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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.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

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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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Apr 11

Platform studies folks, AI scholars, creative industries scholars take note of this sure to be fantastic conference CFP!

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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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Apr 11

Please do! Looking forward!

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Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social · Apr 10

This sounds great!! ⬇️

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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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

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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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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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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