Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social

Media Studies @UvA_Amsterdam · 📚 Author, Platforms (Polity) · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 👥 @appstudies @digitalmethods @PublicDataLab

[Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social @fvandervlist]

📢 Very excited to share my latest article ‘Big AI: Cloud Infrastructure and the Industrialisation of AI’, substantiating the pivotal role of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the AI landscape. #BigAI 🥳 Read: https://t.co/X0M9x5qBDQ (OA @BigDataSoc) w/ @silvertje @fabianlferrari

[Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social @fvandervlist]

✨📚 Our latest book, Platforms, is now available from Polity!

[Polity @politybooks]

“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 and @fvandervlist is out today in the UK.

See more: https://t.co/dzqX6fIaK2

[Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social @fvandervlist]

✨📗 Our 3rd
@appstudies ASI Sprint Report (w/
@esthr) 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

[App Studies @appstudies]

✨📗 Out now: ‘Appification in the Age of AI: Exploring Embeddedness, Visibility, and Dependency’ (ASI Sprint Report No. 3), edited by @fvandervlist & @esthr. 🔗Download/read more: https://t.co/WOd9eAL3Iu #AppStudies #AI

[Alex Gekker 🐘 @[email protected] @alexgekker]

Fresh #OA 🔓 paper from @samhind10, Gabriel Pereira, @fvandervlist & me in ICS! 'Orchestrating scalability: how patents render cloud imaginaries in CAV innovation.' What do 69K+ patents reveal about cloud & autonomous vehicles? 🚗☁️ https://t.co/2dH106Um8l
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[Anne Helmond @silvertje]

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: https://t.co/VFpsazOBNI (pdf: https://t.co/i0q33ppReJ)

[Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social @fvandervlist]

☀️ I’m very excited to share that I’ve been awarded a Veni grant from @NWOFunding (Dutch Research Council, Talent Programme) for my project ‘AI Power: A Critical Platform Analysis’ (2025–2029)! 🔗 https://t.co/T788FcbBKo...

[App Studies @appstudies]

✨📗 ‘Appification in the Age of AI: Exploring AI App Cultures and Economies’ (ASI Sprint Report No. 2), edited by @fvandervlist & @esthr. 🔗Download/read more: https://t.co/WOd9eAL3Iu #AppStudies #AI

[Anne Helmond @silvertje]

📷📷 New OA book out now with Amsterdam University Press:

Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values

Edited by José van Dijck, Karin van Es, Anne Helmond, and @fvandervlist

Open Access: https://t.co/BEtWA3m1kK

[Anne Helmond @silvertje]

Vandaag stonden we met 25.000 mensen op het Malieveld in Den Haag te demonstreren tegen de voorgenomen desastreuze bezuinigingen tegen het hoger onderwijs! #woinactie #stopdebezuinigingen

[Sam Hind @samhind10]

⚡️For those still left on the hellsite: Driving Decisions book launch is THIS THURSDAY. Zoom link will go out the day before.➡️Sign-up here: https://t.co/jFfme7Oig4

[Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social @fvandervlist]

✨ On the pol. economy of AI and global ‘super apps’ (OA):
📑 ‘Big AI’, cloud dependency, & ‘industrialisation of AI’ |📗@BigDataSoc |🔗https://t.co/NA9RZD9o5H
📑 ‘Super-appification’ |📗NM&S |🔗https://t.co/Rdz7af2mL7
📑 Waymo/Google |📗AI&Soc |🔗https://t.co/s6pUZcjHgl

[Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social @fvandervlist]

Presenting twice at #AoIR2024 in Sheffield this Thursday:

🕘9:00 |📍Discovery 3|🤖‘The Political Economy of AI as Platform: Infrastructures, Power, and the AI Industry’, w/ @DLuitse, @RiederB, @samhind10, & @silvertje

[Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social @fvandervlist]

🕟15:30 |📍Discovery 1|📱‘Exploring Appification’—on ‘super-appification’ & ‘AI appification’ w/ @silvertje, @esthr, @mdieter, @DugStef – @appstudies

Would look forward to seeing you there!

[Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social @fvandervlist]

📗✨ Digital Media Metaphors: A Critical Introduction. Featuring a chapter w/ @silvertje on ‘platform’ as an evolving metaphorical tapestry of terms meanings, alongside other great contributions in this edited volume. 🔗 https://t.co/XDhk71UPFc

[Tobias Blanke @tobias_blanke]

Three fully-funded PhD positions are available to join the new ERC Advanced Grant ‘Deep Culture - Living with Difference in the Age of Deep Learning’ in Amsterdam. For further details and a link to apply, please visit: https://t.co/TR7qe9OrHY

[S Randerath @sebastianranderath.bsky.social @SRanderath]

Just published: New @Convergence_NMT paper about asymmetries between software, organization, power and work in the implementation of cloud platforms.

Learn more about formatting work in platform capitalisms: https://t.co/7uDA5A6cVH

[Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social @fvandervlist]

@SRanderath @Convergence_NMT Congrats, this looks great Sebastian!

[Dieuwertje Luitse | @dluitse.bsky.social @DLuitse]

🚨Thrilled to share my new article “Platform power in AI: The evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence” ✨OA @PolicyR as part of the🔥SI “Locating and Theorizing Platform Power” Read: https://t.co/WllJWv5SC2

[Anne Helmond @silvertje]

"Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy" by @cristina_alaimo @JannisKallinik1 is open access! 🎉 https://t.co/S9YkNaYJpu "...the authors place the transformative potential of data at the center of an emerging socioeconomic order that restructures society and its institutions"

[Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social @fvandervlist]

✨ @esthr and I are proud to launch the @appstudies Sprint Report Series (and 1st report) showcasing the hard work of our Master’s students during the 2024 #Appification course (w/ guests @DugStef @mdieter @FiekeJ @silvertje) and its concluding data-sprint @UvA_Humanities!

[App Studies @appstudies]

✨New publication: ‘The Nationality of Apps: Exploring National App Cultures and Economies’ (ASI Sprint Report No. 1), eds @fvandervlist @esthr. 🔗Download/read more: https://t.co/WOd9eALBy2 #AppStudies #Appification

[Thomas Poell @tpoell]

Come and work with @CharlesJeurgens Annet Dekker @tobias_blanke @PaulaHelm12 @HLMQA @rensbod @fvandervlist & myself at Media Studies @UvA_Humanities @UvA_Amsterdam

We are looking for a new assistant professor Critical Archival Studies https://t.co/MkgTFMPQGh| Deadline June 14