The key goal of the DFG-funded interdisciplinary research project “Curating the Feed” is to gain a better understanding of digital image feeds and their curatorial assemblages. We ask how ever-evolving networks of digital practices, user interfaces, and algorithms co-curate image feeds on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or Pinterest. How are digital image feeds designed? How are they embedded in user interfaces and complex media environments? How are they algorithmically controlled, especially through the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning? And how are they entangled with the everyday lives of countless social media users? The project is part of the DFG priority programme The Digital Image and based at the University of Tübingen and the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. It combines 1) digital anthropology (PI Christoph Bareither, University of Tübingen), 2) media studies and interface studies (PI Sabine Wirth, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), and 3) computer science and natural language processing (PI Benno Stein, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar).
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