CICANT researcher, Ph.D. Sofia Caldeira, does stay at CAIS - Center for Advanced Internet Studies

During her research stay at CAIS - Center for Advanced Internet Studies, CICANT researcher Sofia P. Caldeira will be joining the working group Stick & Flow. This research group studies the phenomenon of automated engagement on Instagram and Tumblr as an ensemble of software affordances, human interests and techniques of mediation.

Considering the role of web or mobile applications, the shifts in societal concerns around bot ‘imagination’ or how users relate to #bots through tagging practices, and bot agency or what we can learn from detecting and studying visual and textual content provided by social bot account, the research group propose a network perspective on the ephemeral dynamics of “stick and flow” that constitute the ways in which bots operate on social media platforms and beyond.