Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Two years ago I spoke at the IMPAKT Festival 2015 with the theme “The Future of the Past.” Together with my colleague Fernando van der Vlist and Transmediale artistic director Kristoffer Gansing we discussed different Big Data practices in our panel ‘Colossal Data X The Present.’ Afterwards we contributed to The Future of the Past, an interactive… Read more Video series: Welcome to the Future of the Past
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
On the 4th of October I participated in a hackathon with Project X Haren data organized by Tweetonderzoek (University of Utrecht) and SETUP Utrecht. After organizer Thomas Boeschoten welcomed us and talked us through the program I adressed some ethical concerns about working with this data. The ethics of working with big data The Project X Haren event… Read more The imagery of Project X Haren