Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Ik ben onlangs als jonge onderzoeker geselecteerd door de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) en De Jonge Akademie om een gezicht te geven aan het onderzoeksveld van Nieuwe Media & Digitale Cultuur binnen Mediastudies. Ik zal op de projectsite van Faces of Science op mijn eigen profiel regelmatig bloggen over mijn leven als wetenschapper en de… Read more Faces of Science: volg het leven van jonge onderzoekers
I just published a book review on ‘Raw Data’ Is an Oxymoron, edited by Lisa Gitelman, in Information, Communication & Society: “This edited collection is a timely and important intervention into the ‘Big Data’ hype by addressing the core of the Big Data discourse through its history. It does so by not only asking the… Read more Book Review: ‘Raw Data’ Is an Oxymoron
Last month, Twitter announced the acquisition of Gnip, one of the main sources for social media data—including Twitter data. In my research I am interested in the politics of platforms and data flows in the social web and in this blog post I would like to explore the role of data intermediaries—Gnip in particular—in regulating access to social media… Read more Adding the bling: The role of social media data intermediaries
CNET recently published an article on how ‘Bots now running the Internet with 61 percent of Web traffic‘. Such bots include search engine crawlers or automated search engine optimization tools but also what I refer to as tools enabling the circulation of zombie content. XKCD illustrates this with an image that draws our attention to… Read more Zombie accounts clogging the tubes of the interwebs
International M.A. in New Media Âat the University of Amsterdam Call for Applications for Fall 2014, rolling admissions open on December 15, 2013 and close on 1 April 2014 One-year and two-year New Media M.A. Programs available. For the two-year “Research Master’s Program: New Media Specialisation,” see below. International M.A. in New Media & Digital… Read more International M.A. in New Media Âat the University of Amsterdam: Call for Applications for Fall 2014
My article “The Algorithmization of the Hyperlink” has just been published in the third issue of Computational Culture: a journal of software studies. Abstract This study looks at the history of the hyperlink from a medium-specific perspective by analyzing the technical reconfiguration of the hyperlink by engines and platforms over time. Hyperlinks may be seen… Read more The Algorithmization of the Hyperlink