Introduction    

Thomas Poell is Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions at the University of Amsterdam. He is program director MA Media Studies, co-founder of the Research Priority Area on Global Digital Cultures, and faculty lead for the national Human(e) AI & the Datafied Society sector plan. Leveraging social media data and digital methods, Poell has studied how the use of digital platforms is affecting the mobilization, organization, and communication of protest around the globe. In recent years, he has built a conceptual framework to analyze how platforms and AI are reshaping the cultural industries. 

Together with Olav Velthuis, he is leading an NWO-funded project on The platformization of the global sex industry. And with Zhen Ye, Smith Metha, Lorena Caminhas, Arturo Arriagada, Godwin Simon, and David Nieborg, he is developing a research project on AI and Creative Work, which connects platform studies with ideas from postcolonial and decolonial theory in a Global Perspectives program. Finally, with David Nieborg and José van Dijck, he is currently writing a book on Platform Power.   

Poell is co-author of Platforms and Cultural Production (Polity, 2022) and The Platform Society (Oxford University Press, 2018). Furthermore, he co-edited The Sage Handbook of Social Media (Sage, 2018), Social Media Materialities and Protest (Routledge, 2018), and Global Cultures of Contestation (Palgrave/McMillan, 2017).

He has published 40+ articles in international peer-reviewed journals, including New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Social Media + Society, Digital Journalism, Journalism Studies, Internet Policy Review, Chinese Journal of Communication, The Information Society, Social Movement Studies, Communication Theory, Big Data & Society, Television and New Media, and The International Journal of Communication. Finally, he is member of the editorial board of Social Media + Society, Digital Journalism, Platforms & Society, Journal of Digital Social Research, and Communication and the Public.

Publications 

Books

• Poell, T., D.B. Nieborg & B.E. Duffy (2022). Platforms and Cultural Production. Cambridge: Polity Press. 
• Van Dijck, J., T. Poell & M. de Waal. 2018. The Platform Society. Public values in a connective world. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
• Burgess, J., A. Marwick & T. Poell (Eds.) 2018 . The Sage Handbook of Social Media. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
• Mortensen, M., C. Neumayer &  T. Poell (Eds.) 2018. Social Media Materialities and Protest: Critical reflections. London: Routledge. 
• Celikates, R., J. de Kloet, E. Peeren & T. Poell (Eds.) 2017. Global Cultures of Contestation. London: Palgrave/McMillan.
• Van Dijck, J., T. Poell & M. de Waal. 2016. De Platformsamenleving. Strijd om publieke waarden in een online wereld. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 

Refereed Journals

• Poell, T., Duffy, B. E., B. Nieborg, D., Mutsvairo, B., Tse, T., Arriagada, A., de Kloet, J. & Sun, P. (2024). Global perspectives on platforms and cultural production. International Journal of Cultural Studies.
• Idiz, D. R., & Poell, T. (2024). Dependence in the online screen industry. Media, Culture & Society.
• Nieborg, D., Poell, T., Caplan, R., & van Dijck, J. (2024). Introduction to the special issue on Locating and theorising platform power. Internet Policy Review, 13(2).
• de Keulenaar, E., Poell, T., Helmond, A., Rieder, B., & Van Gorp, J. (2024). Computational cross-media research: tracing divergences between normative Dutch television and social media discourses on the ‘refugee crisis’ (2013-2018). Convergence,  
• Stegeman, H. M., Are, C., & Poell, T. (2024). Strategic Invisibility: How Creators Manage the Risks and Constraints of Online Hyper (In) Visibility. Social Media+ Society, 10(2). 
• Luitse, D., Blanke, T., & Poell, T. (2024). AI competitions as infrastructures of power in medical imaging. Information, Communication & Society, 1-22.
• Poell, T., Nieborg, D. B., & Duffy, B. E. (2023). Spaces of Negotiation: Analyzing Platform Power in the News Industry. Digital Journalism, 11 (8), 1391-1409.
• Stegeman, H., Velthuis, O., Jokubauskaitė, E., & Poell, T. (2023). Hypercategorization and hypersexualization: How webcam platforms organize performers and performances. Sexualities, 1-19
• Jia, L., Nieborg, D. B., & Poell, T. (2022). On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy. Media, Culture & Society, 44(8): 1437-1453. 
• Kavada, A., & Poell, T. (2021). From Counterpublics to Contentious Publicness: Tracing the Temporal, Spatial, and Material Articulations of Popular Protest Through Social Media. Communication Theory, 31 (2): 190-208.
• Poell, T. (2020). Three Challenges for Media Studies in the Age of Platforms. Television & New Media, 21(6): 650-657.
• Poell, T. (2020). Social media, temporality, and the legitimacy of protest. Social Movement Studies, 19(5-6): 609-624.
• Nieborg, D. B., Duffy, B. E., & Poell, T. (2020). Studying Platforms and Cultural Production: Methods, Institutions, and Practices. Social Media + Society, 6(3): 1-7. 
• Poell, T., Nieborg, D., & van Dijck, J. (2020). Plataformização. Fronteiras-estudos midiáticos, 22(1): 2-10.
• van Es & T. Poell (2020). Platform Imaginaries and Dutch Public Service Media. Social Media + Society, 6(3): 1-10.  
• Poell, T., D. Nieborg & J. van Dijck. (2019). Platformisation. Internet Policy Review, 8(4): 1-13.
• Duffy, B.E., T. Poell & D.B. Nieborg (2019). Platforms, Practices & Cultural Production. Social Media + Society, 1-8.
• van Dijck, J., Nieborg, D. & Poell, T. (2019). Reframing platform power. Internet Policy Review, 8(2): 1-18.
• de Kloet, J., Poell, T., Guohua, Z. & Yiu Fai, C. (2019). The plaformization of Chinese Society: infrastructure, governance, and practice. Chinese Journal of Communication, 12(3): 249-256. 
• Nieborg, D. B., & Poell, T. (2018). The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity. New Media & Society, 20.11: 4275–4292.
• Helberger, N., J. Pierson & T. Poell. 2018. Governing Online Platforms: From contested to cooperative responsibility. The Information Society, 34.1: 1-14 .
• Abdulla, R., T. Poell, B. Rieder, R. Woltering & L. Zack (2018). Facebook polls as proto-democratic instruments in the Egyptian revolution: The ‘We Are All Khaled Said’Facebook page. Global Media and Communication, 14.1: 141-160.
• Poell, T., R. Abdulla, B. Rieder, R. Woltering, L. Zack. 2016.  Protest leadership in the age of social media.  Information, Communication & Society, 19.7: 994-1014.
• Poell, T. & J. van Dijck. 2016. Constructing Public Space: Global Perspectives on Social Media and Popular Contestation—Introduction. International Journal of Communication, 10: 226–234.
• Moe, H., T. Poell & J. van Dijck. 2016. Rearticulating Audience Engagement: Social Media and Television. Television & New Media, 17.2: 99-107. doi: 10.1177/1527476415616194
• Van Dijck, J., & T. Poell. 2016. Understanding the promises and premises of online health platforms. Big Data & Society, 3.1: 1-11.
• Van Dijck, J. & T. Poell. 2015.   Higher Education in a Networked World: European Responses to U.S. MOOCs. International Journal of Communication, 9: 2674–2692. 
• Poell, T. & S. Rajagopalan. 2015. Connecting Activists and Journalists: Twitter communication in the aftermath of the 2012 Delhi rape.  Journalism Studies, 16.5: 719-733. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2015.1054182
• Kennedy, H., T. Poell, J. van Dijck. 2015. Data and agency. Big Data & Society, 2 (2), 1-7. doi: 10.1177/2053951715621569
• Dijck, J. van & T. Poell. 2015. Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space. Social Media & Society, 1-5. doi: 10.1177/2056305115622482
• Rieder, B.,  R. Abdulla, T. Poell, R. Woltering & L. Zack. 2015. Data critique and analytical opportunities for very large Facebook Pages: Lessons learned from exploring “We are all Khaled Said”. Big Data & Society, 2 (2), 1-22. doi: 10.1177/2053951715614980
• Van Dijck, J. & T. Poell. 2015.  Making public television social? Public service broadcasting and the challenges of social media. Television & New Media, 16.2: 148-164. doi: 10.1177/1527476414527136
• Woltering, R., R. Abdulla, Poell, T., B. Rieder, L. Zack. 2015. A Page and Its Politics: Situating Kullinā Khālid Saʿīd in Egypt’s Ideological Landscape at the Time of Revolution. CyberOrient, 9.2.
• Poell, T. 2014.  Social media and the transformation of activist communication: exploring the social media ecology of the 2010 Toronto G20 protests.  Information, Communication & Society, 17.6: 716-731.
• Poell, T., B. J. de Kloet & G. Zeng. 2014.  Will the Real Weibo Please Stand Up? Chinese Online Contention and Actor-Network Theory.  Chinese Journal of Communication, 7.1: 1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2013.816753.
• Van Dijck, J. & T. Poell. 2013. Understanding Social Media Logic. Media and Communication 1.1: 2-14.
• Poell, T. & K. Darmoni. 2012. Twitter as a Multilingual space: the articulation of the Tunisian revolution through #sidibouzid.  NECSUS - European Journal of Media Studies , 1: 14-34.
• Spreeuwenberg, K. & T. Poell. 2012. Android and the political economy of the mobile Internet: A renewal of open source critique.  First Monday , 17.7.
• Poell, T. & E. Borra. 2012. Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr as Platforms of Alternative Journalism. The Social Media Account of the 2010 Toronto G20 Protests.   Journalism 13.6: 695-713.
• Poell, T. 2004. Liberal Democracy versus Late Medieval Constitutionalism: Struggles over Representation in the Dutch Republic (1780-1800).  Redescriptions,Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History 8: 114-145.      

Book Chapters

• Nieborg, D. B., Poell, T. & van Dijck, J. Platforms and Platformization. In T. Flew, J. Holt & J. Thomas (eds.). The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy (29-49). London: Sage.
• Noordegraaf, J., & Poell, T. (2022). The Mediation of Online Information. In P. Vossen & A. Fokkens (eds.). Creating a More Transparent Internet: The Perspective Web (pp. 113-117). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Poell, T. (2019). From Spheres to Trajectories of Publicness. Exploring How the 2010 Toronto G20 Protests Were Communicated through Social Platforms. In M. Lalancette, V. Raynauld &  E. Crandall (Eds.), What’s Trending in Canadian Politics? Understanding Transformations in Power, Media, and the Public Sphere (pp. 127-145). Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
• Nieborg, D., & Poell, T. (2019). The Platformization of Making Media. In M. Deuze & M. Prenger (Eds.), Making Media: production, Practices, and Professions (pp. 85-98).
• Poell, T., Rajagopalan, S., & Kavada, A. (2018). Publicness on Platforms: Tracing the Mutual Articulation of Platform Architectures and User Practices. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A Networked Self and Platforms, Stories, Connections (pp. 43-58). London: Routledge.
• Poell, T. & J. van Dijck. 2018. Social Media and New Protest Movements. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, edited by J. Burgess, A. Marwick, and T. Poell. London and New York: SAGE Publications Ltd.
• van Dijck, J. & T. Poell. 2018. Social media platforms and education.” In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, edited by J. Burgess, A. Marwick, and T. Poell. London and New York: SAGE Publications Ltd.
• Poell, T. & J. van Dijck. 2015. Social Media and Activist Communication. In  The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media, 527-537, edited by C. Atton. London: Routledge.
• Poell, T. 2015. Social Media Activism and State Censorship. In  Social Media, Politics and the State:Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in an Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, edited by D. Trottier & C. Fuchs. 189-206. London: Routledge.
• Poell, T. & J. van Dijck. 2015.  Democratisering van het nieuws? Sociale media en de onafhankelijkheid van de journalistiek. In Journalistieke Cultuur in Nederland, 343-359, edited by J. Bardoel en H.  Wijfjes. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 
• Poell, T. & J. van Dijck. 2015. Social Media and Journalistic Independence. In Media Independence: working with freedom or working for free, 182-201, edited by J. Bennett, N. Strange. London: Routledge. 
• Poell,T. 2010. The French Occupation and the Transformation of the DutchPublic Sphere (1795-1813). In Ballare col nemico? Reazioniall' espansione francese in Europa tra entusiasmo e resistenza(1792-1815) / Mit dem Feind tanzen? Reaktionen auf die franzosiche Expansion in Europa zwischen Begesterung und Protest (1792-1815), edited by C Nubola & A Würgler. 283-306. Berlijn: Dunckler & Humblot. 
• Poell, T. 2009. Conceptualizing Forums and Blogs as Public Spheres. In Digital Material , edited by  M.V.T. van den Boomen et al. 239-251. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 
• Poell, T. 2009. Local Particularism Challenged (1795-1813). In The Political Economy ofthe Dutch Republic , edited by O. Gelderblom. 291-320. Aldershot: Ashgate. 
• Poell, T.2005. Het einde van een tijdperk. De Bataafs-Franse tijd 1795-1813. In Geschiedenis van Amsterdam, edited by M. Prak, and W. Frijhoff. vol.II-2, 429-499. Amsterdam: Wagenaar Stichting,SUN.
• Poell, T. 2004. Movement and Time in Cinema. In Discernements: Deleuzian Aesthetics , edited by J. Bloois, et.al. 1-21.  Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Edited journals (special issues)  

• Nieborg, D. (Ed.), Poell, T. (Ed.), Caplan, R., & van Dijck, J. (Ed.) (2024). Locating and theorising platform power. Internet Policy Review, 13(2).
• Gillan, K., G. Edwards, A. Kavada, J. Krinsky, T. Poell & L. Wood (2020). Time for Change? Understanding Social Movements through Temporality. Special issue of Social Movement Studies 19.5-6.
• Nieborg, D.B., B.E. Duffy, T. Poell (2020). Studying the Platformization of Cultural Production.  Special collection of Social Media + Society 6.3.
• Duffy, B.E., T. Poell & D.B. Nieborg (2019). Platforms, Practices & Cultural Production. Special collection of Social Media + Society 5.4.
• Kloet, J. de, T. Poell, G. Zeng & Y.F. Chow (2019). The Platformization of Chinese Society. Special issue of The Chinese Journal of Communication 12.3.
• Poell, T. & J. van Dijck (eds.). 2016. Constructing Public Space: Global Perspectives on Social Media and Civic Engagement. Special section of International Journal of Communication 10.
• Moe, H., T. Poell & J. van Dijck (eds.). 2016. Rearticulating Audience Engagement: social media and television. Special issue of Television & New Media 17.2.
• Kennedy, H., T. Poell, J. van Dijck (eds.). 2015. Data & Agency. Big Data & Society 2.2.
• Van Dijck, J. & T. Poell (eds.). 2015. Social Media and Public Space. Special collection of Social Media & Society 1.2. 

Inaugural Lecture

• Poell, T. "Platforms, Power & Collectivity". University of Amsterdam, 24 June 2022. Auditorium of the University of Amsterdam.

PhD Thesis

• Poell, T.2007. The Democratic Paradox. Dutch Revolutionary Struggles over Democratisation and Centralisation (1780-1813). PhD diss., Utrecht University. 

Book Reviews

• Poell, T. 2015. Hoorn des overvloeds. Book review of J. van Eijnatten, Van dorpsplein tot cyberspace. Een cultuurgeschiedenis van de communicatie. Amsterdam: Prometheus Bert Bakker, 2014. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 128.2: 303-305. 
• Poell, T. 2012.  Sociale media als platformen van politiek en cultureel burgerschap. Book review of C. Aalberts & M. Kreijveld, Veel gekwetter, weinig wol. Den Haag:Sdu uitgevers, 2011. Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei. Onderzoek Uitgelicht 1.1: 24-27. 
• Poell, T. 2009. Book review of P. van Wissing(ed.), Stookschriften. Pers en politiek tussen 1780 en 1800. Nijmegen: Uitgeverij Vantilt, 2008. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 122: 110-111.
• Poell,T. 2008. Book review of L. Hunt, Inventing Human Rights. A History. New York:W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. Krisis 3: 43-46.
• Poell, T. 2008. Book Review of S. Bloemgarten, Hartog de Hartog Lémon, 1755-1823. Joodse revolutionair in Franse Tijd. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2007. Tijdschrift voor  Geschiedenis  121: 112-113.
• Poell,T. 2001. Book Review of W. Reinhard, Geschichte der Staatsgewalt: Ein vergleichende Verfassungsgeschichte Europas von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, München: Beck, 1999. Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 27 (2): 241-44.
• Poell, T. 2001. Book Review of J. Leerssen, Nationaal denken in Europa. Een cultuur-historische schets, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2000. Tijdschrift voorSociale Geschiedenis 27 (2): 237-38.
• Poell, T. 2001. Book Review of P. Pastureen and J. Verberckmoes (eds.) Working-Class Internationalism and the Appeal of National Identity. Historical Debates and Current Perspectives on Western Europe, Oxford: Berg, 1998. Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 27 (2): 236-37.

Other Writing

• Van Dijck, J. & Poell, T. (2013). Reguleer het sociale verkeer! NRC Next 8 August. Print. 
• Van Dijck, J. & Poell, T. (2013). Begin eens met de wet handhaven op dat ‘vrije’ internet. NRC Handelsblad 12 August. Print. 
• Waal, M. de, Leurdijk, A., Nordeman, L. & Poell, T. 2012. Mapping Digital Media: Netherlands. A Report of the Open Society Foundations. Research Report. New York: Open Society Foundations. 
• Poell, T. Grenzeloze wetenschappen. De Nieuwsbrief Geesteswetenschappen 143 (November 2011): 12. Print.
• Poell, T. Online public debate in theory and practice." Routledge Website. Routledge, 2009. Web. 21 December 2009. 
• Poell, T. (2008) De democratische paradox. Openbaar Bestuur, Tijdschrift voor beleid, organisatie & politiek 18 (5): 34-40.

Interviews        

• Buijs, Marieke. De fabel van de Facebookrevolutie.   Folia Magazine  12 September 2012. 36-37. Print. 
• Dijkstra, Michiel. TwitterRevolutie?  Elsevier 24 Maart 2012. Print. 
• Hulspas, Marcel. De democratische paradox.  De Pers 5 October 2007: 18. Print.   

Events

Organization 

• with D. Nieborg & B.E. Duffy. The Platformization of Cultural Production. University of Toronto, Toronto, 7-9 October 2018.
• with L. Melgar & J. Noordegraaf. CLARIAH Media Studies Summer school. The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum, 2-6 July 2018.
• with J. de Kloet, G. Zeng & Y.F. Chow. Platformization of Chinese Society: An international workshop. Baptist University, Hong Kong, 12-13 April 2018. 
• with A. Kavada. Digital Media and the Spatial Transformation of Public Contention at the ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop, Nottingham, UK, 26-29 April 2017. 
• with A. Kavada and S. Merrill. Materiality, Publicness and Digital Media, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 25-26 October 2016.
• with J. Pierson & N. Helberger. The Transformation of the public sphere and personalised communication theme of the  2015 Amsterdam Privacy Conference (APC). Amsterdam, Netherlands, 23-26 October 2015.
• with R. Celikates et al.  Global Cultures of Contestation Conference, Amsterdam Center for Globalisation Studies (ACGS), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15-16 October 2015.  
• with B.J. de Kloet et al. Inverting Globalisation, Amsterdam Center for Globalisation Studies (ACGS), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 9-10 October 2014. 
• with J. van Dijck.  Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 18-20 June 2014.
• with B. J. de Kloet, R.A.F.L. Woltering & F. A. Hirzalla. Social Media Activism in the Arab World and China Conference of the Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies (ACGS), Amsterdam, 21 January 2013.
• with B.G.M. de Waal.  Netwerkdag Journalism Studies Nederland of the Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies (ACGS) and Journalistiek en Media, UvA, Amsterdam, 28 June 2013.  

Invited Talks & Keynotes

• "The Platformization of China." Keynote at the The 16th Chinese Internet Research Conference. Leiden, Netherlands, 23 May 2018. 
• "De Publieke Omroep in de Platformsamenleving." Invited talk with José van Dijck at the  Dutch public broadcasting organization (NPO), Hilversum, Netherlands, 12 October 2017. 
• "De Platformsamenleving." Keynote at the Internet en Sociale Media symposium of the Dutch Forensic Psychiatry Association. Zeegse, Netherlands, 5 October 2017.  
• “The Platform Society.” Invited talk for the Scholars-in-Residence program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 11 May 2017.
• “Social Media and New Protest Movements.” Invited talk for the The International Workshop on Political Communication (5 ed.), Laval University, Québec, Canada, 22 April 2017.
• "The Platformization of Activism." Public lecture for the Democracy and Citizenship in Digital Society initiative (DECIDIS), IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 13 May 2016. 
• "Social Media and the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions." Invited talk in the WHAT's NEW?! Spring Lecture Series of LUCIS, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, 14 January, 2016.
• "Scraping, Analyzing and Curating Facebook Pages." Invited talk at the Digital Horizons, Virtual Selves: Rethinking Cultural Heritage in the Museum Conference, Research Center for Material Culture of the Tropenmuseum, Afrika Museum and Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands, 21-22 January, 2016. 
• "Wanneer doet de jeugd van tegenwoordig mee aan een protest." Five mini-lectures for the Universiteit van Nederland, Amsterdam, Nederlands, 11-15 January, 2016.
• "Social Media Activism & State Surveillance." Invited talk for the Authoritarianism in a Global Age ERC-funded research project, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4 November 2015. 
• "Protest Leadership in the Age of Social Media." Invited talk at the Corporeality in Arab Public Culture workshop, NIAS-PARGC, Wassenaar, Netherlands, 20 October, 2015, 
• "Global Cultures of Contestation." Opening Address at the  Global Cultures of Contestation Conference, Amsterdam Center for Globalisation Studies (ACGS), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15-16 October 2015.
• "Social Media Mechanisms", Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium at UCSC. Santa Cruz, US, 15 April, 2015.
• “Questioning social media data: Chinese and Tunisian online contention.” Invited talk at the workshop ‘In Search of Cosmopolitan Data and Research Methods’ of Ulrich Beck’s ERC-project on ‘Methodological Cosmopolitanism’, Paris, France, 8-9 December 2014.
• "Sociale Media en de Transformatie van de Publieke Ruimte." Keynote lecture at the ‘Gebruikers aan de macht? Sociale media studiedag’, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Brussel, Belgium, 20 November 2014. 
• “ Is Social the New Public?” Keynote lecture at the international conference on Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space, KNAW. With José van Dijck. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 18-20 June 2014.
• "The Transformation of Public Space." Invited talk at the Power Diffusion in the Public Sphere workshop, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 15 May 2014.
• "Media in Transition." Invited talk at the RMeS Summer School 2012. University of Groningen, Netherlands, 25-29 June 2012. 
• "Twitter als begrensde en onbegrensde ruimte." Presentation at Grenzeloze Geesteswetenschappen - The opening ceremony of the academic year of the Faculty of the Humanities. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8 September 2011. 

Papers & Presentations 

• “Platform Power & Public Value.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 2018 Conference, with José van Dijck and David Nieborg. Montreal, Canada, 10-13 October 2018. 
• "Contention and Control: Protest in the age of datafication". Paper presented at the Exploring Social Justice in an Age of Datafication Conference. Cardiff, Cardiff University, 21-22 May 2018. 
• "The Platformization of Cultural Production" panel at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 2016, Conference. with D. Nieborg, B. Duffy, R. Prey, and S. Cunningham. Tartu, Estonia, 18-21 October 2017. 
• "App Studies: Platform Rules and Methodological Challenges”,  panel at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 2016, Conference. with A. Helmond, F. N van der Vlist, C. Gerlitz, E. Weltevrede, D. Nieborg, J. de Kloet1, G Zeng, and J. Paßmann. Berlin, Germany, 5-8 October 2016.
• "Communication and Media Studies Perspective on Social media and shifting borders of public, private and corporate space",  2015 Amsterdam Privacy Conference (APC), with J. Pierson. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 23-26 October 2015.
• "Protest Leadership in the Age of Social Media", Political Agency in the Digital Age Conference, Communication and Democracy section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-10 October 2015. 
• " Facebook in the Midst of Revolution", International conference on Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 18-20 June 2014.
• "Social media and journalistic independence." Journalism in Transition: Crisis or Opportunity? Journalism Studies Section Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). With José van Dijck. Thessaloniki, Greece, 27-29 March 2014.
• " The Personalization of Activism."Paper presented at the 8th Media in Transition conference (MiT8) on Public Media, Private Media, MIT, Boston, US, 3-5 May 2013. 
• " Reconfiguring Social Media Activism." Paper presented at the 8th Media in Transition conference (MiT8) on Public Media, Private Media, MIT, Boston, US, 3-5 May 2013.  
• " Activist Social Media Communication." Paper presented at the workshop on Collective Action Online: Theories and Methods of the 41st ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz 11 - 16 March 2013.
• " Social Media Activism." Paper presented at the Social Media Activism in the Arab World and China Conference of the Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies (ACGS), Amsterdam, 21 January 2013. 
• with J. de Kloet & Zeng, G. " Will the Real Weibo Please Stand Up? Chinese Online Contention and Actor-Network Theory." Paper presented at the Social Media Activism in the Arab World and China Conference of the Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies (ACGS), Amsterdam, 21 January 2013.  
• with  J. de Kloet & Zeng, G. "Microblogging and activism: comparing Sina Weibo and Twitter."Paper presented at the 4th European Communication Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Istanbul, Turkey, 24-27 October 2012.
• "A Critique of Social Media Activism: From Tools to Assemblages." Paper presented at the The Fourth ICTs and Society-Conference: Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media. Uppsala University, Sweden, 2-4 May 2012. 
• with J. de Kloet. "Online Activism and ChineseVoices of Discontent." Paper presented at the Digital East Asia Conference of the Modern East Asia Research Centre. Leiden University, Netherlands, 10 December 2011. 
• with A. Helmond, R. Rustema, and E. Weltevrede. "From Virtual Communities to Social Networks." Presentation at the1991@2011_Media_in_Motion Symposium of the Departement of Media Studies  of the Faculty of the Humanities. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 21 October 2011.  
• "Twitter and the Tunisian Revolution." Presentation at the second summit of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA).  Faculty of the Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 28 September 2011. 
• with E. Borra. "The Social Media Protest Environment". Paper presented at MIT7: Unstable Platforms Conference. Boston, US, 14 May 2011.
• "Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr as Platforms of Alternative Journalism". The Social Media Account of the 2010 Toronto G20 Protests. Paper presented a Digital Methods Winter Conference. Amsterdam, 25 January 2011.
• with E. Borra "TheSocial Media Protest Environment:Constructing the Collective Now." Paper presented at Platform Politics - A Multidisciplinary Conference. Cambridge, Great Britain, 13 May 2011.
• "Digital Activism in an Authoritarian Context." Presentation at the Theory and Practice of Development Dilemmas Hivos Knowledge Programme Dialogue, The Hague, 29 September - 1 October 2010.
• "Colliding Media Spheres: the Interaction between On- and Offline. Media in Contentious Politics." Presentation at the Balans van de Journalistiek Jubileum Conferentie of the MA Journalistiek, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4 June 2010.
• "Drawing mass media attention: television and newspaper reporting on radical left-wing activist performances and spectacles in the Netherlands (2004-2009)" Paper presented at the Media, Communication and the Spectacle Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 26-27 November, 2009.
• "Activist Media and the Mainstream Press in Daily Practice: Covering Protests in the Netherlands (2004-2009)."Paper presented at the Future of Journalism Conference of the The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff,Groot-Brittannië, 9-10 september, 2009.
• "The Mass Media in Multi cultural Conflict." Paper presented at the 2nd European Communication Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Barcelona, Spain, 25-28 November 2008.
• "Mediated Citizenship in Multicultural Conflict. An Analysis of the Role of the Media in the Public Debate Following the Assassination of Theo van Gogh." Paper presented at the 4th Annual Conference 2008: Culture and Citizenship of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), Oxford, Great Britain, 3-5 September 2008. 
• "The Unification of the Dutch State, 1795- 1813."  Paper presented in the Contentious Politics workshop of Columbia University, New York, United States, 31 January 2005. 
• "Local Particularism Challenged (1795-1813)." Paper presented at the 1st Dutch-Flemish conference on the Economic History of the Low Countries before 1850 of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, Antwerp, Belgium, 18-19 November 2004.
• "Liberal Democracy versus Late Medieval Constitutionalism: Struggles over Representation in the Dutch Republic (1780-1800)."Paper presented in the The Formation of Representative Democracy workshop of The Politics and History of European Democratization Network van de European ScienceFoundation (ESF), University of Malaga, Spain, 10-11 October 2003.
• "The Unification of the Dutch State, 1795-1813."Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Urban History of the European Association of Urban Historians inEdinburgh,Great Britain,5-7 September 2002.
• "The Amsterdam elite and the formation of the Dutch state (1780-1813)." Paper presented in the Advanced Seminar on Urban History van de European graduate School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER), University of Athens, Greece, 18-22 February 2002.
• "The Role of Amsterdam Elite in theTransition of the Republic to the Dutch National State."Paper presented at Fifth International Conference on Urban History of the European Association of Urban Historians, Berlin, Germany, 31 Augustus-2 September 2000.

Editorial board of

• Social Media & Society 
• Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

Reviewed on behalf of

• New Media & Society
• Information, Communication & Society
• Theory, Culture & Society
• Convergence
• International Sociology 
• Digital Journalism 
• Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media   
• Krisis. Tijdschrift voor actuele filosofie.   

Positions

•  Aug. 2009 -  Assistant professor of New Media and Digital Culture (1,0 fte) University of Amsterdam, Faculty of the Humanities, Department of Media Studies
• Aug. 2005 - Aug. 2009  Lecturer (0,8 fte) Utrecht University, Faculty of the Humanities,Department of Media and Culture Studies
• April 2005-Nov. 2005  Lecturer (0,4 fte) Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of History and Arts
• Feb. 2002 - Aug.2005 Lecturer (0,2 fte) Utrecht University, Faculty of the Humanities, Department of Media and Culture Studies
• Jan. 2000 - April. 2005  PhD-student (0,8 fte) Utrecht University, Faculty of the Humanities, Department of History. Project: The Democratic Paradox. Dutch Revolutionary Struggles over Democratisation and Centralisation (1780-1813.)
• Sept.- Nov. 1999   Contract researcher (0,6 fte) International Institute of SocialHistory, Amsterdam Project: Collectie Velle 

Other Professional Positions

• February 2016 - Program Director of the Research Master Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
• September 2015 - Project leader of the Audiovisual Data and Media Studies of the national infrastructural project CLARIAH (NWO).
• April 2012 - 2016 Member of the editorial board of the Illustere School of the  Faculty of the Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Sept. 2011 - Program leader of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
• Sept. 2011 - 2014 Member of the board of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
• Jan. - Sept. 2011  Interim team coordinator of the New Media team, Department of Media Studies, Faculty ofthe Humanities, University of Amsterdam. 
• Sept. 2010 -  Member of the Opleidingscommissie(OC) ofthe Department of Media Studies, Faculty ofthe Humanities, University of Amsterdam. 

Visiting positions

• January - June 2015 - Research Associate at UC Santa Cruz.
• May 2015 - Visiting lecturer at the University of Helsinki.

Training

•  2010  Participation in the Digital Methods Summer School, Training Certificate Program & Advanced Projects Program, Faculty of theHumanities, University of Amsterdam, 28 June-9 July, 16 - 27 August.
• 2006-2007  BKO (BasicQualification Education). Faculty of the Humanities, Utrecht University
• 2002  Writing Scientific Texts in English for Publication. James Boswell Institute
• 2000-2001  Ph.D. training program of the European graduate School for Training in Economic and Social-Historical Research (ESTER)
• 1998   Graduated cum laude in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Amsterdam 
• 1996-'97  Academic year at the New School for Social Research and Columbia University in New York 

Global Perspectices on Platforms and Cultural Production 

In this special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Studies, we aim to: 1) challenge universalism, 2) provincialize the US, and 3) multiply our frames of reference in Platform Studies. Pursuing these objectives, we bring together ideas from postcolonial and decolonial theory and platform studies in a systematic research program. This Global Perspectives program allows us to: denaturalize and rethink dominant concepts and ideas through research from around the globe; explicitly thematize and examine the global power relations that structure platform economies; and critically interrogate the knowledge production about these economies. You can find this program in the opening essay.

I have edited this special issue with Brooke Erin Duffy, David Nieborg, Bruce Mutsvairo, Tommy Tse, Arturo Arriagada, Jeroen de Kloet, and Ping Sun. The 20 articles have been organized in the four following sections: 

Platform markets and governance

1. Marc Steinberg, Rahul Mukherjee, and Lin Zhang complicate our thinking about platform capitalism– or as the authors emphasize ‘platform capitalisms’: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13678779231223544

2. Robert Prey and Lee Seonok demonstrate that there are ‘structurally distinct models of platformization’: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779241244399

3. Dasol Kim examines ‘Team Azimkiya’, a Bangladeshi YouTube channel, that primarily targets South Korean viewers: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13678779241240780

4. Allen Munoriyarwa, Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos and colleagues, enrich our understanding of so-called ‘philanthrocapitalism’: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779241265734

5. Zhen Ye and colleagues propose the notion of ‘playful governance’: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779241247065

6. Ergin Bulut highlights the importance of the state in regulating and shaping creative imaginaries and labor practices on platforms: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13678779241254541

Labor and precarity

7. Lorena Caminhas, drawing on 15 interviews with cisgendered female cammers in Brazil, criticizes the traditional understanding of platform-based cultural work as precarious: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779241244410

8. Tuğçe Bidav calls for greater attention to the localized dimensions of creator insecurity: from language and governance regimes to staggeringly different CPM rates: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779241258491

9. Tinca Lukan examining the agency of influencers in Slovenia: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779241268208?icid=int.sj-full-text.citing-articles.3

10. Arturo Arriagada and David Craig examine Latin American influencers in the United States: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13678779241268138

11. Srikanth Nayaka and colleagues investigate the appropriation of social media for creative work in the rural hinterlands of South India: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779241292639

12. Alessandro Gandini and colleagues analyze neo-craft work: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13678779241253624

Resistance, negotiations and participation

13. Issaaf Karhawi and Rafael Grohmann do a close analysis of the discourse of three Brazilian, Marxist cultural producers —’one woman and two drag queens’— on YouTube, Instagram, and X: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13678779241268078

14. Alex Chartrand and Stefanie Duguay examine how concerns about shadowbanning and algorithmic bias among LGBTQ+Instagrammers in Montreal and Berlin impact their content and communication practices: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779241267292?icid=int.sj-abstract.citing-articles.6

15. Gbenga Adeoba and James Yéku examining the relationship between commercial US-based social media platforms and citizenship practices in Nigeria: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779241252997

16. Tommy Tse, Lin Zhang, and van @Nanne van Noord explore China’s cultural and economic influence in Kenya through two Chinese-invested e-commerce platforms: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779241292077

Situated epistemologies

17. Katerina Girginova highlights the limitations of English-language research on the metaverse, which often takes Horizon Worlds, Meta’s US-centric metaverse prototype, as its starting point: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13678779231224799

18. Jean Burgess and colleagues expand the conceptual conversation about novel technologies, focusing on the notion of diversity, they look for inspiration across disciplines: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13678779241239342

19. Elaine Yuan critically engages with the epistemological limits of Anglo-American celebrity/creator studies research, which primarily focuses on the issues of labor, precarity, and creator agency: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779241230564

20. Ignacio Siles and colleagues examine the research on platforms and algorithms in Latin America, focusing on research published in Portuguese or Spanish: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779241256376