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Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems. New Social Media+Society article by Johan Lindquist and esther weltevrede in the special issue edited by me and Jonathan Corpus Ong journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

✨ New article: Chao J, van Geenen D, Gerlitz C and van der Vlist FN (2024) Digital Methods for Sensory Media Research: Toolmaking as a Critical Technical Practice”. In: Convergence, special issue on Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research. doi.org/10.1177/135485…

Come work with us at the Department of Media Studies in Amsterdam! We are hiring assistant professors: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/search/?cr…

📢 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

Please join this lecture by Marc Steinberg on 'Platformed Conveniences' Governing the Digital Society on 30 May '24, exploring how Japanese convenience stores offer a lineage of “lean convenience,” shaping the smartphone-centric model of on-demand digital services. More info: uu.nl/en/events/from….

✨ New journal officially launched! Welcome to Platforms & Society! Read our inaugural editorial and submit your article - or even a multimedia piece! The editors (we are an editorial collective!) are me, @nielsvdoorn, Cheryll Soriano, andrea pollio & Julie Yujie Chen journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS

New journal launched! Platforms & Society hosts critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization, examining their impacts on and embeddedness in economies, cultures, and institutions around the world. More here: journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS

On September 3 we are a hosting a workshop on Internet Research with Foundation Models? in Amsterdam. The call for participation is is open until June 7: cat4smr.humanities.uva.nl/index.php/blog/

Deadline fast approaching for the Digital Methods Summer School, 1-12 July 2024, Amsterdam, on Visual Methods for Digital Research, launching the book published by Polity by Sabine Niederer and Gabriele Colombo. Keynote by Lev Manovich. Registration info: digitalmethods.net

✨New publication: ‘The Nationality of Apps: Exploring National App Cultures and Economies’ (ASI Sprint Report No. 1), eds Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social esther weltevrede. 🔗Download/read more: appstudies.org/research-outpu… #AppStudies #Appification

✨ esther weltevrede and I are proud to launch the App Studies 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 Anne Helmond) and its concluding data-sprint UvA Geesteswetenschappen!

Wonderful book launch of the Visual Methods for Digital Research by Sabine Niederer and Gabriele Colombo at the Digital Methods Summer School! Looking forward to reading this one!

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/Three-…

We are very glad to share two new commentaries as part of our inaugural essays. Edemilson Paraná writes about platforms at the finance-technology nexus: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29… and Nick Srnicek writes about the new conglomerates" dominating platform capitalism journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…

📗✨ Digital Media Metaphors: A Critical Introduction. Featuring a chapter w/ Anne Helmond on ‘platform’ as an evolving metaphorical tapestry of terms meanings, alongside other great contributions in this edited volume. 🔗 doi.org/10.4324/978103…

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!)

Texts have paratexts. Platforms have paraplatforms - and we need to think through them. New research objects and angles appear as we do. That's what I argue in this short commentary for this great new journal Platforms & Society . Please take a read! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…