Reposted by Anne Helmondshapingdigitalsocs.bsky.social @shapingdigitalsocs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026You are warmly invited to our book launch! Platforms: A Critical Introduction Anne Helmond and Fernando van der Vlist Polity, 2026 When: Friday, 2 October 2026, 15:00–18:00 CET Where: Kanunnikenzaal, Academiegebouw, Utrecht University Sign up here: www.uu.nl/en/events/pl... 041
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Our book, Platforms: A Critical Introduction, co-authored by Anne Helmond and @fvandervlist.bsky.social, is now officially out worldwide with Polity! Use code HVD30 for 30% off: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... We wrote a blog post about the book here: www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/... 140
Reposted by Anne HelmondPolity @politybooks.bsky.social · 05/06/2026“Our world runs on platforms.” 'Platforms: A Critical Introduction' shows how platforms structure modern life, from communication to commerce and labour. A new book from @silvertje.bsky.social and @fvandervlist.bsky.social is out today in the UK. See more: politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... 075
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 0144
Reposted by Anne HelmondFernando 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 032
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 08/05/2026My university does not run Canvas (we use Brightspace) so we're not affected by the hack. Instead, a data centre is on fire and now we can't enter our university buildings or access most of our online environments. All teaching etc cancelled. 🤷 152
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Over ten years ago I coined ‘𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’ (2015) to examine how platforms expand beyond their boundaries in 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 + 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺. Invited by editor Papacharissi, I reflect on a decade of platformization 🎉 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 doi.org/10.1177/2056...doi.orgSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 1137
Reposted by Anne HelmondInternet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu · 18/02/2026How do researchers, journalists & artists work with the Wayback Machine? At a recent gathering in Amsterdam, we explored how web archives support digital investigations, platform research & media art — and how we can build better tools & collaborations. 👉 www.internetarchive.eu/2026/02/18/w...internetarchive.euWays of working with the Wayback Machine - Internet Archive EuropeGuest post by Jonathan W. Y. Gray. How do researchers, journalists, and artists work with archived pages from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine? What kinds of tools, methods, and approaches do th... 01910
Reposted by Anne HelmondKean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I'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...4sonline.orgAbout the Conference 17170132
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 10/12/2025@fvandervlist.bsky.social and I are pleased to share that our book 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴: 𝘈 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 will be published with Polity in June/Aug 2026! We are reaching out to colleagues who teach courses where the book might be of interest for an inspection copy: forms.gle/k85pemd8BTQv... 2338
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 01/09/2025New book chapter! We just published 'App Ecosystem Analysis' (w/ @fvandervlist @esthr) introducing methods for analysing app ecosystems, emphasizing that apps are not stand-alone entities but exist within larger ecosystems: doi.org/10.4324/9781... (author pdf: www.annehelmond.nl/wordpress/wp...)doi.orgApp Ecosystem Analysis | 38 | v2 | The Routledge Companion to Mobile MThis chapter introduces methods for analysing app ecosystems, emphasizing that apps are not stand-alone entities but exist within larger ecosystems. It outlines 010
Reposted by Anne Helmond4CAT @4cat.nl · 18/07/2025🐈⬛ 4CAT 1.50 is here! 🐈⬛ This release brings under-the-hood improvements, a faster web interface, new processors, better LLM analyses, improved annotations, and lots of bugfixes. 🔗 Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho... 🔗 How to upgrade: github.com/digitalmetho...github.comReleases · digitalmethodsinitiative/4catThe 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit provides modular data capture & analysis for a variety of social media platforms. - digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat 2124
Reposted by Anne HelmondFernando 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-... 8222
Reposted by Anne HelmondPaolo Bory @paolobory.bsky.social · 09/07/2025After months of pain and crazy writing, this OA book, written by Chris Hesselbein and me, is finally out. Behind the bleeding cover, you'll find our analysis of the metaverse (no, it’s not dead!), or rather of the current metaverses as "infrastructures of reality". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...link.springer.comInfrastructures of Reality: Metaverse Stories, Spaces, BodiesThis open access book focuses on two dimensions of the development of the metaverse that are crucial to ‘reality’, namely spatiality and embodiment. 131
Reposted by Anne HelmondAmsterdam Law School @uvalawschool.bsky.social · 07/07/2025📢 Vacancy alert: @ivir-uva.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc in the Human(e) AI Research Priority Area. Take a look at the details: bit.ly/3ItbqLu. Make sure you apply before 20 August! cc @natalihelberger.bsky.social #Vacancies #Jobsbit.lyVacancy — Postdoctoral Research Position in Human(e) AIThe Research Priority Area in Human(e) AI at the University of Amsterdam currently has a vacant legal Postdoctoral Researcher position. 036
Reposted by Anne HelmondKaren Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Fantastic research from Anne Helmond and Fernando van der Vlist visualising the network/ecology of Facebook partners. 151
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 16/06/2025🎉 Check out our pre-print on app store governance and moderation! Forthcoming in the "Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms" book, edited by Richard Rogers with Amsterdam University Press. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 050
Reposted by Anne HelmondAdTech Project @adtechproject.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Please join us on Saturday, 21st June for our one-day hybrid academic/knowledge exchange meeting exploring issues of platform power, material politics, and advertising as a 'lens' for opening up platforms for empirical research. Note the date has been moved from Friday, 20th: tinyurl.com/jn39r22jeventbrite.co.ukPlatforms, Advertising and Power (In Person)A one-day hybrid academic/knowledge exchange meeting exploring issues of platform power, material politics, and advertising. 122
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 07/06/2025A History of Researching the Datafied Web An opening statement prepared for the #RESAW25 conference, 5-6 June, University of Siegen, Germany. Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1187) "Media of Cooperation." www.annehelmond.nl/2025/06/07/a...annehelmond.nlA History of Researching the Datafied Web – Anne Helmond 052
Reposted by Anne HelmondSebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 03/06/2025🕸️ I am really looking forward to THE DATAFIED WEB conference now (while the buzz of #rp25 is slowly fading). The preconference is starting tomorrow! The full RESAW 2025 program can be viewed on our conference website 👉 datafiedweb.net. Hashtag is #RESAW25 on Mastodon & elsewhere. See you in a bit! 195
Reposted by Anne HelmondUğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 23/05/2025We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance. More info: edu.nl/9admd Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)edu.nl 04836
Reposted by Anne HelmondReDICo @redico.eu · 28/04/2025📣Registrations are open for our free online conference: Digital Pasts & Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality & Reimagining Digitality 📆 23-24 June 2025 Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan 🔗 www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re... 16426
Reposted by Anne HelmondApp 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 #AIappstudies.orgASI Sprint Report Series – App Studies Initiative 142
Reposted by Anne HelmondFernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 21/05/2025We’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...werkenbij.uva.nlVacancy — Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information StudiesWould 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! 075
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...rathenau.nlDe verborgen wereld achter AI - Verrekijkers (7) | Rathenau InstituutSteeds 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 ... 021
Reposted by Anne HelmondFernando 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...aup.nlGoverning the Digital SocietyDigital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarizat... 23618
Reposted by Anne HelmondJill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 19/05/2025We're hiring a postdoc (4 years) for the AI STORIES project and are looking for someone who is interested in using computational and qualitative methods to explore generative AI and literature. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...jobbnorge.noPostdoctoral Research Fellow on Literature and Generative AI at the Center for Digital Narrative (280778) | University of BergenJob title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Literature and Generative AI at the Center for Digital Narrative (280778), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, June 15, 2025 15741
Reposted by Anne HelmondRob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025New 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...aup.nlGoverning the Digital SocietyDigital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarizat... 0125
Reposted by Anne HelmondRebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 15/05/2025What if platforms decided what you should search for, without telling you how or why? In this position paper co-authored with @taylorannabell.bsky.social, @gorwa.ca, Jacob van de Kerkhof & @thalesbertaglia.bsky.social, we explore the TikTok Search feature and the governance challenges it creates. 2205
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 13/05/2025REMINDER. We have a call for papers for a special issue on "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis" for Platforms & Society. Abstract deadline: May 23, 2025. We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! Info: journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 044
Reposted by Anne HelmondNanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 12/05/20251) ✨ Deeply honoured to be delivering a keynote at RESAW 2025 – The Datafied Web at Universität Siegen! My talk "Vanishing Points: Technographies of Data Loss" will explore politics & temporalities of disappearing data in our age of platformization. 2104
Reposted by Anne HelmondMatthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 14/04/2025🚨Call for papers🚨 @jenshaelterlein.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel on "STS and International Security: Towards Convergence?" for the 2025 @sts-ch.bsky.social conference in Zurich (10-12 Sep) all panel info in the image; submit here: tinyurl.com/5dt72uxa please distribute widely! 045
Reposted by Anne HelmondMatthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 06/05/2025🚨Call for Papers🚨 "Ten years of critical security studies: Taking stock" - annual conference of the critical security studies section at the @dvpw.bsky.social Dresden, 6-7 Nov 2025 all info in the picture 196
Reposted by Anne HelmondMatthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Platforms, silos, interoperability - what's the deal with these database buzzwords? Check out this🔥new paper by @matthewarcher.bsky.social @louravn.bsky.social and @nannathylstrup.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....journals.sagepub.comThe political economy of platformed silos: Theorizing data storage reconfigurations in the age of interoperability capitalism - Matthew Archer, Louis Ravn, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, 2025Interoperability has become a prominent topic in contemporary discourses around digital infrastructures in fields as diverse as security, finance, health, and c... 083
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 08/05/2025The Platforms and Society journal and AdTech Research Project present an Online Symposium How to Approach and Regulate Google? A New Perspective 12 May 2025 | 9:00–10:30 AM (EST) / 3-4.30 PM (CEST) Join via Zoom: newschool.zoom.us/j/9834828717... (pw: 690528) 0104
Reposted by Anne HelmondNanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 08/05/2025✨New commentary by @matthewarcher.bsky.social, @louravn.bsky.social and myself on the politics of desiloization in what we call "interoperability capitalism"! Grateful to find a home in the 🔥special issue on interoperability ed by @ikkibop.bsky.social, Silvan Pollozekj and @janpassoth.bsky.social ! 1166
Reposted by Anne HelmondKaren Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 06/05/2025A must-read @platformsnsociety.bsky.social: Prodexchange: Digital–industrial economization in Google Search supply chain Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie, Addie McGowan "search engines are not engines, it examines Google Search as a supply chain..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comProdexchange: Digital–industrial economization in Google Search supply chain - Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie, Addie McGowan, 2025Using Google as a case study, this paper analyzes the online advertising sector's search industry. Arguing that search engines are not engines, it examines... 3219
Reposted by Anne Helmondalice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Thrilled to see this out in the wild— a true labor of love 💓 thanks to the Working Group & all the activists and academics whose work we drew on. 13715
Reposted by Anne HelmondJean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Remember when social media was sometimes good, thanks to users and what they built? We do! Please check out this 'minor history' of Twttr and its community-created bots from @domcarlon.bsky.social @kkasianenko.bsky.social & me, out now in Convergence journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comThe lives and afterlives of community-created bots on Twitter: A minor history - Dominique Carlon, Jean Burgess, Kateryna Kasianenko, 2025This article presents a minor history of the beneficial community-created bots that once flourished on Twitter, showcasing their important but overlooked role i... 54717
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Join us for a Governing the Digital Society lecture on "Platform Earth: The Role of Big Tech in the Climate Crisis" by Rianne Riemens who just defended her dissertation on said topic today. Congratulations! Wednesday 21 May 2025, 15:30- 16:30, Utrecht University. More info: www.uu.nl/en/events/pl...uu.nlPlatform Earth: The Role of Big Tech in the Climate CrisisRianne Riemens will present the main results of her PhD research “Platform Earth: Ecomodernism in Tech-on-Climate Discourse”. 021
Reposted by Anne HelmondPlatforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Sharing an opportunity to publish in our journal. Check out this call for papers led by @silvertje.bsky.social Rianne Riemens Donya Alinejad @juikei.bsky.social "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis." Deadline: 23.05 journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 01212
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Call for Papers "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis." Deadline for abstract: May 23rd, 2025. We aim to publish the special issue in Platforms & Society in winter 2026/2027. Info: journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 064
Reposted by Anne HelmondNanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Looking very much forward to hosting @jaloud.bsky.social (PAX Memoria) and Jeff Deutch (Pax Memoria/Centre for Internet and Human Rights) for this workshop on digital methods and the ethics of crisis and conflict archives artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/dal... #DALOSS @erc.europa.euartsandculturalstudies.ku.dkWorkshop on Digital Methods & Ethics in Open Source InvestigationWorkshop on 19 March 2025 with Al Jaloud (PAX Memoria) and Jeff Deutch (Pax Memoria/Centre for Internet and Human Rights). 3197
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Just in my email: Several Dutch researchers cooperating with US government agencies recently received requests from the US to complete an extensive questionnaire on their organisation. Universities of the Netherlands has agreed these questionnaires should not be filled in under any circumstances. 132
Reposted by Anne HelmondJanja Komljenovic @jkom.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Full article: Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comMapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of educationPublished in Learning, Media and Technology (Ahead of Print, 2025) 02015
Reposted by Anne HelmondPaul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 25/02/2025socialtextjournal.org/call-for-pap...socialtextjournal.orgCall for Papers: Colonial Studies of the Platform – Social Text 043
Reposted by Anne HelmondReDICo @redico.eu · 03/02/2025📢 #CfP "Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality" - Online Conference Join us 23-24 June 2025 Submit by 28 Feb 2025 Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social, @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan hub.redico.eu/call-for-pap... 03320
Reposted by Anne HelmondBernhard Rieder @riederb.bsky.social · 20/02/2025we are hiring a PhD candidate for the project "Interface of Intelligence: How Generative AI Reshapes Knowledge, Media, and Interpretation"; details here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...werkenbij.uva.nlVacancy — PhD on Interface of Intelligence: How Generative AI Reshapes Knowledge, Media, and InterpretationAre you looking for a challenging position in a dynamic setting? ASCA currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the Starting Grant project Interface of Intelligence: How Generative AI Reshapes Kn... 088
Reposted by Anne HelmondLisa Reutter Larsen @lisamreutter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025CALL FOR ABSTRACTS. Interested in issues of datafication? Want to discuss your work with leading scholars in the field? Submit an abstract here (more info in link) www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollecto... 063
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 04/03/2025For my Norwegian colleagues in Oslo, I'm giving a lecture in the HumAIn Talks #2 on "Big AI: The Platformisation and Industrialisation of AI" on March 13. Hope to see you there! www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/...hf.uio.noHumAIn Talks #2: Big AI: The Platformisation and Industrialisation of Artificial Intelligence - Department of Media and CommunicationHumAIn: A Humanities Hub for the Reimagination of AI invites you to a talk with Associate Professor Anne Helmond. 072