Vanessa Richter
Biographic Data
| ID | 4602993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa Richter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Richter |
| SIGNATURE | RICHTER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bremen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3217-3267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Who’s driving the AI hype in its formative phase? A longitudinal analysis of stakeholders in the US and German AI discourse on Twitter 2012–2021
AI has become an ambiguous yet powerful term that routinely refers to different technological advances, with stakeholders competing for public attention to influence public perceptions and decision-makers. Whilst research has focussed on specific AI stakeholders and identified industry dominance in debates around AI, a detailed investigation of the role of different AI stakeholders within public discourses in the formative phase of AI development…
Tiktok’s Ai Hype - Creators’ Role in Shaping (Public) Ai Imaginaries
Artificial Intelligence (AI), often hailed as a transformative force, has become an ambivalent buzzword, simultaneously promising utopian possibilities and fueling dystopian anxieties. Social media platforms have emerged as pivotal spaces where the public narrative about AI takes shape, especially through content creators, significantly influencing our collective vision of the future with AI. Therefore, this paper inquires into the role of creato…
Ai Industry Expectations and Underperforming Imaginaries
The panel takes up AoIR’s theme of how industry pre-mediates the future of internet technology and its effects and inquiries into alternatives. Utilising ideas from the study of sociotechnical imaginaries, it aims to locate, map, and critically examine AI imaginaries together with counter-imaginaries that engage with and intervene in those of the AI industry. First, it maps the discursive landscape of Big Tech ‘AI talk’ as a means to study ‘new m…
Strategising imaginaries
Corporate actors have been actively shaping the normative framing and socio-material infrastructure related to AI governance. We show how they achieve this by analysing documents from corporate actors headquartered in China, Germany and the US from 2017 to 2023, a pivotal period in the formation of public understanding of the topic. Drawing on conceptual work around ‘socio-technical imaginaries’ and corporate strategic behaviours, the analysis id…
Sociotechnical imaginaries and public communication
The concept of sociotechnical imaginaries (SIs) has been widely used and proven fruitful to understand diverging trajectories of technologies. While scholars have acknowledged the multi-layered materialisation of SIs and highlighted the importance of the communicative layer therein, this aspect has remained under-conceptualised. Therefore, we propose an analytical framework to better understand Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Public Communication (…
Influencers’ Instagram imaginaries as a global phenomenon
Instagram has become a place of work for many content creators, including influencers; however, the inherent power imbalance between creator and platform dictating influencers’ success, requires creators to negotiate user expectations and the platform environment for their potential (commercial) success. Therefore, this article proposes approaching the influencer industry from the framework of platform imaginaries by developing a mixed qualitativ…
Social Media Platforms as Multi-Sided Stakeholders
Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a key technology in contemporary societies with high amounts of resources being dedicated globally to its development. Simultaneously, AI technology has been at the center of public debate considering its societal impact. Social Media Platforms (SMPs) play a crucial role in providing a space for public debates but also partake in public discourses on various levels. Understanding social media’s power in …
The Politics of Platform Imaginaries
Examining the competing images, values, and purposes attached to digital health tracking platforms, this paper analyzes how platform imaginaries are constructed and negotiated in complex intersectional realities. It pursues this inquiry through a case study on how Fitbit and Apple Health have become involved in recent societal negotiations over female digital health tracking in the US. Female health tracking has a well-documented history of negot…
From Buzzfeed Creator to (In)dependent Youtuber - Managing Precarious Labour Through Gossip
Several known Buzzfeed Creators have left the company’s toxic culture by beginning a career as YouTubers. They hoped that their Buzzfeed audience would migrate to support their company-independent channel. Often represented as a move towards independence by creators, cultural production research (Nieborg & Poell, 2018; Burgess et al. 2020) has shown that creators are platform and audience dependent for viability. Therefore, we are questioning whe…
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From Buzzfeed Creator to (In)dependent Youtuber - Managing Precarious Labour Through Gossip
Several known Buzzfeed Creators have left the company’s toxic culture by beginning a career as YouTubers. They hoped that their Buzzfeed audience would migrate to support their company-independent channel. Often represented as a move towards independence by creators, cultural production research (Nieborg & Poell, 2018; Burgess et al. 2020) has shown that creators are platform and audience dependent for viability. Therefore, we are questioning whe…
Social Media Platforms as Multi-Sided Stakeholders
Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a key technology in contemporary societies with high amounts of resources being dedicated globally to its development. Simultaneously, AI technology has been at the center of public debate considering its societal impact. Social Media Platforms (SMPs) play a crucial role in providing a space for public debates but also partake in public discourses on various levels. Understanding social media’s power in …
The Politics of Platform Imaginaries
Examining the competing images, values, and purposes attached to digital health tracking platforms, this paper analyzes how platform imaginaries are constructed and negotiated in complex intersectional realities. It pursues this inquiry through a case study on how Fitbit and Apple Health have become involved in recent societal negotiations over female digital health tracking in the US. Female health tracking has a well-documented history of negot…
Influencers’ Instagram imaginaries as a global phenomenon
Instagram has become a place of work for many content creators, including influencers; however, the inherent power imbalance between creator and platform dictating influencers’ success, requires creators to negotiate user expectations and the platform environment for their potential (commercial) success. Therefore, this article proposes approaching the influencer industry from the framework of platform imaginaries by developing a mixed qualitativ…
Tiktok’s Ai Hype - Creators’ Role in Shaping (Public) Ai Imaginaries
Artificial Intelligence (AI), often hailed as a transformative force, has become an ambivalent buzzword, simultaneously promising utopian possibilities and fueling dystopian anxieties. Social media platforms have emerged as pivotal spaces where the public narrative about AI takes shape, especially through content creators, significantly influencing our collective vision of the future with AI. Therefore, this paper inquires into the role of creato…
Ai Industry Expectations and Underperforming Imaginaries
The panel takes up AoIR’s theme of how industry pre-mediates the future of internet technology and its effects and inquiries into alternatives. Utilising ideas from the study of sociotechnical imaginaries, it aims to locate, map, and critically examine AI imaginaries together with counter-imaginaries that engage with and intervene in those of the AI industry. First, it maps the discursive landscape of Big Tech ‘AI talk’ as a means to study ‘new m…
Strategising imaginaries
Corporate actors have been actively shaping the normative framing and socio-material infrastructure related to AI governance. We show how they achieve this by analysing documents from corporate actors headquartered in China, Germany and the US from 2017 to 2023, a pivotal period in the formation of public understanding of the topic. Drawing on conceptual work around ‘socio-technical imaginaries’ and corporate strategic behaviours, the analysis id…
Sociotechnical imaginaries and public communication
The concept of sociotechnical imaginaries (SIs) has been widely used and proven fruitful to understand diverging trajectories of technologies. While scholars have acknowledged the multi-layered materialisation of SIs and highlighted the importance of the communicative layer therein, this aspect has remained under-conceptualised. Therefore, we propose an analytical framework to better understand Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Public Communication (…
Who’s driving the AI hype in its formative phase? A longitudinal analysis of stakeholders in the US and German AI discourse on Twitter 2012–2021
AI has become an ambiguous yet powerful term that routinely refers to different technological advances, with stakeholders competing for public attention to influence public perceptions and decision-makers. Whilst research has focussed on specific AI stakeholders and identified industry dominance in debates around AI, a detailed investigation of the role of different AI stakeholders within public discourses in the formative phase of AI development…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Negotiation (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social Media and Politics (3 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Discourse analysis (2 works)