Media Studies @UvA_Amsterdam · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 👥 @appstudies @digitalmethods @PublicDataLab · 🕓 Previous @UU_GDS @mediaofcoop
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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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✨📚 Our latest book, Platforms, is now available from Polity!
Jun 5
“Our world runs on platforms.”
Platforms: A Critical Introduction shows how platforms structure modern life, from communication to commerce and labour.
A new book from @silvertje and @fvandervlist is out today in the UK.
See more: politybooks.com/bookdetail?b…
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✨📗 Our 3rd
@appstudies ASI Sprint Report (w/
@esthr) is out now! Building directly on previous work in this series, it explores what we call ‘Appification of AI’, focusing on the embeddedness, visibility, and dependency of artificial intelligence. #AppStudies #AI
May 29
✨📗 Out now: ‘Appification in the Age of AI: Exploring Embeddedness, Visibility, and Dependency’ (ASI Sprint Report No. 3), edited by @fvandervlist & @esthr. 🔗Download/read more: appstudies.org/research-outp… #AppStudies #AI
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Fresh #OA 🔓 paper from @samhind10, Gabriel Pereira, @fvandervlist & me in ICS! 'Orchestrating scalability: how patents render cloud imaginaries in CAV innovation.' What do 69K patents reveal about cloud & autonomous vehicles? 🚗☁️ doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…
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1 Sep 2025
New book chapter! We just published 'App Ecosystem Analysis' (w/ @fvandervlist @esthr) introducing methods for analysing app ecosystems, emphasizing that apps are not stand-alone entities but exist within larger ecosystems: doi.org/10.4324/978100316601… (pdf: annehelmond.nl/wordpress/wp-…)
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☀️ I’m very excited to share that I’ve been awarded a Veni grant from @NWOFunding (Dutch Research Council, Talent Programme) for my project ‘AI Power: A Critical Platform Analysis’ (2025–2029)! 🔗 nwo.nl/en/news/200-...
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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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20 May 2025
📷📷 New OA book out now with Amsterdam University Press:
Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values
Edited by José van Dijck, Karin van Es, Anne Helmond, and @fvandervlist
Open Access: aup.nl/en/book/9789048562718…
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25 Nov 2024
Vandaag stonden we met 25.000 mensen op het Malieveld in Den Haag te demonstreren tegen de voorgenomen desastreuze bezuinigingen tegen het hoger onderwijs! #woinactie #stopdebezuinigingen
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18 Nov 2024
⚡️For those still left on the hellsite: Driving Decisions book launch is THIS THURSDAY. Zoom link will go out the day before.➡️Sign-up here: qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/j…
24 Oct 2024
⚡️🚗On Thursday 21st November (16-17.30 GMT) I'll be in conversation with Alex Gekker (University of Amsterdam/@alexgekker) launching Driving Decisions (Palgrave). The event is supported by @DH_UoM. To sign-up to the (online) event, follow the link: qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/j… 🚗⚡️
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Presenting twice at #AoIR2024 in Sheffield this Thursday:
🕘9:00 |📍Discovery 3|🤖‘The Political Economy of AI as Platform: Infrastructures, Power, and the AI Industry’, w/ @DLuitse, @RiederB, @samhind10, & @silvertje
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🕟15:30 |📍Discovery 1|📱‘Exploring Appification’—on ‘super-appification’ & ‘AI appification’ w/ @silvertje, @esthr, @mdieter, @DugStef – @appstudies
Would look forward to seeing you there!
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✨ On the pol. economy of AI and global ‘super apps’ (OA):
📑 ‘Big AI’, cloud dependency, & ‘industrialisation of AI’ |📗@BigDataSoc |🔗doi.org/10.1177/205395172412…
📑 ‘Super-appification’ |📗NM&S |🔗doi.org/10.1177/146144482312…
📑 Waymo/Google |📗AI&Soc |🔗doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-0…
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📗✨ Digital Media Metaphors: A Critical Introduction. Featuring a chapter w/ @silvertje on ‘platform’ as an evolving metaphorical tapestry of terms meanings, alongside other great contributions in this edited volume. 🔗 doi.org/10.4324/978103267461…
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11 Oct 2024
Three fully-funded PhD positions are available to join the new ERC Advanced Grant ‘Deep Culture - Living with Difference in the Age of Deep Learning’ in Amsterdam. For further details and a link to apply, please visit: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Thr…
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Just published: New @Convergence_NMT paper about asymmetries between software, organization, power and work in the implementation of cloud platforms.
Learn more about formatting work in platform capitalisms: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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27 Jun 2024
🚨Thrilled to share my new article “Platform power in AI: The evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence” ✨OA @PolicyR as part of the🔥SI “Locating and Theorizing Platform Power” Read: policyreview.info/articles/a…
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19 Jun 2024
"Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy" by @cristina_alaimo @JannisKallinik1 is open access! 🎉 direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mono… "...the authors place the transformative potential of data at the center of an emerging socioeconomic order that restructures society and its institutions"
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✨ @esthr and I are proud to launch the @appstudies Sprint Report Series (and 1st report) showcasing the hard work of our Master’s students during the 2024 #Appification course (w/ guests @DugStef @mdieter @FiekeJ @silvertje) and its concluding data-sprint @UvA_Humanities!
3 Jun 2024
✨New publication: ‘The Nationality of Apps: Exploring National App Cultures and Economies’ (ASI Sprint Report No. 1), eds @fvandervlist @esthr. 🔗Download/read more: appstudies.org/research-outp… #AppStudies #Appification
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31 May 2024
Come and work with @CharlesJeurgens Annet Dekker @tobias_blanke @PaulaHelm12 @HLMQA @rensbod @fvandervlist & myself at Media Studies @UvA_Humanities @UvA_Amsterdam
We are looking for a new assistant professor Critical Archival Studies vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Ass…| Deadline June 14
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13 May 2024
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher “Governing the Digital Society” @UU_GDS @UniUtrecht. GDS promotes research on the socio-technical and political-economic processes of datafication, algorithmisation and platformisation and AI: uu.nl/en/organisation/workin… Deadline: 9 June.
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