Welcome to our 2024-25 Visiting Fellow, Dr Nataliia Laba Communication and Information Studies, University of Groningen
Nataliia Laba, an Assistant Professor in Digital and Multimodal Communication / Humane AI at University of Groningen, will be visiting MMU in January 2025. Her research focuses on multimodal generative artificial intelligence and works at the intersection of critical data studies, discourse studies, and techno-ethics. Her current research projects address human-machine agency and a range of representational issues in the context of visual generative media adoption and use.
These include how gender bias becomes normalized through prompting practices, the attitudinal stance-taking of non-human agents in AI-generated images of war, the effects of prompt modifiers on AI video generation, and the impact of visual generative media on the creative economy, professional designers, and artists.
Nataliia is particularly interested in discourse structure relations between tech companies, designers, critics, and users as a way of engagement with observable techno-cultural practices and activities considered essential for good AI stewardship.
During her visit, Dr Laba will give a talk on Generative AI and the visual politics of war representation; and deliver a workshop on creative agency in the age of AI
Talk on Generative AI and the visual politics of war representation: 21st January, 12p,-1pm
Workshop on creative agency in the age of AI: 22nd January, 10am-12pm
