Fernando van der Vlist

Yes!! Dank je Niels!

Thanks Jaap—yay!

Starting this fall, I’ll continue my research on AI, platform infrastructures, and emerging forms of power and dependency at @uvahumanities.bsky.social. I’ll also remain involved as Programme Coordinator of our new—and already thriving!—MA Cultural Data & AI (w/ @tpoell.bsky.social & others).

☀️ I’m very excited to share that I’ve been awarded a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO Talent Programme) for my project ‘AI Power: A Critical Platform Analysis’ (2025–2029)! 🔗 www.nwo.nl/en/news/200-...

Thanks so much, Karen—lovely seeing you again!!

Please join if you're around in Edinburgh next week! 🏰

✨This Friday (June 6) at #RESAW25 I'm excited to be presenting a methodological follow-up titled "Critical AI technography: Researching the material political economy and power of AI platforms" w/ @fvandervlist.bsky.social

www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/...

Let's think and find another occasion, would be lovely.

Oh no; I (we) were so looking forward to seeing you there and catching up! 🙁

Then off to #RESAW25, presenting on the evolving audience data economy w/ @silvertje.bsky.social (Thu), platform histories panel (Fri) w/ @devikanarayan.bsky.social, @bumatic.bsky.social, & on technography for critical AI studies w/ @dluitse.bsky.social. 🔗 www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/...

Infrastructure, Capitalism, and Dependency in the Digital Age

Back in 🇩🇪 NRW this week. Presenting my work on ‘Big AI’—Platforms, Dependency, & Power, at @unibonn.bsky.social tonight (Mon), & Internationale Club La Redoute w/ @silvertje.bsky.social (Tue). 🔗 www.cassis.uni-bonn.de/en/events/up... & intclub-redoute-bonn.de/event/big-ai.... Please come if around!

✨📗 ‘Appification in the Age of AI: Exploring AI App Cultures and Economies’ (ASI Sprint Report No. 2), edited by @fvandervlist & @esthr. 🔗Download/read more: appstudies.org/research-out... #AppStudies #AI

De verborgen wereld achter AI - Verrekijkers (7) | Rathenau Instituut Steeds meer mensen maken gebruik van kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) om teksten en afbeeldingen te maken. Deze lijken bijna op magische wijze tot stand te komen, maar achter elke zoekopdracht gaat een ...

🎙️ @fvandervlist.bsky.social en ik waren te gast in de Verrekijkers-podcast van Rathenau Instituut. We spraken over "De verborgen wereld achter AI". AI is een complex digitaal en fysiek ecosysteem –een AI stack– waarvan we via tools als ChatGPT slechts het topje zien: www.rathenau.nl/nl/digitalis...

Vacancy — Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information Studies Would you like to teach on cutting-edge theories, methods, and questions in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information? Then we have the perfect challenge for you!

We’re hiring: Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information Studies (Media Studies, @uvahumanities.bsky.social)! Join @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, myself, & other wonderful colleagues in the Critical Data & AI team. Applications due 28 May. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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...

📢✨ 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...

This will be out officially this Tuesday, 20 May, but you can already access the OA book PDF!

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...

New OA book. Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values, edited by José van Dijck, @kfvanes.bsky.social, @silvertje.bsky.social & @fvandervlist.bsky.social www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Vacancy — PhD Position in Archives of Deep Learning Would you like to become part of a dynamic community that is at the forefront of critical interdisciplinary research in Artificial Intelligence, Historical Digital Culture and Deep Learning?

✨ Vacancy for a PhD position in Archives of Deep Learning, as part of Prof. Tobias Blanke's ERC project on ‘Deep Culture’ at UvA. 🔗 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Visualization In/As Digital Media Studies Visualization In/As Digital Media Studies was published in Doing Digital Film History on page 315.

A nice take on “Visualization In/As Digital Media Studies” in the book Doing Digital Film History, by @bumatic.bsky.social and @skadiloist.bsky.social, doi.org/10.1515/9783...

Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌

⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT

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New platform, new paper! Talking about ideal first posts :) The platformization of the follower factory with my co-author Johan Lindquist: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Hi there, Stefanie! And thanks so much for sharing that research! 🙂

More info: www.fernandovandervlist.nl

📑 ‘Challenges as catalysts: how Waymo’s Open Dataset Challenges shape AI development’, w/ Sam Hind and Max Kanderske |📗 In AI&Soc | 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s001... (OA)

📑 ‘Super-appification: Conglomeration in the global digital economy’, w/ @silvertje.bsky.social, @michael-dieter.bsky.social, & Esther Weltevrede—follow us on @appstudies.bsky.social | In 📗 NM&S | 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1461... (OA)

📑 On ‘Big AI: Cloud infrastructure dependence and the industrialisation of artificial intelligence’, w/ @silvertje.bsky.social & @fabianlferrari.bsky.social | In 📗 @bigdatasoc.bsky.social | 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2053... (OA)

Platform | 4 | A Tapestry of Meanings and Metaphors | Anne Helmond, Fe This chapter explores the metaphorical ‘tapestry’ of meanings woven into the ‘platform’ metaphor, tracing its journey from a technical term in the computing

📑 ‘Platform: A Tapestry of Meanings and Metaphors’, w/ @silvertje.bsky.social | 📗 Digital Media Metaphors (Eds. @jfarkas.bsky.social & Marcus Maloney) | 🔗 doi.org/10.4324/9781... (💬 Chat for PDF)

🙋‍♂️ Hi, 🦋Bluesky! For new followers, here are some of my latest published works (all 2024) that I’m proud of, focusing on the critical empirical study of the political economy of 🤖AI/cloud, platforms, & 📱global ‘super apps’. Sharing these with tags to help you find and follow friends and coauthors.

Platform | 4 | A Tapestry of Meanings and Metaphors | Anne Helmond, Fe This chapter explores the metaphorical ‘tapestry’ of meanings woven into the ‘platform’ metaphor, tracing its journey from a technical term in the computing

Hi, nice to be here 👋! Recently published:

* The 'Platform' metaphor (w/ @fvandervlist.bsky.social): dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...

* 'Big AI: Cloud Infrastructure and the Industrialisation of AI' (w/
@fvandervlist.bsky.social & @fabianlferrari.bsky.social): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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