensitive to locally specific conditions to which the platform provides no public insig…
Computer Science (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (3 works) · Internet privacy (3 works)