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 paper alert🚨: "Migrating the state into corporate clouds" w/@DanKotliar! 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 @PaulaHelm12 houda lamqaddam, phd rens bod @rensbod.bsky.social Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social & 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 @DugStef @mdieter @FiekeJ Anne Helmond) and its concluding data-sprint UvA Geesteswetenschappen!

"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 policy repay as part of the🔥SI “Locating and Theorizing Platform Power” Read: policyreview.info/articles/analy…

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…

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-…

📗✨ 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…

⚡️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/jfe/form/SV_eD…

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

📷📷 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 Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social Open Access: aup.nl/en/book/978904…

✨📗 ‘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