EXPERIMENTAL AUTHORSHIP
AuthEx moves away from the techno-fetishization/fatalism around AI driven information production, and instead proposes to think through and produce new forms of experimental authorship that are informed by not the form but the function and role of authors in our digital futures. We set up a new fellowship, in collaboration with local, regional and global partners, beginning by inviting open applications and inviting 2 collectives to produce new interventions and working prototypes in authorship experiments and new narrative conditions. The fellowship invites high profile creative professionals, media and communication scholars, artists, and researchers to be rooted in the CUHK community and bring their expertise and skills to the department.
FELLOWS
First Fellowship
2023
Fellows Profiles
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The Digital Narratives Studio is pleased to announce its first Fellowship in Experimental Authorship.
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The Making of Misinformed Choice: The impact of digital technologies in election campaigns - insights from nine Asian countries
Nishant Shah and Anushree Majumdar
2024
This report examined the current picture of disinformation and successful countermeasures in nine (South) East Asian countries and concluded that digital disinformation is widespread and contributes to the erosion of democracy.
Knitting a Cocoon for Myself: Exploring Digital Authorship on Social Media
Ruiwen Zhou
2024
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In this article, we will delve into the questions around the digital influencer culture: how this functions as one of the ‘egos’ of the Author; how the discourse exists, operates, and circulates in the digital space; and lastly, who controls the discourse and who is held accountable for the impact of the discourse.
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India: As the world’s largest democratic election in history completes its third phase, AI technologies are becoming increasingly popular with Indian political parties as they campaign for the next few weeks till the results are declared on June 4.
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In this blog, we will continue our journey of hunting for the anxieties around Gen-AI as well as gather insights from this searching and mapping practice…
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The use of medical terms to describe the human body on Xiaohongshu is an example of how social media is distorting our engagement with our bodies. We explore the ways in which language is employed on this particular site and question its motives: is it to further scientific engagement or does the beauty industry stand to profit?
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As the 2nd blog in this series, it will offer an explanation of the theoretical framework of the project: In Search of The Digital Author: Author function in the age of Generative AI, as well as a record of the current progress.
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Misinformed Choice occurs not as a result of information scarcity but of an information overload, which creates a condition of suspended belief, causing harm to the people making those choices.
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A research project about online nonfiction narratives and authorship will investigate the Chinese WeChat platform to explore the role of representative authorship, and how it can be used to represent different groups of marginalized people...
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Earlier this year, the Digital Narratives Studio’s Experimental Authorship pillar embarked on a project with Digital Asia Hub and the Bertelsmann Stifting Foundation to study mis/disinformation events in election cycles in this particular region, to view these phenomena through a lens of crises and responses.
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Instead of regarding the anxieties around Gen–AI as separate cases that are emerging continuously, there is a particular urgency to unravel the fundamental reasons for their existence — why do those anxieties exist in the first place?