Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
Please to announce that I’ll be speaking at this wonderful workshop on researching apps with Fernando van der Vlist (U of Siegen) and Nathaniel Tkacz (U of Warwick). Read the full call for all information. Workshop organized by Dr Rik Smit (RUG), within the context of the Research School for Media Studies (RMeS) PhD Workshop… Read more RMeS Workshop Appnography: Researching the apps of life and the life of apps
An interview with me on ‘Researching the History of the Web‘ (available open access) was published in TMG – Journal for Media History as part of their special issue on Big Data Histories: In recent years, scholarly research in a range of fields, including media studies, has capitalised on the availability of ever-increasing numbers of… Read more Interview: Researching the History of the Web
Ik was te gast bij Onder Mediadoctoren om te praten over de geschiedenis van het web, web archivering en de vraag of we alles op het internet moeten of willen bewaren. De podcast staat nu online!
Michael Stevenson and I will be organizing a three day international conference on “The Web that Was: Archives, Traces, Reflections” at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 19-21, 2019. Please find the full call for papers on our website. Abstract As the first generation of web users goes grey, it’s clear that the internet… Read more CfP: The Web that Was: Archives, Traces, Reflections (Amsterdam, June 2019)
It’s official! I’ve been awarded a NWO Veni grant for my research proposal to examine the app ecosystem and write a critical history of apps. From the official press release: “The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant worth up to 250,000 euros to 154 researchers who have recently obtained their… Read more NWO Veni grant for ‘App ecosystems: A critical history of apps’