FG's Research Radio: The Post-API Age: What We Lose When Platforms Lock Down

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

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

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

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?

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

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