📢 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
✨📗 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
✨📗 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
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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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)
☀️ 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...
✨📗 ‘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
📷📷 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
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
⚡️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
✨ 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
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
📗✨ 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
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
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
🚨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
"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"
✨ @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!
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher “Governing the Digital Society” @UU_GDS@UniUtrecht. GDS promotes research on the socio-technical and political-economic processes of datafication, algorithmisation and platformisation and AI: https://t.co/SM8n7y10ET Deadline: 9 June.