Fabio Giglietto, Claude & Gemini

Research Radio

Science EN ↓ 125 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: Who Gets to Study Elections? The Hidden Barriers to Platform Data 11.06.2026 8:09

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Lukito, J. & Mimizuka, K. (2026). Price, proficiency, or permission: assessing platform data access for election research. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2026.2667921

FG's Research Radio: Rewiring the Feed: Can Algorithms Heal Political Divides? 10.06.2026 8:29

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Brady, W. J., Doyle, M., Elnakouri, A., Finkel, E. J., Jackson, J. C., Kteily, N., Parker, V., Puryear, C., Spelman, T., Teeny, J., & Torres, M. (2026). Redesigning algorithms to intervene on social norm misperceptions during a national election. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10536-1

FG's Research Radio: The Five Decoys Hiding AI's Real Power Grab 08.06.2026 8:49

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Vertesi, J., boyd, D., Taylor, A., & Shestakofsky, B. (2026). Reckoning with the political economy of AI: Avoiding decoys in pursuit of accountability. http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16106v2

FG's Research Radio: Why One Platform Isn't Enough to Understand Elections 06.06.2026 8:56

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Schulte, L., Pasic, D., Goanta, C., & Iamnitchi, A. (2026). Multi-platform analysis of electoral discourse on social media as a research infrastructure problem. https://doi.org/10.1145/3795513.3807440

FG's Research Radio: Why Fact-Checking Conspiracy Theorists Backfires 05.06.2026 9:23

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Grusauskaite, K., Bondt, M. D., Wildt, L. D., & Aupers, S. (2026). “We, the conspiracy theorists.” How people do symbolic boundary work in the “Great Reset” debates across social media platforms. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261446590

FG's Research Radio: Why Both Sides Think Misinformation Is Out to Get Them 04.06.2026 9:19

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Erkel, P. V., Hameleers, M., Farooq, A., Gattermann, K., Tulin, M., Hoogen, E. V. D., & Vreese, C. D. (2026). The hostile misinformation effect: How ideological congruence drives the assessment of misinformation targets. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2671760

FG's Research Radio: The AI Paradox: Why the Most Productive Workers Are the Most Worried 03.06.2026 7:44

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Unknown (2026). What 81,000 people told us about the economics of AI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=What%2081%2C000%20people%20told%20us%20about%20the%20economics%20of%20AI

FG's Research Radio: Who Decides What Google Knows? The AI Overview Wars 02.06.2026 8:33

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Weinbrand, S., Nagappa, A., & Angus, D. (2026). Framing the future of search: A discourse analysis of Google’s AI Overviews. https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813261447684

FG's Research Radio: When Neo-Nazis Meet Wellness Influencers: Sweden's Far-Right YouTube 30.05.2026 1:39

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Askanius, T., Stoencheva, J., & Mondani, H. (2026). The alternative influence network (AIN) of far-right YouTubers in Sweden: Connectivity and hybridisation of online extremism during the Covid-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2026-0008

FG's Research Radio: Who Decides What Counts as Good Data? Inside the DSA's Quality Battle 28.05.2026 9:55

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Peters, Y. & Weller, K. (2026). Little mentioning, moderate attention, great relevance: The quality of online platform data in the Digital Services Act. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624261438624

FG's Research Radio: The Polarization Paradox: When Recommendations Outrun Evidence 27.05.2026 8:09

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Eck, C. W. V., Meyer, H. M. A., & Brüggemann, M. (2026). What to do about polarization? Evaluating the evidence base of recommendations for depolarization. https://doi.org/10.1093/anncom/wlag012

FG's Research Radio: From Like Buttons to Satellites: Rethinking Platformization in the AI Era 26.05.2026 8:02

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Helmond, A. (2026). The platformization of everything: From the end of the Like button to AI infrastructure in space. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261436101

FG's Research Radio: The End of Social Media as We Know It 25.05.2026 9:50

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Törnberg, P. & Rogers, R. (2026). Towards a Post-Social Media Studies. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/6nue7_v1

FG's Research Radio: From Friends to Algorithms: How TikTok Rewired the Social 24.05.2026 9:53

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Gerbaudo, P. (2026). TikTok and the algorithmic transformation of social media publics: From social networks to social interest clusters. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241304106

FG's Research Radio: The Post-API Age: What We Lose When Platforms Lock Down 23.05.2026 9:06

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Yang, K., Goel, P., Pruden, M. L., Wu, Q., Eagan, C., Lazer, D., & Freelon, D. (2026). A systematic review of social science studies analyzing social media data, 2010-2024. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/yexp6_v1

FG's Research Radio: Does ChatGPT Really "Think"? How News Media Frames AI 22.05.2026 8:30

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Nguyen, D. & Wischnewski, M. (2026). Generative AI, large language models, and their agentic framing in news media. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-03070-1

FG's Research Radio: When Debunking Backfires: How COVID Conspiracies Spread Online 21.05.2026 8:47

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Adam, S., Rohrbach, T., Keller, F., Makhortykh, M., León, E. D., Valli, C., Baghumyan, A., & Sydorova, M. (2026). How do media contribute to the dissemination of conspiracy beliefs? A field study combining panel and web tracking at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaf033

FG's Research Radio: The Hidden Speech That Predicts Extremist Violence 20.05.2026 8:01

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: BAILARD, C. S., TROMBLE, R., ZHONG, W., BIANCHI, F., HOSSEINI, P., & BRONIATOWSKI, D. (2024). “keep your heads held high boys!”: Examining the relationship between the Proud Boys’ online discourse and offline activities. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055423001478

FG's Research Radio: Twitter's Obituary: Why We Keep Building the Same Broken Platform 19.05.2026 9:06

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Bruns, A. (2026). The death of Twitter and the decline of Public Debate online. https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3247

FG's Research Radio: Why Aligned AI Agents Still Misbehave in Crowds 18.05.2026 8:22

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Ng, L. H. X., Cruickshank, I. J., Lim, A. X. W., & Carley, K. M. (2026). Social theory should be a structural prior for agentic AI: A formal framework for multi-Agent Social Systems. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07069

FG's Research Radio: Who Controls Truth? 17.05.2026 10:55

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Rodarte, A. K., Kuahara, C. V., & Arif, A. (2026). Who controls the narrative? How Brazilian parliamentarians pursue epistemic authority in times of crisis. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2669534

FG's Research Radio: Experts Forecast the Future of Conspiracy Theories 16.05.2026 9:07

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Mahl, D., Kessler, S. H., Schäfer, M. S., Jobin, A., Zeng, J., & Georgi, F. (2026). Conspiracy theories and misinformation in digital media: An international expert assessment of challenges, trends, and interventions. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2024-0123

FG's Research Radio: What Climate Denial Teaches Us About Misinformation 15.05.2026 9:31

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Spampatti, T., Većkalov, B., Geiger, S. J., Linden, S. V. D., Lewandowsky, S., & Hornsey, M. (2026). Six insights from climate psychology for the study of misinformation. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/swdrq_v1

FG's Research Radio: When State Media Shapes What AI Tells You 14.05.2026 10:12

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Waight, H., Yang, E., Yuan, Y., Messing, S., Roberts, M. E., Stewart, B. M., & Tucker, J. A. (2026). State media control influences large language models. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10506-7

FG's Research Radio: Micro-Influencers and the Hustle of Niche Fame 13.05.2026 10:20

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Camilla, V. (2026). Posting what you know and caring for the niche: How micro-influencers survive platform culture demands. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Posting%20what%20you%20know%20and%20caring%20for%20the%20niche%3A%20How%20micro-influencers%20survive%20platform%20culture%20demands