Project events
The project hosts a series of workshops, conferences, webinars, and other events, aimed at discussing and disseminating our research themes and outputs.
March 2025Political influencers: research showcase
The HUMANads ERC team will showcase its research on social media influencers with reactions from Romanian Twitch streamer & political commentator Silviu Faiãr.
March 2025Politicisation of influencers
HUMANads/GDS event featuring presentations on the book “Influencer Politics” by Johanna Arnesson and Hanna Reinikainen, as well as a panel discussion on influencers & elections (with a focus on the 2024 Romanian presidential elections).
November 2024Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop
The workshop aims to bring researchers and practitioners from NLP, machine learning and other artificial intelligence disciplines together with legal practitioners and researchers.
Read more ↗May 2024Romanian Advertising Council influencer ethics conference
The conference was co-hosted with HUMANads and featured discussions with industry, academia and influencers on the ethical standards applicable to social media.
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April 2024‘AVMSD: An Influencer Context’: Guest workshop with Nadia Feci
Guest workshop with residential visiting researcher Nadia Feci (KU Leuven), who specializes in EU media law and researches how this field applies to the activity of influencers.
March 2024HUMANads research outreach event
The HUMANads team brought together policy-makers and regulators from the EU, the Netherlands, Belgium, Romania, Denmark and Norway to showcase the project research so far.
December 2023Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop
The workshop aims to bring researchers and practitioners from NLP, machine learning and other artificial intelligence disciplines together with legal practitioners and researchers.
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November 2023The Digital Services Act for media scholars webinar series
The HUMANads team collaborated with media studies expert Tom Divon to host a series of three webinars unpacking the Digital Services Act.
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October 2023Influencer Legal Hub launch
The HUMANads team collaborated with the European Commission to launch the Influencer Legal Hub, the first European resource on consumer law and influencer marketing.
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October 2023HUMANads @ICON panel on political influencers
Panel on the applicable legal framework to influencer speech in the realm of political advertising (and beyond), hosted at the ICON Benelux conference.
October 2023‘The Ideal Influencer’: Guest workshop with Sophie Bishop
Guest workshop with project researcher Sophie Bishop (University of Leeds) on influencer ideal identities.
September 2023Researching platform ToS: a pre-Gikii workshop
Multidisciplinary workshop on the methodological implications of researching Terms of Service on online platforms
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September 2023Gikii 2023
Multidisciplinary international conference combining law and popular culture, gathering law and technology and computer science experts.
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June 2023The Cultural Geography of Creator Cultures @Locating Media Industries
This panel, hosted by David Craig (USC Annenberg), brought together media and legal scholars to discuss the geographies of creator cultures.
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May 2023HUMANads @ CPDP 2023 Workshop
Tensions between consumer law and privacy in the content creator economy - a dialogue between researchers and public agencies.
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March 2023Symposium: Radical Reforms: Bringing fairness to social media contracts
Utrecht University and the Verfassungsblog hosted the first HUMANads annual conference in Utrecht, focusing on a private law exploration of social media contracts.
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December 2022Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop
The workshop aims to bring researchers and practitioners from NLP, machine learning and other artificial intelligence disciplines together with legal practitioners and researchers.
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October 2022HUMANads kickoff workshop
Media studies & law workshop looking at content monetization to reveal cultural questions and legal tensions.