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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/Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social Marcus Burkhardt @taz_seitz (🔓open access!)

"From healthy communities to toxic debates: Disqus’ changing ideas about comment moderation" – open access article by Johannes Paßmann, me, Robert Jansma using Internet Archive data to examine comment system Disqus' increasing modes of platform interventionism: doi.org/10.1080/247014…

‘Industry platforms, and the infrastructure they build, mediate and shape platform power and governance’: Check out this paper on #socialmedia platforms’ data practices by Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social and Anne Helmond. buff.ly/3qSQ9Ou

Search engine rankings are being influenced by computer vision models 💻👀 What does that mean for public access to environmental knowledge? 📚 And what traces can we see of scientific & political interpretations of nature? 🌐 New by me SocStudiesShef socstudiesresearch.com/2022/09/08/pla…

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-…

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 Niels Kerssens and me, and part of Governing the Digital Society. More info: uu.nl/en/organisatio… (Deadline: 15 November)

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/WinterScho… vera.ai Digital Methods

The application deadline for a full-time PhD position in a project on “Platform infrastructures and the shaping of public education”, supervised by Niels Kerssens and me is November 15! For more info and questions please see: uu.nl/en/organisatio…

Hi, Catalina Goanta and I are hiring in her European Research Council (ERC) HUMANads project hosted at Rechtsgeleerdheid Universiteit Utrecht & Governing the Digital Society!! 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!

1/2 Join the book launch of 'The Politics of Platformization', a series of Amsterdam-based interviews, and the roundtable with Anne Helmond Thomas Poell @bodobalazs Paddy Leerssen @nielsvdoorn @nielstenoever Geert Lovink @Molly_Ulysses stefania milan Davide Beraldo Giovanni Rossetti Martijn de Waal

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/Assist… Digital Methods vera.ai

📢 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/10.1177/146144… (OA) w/ Anne Helmond @mdieter esther weltevrede !

📢 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/10.1177/205395… (OA Big Data & Society) w/ Anne Helmond Fabian Ferrari

Our new article on 'Big AI: Cloud Infrastructure and the Industrialisation of AI' w/Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social & Fabian Ferrari on the convergence of AI and Big Tech (‘Big AI’), and AI’s ‘industrialization’ – its pervasive expansion and integration across industries. doi.org/10.1177/205395…

The Dr. Karen Gregory (@karengregory.bsky.social) 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. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

'Challenges as catalysts: how Waymo’s Open Dataset Challenges shape AI development' by Sam Hind Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social and Max Kanderske in AI & Society: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"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." eventbrite.co.uk/e/content-prov…

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/WinterScho… Digital Methods

Excited to share our chapter on the 'Platform' metaphor (w/ Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social) in this great Digital Media Metaphors book (ed. by @farkasjohan Marcus Maloney). It provides an intro to platform studies & concept of platformization. Available here: dx.doi.org/10.4324/978103… (or DM me!)

✨📗 ‘Appification in the Age of AI: Exploring AI App Cultures and Economies’ (ASI Sprint Report No. 2), edited by Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social & esther weltevrede. 🔗Download/read more: appstudies.org/research-outpu… #AppStudies #AI