App Studies

App Studies

@appstudies.bsky.social

The App Studies Initiative (ASI) is an international research network comprising academic experts in app-related media research who contribute to the study of apps and platforms. 🔗 appstudies.org

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Agustin Ferrari Braun
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New paper out! In this peer-reviewed article, @fvandervlist.bsky.social, @tpoell.bsky.social and I explore how the infrastructure of French and Dutch news media websites has changed over the last decade. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comNegotiating Infrastructural Integration: Cloud Services and the Evolution of News Website Ecosystems in France and the NetherlandsThis paper analyzes the infrastructural integration of European news media with digital platforms and third-party service providers between 2015–2025. Reviewing current research, we note increased ...
App Studies
@appstudies.bsky.social

This 3rd ASI Sprint Report stems from the 2025–26 Master’s course ‘Appification’ at the University of Amsterdam, and the 2nd iteration of our Cultural Data & AI Master’s Embedded Research Project ‘The Appification of AI’. We’re proud to showcase the work of/with our students.

App Studies
@appstudies.bsky.social

Building directly on previous work in this series, this report examines the 'appification of AI' by focusing on AI's increasing embeddedness, visibility, and dependency as it systematically transitions into an invisible, foundational infrastructure, redistributing power towards dominant platforms.

App Studies
@appstudies.bsky.social

This 2nd ASI Sprint Report stems from the 2024–25 Master’s course ‘Appification’ at the University of Amsterdam, and our new Cultural Data & AI Master’s Embedded Research Project ‘The Appification of AI’. We’re proud to showcase the work of/with our students.

App Studies
@appstudies.bsky.social

Building on recent and ongoing work, the chapters explore how AI is being ‘appified’ (culturally, economically), deployed, and distributed across mobile app stores, cloud infrastructure marketplaces, and emerging model marketplaces such as the new GPT Store.

App Studies
@appstudies.bsky.social

📢✨ New open access 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...
Rob Kitchin@robkitchin.bsky.social

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...

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...

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