Fabio Giglietto, Claude & Gemini

Research Radio

Science EN ↓ 169 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: Can Readers Tell When AI Writes the News? 04.07.2026 8:59

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Gilardi, F., Lorenzo, S. D., Ezzaini, J., Santa, B., Streiff, B., Zurfluh, E., & Hoes, E. (2026). Quality perceptions and intended engagement in response to AI-generated and AI-assisted news. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-58743-0

FG's Research Radio: Half of America Uses AI — And Half of America Is Worried 03.07.2026 8:34

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Jeffrey, G., William, B., Monica, A., Michelle, F., Eugenie, P., & Colleen, M. (2026). Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Americans%20and%20AI%202026%3A%20Chatbots%2C%20Smart%20Devices%20and%20Views%20on%20Impact

FG's Research Radio: Why Trolls Attack Their Targets Instead of Praising Their Patrons 02.07.2026 9:09

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Kim, J., Kim, H., Kim, J., Oh, A., Holz, T., Lee, W., & Cha, M. (2026). Cross-national information attacks: A two-decade analysis of troll behavior in Korea. http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22785v1

FG's Research Radio: Echo Chambers or Open Doors? Mapping Alternative Media Across Europe 01.07.2026 7:58

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Zhu, Q., Liang, F., & Li, G. M. (2026). Locate alternative media in the digital news ecosystem: A cross-country comparative study of alternative-mainstream audience overlap networks. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2683342

FG's Research Radio: When the Medium Starts Thinking: Inside Generative AI 30.06.2026 8:55

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Manovich, L. (2026). A medium that thinks: Generative AI and media cognition. https://doi.org/10.1177/27523543261454458

FG's Research Radio: How States Govern the Flow of Online Speech 29.06.2026 8:45

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Crosset, V., Venturini, T., & Dupont, B. (2026). Content moderation as traffic control: an analysis of EU and US legislation on platform regulation. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2026.2692735

FG's Research Radio: When AI Out-Talks World Champion Debaters 27.06.2026 8:47

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Hackenburg, K., Wagner, C., Hewitt, L., Tappin, B. M., Saunders, E., Kirk, H. R., Margetts, H., & Summerfield, C. (2026). AI systems out-persuade expert humans. http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16475v1

FG's Research Radio: Inside TikTok's "Dogshows": Filipino Humor, Harm, and Gen Z 25.06.2026 8:37

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Cabbuag, S. I. & Abidin, C. (2025). TikTok ‘dogshows’ and the amplification of online incivility among Gen Z influencers in the Philippines. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.13913

FG's Research Radio: Who's Really Spreading Misinformation? It's Not Who You Think 24.06.2026 8:53

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Törnberg, P. & Chueri, J. (2026). When do parties lie? Misinformation and radical-right populism across 26 countries. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241311886

FG's Research Radio: The Low-Level Simmer: How Conspiracy Theories Never Die 23.06.2026 9:10

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: FitzGerald, K. M., Whelan-Shamy, D., & Graham, T. (2025). The persistence of informational manipulation and the appropriation of emerging events. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003628088-6

FG's Research Radio: Beyond Fact-Checking: Why Disinformation Works as Story 22.06.2026 8:05

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Marwick, A. E., Schnabel, E., McGregor, S., & Schmitt, C. (2026). Disinformation as cultural narrative: Conceptualizing disinformation as cross-platform, identity-affirming, cathartic stories. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2644198

FG's Research Radio: Beyond the Loud CEOs: Inside Silicon Valley's Quiet AI Futures 21.06.2026 9:10

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Hepp, A. (2026). The imaginative landscape of AI: Locating Silicon Valley’s “quiet futuring”. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437261454515

FG's Research Radio: Robots, Chatbots, and Critical Ambivalence: Italy's AI Mindset 19.06.2026 8:35

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Fattorini, E., Rubin, A., Saracino, B., & Bucchi, M. (2026). Italians’ attitudes towards AI: how technology issues travel across social conversation. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2026.2689030

FG's Research Radio: Who Really Drove the AI Hype? Tech Bros vs. Institutions 17.06.2026 8:24

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Richter, V., Dergacheva, D., Kuznetsova, V., & Katzenbach, C. (2026). 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-03079-6

FG's Research Radio: Beyond News: How Young Adults Actually Decide What's Informative 16.06.2026 8:49

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Wedel, L. (2026). What is informative to young adults? Decoding informativeness perceptions among audiences of audio-visual digital platforms. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2026.2685660

FG's Research Radio: When AI Agents Replicate Science—and When They Fake It 15.06.2026 9:04

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Alizadeh, M., Mosleh, M., Gilardi, F., Kasirzadeh, A., & Tucker, J. (2026). AI coding agents can reproduce social science findings. http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11447v1

FG's Research Radio: Who's Really Driving YouTube's Rabbit Holes? 14.06.2026 8:09

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Brown, M. A., Bisbee, J., Lai, A., Bonneau, R., Nagler, J., & Tucker, J. A. (2026). Evaluating echo chambers, rabbit holes, and radicalization pathways on YouTube. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2671765

FG's Research Radio: Every Tap, Swipe, and Scroll: Mining the Sequences of Digital Life 13.06.2026 8:58

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Fan, Y., Ohme, J., & Wedel, L. (2026). Exploring temporal dynamics in digital trace data: mining user-sequences for communication research. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2026.2664873

FG's Research Radio: When Platforms Push Back: Why Data Access Friction Means Regulation Is Working 12.06.2026 7:49

AI-generated podcast discussion. Reference: Vreese, C. H. D. & Tromble, R. (2026). Moving targets, moving politics: The state of play in social media data access. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2026.2681041

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