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Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html

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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Nov 14

Nice to see so many people in this more friendly space 😀! Over the past years, I have worked across continents with 7 colleagues on a SI of International Journal of Cultural Studies featuring 20 papers developing Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production: www.uva.nl/en/profile/p...

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Petr Szczepanik @petrszczepanik.bsky.social · Jun 26

1/6 New article on how Spotify engages with East-Central Europe (ECE) and how platformization reinforces global inequalities. Based on the political economy of platforms and interviews with local "platform intermediaries" navigating algorithmic and geographic peripherality.
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Playlisting the periphery: Platform intermediaries and East-Central European music visibility in Spotify’s geography - Miloš Hroch, Petr Szczepanik, 2025

This article examines Spotify’s engagement with East-Central European (ECE) music markets, exploring how platformization intersects with peripherality. Using in...

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Suzanne Kröger @suzannekroger.bsky.social · Jun 18

37 landen, waaronder Duitsland en het VK spraken zich uit voor een voorzorgsstop op diepzee mijnbouw. Meer onderzoek naar de unieke biodiversiteit en strenge regels, voordat Trump een paar grote bedrijven de boel laat plunderen.

Helaas stemde o.a. CDA en VVD tegen en werd onze motie verworpen.

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 26

🔎 We proudly present @tpoell.bsky.social ‪as a plenary speaker at our public Evening Panel on Tuesday, "Power and Politics in Tech Governance,” at #AoIR2025Symposium!

Welcome Thomas Poell!

👉 Full conference program & registration (few seats remaining): platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · May 20

📢✨ 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...

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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · May 14

Plenary speakers include: @elinorcarmi.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, Natali Helberger, @ameliehldt.bsky.social, @tpoell.bsky.social, @ubiquity75.xyz, @nicsuzor.bsky.social, @jillian.bsky.social, @arnikazinke.bsky.social.

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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · May 14

I am getting excited! 3 weeks to go until our AoIR Symposium 2025 in Bremen will kick-off! The line-up of plenary speakers is wonderful, and the program so promising. If you are able to join in early June, don't miss to register for the few remaining seats. platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Apr 11

Please do! Looking forward!

Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Apr 10

Looking forward to welcoming you again in Amsterdam!

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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Apr 10

Nice that we are developing interrelated efforts!

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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Apr 10

@zoeglatt.bsky.social @jeanburgess.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social @sophiebishop.bsky.social @hesmondthing.bsky.social @robyncaplan.bsky.social @ajescoffery.bsky.social @producing2power.bsky.social @msteinbrg.bsky.social @tbonini.bsky.social

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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Apr 10

On December 17 & 18, we are organizing a conference at the University of Amsterdam on GenAI & Creative Practices. We are very much looking forward to your proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and fishbowls!! CfP: rdt.uva.nl/genai--creat... Deadline proposals: 26 May

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Apr 9

Call for registration

Research, Values, and Intervention: Navigating AI and Technomoral Futures
An Empirical Ethics Workshop with Shannon Vallor and Sabina Leonelli

📅 22 May 2025, 10-15:00, 📍 IAS, UvA

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Research, Values, and Intervention: Navigating AI and Technomoral Futures - Institute for Advanced Study IAS

This workshop explores how values shape research practices and vice versa, focusing on the ethico-political implications of AI, large datasets, and infrastructures. Through discussions with Shannon Va...

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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Apr 7

Just out! Open access article with @nieborg.bsky.social on "Analyzing institutional platform power" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #power #platforms #digital #bigtech Preparing the ground for our book on Platform Power!

Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem - David B Nieborg, Thomas Poell, 2025

This article calls for systematic analysis of the accumulation and exercise of institutional platform power in the digital economy. We examine how the relativel...

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · Apr 4

Two packed days "From Platform Governance to Generative AI", with plenary speakers Tarleton Gillespie, @natalihelberger.bsky.social, @tpoell.bsky.social, @ubiquity75.bsky.social, @jillian.bsky.social.

Please do register for the conference as we need to plan ahead; limited seats - high demand.

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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Feb 28

Great to see this out!

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Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social · Feb 28

It’s great to see this piece published in Platforms & Society:

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It nicely brings critical platform scholarship into conversation with the lit. on state capitalism and techno-colonialism, through a rich case study set in post-pandemic Greece.

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Northwestern Qatar @nuqatar.bsky.social · Feb 16

@tpoell.bsky.social, professor of data, culture and institutions at the University of Amsterdam, joined Dean @mkraidy.bsky.social for a community conversation on AI, platforms, and cultural production at today's Hiwar Scholars Seminar.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · Feb 9

My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, “Anatomy of an AI Coup.” With the takeover of the US government by tech elites underway, we must examine its goals and next steps — and how we will know if it has succeeded. www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press

DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · Feb 7

Please share widely and join us!

Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy
Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide

with Francesca Albanese
& Eyal Weizman

19.02.2025, 10-12
@ FU Berlin, Hörsaal 1a

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · Feb 3

🚀 Thomas Poell is speaking at AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 in Bremen!

Join us, June 3-4, 2025, for "From Platform Governance to Generative AI."

📢 Call for Papers – Submit by Feb 15!
🔗 Details & Submissions: platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

#AoIR2025Symposium #CfP

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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Jan 31

Looking forward to this!

Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · Jan 31

Confirmed plenary speaker at #aoir2025symposium: Thomas Poell (@tpoell.bsky.social), Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions at the University of Amsterdam. Submit your abstracts by FEB 15 to “From Platform Governance to Generative AI” platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo... //@zemki.bsky.social

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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · Jan 31

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Jan 30

CfP: 2-day Event: Towards an Ethics of Possibility: Paying Attention to Planetary Conditions of Livelihood, with Arjun Appadurai & Amade M’charek at the Institute for Advanced Study @iasamsterdam.bsky.social, University of Amsterdam, 3./.4 March

Deadline 14 February!

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Towards an Ethics of Possibility - Institute for Advanced Study IAS

This event is part of the "Empirical Ethics," a research line at IAS. The IAS Empirical Ethics Research Group invite participants to take part in a close interactive workshop with Amade M’charek and A...

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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Jan 28

This is going to be a really interesting event at exactly the right moment!

Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · Jan 17

We are hosting the 2025 @aoir.bsky.social Flashpoint Symposium in Bremen!

🎯 CfP "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance"
📆 3-4 June 2025, Bremen, DE
🗒️ Deadline for Abstracts: 15 February 2025
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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · Jan 17

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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Jan 16

We are excited to launch a CFP for a special issue of Digital Journalism on Platform Governance and Fact Checking. Abstract deadline: June 2; Editors: Oscar Westlund @anjabechmann.bsky.social @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social @gravesmatter.bsky.social @mediarepublik.bsky.social Steen Steensen & myself

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Jeroen de Kloet @jeroendekloet.bsky.social · Dec 8

Let my first post here be more self absorbed: please join our booklaunch on Tatming and the postcolonial politics of pop in Hong Kong

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The Politics of Pop: Tat Ming Pair

To celebrate the publication of the book It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong, the authors Yiu Fai Chow, Jeroen de Kloet, and Leonie Schmidt, will b...

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · Nov 30

Here’s the most charitable reading I can offer:

The tech barons behaved as though they were atop a social hierarchy, and expected mass adoration for their generosity+forgiveness for mistakes.

Instead, Elizabeth Warren, Lina Khan et al treated them like the heads of *massive corporations.*

Marc Andreessen
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Big Tech spent a decade doing everything possible to be the best conceivable progressive ally. They got treated with utter contempt, pounded daily, crucified in return. A full rethinking is required.

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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hi Karin :-)

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Esther Weltevrede @esthrr.bsky.social · Nov 25

New platform, new paper! Talking about ideal first posts :) The platformization of the follower factory with my co-author Johan Lindquist: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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