Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
English summary (Nederlandse samenvatting). Download the full dissertation as PDF (43Mb). Helmond, Anne (2015). “The Web as Platform: Data Flows in Social Media.†PhD dissertation, University of Amsterdam, 25 September 2015. Honorable mention, AoIR 2016 Best Dissertation Award. The web as platform: Data flows in the social web In October 2004, at the first Web 2.0 conference, Tim… Read more Dissertation
“De politieke economie van corona apps.” Onder Mediadoctoren. 27 April 2020. Podcast contribution about the power of platforms in building the tracing infrastructure of COVID-19 apps (from 40:30). “Sociale mediabedrijven belemmeren onderzoek” U-Today & Digitaal Universiteitsblad DUB. 25 October 2019. On the restrictive access to social media data for researchers and the need for ‘research… Read more Press
These are the slides from my presentation on Web Archives and Digital Methods: Reconstructing the Dutch Blogosphere with the Internet Archive. During the NWO CATCHmeeting “Supporting Media Studies Research: Exploration and Contextualization” at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum I presented some web archive use scenarios with a specific focus on doing… Read more Slides from my presentation on Web Archives and Digital Methods
This is the transcript of the Digital Methods Initiative Advanced Program Projects week 2 opening talk on Issuecrawler 1.0 and Social Media by Anne Helmond. The 2.0 denotes an ‘improved’ or progressional version of the web that builds upon and develops Web 1.0. […] Implicitly rooted in this vision of the web is a sense… Read more How Web 1.0 is the Issuecrawler?
Mediamatic is organizing a three day mapping festival where Esther Weltevrede and I will present our research on the Dutch blogosphere at the Mapping Ignite evening. “Map Fest takes place at Mediamatic on July 6, 8 and 9. Map Fest brings together kindred spirits to explore, create, define and oppose maps.” Day 1 is Mapping… Read more Mapping Festival at Mediamatic
2024 van der Vlist, F., Helmond, A., & Ferrari, F. (2024). Big AI: Cloud infrastructure dependence and the industrialisation of artificial intelligence. Big Data & Society, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241232630 van der Vlist, F. N., Helmond, A., Dieter, M., & Weltevrede, E. (2024). Super-appification: Conglomeration in the global digital economy. New Media and Society, 1–24. Advance online… Read more Publications