Esther Weltevrede

Building on recent and ongoing work, the chapters explore how AI is being ‘appified’ (culturally, economically), deployed, and distributed across mobile app stores, cloud infrastructure marketplaces, and emerging model marketplaces such as the new GPT Store.

This 2nd ASI Sprint Report stems from the 2024–25 Master’s course ‘Appification’ at the University of Amsterdam, and our new Cultural Data & AI Master’s Embedded Research Project ‘The Appification of AI’. We’re proud to showcase the work of/with our students.

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

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...

Docent (tenure track) / hoofddocent / hoogleraar communicatiewetenschappen en digitalisering - UHasselt

✨School voor Sociale Wetenschappen van Universiteit Hasselt werft (open rank) professor Media Studies/Communicatiewetenschappen & Digitalisering aan❗

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Paraplatforms - Marc Steinberg, 2024 In this short commentary, I suggest the term “paraplatform” as a means of expanding the purview of platform studies. The hope is that this conceptual term may o...

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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....