1/6 New article on how Spotify engages with East-Central Europe (ECE) and how platformization reinforces global inequalities. Based on the political economy of platforms and interviews with local "platform intermediaries" navigating algorithmic and geographic peripherality. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

37 landen, waaronder Duitsland en het VK spraken zich uit voor een voorzorgsstop op diepzee mijnbouw. Meer onderzoek naar de unieke biodiversiteit en strenge regels, voordat Trump een paar grote bedrijven de boel laat plunderen. Helaas stemde o.a. CDA en VVD tegen en werd onze motie verworpen.

🔎 We proudly present @tpoell.bsky.social ‪as a plenary speaker at our public Evening Panel on Tuesday, "Power and Politics in Tech Governance,” at #AoIR2025Symposium! Welcome Thomas Poell! 👉 Full conference program & registration (few seats remaining): platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

📢✨ New OA book out now with Amsterdam University Press: Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values, edited by José van Dijck, @kfvanes.bsky.social, @silvertje.bsky.social, & @fvandervlist.bsky.social. Access: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Plenary speakers include: @elinorcarmi.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, Natali Helberger, @ameliehldt.bsky.social, @tpoell.bsky.social, @ubiquity75.xyz, @nicsuzor.bsky.social, @jillian.bsky.social, @arnikazinke.bsky.social.

I am getting excited! 3 weeks to go until our AoIR Symposium 2025 in Bremen will kick-off! The line-up of plenary speakers is wonderful, and the program so promising. If you are able to join in early June, don't miss to register for the few remaining seats. platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

Platform studies folks, AI scholars, creative industries scholars take note of this sure to be fantastic conference CFP!

This sounds great!! ⬇️

On December 17 & 18, we are organizing a conference at the University of Amsterdam on GenAI & Creative Practices. We are very much looking forward to your proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and fishbowls!! CfP: rdt.uva.nl/genai--creat... Deadline proposals: 26 May

On December 17 & 18, we are organizing a conference at the University of Amsterdam on GenAI & Creative Practices. We are very much looking forward to your proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and fishbowls!! CfP: rdt.uva.nl/genai--creat... Deadline proposals: 26 May

Call for registration Research, Values, and Intervention: Navigating AI and Technomoral Futures An Empirical Ethics Workshop with Shannon Vallor and Sabina Leonelli 📅 22 May 2025, 10-15:00, 📍 IAS, UvA ias.uva.nl/content/even...

Just out! Open access article with @nieborg.bsky.social on "Analyzing institutional platform power" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #power #platforms #digital #bigtech Preparing the ground for our book on Platform Power!

Just out! Open access article with @nieborg.bsky.social on "Analyzing institutional platform power" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #power #platforms #digital #bigtech Preparing the ground for our book on Platform Power!

Two packed days "From Platform Governance to Generative AI", with plenary speakers Tarleton Gillespie, @natalihelberger.bsky.social, @tpoell.bsky.social, @ubiquity75.bsky.social, @jillian.bsky.social. Please do register for the conference as we need to plan ahead; limited seats - high demand.

It’s great to see this piece published in Platforms & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It nicely brings critical platform scholarship into conversation with the lit. on state capitalism and techno-colonialism, through a rich case study set in post-pandemic Greece.

@tpoell.bsky.social, professor of data, culture and institutions at the University of Amsterdam, joined Dean @mkraidy.bsky.social for a community conversation on AI, platforms, and cultural production at today's Hiwar Scholars Seminar.

My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, “Anatomy of an AI Coup.” With the takeover of the US government by tech elites underway, we must examine its goals and next steps — and how we will know if it has succeeded. www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

Please share widely and join us! Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide with Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman 19.02.2025, 10-12 @ FU Berlin, Hörsaal 1a

🚀 Thomas Poell is speaking at AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 in Bremen! Join us, June 3-4, 2025, for "From Platform Governance to Generative AI." 📢 Call for Papers – Submit by Feb 15! 🔗 Details & Submissions: platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo... #AoIR2025Symposium #CfP

Confirmed plenary speaker at #aoir2025symposium: Thomas Poell (@tpoell.bsky.social), Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions at the University of Amsterdam. Submit your abstracts by FEB 15 to “From Platform Governance to Generative AI” platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo... //@zemki.bsky.social

Looking forward to this!

CfP: 2-day Event: Towards an Ethics of Possibility: Paying Attention to Planetary Conditions of Livelihood, with Arjun Appadurai & Amade M’charek at the Institute for Advanced Study @iasamsterdam.bsky.social, University of Amsterdam, 3./.4 March Deadline 14 February! ias.uva.nl/content/even...

This is going to be a really interesting event at exactly the right moment!

We are excited to launch a CFP for a special issue of Digital Journalism on Platform Governance and Fact Checking. Abstract deadline: June 2; Editors: Oscar Westlund @anjabechmann.bsky.social @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social @gravesmatter.bsky.social @mediarepublik.bsky.social Steen Steensen & myself

We are excited to launch a CFP for a special issue of Digital Journalism on Platform Governance and Fact Checking. Abstract deadline: June 2; Editors: Oscar Westlund @anjabechmann.bsky.social @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social @gravesmatter.bsky.social @mediarepublik.bsky.social Steen Steensen & myself

Let my first post here be more self absorbed: please join our booklaunch on Tatming and the postcolonial politics of pop in Hong Kong spui25.nl/programma/th...

Here’s the most charitable reading I can offer: The tech barons behaved as though they were atop a social hierarchy, and expected mass adoration for their generosity+forgiveness for mistakes. Instead, Elizabeth Warren, Lina Khan et al treated them like the heads of *massive corporations.*

Organized by PhD and Postdoc fellows @annenbergcargc.bsky.social, a conf. focused on the role of media and communication scholarship in times of global crises: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... Please spread the word! Also, we're lucky to have Nabil Echchaibi as our keynote speaker!

New platform, new paper! Talking about ideal first posts :) The platformization of the follower factory with my co-author Johan Lindquist: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Join us! CfA: 25 January 2025 Joint DSC-IAS #Fellowship on #EmpiricalEthics & #DataScience Methods. We explicitly welcome joint applications from small teams of researchers that blend expertise in #ethics, #philosophy, #anthropology, or #STS, with #datascience approaches. ias.uva.nl/content/news...

In dit Starter Pack zijn onze collega's die op Bluesky actief zijn te vinden. Aanvullingen welkom: reageer of stuur ons een berichtje. go.bsky.app/39s7yVK

Join our in conversation with civil society leaders and int'l donors on Wednesday, November 20, 10-1130AM Eastern in a webinar co-hosted by SSRC & GloTech. We also promote knowledge-sharing for researchers/civil society at risk in global context. 🤗 5/6 www.ssrc.org/events/refor...

New GloTech study discusses these Qs: What can South-to-South knowledge exchange contribute to Tech and Democracy research? What are divergence points between Global North & South tech justice advocacies? How are so-called global “whole-of-society” coalitions extractive of “local partners”? 🧿 1/6

Ok folks in higher education, science and generally in 🇳🇱 Demonstration November 25, 13.00 Den Haag Stop 🛑 the irrational and shortsighted cuts in highered and science 🛑 woinactie.blogspot.com/2024/11/steu...

Looking to follow smart people studying the internet? I created a starter pack to get you going. Let me know if you want to be added or removed! go.bsky.app/LVrPemK

AI is not always hallucinating… Grok, owned by Musk, concludes: “Based on various analyses, social media sentiment, and reports, Elon Musk has been identified as one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X since he acquired the platform” fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...

Made a starter pack of media industry scholars: go.bsky.app/61pDASR Please let me know if you want to be added (or removed)!

I’ve created a starter pack for #scholars of (digital) #activism and social movements. Please check it out to find people you might be interested in connecting with! Let me also know if you’d like to be included in the pack. #protests #research #AcademicSky go.bsky.app/DN73Mqz

Curious about the creator economy? Join us tomorrow for our first #CCSNChats event! Industry insight meets academic expertise in a virtual roundtable ❤️‍🔥 Book your ticket HERE: www.eventbrite.com/e/ccsn-chats...

👉 The Media & Communication starter pack of starter packs 📺 🎞️ 📱 💬 Internet Studies: go.bsky.app/LVrPemK Internet Studies 2: go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf Internet Studies 3: go.bsky.app/9uYafGv Media Theory: go.bsky.app/RGLr16b Audience Studies: go.bsky.app/2CKVP4u

Great new work from Daphne Idiz & @tpoell.bsky.social Broad conceptual framing of the screen sectors regardless of distribution technology. Helpful subcategories of hosting v. commissioning models. Insightful use of 'dependence'. OA; good for upperlevel teaching journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Come join us for the next ICA CreatorCon! Link here for the CFP. Please share with your networks. www.ccsn.site/ica

Nice to see so many people in this more friendly space 😀! Over the past years, I have worked across continents with 7 colleagues on a SI of International Journal of Cultural Studies featuring 20 papers developing Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production: www.uva.nl/en/profile/p...

The SI features work of among others: @msteinbrg.bsky.social @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social @arturoarriagada.bsky.social @producing2power.bsky.social @jeanburgess.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @dugstef.bsky.social

Nice to see so many people in this more friendly space 😀! Over the past years, I have worked across continents with 7 colleagues on a SI of International Journal of Cultural Studies featuring 20 papers developing Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production: www.uva.nl/en/profile/p...

Thread about internet studies starter packs - or those related to the field bsky.app/profile/mste...

I made a starter pack for public interest technology, critical data studies, and related fields. LMK who else I should add, please. #PublicInterestTech #PublicInterestTechnology #DataforSocialGood go.bsky.app/He8HTaC