Thomas Poell
@tpoell.bsky.social
Media Studies Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Books: The Platform Society; Platforms and Cultural Production | https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html
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Thomas Poell
@tpoell.bsky.social
· Nov 14
www.uva.nl
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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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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June 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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...
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1461...
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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.
Helaas stemde o.a. CDA en VVD tegen en werd onze motie verworpen.
June 18, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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.
Helaas stemde o.a. CDA en VVD tegen en werd onze motie verworpen.
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🔎 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...
Welcome Thomas Poell!
👉 Full conference program & registration (few seats remaining): platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...
May 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🔎 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...
Welcome Thomas Poell!
👉 Full conference program & registration (few seats remaining): platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...
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📢✨ 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...
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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.
May 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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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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...
May 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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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Platform studies folks, AI scholars, creative industries scholars take note of this sure to be fantastic conference CFP!
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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April 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Platform studies folks, AI scholars, creative industries scholars take note of this sure to be fantastic conference CFP!
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This sounds great!! ⬇️
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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April 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This sounds great!! ⬇️
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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
rdt.uva.nl
April 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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
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
rdt.uva.nl
April 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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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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
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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...
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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April 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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...
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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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!
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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April 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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!
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!
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...
journals.sagepub.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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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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.
Please do register for the conference as we need to plan ahead; limited seats - high demand.
April 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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.
Please do register for the conference as we need to plan ahead; limited seats - high demand.
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It’s great to see this piece published in Platforms & Society:
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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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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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February 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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.
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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@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.
February 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
@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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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...
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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February 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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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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
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
February 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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
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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🚀 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
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
February 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🚀 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
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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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
January 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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
Looking forward to this!
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
January 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Looking forward to this!
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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!
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Deadline 14 February!
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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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January 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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!
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Deadline 14 February!
ias.uva.nl/content/even...
This is going to be a really interesting event at exactly the right moment!
We are hosting the 2025 @aoir.bsky.social Flashpoint Symposium in Bremen!
🎯 CfP "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance"
📆 3-4 June 2025, Bremen, DE
🗒️ Deadline for Abstracts: 15 February 2025
platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...
🎯 CfP "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance"
📆 3-4 June 2025, Bremen, DE
🗒️ Deadline for Abstracts: 15 February 2025
platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...
January 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This is going to be a really interesting event at exactly the right moment!