Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
In this discussion we examine the notion of the datafied web by situating it historically and methodologically. By mobilizing insights from a range of fields, the discussion broadens the conceptual and methodological approaches and tools available for studying the datafied web. A dialogue between Migle Bareikyte, Carolin Gerlitz, Sebastian Giessmann, Jonathan W. Y. Gray, Anne… Read more The datafied web: a round-doc discussion
Over ten years ago I coined the term ‘platformization’ (2015) to understand how platforms expand beyond their own boundaries in Social Media + Society. Editor Zizi Papacharissi invited me, along others, to celebrate the journal’s 10 years’ anniversary by reflecting on a decade of platformization. The Platformization of Everything: From the End of the Like… Read more The Platformization of Everything: From the End of the Like Button to AI Infrastructure in Space
A new book chapter by Fernando van der Vlist, Anne Helmond and Esther Weltevrede in The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (edited by Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003166016-38. This chapter introduces methods for analysing app ecosystems, emphasizing that apps are not stand-alone entities but exist within larger ecosystems. It outlines three approaches: apps “for… Read more App ecosystem analysis
An opening statement prepared for the RESAW25 conference, 5-6 June, University of Siegen, Germany. A History of Researching the Datafied Web It’s a real pleasure to return to the RESAW conference, and to Siegen. We were asked to contemplate a deceptively simple question: how did the web become datafied? To begin, we should ask: what… Read more A History of Researching the Datafied Web
Fernando van der Vlist (Universiteit van Amsterdam) en ik waren te gast in de Verrekijkers-podcast van het Rathenau Instituut, waar we spraken over wat we tegenwoordig “AI” noemen. AI is in feite een complex ecosysteem van digitale én fysieke componenten – een zogeheten “AI stack” – waarvan we via populaire interfaces zoals ChatGPT slechts het… Read more De verborgen wereld achter AI (Rathenau Podcast)
We have a new edited Open Access book out with Amsterdam University Press: José van Dijck, Karin van Es, Anne Helmond, and Fernando van der Vlist (eds) (2025) Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values. Amsterdam University Press. It features 15 chapters from excellent researchers from our interdisciplinary research focus area Governing… Read more Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values