Media Studies @UvA_Amsterdam · 📚 Author, Platforms (Polity) · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 👥 @appstudies @digitalmethods @PublicDataLab
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Joined September 2014
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Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social retweeted
Fresh #OA 🔓 paper from @samhind10, Gabriel Pereira, @fvandervlist & me in ICS! 'Orchestrating scalability: how patents render cloud imaginaries in CAV innovation.' What do 69K+ patents reveal about cloud & autonomous vehicles? 🚗☁️ doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…
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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/10.4324/978100316601… (pdf: annehelmond.nl/wordpress/wp-…)
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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-outp… #AppStudies #AI
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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, Karin van Es, Anne Helmond, and @fvandervlist
Open Access: aup.nl/en/book/9789048562718…
Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social retweeted
Vandaag stonden we met 25.000 mensen op het Malieveld in Den Haag te demonstreren tegen de voorgenomen desastreuze bezuinigingen tegen het hoger onderwijs! #woinactie #stopdebezuinigingen
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⚡️For those still left on the hellsite: Driving Decisions book launch is THIS THURSDAY. Zoom link will go out the day before.➡️Sign-up here: qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/j…
⚡️🚗On Thursday 21st November (16-17.30 GMT) I'll be in conversation with Alex Gekker (University of Amsterdam/@alexgekker) launching Driving Decisions (Palgrave). The event is supported by @DH_UoM. To sign-up to the (online) event, follow the link: qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/j… 🚗⚡️
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Three fully-funded PhD positions are available to join the new ERC Advanced Grant ‘Deep Culture - Living with Difference in the Age of Deep Learning’ in Amsterdam. For further details and a link to apply, please visit: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Thr…
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Just published: New @Convergence_NMT paper about asymmetries between software, organization, power and work in the implementation of cloud platforms.
Learn more about formatting work in platform capitalisms: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social retweeted
🚨Thrilled to share my new article “Platform power in AI: The evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence” ✨OA @PolicyR as part of the🔥SI “Locating and Theorizing Platform Power” Read: policyreview.info/articles/a…
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"Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy" by @cristina_alaimo @JannisKallinik1 is open access! 🎉 direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mono… "...the authors place the transformative potential of data at the center of an emerging socioeconomic order that restructures society and its institutions"
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Come and work with @CharlesJeurgens Annet Dekker @tobias_blanke @PaulaHelm12 @HLMQA @rensbod @fvandervlist & myself at Media Studies @UvA_Humanities @UvA_Amsterdam
We are looking for a new assistant professor Critical Archival Studies vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Ass…| Deadline June 14
Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social retweeted
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher “Governing the Digital Society” @UU_GDS @UniUtrecht. GDS promotes research on the socio-technical and political-economic processes of datafication, algorithmisation and platformisation and AI: uu.nl/en/organisation/workin… Deadline: 9 June.
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🚨New paper alert🚨: "Migrating the state into corporate clouds" w/@DanKotliar! OA publication in Information, Communication & Society, where we looked at Project Nimbus, a $1.2b tender won by Google (GCP) and Amazon (AWS) to "move the entire state of Israel into the Cloud" (!)
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Please join this lecture by @marcsteinberg on 'Platformed Conveniences' @UU_GDS on 30 May '24, exploring how Japanese convenience stores offer a lineage of “lean convenience,” shaping the smartphone-centric model of on-demand digital services.
More info: uu.nl/en/events/from-conveni….
Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social retweeted
New paper with @DanjoKaz00ie "Advertising as governance: The digital commodity audience and platform advertising dependency" in Media, Culture and society - out open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Kickoff of our new special interest group 'Greening the Digital Society' @UU_GDS with a talk on sustainable data centers by NorthC.
More info: uu.nl/en/research/governing-…
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✨ New article: Chao J, van Geenen D, Gerlitz C and van der Vlist FN (2024) Digital Methods for Sensory Media Research: Toolmaking as a Critical Technical Practice”. In: Convergence, special issue on Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research. doi.org/10.1177/135485652412…
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Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems. New @SocialMedia_Soc article by Johan Lindquist and @esthr in the special issue edited by me and @jonathan_c_ong
journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social retweeted
a bit short notice (deadline Jan. 26), but we are looking for a postdoc researcher in computational methods: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Pos…
Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social retweeted
Happy new year all!! Also, announcing: "Platform Capitalisms and Platform Cultures" - a short piece w/ @LinZhang9 & @rahul_mukh that argues the importance of the State in the platform-culture-market nexus. We build on the imp work of @nsrnicek & others
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
