Digital Methods Winterschool 2012: APIs as Interfaces to the Cloud
From 25-27 January 2012 we held our fourth annual Winter School with the theme “Interfaces for the Cloud: Curating the Data.” The first day consisted of paper presentations and responses/feedback. The...
View ArticleDigital Methods Winterschool 2012: APIs – Variations and Change
After the introduction to APIs and API critiques Bernard Rieder talked about APIs from the perspective of ”Variation and Change.” This transcript is compiled from collaborative notes by the Digital...
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Visualization: Amazon recommendation network for “Software Studies: A Lexicon”
I recently came across a post on O’Reilly that highlighted Christopher Warnow’s network visualization for the book A Thousand Milieus. Warnow created a tool using Processing, based on the Gephi API,...
View ArticleVideo: Reworking the fabric of the web: The Like economy
Click here to view the embedded video. Conference presentation at Unlike Us #2: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. Session 4: Software Matters Anne Helmond (NL) and Carolin...
View ArticlePaper: The Like economy: Social buttons and the data-intensive web
My co-authored article, with colleague Carolin Gerlitz, has been published in New Media & Society in Online First on February 4, 2013. Abstract The paper examines Facebook’s ambition to extend into...
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Facebook Demetricator and the Easing of Prescribed Sociality by Ben Grosser...
Unlike Us #3 organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, March 22-24, 2013, Trouw, Amsterdam At Unlike Us #3 Ben Grosser presented the Facebook Demetricator which is a web browser extension that...
View ArticleDataflows en de politieke economie van sociale media platformen
Transcript van mijn lezing tijdens de studiemiddag voor alumni van de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen over sociale media. Universiteit van Amsterdam, 5 april 2013. 1. Introductie Dank voor de...
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On algorithmic friendship, a belated April Fools’ joke
While I was updating my DevonThink today I visited their blog Devonian Times and noticed I missed one of the best April Fools’ jokes related to my research: CareTaker for Facebook is here! Some people...
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Notes from #MIT8: ‘Social Media Platforms between Private, Public and...
On Friday, May 3rd I attended the ‘Social Media Platforms between Private, Public and Commercial Space’ panel where Tarleton Gillespie talked about Curation by Algorithm. Based on his chapter ‘The...
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Notes from #MIT8: ‘Labor and Technologies of Surveillance’ – The Aesthetics...
On Saturday, May 4th I attended the ‘Labor and Technologies of Surveillance’ panel where Kelly Gates talked about ‘Professionalizing Police Media Work: Surveillance Video & the Forensic...
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Notes from #MIT8: ‘The Work of Algorithms’ – Knowing Algorithms
On Saturday, May 4th I attended the ‘The Work of Algorithms’ panel where Nick Seaver talked about Knowing Algorithms. In his talk Seaver discusses the issue of dealing with proprietary algorithms...
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The Materiality of Facebook and Localizing the Cloud
Photo: Cascade Creative Media for The Node Pole In “The Like economy: Social buttons and the data-intensive web” colleague Carolin Gerlitz and I looked into the way Facebook uses the technical...
View ArticlePaper: The Algorithmization of the Hyperlink
My article “The Algorithmization of the Hyperlink” has just been published in the third issue of Computational Culture: a journal of software studies. Abstract This study looks at the history of the...
View ArticleThe web as platform: Data flows in social media
On September 23, 2015 I will publicly defend my dissertation ‘The web as platform: Data flows in social media’ at the University of Amsterdam. Read the English summary/Nederlandse samenvatting or...
View ArticleThe Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready
My article on ‘The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready‘ has been published in the first issue of the new (open access) journal Social Media + Society. Abstract In this...
View ArticleThe Data Sprint Approach: Exploring the field of Digital Humanities through...
My co-authored article with David M. Berry, Erik Borra, Jean-Christophe Plantin and Jill Walker Rettberg on “The Data Sprint Approach: Exploring the field of Digital Humanities through Amazon’s...
View ArticleThe Affordances of Social Media Platforms
Taina Bucher and I would like to circulate our chapter on “The Affordances of Social Media Platforms,” our contribution to the SAGE Handbook of Social Media, edited by Jean Burgess, Thomas Poell, and...
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Video series: Welcome to the Future of the Past
Two years ago I spoke at the IMPAKT Festival 2015 with the theme “The Future of the Past.” Together with my colleague Fernando van der Vlist and Transmediale artistic director Kristoffer Gansing we...
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Published: The Affordances of Social Media Platforms
My co-authored chapter on social media and affordances with Taina Bucher has officially been published! Download the pre-publication print PDF, June 2016. Bucher T and Helmond A (2018) The Affordances...
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Published: Historical website ecology. Analyzing past states of the web using...
My contribution to the edited volume Web 25: Histories from the first 25 Years of the World Wide Web by Niels Brügger on historical source code analysis has officially been published! In this chapter I...
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