Anne Helmond
@silvertje.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies,
@appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
@appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
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/10.4324/9781... (author pdf: www.annehelmond.nl/wordpress/wp...)
App Ecosystem Analysis | 38 | v2 | The Routledge Companion to Mobile M
This chapter introduces methods for analysing app ecosystems, emphasizing that apps are not stand-alone entities but exist within larger ecosystems. It outlines
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September 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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/10.4324/9781... (author pdf: www.annehelmond.nl/wordpress/wp...)
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🐈⬛ 4CAT 1.50 is here! 🐈⬛
This release brings under-the-hood improvements, a faster web interface, new processors, better LLM analyses, improved annotations, and lots of bugfixes.
🔗 Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho...
🔗 How to upgrade: github.com/digitalmetho...
This release brings under-the-hood improvements, a faster web interface, new processors, better LLM analyses, improved annotations, and lots of bugfixes.
🔗 Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho...
🔗 How to upgrade: github.com/digitalmetho...
Releases · digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
The 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit provides modular data capture & analysis for a variety of social media platforms. - digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
github.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🐈⬛ 4CAT 1.50 is here! 🐈⬛
This release brings under-the-hood improvements, a faster web interface, new processors, better LLM analyses, improved annotations, and lots of bugfixes.
🔗 Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho...
🔗 How to upgrade: github.com/digitalmetho...
This release brings under-the-hood improvements, a faster web interface, new processors, better LLM analyses, improved annotations, and lots of bugfixes.
🔗 Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho...
🔗 How to upgrade: github.com/digitalmetho...
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☀️ I’m very excited to share that I’ve been awarded a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO Talent Programme) for my project ‘AI Power: A Critical Platform Analysis’ (2025–2029)! 🔗 www.nwo.nl/en/news/200-...
July 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
☀️ I’m very excited to share that I’ve been awarded a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO Talent Programme) for my project ‘AI Power: A Critical Platform Analysis’ (2025–2029)! 🔗 www.nwo.nl/en/news/200-...
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After months of pain and crazy writing, this OA book, written by Chris Hesselbein and me, is finally out.
Behind the bleeding cover, you'll find our analysis of the metaverse (no, it’s not dead!), or rather of the current metaverses as "infrastructures of reality". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Behind the bleeding cover, you'll find our analysis of the metaverse (no, it’s not dead!), or rather of the current metaverses as "infrastructures of reality". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Infrastructures of Reality: Metaverse Stories, Spaces, Bodies
This open access book focuses on two dimensions of the development of the metaverse that are crucial to ‘reality’, namely spatiality and embodiment.
link.springer.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
After months of pain and crazy writing, this OA book, written by Chris Hesselbein and me, is finally out.
Behind the bleeding cover, you'll find our analysis of the metaverse (no, it’s not dead!), or rather of the current metaverses as "infrastructures of reality". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Behind the bleeding cover, you'll find our analysis of the metaverse (no, it’s not dead!), or rather of the current metaverses as "infrastructures of reality". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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📢 Vacancy alert: @ivir-uva.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc in the Human(e) AI Research Priority Area. Take a look at the details: https://bit.ly/3ItbqLu. Make sure you apply before 20 August! cc @natalihelberger.bsky.social #Vacancies #Jobs
Vacancy — Postdoctoral Research Position in Human(e) AI
The Research Priority Area in Human(e) AI at the University of Amsterdam currently has a vacant legal Postdoctoral Researcher position.
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July 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📢 Vacancy alert: @ivir-uva.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc in the Human(e) AI Research Priority Area. Take a look at the details: https://bit.ly/3ItbqLu. Make sure you apply before 20 August! cc @natalihelberger.bsky.social #Vacancies #Jobs
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Fantastic research from Anne Helmond and Fernando van der Vlist visualising the network/ecology of Facebook partners.
June 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Fantastic research from Anne Helmond and Fernando van der Vlist visualising the network/ecology of Facebook partners.
🎉 Check out our pre-print on app store governance and moderation! Forthcoming in the "Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms" book, edited by Richard Rogers with Amsterdam University Press.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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June 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🎉 Check out our pre-print on app store governance and moderation! Forthcoming in the "Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms" book, edited by Richard Rogers with Amsterdam University Press.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Please join us on Saturday, 21st June for our one-day hybrid academic/knowledge exchange meeting exploring issues of platform power, material politics, and advertising as a 'lens' for opening up platforms for empirical research. Note the date has been moved from Friday, 20th: tinyurl.com/jn39r22j
Platforms, Advertising and Power (In Person)
A one-day hybrid academic/knowledge exchange meeting exploring issues of platform power, material politics, and advertising.
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June 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Please join us on Saturday, 21st June for our one-day hybrid academic/knowledge exchange meeting exploring issues of platform power, material politics, and advertising as a 'lens' for opening up platforms for empirical research. Note the date has been moved from Friday, 20th: tinyurl.com/jn39r22j
A History of Researching the Datafied Web
An opening statement prepared for the #RESAW25 conference, 5-6 June, University of Siegen, Germany. Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1187) "Media of Cooperation."
www.annehelmond.nl/2025/06/07/a...
An opening statement prepared for the #RESAW25 conference, 5-6 June, University of Siegen, Germany. Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1187) "Media of Cooperation."
www.annehelmond.nl/2025/06/07/a...
A History of Researching the Datafied Web – Anne Helmond
www.annehelmond.nl
June 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A History of Researching the Datafied Web
An opening statement prepared for the #RESAW25 conference, 5-6 June, University of Siegen, Germany. Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1187) "Media of Cooperation."
www.annehelmond.nl/2025/06/07/a...
An opening statement prepared for the #RESAW25 conference, 5-6 June, University of Siegen, Germany. Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1187) "Media of Cooperation."
www.annehelmond.nl/2025/06/07/a...
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🕸️ I am really looking forward to THE DATAFIED WEB conference now (while the buzz of #rp25 is slowly fading).
The preconference is starting tomorrow!
The full RESAW 2025 program can be viewed on our conference website 👉 datafiedweb.net. Hashtag is #RESAW25 on Mastodon & elsewhere. See you in a bit!
The preconference is starting tomorrow!
The full RESAW 2025 program can be viewed on our conference website 👉 datafiedweb.net. Hashtag is #RESAW25 on Mastodon & elsewhere. See you in a bit!
June 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🕸️ I am really looking forward to THE DATAFIED WEB conference now (while the buzz of #rp25 is slowly fading).
The preconference is starting tomorrow!
The full RESAW 2025 program can be viewed on our conference website 👉 datafiedweb.net. Hashtag is #RESAW25 on Mastodon & elsewhere. See you in a bit!
The preconference is starting tomorrow!
The full RESAW 2025 program can be viewed on our conference website 👉 datafiedweb.net. Hashtag is #RESAW25 on Mastodon & elsewhere. See you in a bit!
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We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance.
More info: edu.nl/9admd
Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
More info: edu.nl/9admd
Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
edu.nl
May 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance.
More info: edu.nl/9admd
Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
More info: edu.nl/9admd
Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
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📣Registrations are open for our free online conference: Digital Pasts & Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality & Reimagining Digitality
📆 23-24 June 2025
Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan
🔗 www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re...
📆 23-24 June 2025
Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan
🔗 www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re...
April 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📣Registrations are open for our free online conference: Digital Pasts & Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality & Reimagining Digitality
📆 23-24 June 2025
Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan
🔗 www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re...
📆 23-24 June 2025
Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan
🔗 www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re...
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✨📗 ‘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-out... #AppStudies #AI
ASI Sprint Report Series – App Studies Initiative
appstudies.org
May 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
✨📗 ‘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-out... #AppStudies #AI
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We’re hiring: Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information Studies (Media Studies, @uvahumanities.bsky.social)! Join @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, myself, & other wonderful colleagues in the Critical Data & AI team. Applications due 28 May. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information Studies
Would you like to teach on cutting-edge theories, methods, and questions in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information? Then we have the perfect challenge for you!
werkenbij.uva.nl
May 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
We’re hiring: Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information Studies (Media Studies, @uvahumanities.bsky.social)! Join @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, myself, & other wonderful colleagues in the Critical Data & AI team. Applications due 28 May. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
🎙️ @fvandervlist.bsky.social en ik waren te gast in de Verrekijkers-podcast van Rathenau Instituut. We spraken over "De verborgen wereld achter AI". AI is een complex digitaal en fysiek ecosysteem –een AI stack– waarvan we via tools als ChatGPT slechts het topje zien: www.rathenau.nl/nl/digitalis...
De verborgen wereld achter AI - Verrekijkers (7) | Rathenau Instituut
Steeds meer mensen maken gebruik van kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) om teksten en afbeeldingen te maken. Deze lijken bijna op magische wijze tot stand te komen, maar achter elke zoekopdracht gaat een ...
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May 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🎙️ @fvandervlist.bsky.social en ik waren te gast in de Verrekijkers-podcast van Rathenau Instituut. We spraken over "De verborgen wereld achter AI". AI is een complex digitaal en fysiek ecosysteem –een AI stack– waarvan we via tools als ChatGPT slechts het topje zien: www.rathenau.nl/nl/digitalis...
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📢✨ New OA book out now with Amsterdam University Press: Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values, edited by José van Dijck, @kfvanes.bsky.social, @silvertje.bsky.social, & @fvandervlist.bsky.social. Access: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Governing the Digital Society
Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarizat...
www.aup.nl
May 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
📢✨ New OA book out now with Amsterdam University Press: Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values, edited by José van Dijck, @kfvanes.bsky.social, @silvertje.bsky.social, & @fvandervlist.bsky.social. Access: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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We're hiring a postdoc (4 years) for the AI STORIES project and are looking for someone who is interested in using computational and qualitative methods to explore generative AI and literature. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Literature and Generative AI at the Center for Digital Narrative (280778) | University of Bergen
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Literature and Generative AI at the Center for Digital Narrative (280778), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, June 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
May 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
We're hiring a postdoc (4 years) for the AI STORIES project and are looking for someone who is interested in using computational and qualitative methods to explore generative AI and literature. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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New OA book. Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values, edited by José van Dijck, @kfvanes.bsky.social, @silvertje.bsky.social & @fvandervlist.bsky.social www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Governing the Digital Society
Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarizat...
www.aup.nl
May 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
New OA book. Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values, edited by José van Dijck, @kfvanes.bsky.social, @silvertje.bsky.social & @fvandervlist.bsky.social www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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What if platforms decided what you should search for, without telling you how or why? In this position paper co-authored with @taylorannabell.bsky.social, @gorwa.ca, Jacob van de Kerkhof & @thalesbertaglia.bsky.social, we explore the TikTok Search feature and the governance challenges it creates.
May 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
What if platforms decided what you should search for, without telling you how or why? In this position paper co-authored with @taylorannabell.bsky.social, @gorwa.ca, Jacob van de Kerkhof & @thalesbertaglia.bsky.social, we explore the TikTok Search feature and the governance challenges it creates.
REMINDER. We have a call for papers for a special issue on "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis" for Platforms & Society.
Abstract deadline: May 23, 2025.
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! Info: journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...
Abstract deadline: May 23, 2025.
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! Info: journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...
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May 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
REMINDER. We have a call for papers for a special issue on "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis" for Platforms & Society.
Abstract deadline: May 23, 2025.
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! Info: journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...
Abstract deadline: May 23, 2025.
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! Info: journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...
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1) ✨ Deeply honoured to be delivering a keynote at RESAW 2025 – The Datafied Web at Universität Siegen! My talk "Vanishing Points: Technographies of Data Loss" will explore politics & temporalities of disappearing data in our age of platformization.
May 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
1) ✨ Deeply honoured to be delivering a keynote at RESAW 2025 – The Datafied Web at Universität Siegen! My talk "Vanishing Points: Technographies of Data Loss" will explore politics & temporalities of disappearing data in our age of platformization.
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🚨Call for papers🚨
@jenshaelterlein.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel on "STS and International Security: Towards Convergence?" for the 2025 @sts-ch.bsky.social conference in Zurich (10-12 Sep)
all panel info in the image; submit here: tinyurl.com/5dt72uxa
please distribute widely!
@jenshaelterlein.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel on "STS and International Security: Towards Convergence?" for the 2025 @sts-ch.bsky.social conference in Zurich (10-12 Sep)
all panel info in the image; submit here: tinyurl.com/5dt72uxa
please distribute widely!
April 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🚨Call for papers🚨
@jenshaelterlein.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel on "STS and International Security: Towards Convergence?" for the 2025 @sts-ch.bsky.social conference in Zurich (10-12 Sep)
all panel info in the image; submit here: tinyurl.com/5dt72uxa
please distribute widely!
@jenshaelterlein.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel on "STS and International Security: Towards Convergence?" for the 2025 @sts-ch.bsky.social conference in Zurich (10-12 Sep)
all panel info in the image; submit here: tinyurl.com/5dt72uxa
please distribute widely!
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🚨Call for Papers🚨
"Ten years of critical security studies: Taking stock" - annual conference of the critical security studies section at the @dvpw.bsky.social
Dresden, 6-7 Nov 2025
all info in the picture
"Ten years of critical security studies: Taking stock" - annual conference of the critical security studies section at the @dvpw.bsky.social
Dresden, 6-7 Nov 2025
all info in the picture
May 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🚨Call for Papers🚨
"Ten years of critical security studies: Taking stock" - annual conference of the critical security studies section at the @dvpw.bsky.social
Dresden, 6-7 Nov 2025
all info in the picture
"Ten years of critical security studies: Taking stock" - annual conference of the critical security studies section at the @dvpw.bsky.social
Dresden, 6-7 Nov 2025
all info in the picture
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Platforms, silos, interoperability - what's the deal with these database buzzwords?
Check out this🔥new paper by @matthewarcher.bsky.social @louravn.bsky.social and @nannathylstrup.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Check out this🔥new paper by @matthewarcher.bsky.social @louravn.bsky.social and @nannathylstrup.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The political economy of platformed silos: Theorizing data storage reconfigurations in the age of interoperability capitalism - Matthew Archer, Louis Ravn, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, 2025
Interoperability has become a prominent topic in contemporary discourses around digital infrastructures in fields as diverse as security, finance, health, and c...
journals.sagepub.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Platforms, silos, interoperability - what's the deal with these database buzzwords?
Check out this🔥new paper by @matthewarcher.bsky.social @louravn.bsky.social and @nannathylstrup.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Check out this🔥new paper by @matthewarcher.bsky.social @louravn.bsky.social and @nannathylstrup.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The Platforms and Society journal and AdTech Research Project present an Online Symposium
How to Approach and Regulate Google? A New Perspective
12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST)
Join via Zoom: newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw: 690528)
How to Approach and Regulate Google? A New Perspective
12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST)
Join via Zoom: newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw: 690528)
May 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The Platforms and Society journal and AdTech Research Project present an Online Symposium
How to Approach and Regulate Google? A New Perspective
12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST)
Join via Zoom: newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw: 690528)
How to Approach and Regulate Google? A New Perspective
12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST)
Join via Zoom: newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw: 690528)