“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 APIs’ – interview/article by Melanie Zierse.
“Facebook overweegt de like te verbannen. Is dat nobel of berekenend?” Het Parool. 8 September 2019. On how the Like Economy continues to operate in the back-end even when Facebook decides to remove Like counts in the interface – interview/article by Hannah Stöve
“Internetarchieven.” Onder Mediadoctoren. 8 October 2018. Podcast about the history of the web and web archiving.
“Facebook weet ook veel over niet-gebruikers” Trouw. 10 April 2018. On how Facebook tracks non-platform users across the web and apps – interview/article by Naïm Derbali.
“Zo kijken ze met u mee.†Elsevier. 19 Augustus 2017: 50–54. On the role of social media as advertising platforms – interview/article by Servaas van der Laan. [Blendle link]
“Live liveness in realtime: mediawetenschappers over het fenomeen LIVE!“Â Radio Swammerdam. AmsterdamFM. 6 December 2015. On the notion of realtime, APIs and the political economy of social media platforms.
“Internetfilmpjes wereldwijde sensatie.” De Telegraaf. 4 January 2015. On the difference between viral and memes and why uplifting stories go viral.
“De nieuwe gebruikersvoorwaarden van Facebook.“ RTL Late Night with Humberto Tan. 16 December 2014. Late night talk show guest on Dutch television, discussion about how Facebook tracks users across the web & Facebook’s new terms and policies that will go into effect on 1 January 2015.
“Wat staat er in het nieuwe databeleid van Facebook?” De Correspondent. 2 December 2014. Guest contribution about Facebook’s new terms and policies that will go into effect on 1 January 2015.
“Facebook’s invloed op de Amerikaanse verkiezingen.” FunX. 6 November 2014. Radio interview about Facebook’s voting experiments during elections.
“De kledingvoorschriften van sociale media.” De Volkskrant. 4 August 2014. Interview for an article about Facebook’s content moderation policy and the role of users in flagging offensive content – interview/article by Pepijn van der Gulden.
“Facebook sterker dan ooit.” De Financiële Telegraaf. 2 August 2014. Interview for an article about Facebook’s Q3 results discussing Facebook as an advertising platform and how Facebook uses the Like button to collect data for advertisers outside of its social network boundaries.
“Vind mij leuk en ik zal zeggen wie je bent.” De Correspondent. 17 April 2014. On the value of the Facebook Like button – interview/article by Dimitri Tokmetzis.
“Ophef? Ach, het is Facebook maar hoor.” Nrc.next. 1 April 2014. On the role of social media in discussing news events – interview/article by Peter van der Ploeg.
“Big Data, vloek of zegen?” Lijn 1. NPO Radio 1, 2 December 2013.
“Ik ben een like-junk.” Marie Claire, March 2013. On the Facebook Like Button and Like addictions – interview/article by Renske Hoff.
“De terreur van de ‘like knop.‘ HP/De Tijd, 07, November 2012. On Facebook’s Like Economy – interview/article by Mark Traa.
“DuckDuckGo en andere Google alternatieven.“ EditieNL (RTL4), Dutch TV broadcaster, July 19, 2012. Interview about alternative search engines, personalization and the filter bubble.
“Nog zo’n dataverzamelaar.” De Gelderlander and other regional newspapers. 1 June 2012. Article discussing how I obtained my own Twitter data after legally requesting it from Twitter based on a EU-law.
“50 MB aan tweets, adressen en al je nummers. Dit is wat Twitter van je weet.” NRC Handelsblad online, Dutch newspaper, April 18, 2012. An article about ‘what Twitter knows about you’ discussing how I obtained my own Twitter data after legally requesting it from Twitter based on a EU-law.
“The history of the Dutch blogosphere” appeared on Wired, Beyond the Beyond by Bruce Sterling. 28 May 2010.