Academic article on optimization
We published a paper in the Review of Communication titled “Engineering culture: logics of optimization in music, games, and apps”. It features in a special issue on optimization. Check it out! Here’s the…
New academic article on social casino apps
Together with my PhD-student Alexander Ross, I wrote an article on so-called “social casino apps” for the Journal of Consumer Culture. It’s an open access article so you can download the PDF here….
Three new articles on apps economics and Facebook
Projects I have been working on over the last three years with different research groups and co-authors are all coming out as we speak. Here is a trio of papers with some brief…
Overview article on the Platformisation concept
The open access journal Internet Policy Review started a new series of invited peer-reviewed articles that interogate ‘Concepts of the digital society,’ guest-edited by Christian Katzenbach and Thomas Christian Bächle. We contributed an…
Special Issue of Computational Culture on “Apps and Infrastructures”
Together with Carolin Gerlitz, Anne Helmond, and Fernando van der Vlist I edited a special issue for Computational Culture – A Journal of Software Studies. Abstract In this special issue editorial, we introduce…
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…
