Two new articles on app economics and platform power
Summer means writing and… publishing papers. This month we have for you a paper for the world-renowned Canadian Journal of Communication. Recently, they launched their new Policy Portal, which aims to “provide a…
Article on Facebook’s history for Internet Histories
We just published a new article (open access <– PDF): Helmond, Anne, David B. Nieborg, and Fernando N. van der Vlist. “Facebook’s Evolution: Development of a Platform-as-Infrastructure.” Internet Histories 3(2): 123-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2019.1593667. In this article…
Article on Facebook Messenger for Media, Culture & Society
How to make sense of the latest revelations on Facebook’s data sharing? For over 2+ years Anne Helmond and I studied the evolution and expansion of Facebook’s platform boundaries. Our paper is titled…
Article on platformization for New Media & Society
Together with Thomas Poell I worked on an article for New Media & Society on the relationship between digital platforms and cultural production. The article aims to do two things: 1) bring together…
Book chapter on the mainstream coverage of Gamergate
Much has been said about #gamergate. There are almost a dozen high quality scholarly articles that look at various aspects of the movement’s emergence, its goals, its effects, and much more. We decided…
Call for Abstracts — Special Issue on Apps and Infrastructures
We invite submissions for a special issue of Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies, on “Apps and Infrastructures”. Excerpt This special issue of Computational Culture welcomes proposals and projects from scholars and…
Talks on platformization and appification in Estonia
This week is all about Estonia to talk more about about appstudies, appification, and cappitalism (ha!) in Tallinn and then on to AoIR in Tartu to talk about platformization of cultural production. If…
Book chapter on Guitar Hero
While there are plenty of game-related top lists available on the interwebs, academics discussing the “greatest” games are few and far between. The newly released “100 Greatest Video Game Franchises” edited by Robert…
Work-in-Progress paper on social media industry partnerships
Anne Helmond, Fernando van der Vlist and I would like to circulate the pre-print of our conference paper on ‘The Political Economy of Social Data: A Historical Analysis of Platform–Industry Partnerships’. [PDF: SMSociety17_paper_138_preprint.pdf]….
Keynote at congres Duurzame Inzetbaarheid – June 15, 2017
If there is one domain that benefits from considering playful and gameful approaches, it’s HR and the realm of employee retention. I’ll give a keynote for the Congres Over Duurzame Inzetbaarheid. Here’s the…
