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Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · Sep 1

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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Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · Jul 27

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4CAT @4cat.nl · Jul 18

🐈‍⬛ 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...

Releases · digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat

The 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit provides modular data capture & analysis for a variety of social media platforms. - digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat

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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · Jul 17

☀️ 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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Paolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · Jul 9

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...

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.

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Amsterdam Law School @uvalawschool.bsky.social · Jul 7

📢 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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Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · Jun 23

Ik kan je helaas niet helpen, maar heb het helaas ook regelmatig nodig voor onderzoek. Zo jammer dat Crunchbase niet meer is wat het is, gebruikte ik vaak voor onderzoek naar Big Tech. Mocht je iets tegenkomen, hoor ik het graag!

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · Jun 21

Fantastic research from Anne Helmond and Fernando van der Vlist visualising the network/ecology of Facebook partners.

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Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · Jun 16

🎉 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.

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AdTech Project @adtechproject.bsky.social · Jun 12

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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Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · Jun 7

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...

A History of Researching the Datafied Web – Anne Helmond

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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · Jun 3

🕸️ 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!

Conference Design RESAW25, Siegen, June 4-6, 2025

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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · May 23

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!)

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ReDICo @redico.eu · Apr 28

📣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...

Conference poster: Online Conference "Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality". 23 - 24 June 2025. Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Ethan Zuckerman, Ramesh Srinivasan.
Program and registration: Scan QR-Code
ReDICo is a project of the University of Jena sponsored by BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research).

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App Studies @appstudies.bsky.social · May 28

✨📗 ‘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

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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · May 21

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!

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Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · May 23

🎙️ @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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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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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · May 19

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

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · May 16

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

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · May 15

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.

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Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · May 13

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...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · May 12

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.

Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · Mar 27

🕸️ We are doing this conference at Media of Cooperation this June ... It is called THE DATAFIED WEB, and it will be a blast! Registration for #RESAW25 is now open. Please spread widely, and do not forget to check out the marvelous programme at datafiedweb.net! #www #history #archive #data #AI

Registration open for RESAW 2025 THE DATAFIED WEB at Siegen University

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · Apr 14

🚨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!

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · May 6

🚨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

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