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Thomas Poell

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Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t…

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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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Petr Szczepanik @petrszczepanik.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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...
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Playlisting the periphery: Platform intermediaries and East-Central European music visibility in Spotify’s geography - Miloš Hroch, Petr Szczepanik, 2025
This article examines Spotify’s engagement with East-Central European (ECE) music markets, exploring how platformization intersects with peripherality. Using in...
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Suzanne Kröger @suzannekroger.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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.
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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
🔎 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...
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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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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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.
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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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...
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Platform studies folks, AI scholars, creative industries scholars take note of this sure to be fantastic conference CFP!
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Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This sounds great!! ⬇️
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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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
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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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
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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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...
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Research, Values, and Intervention: Navigating AI and Technomoral Futures - Institute for Advanced Study IAS
This workshop explores how values shape research practices and vice versa, focusing on the ethico-political implications of AI, large datasets, and infrastructures. Through discussions with Shannon Va...
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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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!
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Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem - David B Nieborg, Thomas Poell, 2025
This article calls for systematic analysis of the accumulation and exercise of institutional platform power in the digital economy. We examine how the relativel...
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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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!
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Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem - David B Nieborg, Thomas Poell, 2025
This article calls for systematic analysis of the accumulation and exercise of institutional platform power in the digital economy. We examine how the relativel...
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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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.
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Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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.
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Northwestern Qatar @nuqatar.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
@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.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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...
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Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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
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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🚀 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
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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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
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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Looking forward to this!
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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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...
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Towards an Ethics of Possibility - Institute for Advanced Study IAS
This event is part of the "Empirical Ethics," a research line at IAS. The IAS Empirical Ethics Research Group invite participants to take part in a close interactive workshop with Amade M’charek and A...
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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is going to be a really interesting event at exactly the right moment!
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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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
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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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
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Jeroen de Kloet @jeroendekloet.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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...
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The Politics of Pop: Tat Ming Pair
To celebrate the publication of the book It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong, the authors Yiu Fai Chow, Jeroen de Kloet, and Leonie Schmidt, will b...
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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.*
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Big Tech spent a decade doing everything possible to be the best conceivable progressive ally. They got treated with utter contempt, pounded daily, crucified in return. A full rethinking is required.
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Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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!
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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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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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...
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Joint DSC/IAS Fellowship Call on Empirical Ethics and Data Science Methods - Institute for Advanced Study IAS
The UvA Data Science Centre (DSC) and Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) are joining forces for the fourth time by opening up a joint fellowship opportunity. We welcome applications for our DSC/IAS Jo...
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UvA Faculty of Humanities @uvahumanities.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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
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Jonathan Corpus Ong @joncong.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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...
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Reforming Tech and Democracy Programs for the Global Majority
Virtual Launch Event of the Study Custom Built / Feito Sob Medida How can tech and democracy programs better serve the needs and challenges of Global Majority countries? What are …
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Jonathan Corpus Ong @joncong.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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...
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Steun ons in strijd voor hoger onderwijs!
WOinActie is een beweging van studenten en medewerkers en maakt zich sterk voor de universiteit en haar toekomst.
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Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
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
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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...
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Elon Musk's AI turns on him, labels him 'one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X'
His posts, it added, “can have real-world consequences."
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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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
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Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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...
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Media and Communication @ University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
👉 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
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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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/...
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Dependence in the online screen industry - Daphne Rena Idiz, Thomas Poell, 2024
The development of an online screen industry, dominated by a few American and Chinese streaming TV services and video-based platforms, triggers critical questio...
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Come join us for the next ICA CreatorCon! Link here for the CFP. Please share with your networks. www.ccsn.site/ica
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The Content Creator Scholars Network
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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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...
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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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
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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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...
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Thread about internet studies starter packs - or those related to the field bsky.app/profile/mste...
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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
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
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