Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
On September 23, 2015 I will publicly defend my dissertation ‘The web as platform: Data flows in social media’ at the University of Amsterdam. Read the English summary/Nederlandse samenvatting or download the full dissertation as PDF (43Mb). Abstract This dissertation looks into the history of Web 2.0 as “the web as platform†(O’Reilly 2004) and… Read more The web as platform: Data flows in social media
My co-authored article, with colleagues Esther Weltevrede and Carolin Gerlitz, has been published in Theory, Culture & Society Abstract This paper inquires in the politics of real-time in online media. It suggests that real-time cannot be accounted for as a universal temporal frame in which events happen, but explores the making of real-time from a… Read more The Politics of Real-time: A Device Perspective on Social Media Platforms and Search Engines
International M.A. in New Media Âat the University of Amsterdam Call for Applications for Fall 2013, rolling admissions open on 1 November 2012 and close on 1 April 2013 One-year and two-year New Media M.A. Programs available. For the two-year “Research Master’s Program: New Media Track,†see below. New Media M.A. – One-year Program The International… Read more International M.A. in New Media Âat the University of Amsterdam: Call for Applications for Fall 2013
At our 6th annual Digital Methods Summer School, “Reality Mining and the Limits of Digital Methods” I presented some of our tools available at the DMI Tool Database during a tool medley: [slideshare id=13455317&doc=summerschool2012toolmedley-120626034101-phpapp01]
[vimeo width=”700″ height=”394″]http://vimeo.com/39256468[/vimeo] Conference presentation at Unlike Us #2: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. Session 4: Software Matters Anne Helmond (NL) and Carolin Gerlitz (UK) – Reworking the fabric of the web: The Like economy. Conference Day 2: March 10 2012 Amsterdam, 11.00 – 12.30 Abstract In recent years, Facebook has increasingly expanded beyond the… Read more Video: Reworking the fabric of the web: The Like economy