With some of our work in progress!

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg.bsky.social · 4w ago

yaay - notes from amsterdam on AI historiographies, chatbot meme-making & more 🪭🍵🌌💜✨ jonathangray.org/2026/07/09/a... with @digitalmethods.net @lboungr.bsky.social @silvertje.bsky.social @ktmac.bsky.social @fvandervlist.bsky.social @esthrr.bsky.social @framerframed.nl @nataliastanusch.bsky.social

✨📚 Our latest book, Platforms, is now available from Polity!

Polity@politybooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Our world runs on platforms.” 'Platforms: A Critical Introduction' shows how platforms structure modern life, from communication to commerce and labour. A new book from @silvertje.bsky.social and @fvandervlist.bsky.social is out today in the UK. See more: politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

🎉 We just received our author copies of Platforms: A Critical Introduction! Out 5 June in Europe (August in the US) with @politybooks.bsky.social, but already available to order with 30% off using code HVD30: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... w/@fvandervlist.bsky.social

✨📗 Our 3rd @appstudies.bsky.social ASI Sprint Report (w/ @esthrr.bsky.social) is out now! Building directly on previous work in this series, it explores what we call ‘Appification of AI’, focusing on the embeddedness, visibility, and dependency of artificial intelligence. #AppStudies #AI

App Studies@appstudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

✨📗 Out now: ‘Appification in the Age of AI: Exploring Exploring Embeddedness, Visibility, and Dependency’ (ASI Sprint Report No. 3), edited by @fvandervlist.bsky.social & @esthrr.bsky.social. 🔗Download/read more: appstudies.org/research-out... #AppStudies #AI

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

Na jaren luisteren mocht ik laatst zelf langskomen om te vertellen over mijn onderzoek naar online platforms en de platformisering van AI!

Onder Mediadoctoren@ondermediadoctoren.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Wie is de baas van AI? We spraken met @fvandervlist.bsky.social, nu in alle podcastapps en via ondermediadoctoren.nl/afl-216-de-p...

Coming up: @fvandervlist.bsky.social over de platformisering van AI

❗ We are urgently looking for a new Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI at the University of Amsterdam: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... The deadline for applying is very soon: Jan 4th. You’ll work with @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, @dluitse.bsky.social, @louravn.bsky.social, me, & more

Please let us know if you teach, or plan to teach, a course where the book could be assigned or recommended (please find the link below)! ✨

Anne Helmond@silvertje.bsky.social · 8mo ago

@fvandervlist.bsky.social and I are pleased to share that our book 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴: 𝘈 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 will be published with Polity in June/Aug 2026! We are reaching out to colleagues who teach courses where the book might be of interest for an inspection copy: forms.gle/k85pemd8BTQv...

☀️ 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-...

Please join if you're around in Edinburgh next week! 🏰

AdTech Project@adtechproject.bsky.social · last yr.

Speakers include keynotes from @silvertje.bsky.social (Anne Helmond, Utrecht University) and @fvandervlist.bsky.social ‬(Fernando van der Vlist, University of Amsterdam), @allartmarkets.bsky.social (Liz McFall, University of Edinburgh), and Brian O’Kelley (co-founder of AppNexus and Scope3).

✨This Friday (June 6) at #RESAW25 I'm excited to be presenting a methodological follow-up titled "Critical AI technography: Researching the material political economy and power of AI platforms" w/ @fvandervlist.bsky.social www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/...

Back in 🇩🇪 NRW this week. Presenting my work on ‘Big AI’—Platforms, Dependency, & Power, at @unibonn.bsky.social tonight (Mon), & Internationale Club La Redoute w/ @silvertje.bsky.social (Tue). 🔗 www.cassis.uni-bonn.de/en/events/up... & intclub-redoute-bonn.de/event/big-ai.... Please come if around!

Infrastructure, Capitalism, and Dependency in the Digital Age

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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-out... #AppStudies #AI

🎙️ @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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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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📢✨ 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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This will be out officially this Tuesday, 20 May, but you can already access the OA book PDF!

Rob Kitchin@robkitchin.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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...

aup.nl

✨ Vacancy for a PhD position in Archives of Deep Learning, as part of Prof. Tobias Blanke's ERC project on ‘Deep Culture’ at UvA. 🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD Position in Archives of Deep Learning

Would you like to become part of a dynamic community that is at the forefront of critical interdisciplinary research in Artificial Intelligence, Historical Digital Culture and Deep Learning?

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A nice take on “Visualization In/As Digital Media Studies” in the book Doing Digital Film History, by @bumatic.bsky.social and @skadiloist.bsky.social, doi.org/10.1515/9783...

Visualization In/As Digital Media Studies

Visualization In/As Digital Media Studies was published in Doing Digital Film History on page 315.

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Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌 ⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT

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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🙋‍♂️ Hi, 🦋Bluesky! For new followers, here are some of my latest published works (all 2024) that I’m proud of, focusing on the critical empirical study of the political economy of 🤖AI/cloud, platforms, & 📱global ‘super apps’. Sharing these with tags to help you find and follow friends and coauthors.

Hi, nice to be here 👋! Recently published: * The 'Platform' metaphor (w/ @fvandervlist.bsky.social): dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781... * 'Big AI: Cloud Infrastructure and the Industrialisation of AI' (w/ @fvandervlist.bsky.social & @fabianlferrari.bsky.social): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Platform | 4 | A Tapestry of Meanings and Metaphors | Anne Helmond, Fe

This chapter explores the metaphorical ‘tapestry’ of meanings woven into the ‘platform’ metaphor, tracing its journey from a technical term in the computing

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