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Fernando van der Vlist

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Media Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social · 📚 Author, Platforms (Polity) · 📦 NWO Veni: ‘AI Power’ · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 👥 @appstudies.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 🔗 fernandovandervlist.nl

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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Out worldwide now! 📚 Keep an eye out for the book launch events we’re planning this autumn.
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
With some of our work in progress!
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
✨📚 Our latest book, Platforms, is now available from Polity!
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Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🎉 We just received our author copies of Platforms: A Critical Introduction! Out 5 June in Europe (August in the US) with @politybooks.bsky.social, but already available to order with 30% off using code HVD30: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... w/@fvandervlist.bsky.social
New book – Platforms: A Critical Introduction
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
✨📗 Our 3rd @appstudies.bsky.social ASI Sprint Report (w/ @esthrr.bsky.social) is out now! Building directly on previous work in this series, it explores what we call ‘Appification of AI’, focusing on the embeddedness, visibility, and dependency of artificial intelligence. #AppStudies #AI
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
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About the Conference
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Na jaren luisteren mocht ik laatst zelf langskomen om te vertellen over mijn onderzoek naar online platforms en de platformisering van AI!
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Onder Mediadoctoren @ondermediadoctoren.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Coming up: @fvandervlist.bsky.social over de platformisering van AI
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
❗ We are urgently looking for a new Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI at the University of Amsterdam: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... The deadline for applying is very soon: Jan 4th. You’ll work with @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, @dluitse.bsky.social, @louravn.bsky.social, me, & more
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Vacancy — Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI (D4)
<p>Would you like to teach cutting-edge theories, computational methods, and questions in Critical Data & AI? Then we have the perfect challenge for you!</p>
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Please let us know if you teach, or plan to teach, a course where the book could be assigned or recommended (please find the link below)! ✨
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Yes!! Dank je Niels!
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Thanks Jaap—yay!
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Starting this fall, I’ll continue my research on AI, platform infrastructures, and emerging forms of power and dependency at @uvahumanities.bsky.social. I’ll also remain involved as Programme Coordinator of our new—and already thriving!—MA Cultural Data & AI (w/ @tpoell.bsky.social & others).
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
☀️ I’m very excited to share that I’ve been awarded a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO Talent Programme) for my project ‘AI Power: A Critical Platform Analysis’ (2025–2029)! 🔗 www.nwo.nl/en/news/200-...
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Thanks so much, Karen—lovely seeing you again!!
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Please join if you're around in Edinburgh next week! 🏰
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Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
✨This Friday (June 6) at #RESAW25 I'm excited to be presenting a methodological follow-up titled "Critical AI technography: Researching the material political economy and power of AI platforms" w/ @fvandervlist.bsky.social www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/...
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Program – The Datafied Web
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Let's think and find another occasion, would be lovely.
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Oh no; I (we) were so looking forward to seeing you there and catching up! 🙁
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Then off to #RESAW25, presenting on the evolving audience data economy w/ @silvertje.bsky.social (Thu), platform histories panel (Fri) w/ @devikanarayan.bsky.social, @bumatic.bsky.social, & on technography for critical AI studies w/ @dluitse.bsky.social. 🔗 www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/...
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Program – The Datafied Web
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Back in 🇩🇪 NRW this week. Presenting my work on ‘Big AI’—Platforms, Dependency, & Power, at @unibonn.bsky.social tonight (Mon), & Internationale Club La Redoute w/ @silvertje.bsky.social (Tue). 🔗 www.cassis.uni-bonn.de/en/events/up... & intclub-redoute-bonn.de/event/big-ai.... Please come if around!
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Infrastructure, Capitalism, and Dependency in the Digital Age
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App Studies @appstudies.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
✨📗 ‘Appification in the Age of AI: Exploring AI App Cultures and Economies’ (ASI Sprint Report No. 2), edited by @fvandervlist & @esthr. 🔗Download/read more: appstudies.org/research-out... #AppStudies #AI
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ASI Sprint Report Series – App Studies Initiative
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Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🎙️ @fvandervlist.bsky.social en ik waren te gast in de Verrekijkers-podcast van Rathenau Instituut. We spraken over "De verborgen wereld achter AI". AI is een complex digitaal en fysiek ecosysteem –een AI stack– waarvan we via tools als ChatGPT slechts het topje zien: www.rathenau.nl/nl/digitalis...
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De verborgen wereld achter AI - Verrekijkers (7) | Rathenau Instituut
Steeds meer mensen maken gebruik van kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) om teksten en afbeeldingen te maken. Deze lijken bijna op magische wijze tot stand te komen, maar achter elke zoekopdracht gaat een ...
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We’re hiring: Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information Studies (Media Studies, @uvahumanities.bsky.social)! Join @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, myself, & other wonderful colleagues in the Critical Data & AI team. Applications due 28 May. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information Studies
Would you like to teach on cutting-edge theories, methods, and questions in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information? Then we have the perfect challenge for you!
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
📢✨ 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...
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Governing the Digital Society
Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarizat...
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This will be out officially this Tuesday, 20 May, but you can already access the OA book PDF!
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
New OA book. Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values, edited by José van Dijck, @kfvanes.bsky.social, @silvertje.bsky.social & @fvandervlist.bsky.social www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Governing the Digital Society
Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarizat...
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
✨ Vacancy for a PhD position in Archives of Deep Learning, as part of Prof. Tobias Blanke's ERC project on ‘Deep Culture’ at UvA. 🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — PhD Position in Archives of Deep Learning
Would you like to become part of a dynamic community that is at the forefront of critical interdisciplinary research in Artificial Intelligence, Historical Digital Culture and Deep Learning?
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
A nice take on “Visualization In/As Digital Media Studies” in the book Doing Digital Film History, by @bumatic.bsky.social and @skadiloist.bsky.social, doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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Visualization In/As Digital Media Studies
Visualization In/As Digital Media Studies was published in Doing Digital Film History on page 315.
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Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌 ⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT
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Esther Weltevrede @esthrr.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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....
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hi there, Stefanie! And thanks so much for sharing that research! 🙂
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
More info: www.fernandovandervlist.nl
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Index of / – fernandovandervlist.nl
Fernando van der Vlist, PhD, is a scholar, graphic designer, and educator specialising in digital media and technology, especially internet studies. He is Assistant Professor and programme coordinator...
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
📑 ‘Challenges as catalysts: how Waymo’s Open Dataset Challenges shape AI development’, w/ Sam Hind and Max Kanderske |📗 In AI&Soc | 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s001... (OA)
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
📑 ‘Super-appification: Conglomeration in the global digital economy’, w/ @silvertje.bsky.social, @michael-dieter.bsky.social, & Esther Weltevrede—follow us on @appstudies.bsky.social | In 📗 NM&S | 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1461... (OA)
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
📑 On ‘Big AI: Cloud infrastructure dependence and the industrialisation of artificial intelligence’, w/ @silvertje.bsky.social & @fabianlferrari.bsky.social | In 📗 @bigdatasoc.bsky.social | 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2053... (OA)
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
📑 ‘Platform: A Tapestry of Meanings and Metaphors’, w/ @silvertje.bsky.social | 📗 Digital Media Metaphors (Eds. @jfarkas.bsky.social & Marcus Maloney) | 🔗 doi.org/10.4324/9781... (💬 Chat for PDF)
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Platform | 4 | A Tapestry of Meanings and Metaphors | Anne Helmond, Fe
This chapter explores the metaphorical ‘tapestry’ of meanings woven into the ‘platform’ metaphor, tracing its journey from a technical term in the computing
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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🙋‍♂️ Hi, 🦋Bluesky! For new followers, here are some of my latest published works (all 2024) that I’m proud of, focusing on the critical empirical study of the political economy of 🤖AI/cloud, platforms, & 📱global ‘super apps’. Sharing these with tags to help you find and follow friends and coauthors.
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Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hi, nice to be here 👋! Recently published: * The 'Platform' metaphor (w/ @fvandervlist.bsky.social): dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781... * 'Big AI: Cloud Infrastructure and the Industrialisation of AI' (w/ @fvandervlist.bsky.social & @fabianlferrari.bsky.social): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Platform | 4 | A Tapestry of Meanings and Metaphors | Anne Helmond, Fe
This chapter explores the metaphorical ‘tapestry’ of meanings woven into the ‘platform’ metaphor, tracing its journey from a technical term in the computing
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Michael Dieter @michael-dieter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
go.bsky.app/LgxjH1n
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