Fabio Giglietto, Claude & Gemini

Research Radio

Science EN ↓ 168 episodes

AI-generated deep dives into computational social science research. Papers curated by Fabio Giglietto, scripts by Anthropic's Claude, narration by Google Gemini.

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Fabio Giglietto, Claude & Gemini

Episodes

FG's Research Radio: When Everything Political Gets Called the Opposite 15.10.2026 10:37

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Guo, Y., & Fan, Y. (2026). The politics of the “non-political”: A conceptual review. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2745844

FG's Research Radio: The Silence Between the Posts: Why Online Discourse Lies 14.10.2026 10:16

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Schulz, W., Robertson, C. E., Sjåstad, H., Ashokkumar, A., Oswald, L., Yang, J., Munzert, S., Bavel, J. J. V., & Guess, A. M. (2026). Online Discourse is Falsely Polarized by Self-Selection. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7z69m_v1

FG's Research Radio: When Right-Wing Media Pick Their Platforms 13.10.2026 10:12

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Lukito, J., Zhang, Y., Chen, B., Prochaska, S., Pruden, M. L., Yang, Y., Zhong, W., Brown, M. A., Dahlke, R., Greenfield, J., Suk, J., & Borah, P. (2026). Cross-platformization: How U.S. right-leaning media curate their posts on Twitter and Truth Social. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261470889

FG's Research Radio: Why Different People Click Differently: Political Efficacy and Algorithm Feeds 12.10.2026 8:23

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Wan, J., Araujo, T., Helberger, N., & Vreese, C. D. (2026). How does political efficacy condition clicks on politics? Understanding information-selection behavior in algorithmic feeds over time. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmag022

FG's Research Radio: When AI Ate the Platform Society 08.10.2026 11:06

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Törnberg, P., & Uitermark, J. (2026). From the platform society to the AI society. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768640261487931

FG's Research Radio: What Does "Data" Actually Mean? Inside the EU's Regulatory Silence 06.10.2026 10:28

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Annabell, T. (2026). Regulating a floating signifier: Interpretations of “data” in the digital services act researcher access provision. https://doi.org/10.1177/29777984261486601

FG's Research Radio: How Facebook Redefined Fake News Out of Existence 04.10.2026 10:28

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Rogers, R., & Koronska, K. (2026). The performance of borderline content on Facebook. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003693192-4

FG's Research Radio: When AI Models Can't See Hate: The Politics of Sanitization 03.10.2026 10:34

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Crichton, F., & Torres, G. (2026). Re-generating hate. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624261449726

FG's Research Radio: How Conspiracy Spreads Without a Story 02.10.2026 10:43

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Tuters, M. (2026). The Memeplex: Platform grammars and conspiratorial alignment around the Great Reset. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261446931

FG's Research Radio: Detection Isn't Impact: Measuring What Coordinated Accounts Actually Do 01.10.2026 9:29

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Marco, N. D., Cinelli, M., Nakano, S., & Frosini, A. (2026). Optimal and heuristic strategies for evaluating the influence of coordinated behavior in information cascades and retweet networks. http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24398v1

FG's Research Radio: Why Populists Win on Social Media: It's Not How Much They Post 27.09.2026 5:38

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Darius, P., Drews, W., Neumeier, A., & Riedl, J. (2026). Radical populist parties receive greater audience support on social media: a cross-platform monitoring of digital campaigning for the 2024 European Parliament election. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-08773-w

FG's Research Radio: Obviously Fake, Affectively Real: How AI Slop Spreads Ideology 25.09.2026 11:42

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Topinka, R. (2026). Feed them slop: Alignment, attunement, and the affective lure of slopaganda. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494261468632

FG's Research Radio: When Your Codebook Disagrees With You: Teaching AI to Rethink Research 18.09.2026 10:24

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Gómez-Zará, D., Valdivieso, H., Pérez, J., Parra, D., & Valenzuela, S. (2026). Revisiting framing codebooks with AI: Employing large language models as analytical collaborators in deductive content analysis. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2730327

FG's Research Radio: When the Rebuttal Is the Real Strategy: Inside Strategic Lying 16.09.2026 9:35

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Gaber, I., & Fisher, C. (2022). “strategic lying”: The case of Brexit and the 2019 U.k. election. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161221994100

FG's Research Radio: The Podcast Gender Code: How Masculine Shows Won Young Men 10.09.2026 9:51

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Much, M., Rutherford, K., Greenfield, J., Tucker, J. A., & Nagler, J. (2026). Did podcasts help Trump win young men? Gendered media spaces and gender gaps. https://doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2026-cdb6x

FG's Research Radio: How "Woke" Got Hijacked: A Cross-Platform Anatomy 08.09.2026 9:48

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Levin, S. H., Wang, R., Seo, J., Leong, Y. Y., Bennett, E., Yang, D., Yang, Z., Chen, M., Zhang, Y., & Suk, J. (2026). From \#StayWoke to “culture wars”: How social justice discourse is separately and synergistically politicized on twitter and YouTube. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2717428

FG's Research Radio: When Search Engines Amplify Conspiracy Theories 02.09.2026 9:21

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Kasianenko, K., Gardam, C., FitzGerald, K. M., Nagappa, A., Bruns, A., Weinbrand, S., Angus, D., Vilkins, S., & Obeid, A. K. (2026). Searching for the truth? search engines and their AI affordances’ responses to conspiratorial search practices. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878x261481856

FG's Research Radio: When Researchers Stick Their Heads Above the Parapets 31.08.2026 10:01

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Sunoo, P., & R, T. D. (2026). "Sticking their heads out above the parapets": Lived Experiences of Legal Risks in Research. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Sticking%20their%20heads%20out%20above%20the%20parapets%22%3A%20Lived%20Experiences%20of%20Legal%20Risks%20in%20Research

FG's Research Radio: Coordination Isn't Deception: Mapping the Messy Reality of Online Behavior 23.08.2026 12:18

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Mannocci, L., Mazza, M., Monreale, A., Tesconi, M., & Cresci, S. (2026). Detection and characterization of coordinated online behavior: A survey. https://doi.org/10.1145/3839225

FG's Research Radio: What Users Actually Flag as Fake News: A Reality Check 22.08.2026 12:28

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Holt, A. E. (2026). What Facebook users flag as false news: A mixed-methods investigation of user-reported links. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2703607

FG's Research Radio: The Myth of the Golden Age: What Trust in News Really Looks Like 21.08.2026 11:55

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Fletcher, R., & Nielsen, R. K. (2026). What has happened to trust in news in the long run globally?. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003618041-6

FG's Research Radio: The Transnational Far-Right Audience YouTube Won't Talk About 18.08.2026 13:18

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Groebner, K. (2026). From national outlets to transnational audiences: far-right hyperpartisan news sources on YouTube. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878x261474201

FG's Research Radio: When AI Says What It's Doing, Persuasion Drops in Half 17.08.2026 11:42

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Rauchfleisch, A., & Jungherr, A. (2026). Toward meaningful transparency for AI chatbots: Disclosing persuasive intent reduces persuasion. http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11794v1

FG's Research Radio: The Post-Creator: Inside AI's Viral Content Factories 16.08.2026 12:00

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Tang, J., Yu, X., Wikström, P., & Pappalardo, K. (2026). Behind the “AI slop”: exploring the AI-generated viral short video production in China. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-03254-9

FG's Research Radio: Who Gets to Count as an Agent? The Hidden Politics of AI Agency 15.08.2026 6:31

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Anicker, F., Flaßhoff, G., & Marcinkowski, F. (2024). The matrix of AI agency: On the demarcation problem in social theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751241289925