BOOK CONTRACT: DEEPFAKE BODIES
KJ showing one of the genAI bot ‘Gabriel’ by Vidnoz AI that she uses to do her research on deepfakes and AI. Tha avatar looks lifeless but can flawlessly read any text to feed it. Photo by Laura Bianchi
I have signed a book contract with Bloomsbury Academic Press to write a new book Deepfake Bodies: The Sexual Politics of AI. As part of research into the present and future body politics of Artificial Intelligence, I will start several collaborations
+ In Hong Kong, I continue my affiliation with the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Cultural Studies Division to carry out research about Chinese-specific models of AI and deepfake technology and how they are shaped by netizen creativity, techno-feminism and Internet governance. I am very lucky to be assisted by part-time Research Assistant Raegan who works ar CUHK.
+ I have started new collaboration with PhD researcher and computational analyst and sociologist Vasileois Maltezos of the Unversity of Helsinki to do a big data study of deepfake content on social media. Vasilis helped us with a previous study of how Pepe the Frog imagery circulated on the LIHKG forum during Hong Kong’s social movements, which led to an article in Journal of Digital Social Research.