New paper with DanjoKaZooie (@danjokaz00ie.bsky.social "Advertising as governance: The digital commodity audience and platform advertising dependency" in Media, Culture and society - out open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

Receiving positive reactions from people on my/our research means a lot and is greatly appreciated. I've been dedicated to critical platform research for years, so it's heartening to hear it's valued. 🙂

Come do a PhD on Infrastructural Ideologies in the EU, Russia, and China with ᗪᖇ. ᑎIEᒪᔕ 🔎📡〰️🗼 and the critical infrastructure lab at UvA Geesteswetenschappen Deadline May 10. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po…

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….

Yess! It took a while but now we finally have lift off! So excited to start this journal with the other editors and our amazing editorial board. 🥳🤜🏼💥🤛🏼 We look forward to receiving your submissions! 🙏🏻❤️

🚨New paper alert🚨: "Migrating the state into corporate clouds" w/Dan Kotliar! OA publication in Information, Communication & Society, where we looked at Project Nimbus, a $1.2b tender won by Google (GCP) and Amazon (AWS) to "move the entire state of Israel into the Cloud" (!)

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher “Governing the Digital Society” Governing the Digital Society Utrecht University. GDS promotes research on the socio-technical and political-economic processes of datafication, algorithmisation and platformisation and AI: uu.nl/en/organisatio… Deadline: 9 June.

Come and work with Charles Jeurgens Annet Dekker Tobias Blanke Paula Helm ([email protected]) houda lamqaddam, phd rens bod @rensbod.bsky.social Fernando van der Vlist | @[email protected] & myself at Media Studies UvA Geesteswetenschappen UvA Amsterdam We are looking for a new assistant professor Critical Archival Studies vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assist…| Deadline June 14

✨ 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 Stefanie Duguay Michael Dieter (@[email protected]) Dr. Fieke Jansen Anne Helmond) and its concluding data-sprint UvA Geesteswetenschappen!

THE DATAFIED WEB is finally getting real! Here's our CfP for next year's media historical conference Universität Siegen mediaofcooperation C2DH_LU (June 5-6, 2025). We invite scholars, researchers, web archivists and artists to contribute to the 6th #RESAW conference! cc.au.dk/en/resaw/cfp-r…

"Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy" by Cristina Alaimo Jannis Kallinikos is open access! 🎉 direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monog… "...the authors place the transformative potential of data at the center of an emerging socioeconomic order that restructures society and its institutions"

🚨Thrilled to share my new article “Platform power in AI: The evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence” ✨OA Internet Policy Review as part of the🔥SI “Locating and Theorizing Platform Power” Read: policyreview.info/articles/analy…

📢 Call for Abstracts! 📢 We are excited to invite abstracts for ‘The Future of Public Values in the Algorithmic Society’, a two-day international conference hosted by AlgoSoc. Deadline Sept 30, 2024: easychair.org/my/conference?… 🗓️ April 10-11, 2025 📍 Felix Meritis, Amsterdam

Just published: New Convergence Journal 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/10.1177/13…