Fernando van der Vlist
@fvandervlist.bsky.social
Media Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 📦 NWO Veni: ‘AI Power’ · 👥 @appstudies.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 🔗 fernandovandervlist.nl
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🙋♂️ 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.
☀️ 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-...
July 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
☀️ 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-...
Please join if you're around in Edinburgh next week! 🏰
Speakers include keynotes from
@silvertje.bsky.social (Anne Helmond, Utrecht University) and @fvandervlist.bsky.social (Fernando van der Vlist, University of Amsterdam), @allartmarkets.bsky.social (Liz McFall, University of Edinburgh), and Brian O’Kelley (co-founder of AppNexus and Scope3).
@silvertje.bsky.social (Anne Helmond, Utrecht University) and @fvandervlist.bsky.social (Fernando van der Vlist, University of Amsterdam), @allartmarkets.bsky.social (Liz McFall, University of Edinburgh), and Brian O’Kelley (co-founder of AppNexus and Scope3).
June 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Please join if you're around in Edinburgh next week! 🏰
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✨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
www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de
June 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
✨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/...
www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/...
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!
Infrastructure, Capitalism, and Dependency in the Digital Age
www.cassis.uni-bonn.de
June 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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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✨📗 ‘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
ASI Sprint Report Series – App Studies Initiative
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May 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
✨📗 ‘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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🎙️ @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...
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 ...
www.rathenau.nl
May 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🎙️ @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...
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...
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!
werkenbij.uva.nl
May 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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...
📢✨ 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...
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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May 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
📢✨ 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...
This will be out officially this Tuesday, 20 May, but you can already access the OA book PDF!
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...
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...
www.aup.nl
May 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This will be out officially this Tuesday, 20 May, but you can already access the OA book PDF!
Reposted by Fernando van der Vlist
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...
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...
www.aup.nl
May 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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...
✨ 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...
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?
werkenbij.uva.nl
January 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
✨ 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...
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...
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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December 20, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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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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
⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT
November 27, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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
⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT
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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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November 25, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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....
🙋♂️ 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.
November 19, 2024 at 8:46 AM
🙋♂️ 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.
Reposted by Fernando van der Vlist
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/...
* 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/...
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
dx.doi.org
November 18, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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/...
* 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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November 15, 2024 at 3:27 PM