The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), University of Amsterdam, is a contribution to doing research into the natively digital.
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28 May 2025
✨📗 ‘Appification in the Age of AI: Exploring AI App Cultures and Economies’ (ASI Sprint Report No. 2), edited by @fvandervlist & @esthr. 🔗Download/read more: appstudies.org/research-outp… #AppStudies #AI
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24 Oct 2024
Excited to share our chapter on the 'Platform' metaphor (w/ @fvandervlist) in this great Digital Media Metaphors book (ed. by @farkasjohan @MarcusJMaloney). It provides an intro to platform studies & concept of platformization. Available here: dx.doi.org/10.4324/978103267… (or DM me!)
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3 Oct 2024
Chatbots for internet research? The call is out for this year's Digital Methods Winter School, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, 6-10 January 2025, digitalmethods.net/Dmi/Winte… @digitalmethods
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"TikTok: Work, Time, and Play in a Platform Economy is a one-day research conference on June 14th. It brings together papers that analyse emerging digital visual culture(s) and aesthetics through critical platform analyses."
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The @mscdigsoc is hiring. Please share and RT.
Lecturer, Computational Sociology.
Do you want to teach?
Are you interested in a range of methods?
Do you care about developing critical social data science?
Then apply.
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Digital Methods retweeted
18 Apr 2024
'Challenges as catalysts: how Waymo’s Open Dataset Challenges shape AI development' by @samhind10 @fvandervlist and Max Kanderske in AI & Society: link.springer.com/article/10…
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Digital Methods retweeted
13 Mar 2024
Our new article on 'Big AI: Cloud Infrastructure and the Industrialisation of AI' w/@fvandervlist & @fabianlferrari on the convergence of AI and Big Tech (‘Big AI’), and AI’s ‘industrialization’ – its pervasive expansion and integration across industries. doi.org/10.1177/205395172412…
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📢 Very excited to share my latest article ‘Big AI: Cloud Infrastructure and the Industrialisation of AI’, substantiating the pivotal role of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the AI landscape. #BigAI 🥳 Read: doi.org/10.1177/205395172412… (OA @BigDataSoc) w/ @silvertje @fabianlferrari
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📢 Exciting news: our latest article on ‘Super-appification’ is now out in New Media & Society! 🚀 We delve into the rise of ‘super apps’, exploring their characteristics, origins, and global impact 🌍 #SuperApps Read: doi.org/10.1177/146144482312… (OA) w/ @silvertje @mdieter @esthr !
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Digital Methods retweeted
14 Feb 2023
Job advert! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in 'Computational Methods for Digital Journalism' in New Media & Digital Culture, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Ass… @digitalmethods @veraai_eu
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Digital Methods retweeted
27 Jan 2023
1/2 Join the book launch of 'The Politics of Platformization', a series of Amsterdam-based interviews, and the roundtable with @silvertje
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@nielstenoever @glovink @Molly_Ulysses @annliffey
@david_berra @giorossetti1
@martijndewaal
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Digital Methods retweeted
11 Nov 2022
Hi, @CatalinaGoanta and I are hiring in her @ERC_Research HUMANads project hosted at @UURechten & @UU_GDS!! We are looking for a media studies person for an 18 month long postdoctoral position on content monetization & platform governance 😻😻😻 - please get in touch with q!
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Digital Methods retweeted
26 Oct 2022
The application deadline for a full-time PhD position in a project on “Platform infrastructures and the shaping of public education”, supervised by @NKerssens and me is November 15! For more info and questions please see: uu.nl/en/organisation/workin…
26 Sep 2022
Fulltime PhD position in platform studies! We are looking for a PhD candidate for a research project on “Platform infrastructures and the shaping of public education”, supervised by @NKerssens and me, and part of @UU_GDS. More info: uu.nl/en/organisation/workin… (Deadline: 15 November)
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Digital Methods retweeted
13 Oct 2022
This year's Digital Methods Winter School (Media Studies, Univ of Amsterdam) takes place in person (we hope) and is dedicated to 'The Use and Misuse of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)'. Join us 9-13 Jan '23! Here is the call: wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/… @veraai_eu @digitalmethods
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Digital Methods retweeted
26 Sep 2022
Fulltime PhD position in platform studies! We are looking for a PhD candidate for a research project on “Platform infrastructures and the shaping of public education”, supervised by @NKerssens and me, and part of @UU_GDS. More info: uu.nl/en/organisation/workin… (Deadline: 15 November)
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11 May 2022
We have a new article out on what we conceptualize as the "technicity" of platform governance, examining APIs as central to the operationalization of platform power. w/@fvandervlist @bumatic @taz_seitz (🔓open access!)
✨ “API Governance: The Case of Facebook’s Evolution” w/ @silvertje, @bumatic, & @taz_seitz in @SocialMedia_Soc : doi.org/10.1177/205630512210… (OA🔓)
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On Friday 16 Sept at 10:15 am, I will defend my PhD thesis ‘The Platform as Ecosystem: Configurations and Dynamics of Governance and Power’ at Utrecht University. More info and livestream: uu.nl/en/events/phd-defense-…
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Digital Methods retweeted
2 Sep 2022
‘Industry platforms, and the infrastructure they build, mediate and shape platform power and governance’: Check out this paper on #socialmedia platforms’ data practices by @fvandervlist and @silvertje.
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Digital Methods retweeted
1 Aug 2022
"From healthy communities to toxic debates: Disqus’ changing ideas about comment moderation" – open access article by @J_Passmann, me, @TheSmootyboy using @internetarchive data to examine comment system Disqus' increasing modes of platform interventionism: doi.org/10.1080/24701475.202…
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Digital Methods retweeted
8 Jul 2022
One week's work on the features and evolution of 'super' apps! Led by @fvandervlist, @silvertje, and @mdieter, and with many great participants of the #DMI22 Summer School.
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