Anne Helmond

Symposium 29 okt. '26: Van online lezersgemeenschappen naar literatuuronderwijs. Op online lezersgemeenschappen delen en (her)ontdekken jongvolwassenen hun passie voor lezen. Dit roept de vraag op of we die kunnen benutten in het voorgezet literatuuronderwijs. www.uu.nl/agenda/sympo...

Critical EdTech Studies Day: a gathering for scholars working critically on education and technology. Open to researchers in NL and Flanders, including early career scholars, who critically engage with digital technology & education. Sign up if you are interested! www.uu.nl/en/events/cr...

Book launch on Friday 11 December: 'Understanding Misinformation'. Misinformation has dominated public and academic debates for the past decade. This Element argues that misinformation is a symptom, not the disease. www.uu.nl/en/events/bo... #misinformation #book #academicdebate #utrechtuniversity

Boekpresentatie 28 oktober: Welke ontwikkelingen vanaf de Tweede Wereldoorlog leidden uiteindelijk tot ChatGPT en Claude? Hoe werken deze chatbots? Waarom laten we ons zo makkelijk misleiden? cdh.uu.nl/boekpresenta... #boepresentatie #shapingdigitalsocieties #AI #chatbots

Join us on 29 Oct in Amsterdam for a joint book launch of Platforms: A Critical Introduction and Maps as Media. We'll discuss platform power, digital infrastructures, mapping technologies, and AI. 📍 VOX-POP, UvA | 15:00–17:30 Free and open to all. Register here: voxpop.uva.nl/shared/subsi...

Got plans this Friday? How about joining the book presentation of "Platforms: A Critical Introduction"? See the link to join! . Al plannen deze vrijdag? Wat dacht je van de boek presentatie van "Platforms: A Critical Introduction"? Zie de link om je in te schrijven! www.uu.nl/en/events/pl...

You 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...

Our 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/...

“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...

🎉 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

✨📗 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

My 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. 🤷

Over 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...

How 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...

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...

@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...

New 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...)

🐈‍⬛ 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...

☀️ 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-...

After 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...

📢 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: https://bit.ly/3ItbqLu. Make sure you apply before 20 August! cc @natalihelberger.bsky.social #Vacancies #Jobs

🎉 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....

Please 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/jn39r22j

A 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...

🕸️ 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!

We'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!)

📣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...

✨📗 ‘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

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...

🎙️ @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...

📢✨ 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...

We'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...

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...

What 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.

REMINDER. 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...

1) ✨ 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.

🚨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!

🚨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

Platforms, 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....

The 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)

✨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 !

Thrilled 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.

Remember 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/...

Join 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...

Sharing 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...

Call 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...

Looking 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.eu

Just 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.