Ilir Rama
Biographic Data
| ID | 4448680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilir Rama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilir |
| FAMILY NAME | Rama |
| SIGNATURE | RAMA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6032-7000 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between AI fear and digital agency: Technological familiarity and risk perception of generative AI’s epistemic power
This study examines public perceptions of the risks associated with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), focusing on its potential ‘epistemic power’ – i.e., its capacity to redefine knowledge production – including its ability to blur the boundaries between real and fully synthetic content, thereby facilitating misinformation and potentially undermining democratic stability. We posit that social media use, GenAI familiarity, and the abilit…
The sociocultural roots of artificial conversations: The taste, class and habitus of generative AI chatbots
Research on AI has extensively considered biases related to gender and race. However, much less attention has been dedicated to another sociological tenet: that of class. Inspired by Bourdieu’s work on cultural stratification and distinction, this work sheds light on the sociocultural roots of artificial sociality, and on how these become manifest as ‘habitus’ within the outputs of generative AI models. We conducted 39 interviews with three AI ch…
The contingent macro: The ephemerality of memes as discursive devices
This paper investigates how internet memes are complex and stratified objects, going beyond the standardized definition of ‘image macro’ habitually employed by scholars. To this end, we take the 2019 Italian government crisis as a case study and analyze a dataset of related 1.269 memes using a combination of computational and qualitative methodologies. Our analysis shows the emergence, proliferation, and fading of popular templates, which remix i…
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 Complex Simplicity of Context. Affordances as Flows of Social Information
Affordances are central to consider how sociality and technology intertwine. However, while this entanglement propelled the popularity of the term, it also persistently connected the social and the technical. It is argued how considering affordances as eminently social opens up analytical possibilities to consider cultural, individual, and social contexts, and how these in turn can affect social action in digital environments. This means consider…
The platformization of gender and sexual identities: An algorithmic analysis of Pornhub
Online pornography, like other forms of cultural production, is increasingly subject to processes of platformization. While research has focused on the diffusion of online pornography and its broader implications, less attention has been paid to the algorithmic infrastructures through which platforms distribute and manage pornographic content, and how this might reiterate socially embedded views and perspectives. To fill this gap, we consider how…
The platformization of gender and sexual identities: An algorithmic analysis of Pornhub
Online pornography, like other forms of cultural production, is increasingly subject to processes of platformization. While research has focused on the diffusion of online pornography and its broader implications, less attention has been paid to the algorithmic infrastructures through which platforms distribute and manage pornographic content, and how this might reiterate socially embedded views and perspectives. To fill this gap, we consider how…
The contingent macro: The ephemerality of memes as discursive devices
This paper investigates how internet memes are complex and stratified objects, going beyond the standardized definition of ‘image macro’ habitually employed by scholars. To this end, we take the 2019 Italian government crisis as a case study and analyze a dataset of related 1.269 memes using a combination of computational and qualitative methodologies. Our analysis shows the emergence, proliferation, and fading of popular templates, which remix i…
The platformization of gender and sexual identities: An algorithmic analysis of Pornhub
Online pornography, like other forms of cultural production, is increasingly subject to processes of platformization. While research has focused on the diffusion of online pornography and its broader implications, less attention has been paid to the algorithmic infrastructures through which platforms distribute and manage pornographic content, and how this might reiterate socially embedded views and perspectives. To fill this gap, we consider how…
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 Complex Simplicity of Context. Affordances as Flows of Social Information
Affordances are central to consider how sociality and technology intertwine. However, while this entanglement propelled the popularity of the term, it also persistently connected the social and the technical. It is argued how considering affordances as eminently social opens up analytical possibilities to consider cultural, individual, and social contexts, and how these in turn can affect social action in digital environments. This means consider…
The contingent macro: The ephemerality of memes as discursive devices
This paper investigates how internet memes are complex and stratified objects, going beyond the standardized definition of ‘image macro’ habitually employed by scholars. To this end, we take the 2019 Italian government crisis as a case study and analyze a dataset of related 1.269 memes using a combination of computational and qualitative methodologies. Our analysis shows the emergence, proliferation, and fading of popular templates, which remix i…
Between AI fear and digital agency: Technological familiarity and risk perception of generative AI’s epistemic power
This study examines public perceptions of the risks associated with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), focusing on its potential ‘epistemic power’ – i.e., its capacity to redefine knowledge production – including its ability to blur the boundaries between real and fully synthetic content, thereby facilitating misinformation and potentially undermining democratic stability. We posit that social media use, GenAI familiarity, and the abilit…
The sociocultural roots of artificial conversations: The taste, class and habitus of generative AI chatbots
Research on AI has extensively considered biases related to gender and race. However, much less attention has been dedicated to another sociological tenet: that of class. Inspired by Bourdieu’s work on cultural stratification and distinction, this work sheds light on the sociocultural roots of artificial sociality, and on how these become manifest as ‘habitus’ within the outputs of generative AI models. We conducted 39 interviews with three AI ch…
Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Affordance (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works)