Fernando van der Vlist | @fvandervlist.bsky.social

📢 Very excited to share my latest article ‘Big AI: Cloud Infrastructure and the Industrialisation of AI’, substantiating the pivotal role of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the AI landscape. #BigAI 🥳 Read: doi.org/10.1177/205395… (OA @BigDataSoc) w/ @silvertje @fabianlferrari

Fresh #OA 🔓 paper from @samhind10, Gabriel Pereira, @fvandervlist & me in ICS! 'Orchestrating scalability: how patents render cloud imaginaries in CAV innovation.' What do 69K+ patents reveal about cloud & autonomous vehicles? 🚗☁️ doi.org/10.1080/136911… /1

New book chapter! We just published 'App Ecosystem Analysis' (w/ @fvandervlist @esthr) introducing methods for analysing app ecosystems, emphasizing that apps are not stand-alone entities but exist within larger ecosystems: doi.org/10.4324/978100… (pdf: annehelmond.nl/wordpress/wp-c…)

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

✨📗 ‘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-outpu… #AppStudies #AI

📷📷 New OA book out now with Amsterdam University Press: Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values Edited by José van Dijck, Karin van Es, Anne Helmond, and @fvandervlist Open Access: aup.nl/en/book/978904…

Vandaag stonden we met 25.000 mensen op het Malieveld in Den Haag te demonstreren tegen de voorgenomen desastreuze bezuinigingen tegen het hoger onderwijs! #woinactie #stopdebezuinigingen

⚡️For those still left on the hellsite: Driving Decisions book launch is THIS THURSDAY. Zoom link will go out the day before.➡️Sign-up here: qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_eD…

✨ On the pol. economy of AI and global ‘super apps’ (OA): 📑 ‘Big AI’, cloud dependency, & ‘industrialisation of AI’ |📗@BigDataSoc |🔗doi.org/10.1177/205395… 📑 ‘Super-appification’ |📗NM&S |🔗doi.org/10.1177/146144… 📑 Waymo/Google |📗AI&Soc |🔗doi.org/10.1007/s00146…

🕟15:30 |📍Discovery 1|📱‘Exploring Appification’—on ‘super-appification’ & ‘AI appification’ w/ @silvertje, @esthr, @mdieter, @DugStef – @appstudies Would look forward to seeing you there!

Presenting twice at #AoIR2024 in Sheffield this Thursday: 🕘9:00 |📍Discovery 3|🤖‘The Political Economy of AI as Platform: Infrastructures, Power, and the AI Industry’, w/ @DLuitse, @RiederB, @samhind10, & @silvertje

📗✨ Digital Media Metaphors: A Critical Introduction. Featuring a chapter w/ @silvertje on ‘platform’ as an evolving metaphorical tapestry of terms meanings, alongside other great contributions in this edited volume. 🔗 doi.org/10.4324/978103…

Three fully-funded PhD positions are available to join the new ERC Advanced Grant ‘Deep Culture - Living with Difference in the Age of Deep Learning’ in Amsterdam. For further details and a link to apply, please visit: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Three-…

Just published: New @Convergence_NMT paper about asymmetries between software, organization, power and work in the implementation of cloud platforms. Learn more about formatting work in platform capitalisms: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

@SRanderath @Convergence_NMT Congrats, this looks great Sebastian!

🚨Thrilled to share my new article “Platform power in AI: The evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence” ✨OA @PolicyR as part of the🔥SI “Locating and Theorizing Platform Power” Read: policyreview.info/articles/analy…

"Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy" by @cristina_alaimo @JannisKallinik1 is open access! 🎉 direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monog… "...the authors place the transformative potential of data at the center of an emerging socioeconomic order that restructures society and its institutions"

✨ @esthr and I are proud to launch the @appstudies Sprint Report Series (and 1st report) showcasing the hard work of our Master’s students during the 2024 #Appification course (w/ guests @DugStef @mdieter @FiekeJ @silvertje) and its concluding data-sprint @UvA_Humanities!

Come and work with @CharlesJeurgens Annet Dekker @tobias_blanke @PaulaHelm12 @HLMQA @rensbod @fvandervlist & myself at Media Studies @UvA_Humanities @UvA_Amsterdam We are looking for a new assistant professor Critical Archival Studies vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assist…| Deadline June 14

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher “Governing the Digital Society” @UU_GDS @UniUtrecht. GDS promotes research on the socio-technical and political-economic processes of datafication, algorithmisation and platformisation and AI: uu.nl/en/organisatio… Deadline: 9 June.

🚨New paper alert🚨: "Migrating the state into corporate clouds" w/@DanKotliar! OA publication in Information, Communication & Society, where we looked at Project Nimbus, a $1.2b tender won by Google (GCP) and Amazon (AWS) to "move the entire state of Israel into the Cloud" (!)