The App Studies Initiative (ASI) is a contribution to the study of #apps and #platforms. Directors @silvertje @gamespacenl @fvandervlist @esthr

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🕟15:30 |📍Discovery 1|📱‘Exploring Appification’—on ‘super-appification’ & ‘AI appification’ w/ @silvertje, @esthr, @mdieter, @DugStef – @appstudies Would look forward to seeing you there!
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Excited to share our chapter on the 'Platform' metaphor (w/ @fvandervlist) in this great Digital Media Metaphors book (ed. by @farkasjohan @MarcusJMaloney). It provides an intro to platform studies & concept of platformization. Available here: dx.doi.org/10.4324/978103267… (or DM me!)
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📢 Exciting news: our latest article on ‘Super-appification’ is now out in New Media & Society! 🚀 We delve into the rise of ‘super apps’, exploring their characteristics, origins, and global impact 🌍 #SuperApps Read: doi.org/10.1177/146144482312… (OA) w/ @silvertje @mdieter @esthr !
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Presenting twice at #aoir2023 in Philly tomorrow (Go Phillies⚾️): first, on AI and cloud platforms (P5) w/ @silvertje and next, on super apps and mobile platforms (P36) w/ @silvertje and @esthr. Looking forward to seeing you there!
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Wrapping up my journey as a Postdoc at @UU_GDS and @UUMediaCulture, Utrecht University, and @mediaofcoop, University of Siegen. Thrilled to announce—for those I haven't spoken to yet—my return to @UvA_Amsterdam’s Department of Media Studies as an Assistant Professor next month!☀️
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For those present, I’ll be presenting ongoing research on super apps with @silvertje, @mdieter, & @esthr in panel 1.5! 🌞 #appstudies
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Anne Helmond @silvertje spoke remotely from @UniUtrecht on researching mobile communications. Her plenary discussed appification, which is the process of integrating parts of daily life into mobile applications.
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closing out Reimagining Platforms, it's the amazing @silvertje taking us through the key contributions of her collaborative research to set up provocations for how we can (re)imagine studying platforms and platformisation through empirical and historical work #RPEdinburgh
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The Platform Lab is proud to present its second Lab report: Super Apps, edited by @jakeadampitre! This report addresses how the super app has become the experiential infrastructure of platform capitalism. Check it out here: theplatformlab.com/super-app….
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On Friday 16 Sept at 10:15 am, I will defend my PhD thesis ‘The Platform as Ecosystem: Configurations and Dynamics of Governance and Power’ at Utrecht University. More info and livestream: uu.nl/en/events/phd-defense-…
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"This article considers the significance of partnerships in the social media ecosystem to better understand how industry platforms, and the infrastructure they build, mediate and shape platform power and governance by @fvandervlist and @silvertje. buff.ly/3pVE7n1
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We are excited to announce the Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production conference, 1 & 2 June 2022 (right after #ICA22). CFP: bit.ly/GDC_PandC Keynotes: @DrTVLotz @jacklqiu @tainab @artarriagada @nancybaym @aswinp @jeanburgess @rasmus_kleis @markdeuze
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"Deplatformization and the governance of the platform ecosystem" by @jvdijck @TdeWinkel and @mirkoschaefer discusses the differences between deplatformization and deplatforming and strategies for deplatformization: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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Thanks for this wonderfully penetrating look into the dystopian data nightmare that the internet has turned into. Useful to put alongside the similarly inquisitive work by @fvandervlist and @silvertje; journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…. (ping @jockumhilden @DigitalSocietyL @Sinan__Akdag)
Replying to @K8brannen
Fascinating intvu btw @cwarzel & @swodinsky about covering the adtech beat. Reminds me of covering the defense industry. "A lot of this stuff is like, purposefully dense and dull. And the most interesting stuff is always the most impenetrable shit." warzel.substack.com/p/the-in…
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Just out! Our chapter on 'Platform and App Histories' doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63… For more approaches on platform and app histories, see: 'Social Media and Platform Historiography' doi.org/10.18146/tmg.434 (OA 🔓), written with students/colleagues studying platform evolution in mind.
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New “search as research” project to compare query results across languages and locations 👀 ☎️ cc @digitalmethods @richardrogers @bb_liliana @silvertje @fvandervlist @RiederB @esthr @ekborra @cgrltz @stijnstijn #dmi21
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“We all use apps, but what are they? In this technologically expert, economically smart overview, Gerard Goggin offers a timely assessment of the creative, social, and extractive work that apps do while we use them.” - @couldrynick on @goggin's 'Apps' Out now!

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📣 New article: “How partners mediate platform power: Mapping business and data partnerships in the social media ecosystem” w/ @silvertje in @BigDataSoc: doi.org/10.1177/205395172110… (open access🔓) ✨
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#SMARTDataSprint is already on! Now we have the privilege to listen to Anne Helmond (@silvertje) from the University of Amsterdam, and Fernando van der Vlist (@fvandervlist), from Utrecht University on Platformisation: Social media and the role of partnerships.
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Call for Proposals: INC Reader #15 – Critical Meme Research: networkcultures.org/blog/202…
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