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Thomas Poell

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Reposted by: Thomas Poell

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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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Reposted by: Thomas Poell

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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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Reposted by: Thomas Poell

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🔎 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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Reposted by: Thomas Poell, Rafael Grohmann

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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...
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by Christian Katzenbach — Reposted by: Thomas Poell

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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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Reposted by: Thomas Poell, Nicolas Suzor

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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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by Thomas Poell

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Please do! Looking forward!
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by Thomas Poell

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Looking forward to welcoming you again in Amsterdam!
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by Thomas Poell

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Nice that we are developing interrelated efforts!
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by Thomas Poell

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@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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by Thomas Poell — Reposted by: Thomas Poell, Rafael Grohmann, Louise Amoore

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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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Reposted by: Thomas Poell, Sabina Leonelli

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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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by Thomas Poell — Reposted by: Thomas Poell, Rocco Bellanova

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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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Reposted by: Thomas Poell

pgmt.bsky.social
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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by Thomas Poell

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Great to see this out!
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Reposted by: Thomas Poell

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

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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Reposted by: Thomas Poell

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@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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Reposted by: Thomas Poell, Marc Baer, Jutta Haider

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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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by Robin Celikates — Reposted by: Thomas Poell

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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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Reposted by: Thomas Poell, Christian Katzenbach

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🚀 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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by Thomas Poell — Reposted by: Christian Katzenbach

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Looking forward to this!
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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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by Thomas Poell — Reposted by: Thomas Poell, Christian Katzenbach

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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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Reposted by: Thomas Poell

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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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by Thomas Poell — Reposted by: Christian Katzenbach, Anja Bechmann

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This is going to be a really interesting event at exactly the right moment!
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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
platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...
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by Thomas Poell — Reposted by: Fabrizio Gilardi, Christian Katzenbach, Anja Bechmann

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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
platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...
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by Thomas Poell — Reposted by: Thomas Poell, Sandra González‐Bailón, Anja Bechmann

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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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by Jeroen de Kloet — Reposted by: Thomas Poell

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

spui25.nl/programma/th...
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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Reposted by: Thomas Poell

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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 • • • 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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by Thomas Poell

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Hi Karin :-)

Reposted by: Thomas Poell, Jonathan Gray, Bernhard Rieder

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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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