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Fernando van der Vlist

” is a scholar, graphic designer, and educator specialising in digital media and technology, especially internet studies. He is Assistant Professor and programme coordinator for the Master’s Cultural Data & AI in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands. His research focuses on the critical study of digital platforms and apps, their ecosystems, data, and artificial intelligence (AI) in culture and society.
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Field: 📍Media Studies (Social Sciences and Humanities) │ Areas: 🏷Internet Studies 🏷Platform Studies 🏷App Studies 🏷Digital Methods 🏷Software Studies 🏷Critical Data Studies 🏷Artificial Intelligence (AI)
At: 🏢 🇳🇱University of Amsterdam │ Groups: 👥App Studies Initiative 👥Digital Methods Initiative 👥Public Data Lab
Previously: 🕓 🇳🇱‘Governing the Digital Society’ (Utrecht University) 🕓 🇩🇪‘Media of Cooperation’ (University of Siegen) 🕓 🇳🇱Utrecht Data School (Utrecht University) │ 🕓 🇳🇱Mind Design 🕓 🇳🇱The World as Flatland

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📌 platform.html
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 Platform 2024-11-11 📄 📗Book Section 🔒Closed
↪ appstudies.org
├ OSF DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/hv34x
├ Part of OSF DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/hv34x
 └ Part of URL: appstudies.org
 The Nationality of Apps, ASI Sprint Report Series #1 2024-05-31 📗Sprint Report 🔓Open Access
the-nationality-of-apps.html
├ URL: appstudies.org
├ Part of OSF DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/hv34x
 └ Part of URL: appstudies.org
 The Nationality of Apps? 2024-05-31 📄 📗Editorial Introduction 🔓Open Access
challenges-as-catalysts.html
├ DOI: 10.1007/s00146-024-01927-x
├ Part of ISSN: 1435-5655
 ├ Part of e-ISSN: 0951-5666
 ├ Funded by Grant №: 262513311
 └ Cited by SERP: scholar.google.com
 Challenges as Catalysts 2024-04-17 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
digital-methods-for-sensory-media-research.html
├ DOI: 10.1177/13548565241226791
├ Part of URL: journals.sagepub.com
 ├ Part of ISSN: 1354-8565
 ├ Part of e-ISSN: 1748-7382
 ├ Linked to ASI Tools: appstudies.org/tools
 ├ Funded by Grant №: 262513311
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 Digital Methods for Sensory Media Research 2024-04-17 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
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└ Linked to DOI: 10.1177/20539517241232630
 Mapping the Landscape of Cloud AI 2024-03-20 📝Blog Post 🌍Public
📌 big-ai.html
├ DOI: 10.1177/20539517241232630
├ Part of e-ISSN: 2053-9517
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 Big AI 2024-03-12 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
📌 super-appification.html
├ DOI: 10.1177/14614448231223419
├ Part of ISSN: 1461-4448
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 ├ Funded by Grant №: VI.Veni.191C.048
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 Super-Appification 2024-01-10 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
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├ DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13510
├ Part of e-ISSN: 2162-3317
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 └ Version of DOI: 10.1177/20539517241232630
 Big AI (Proceeding) 2023-12-31 📄 🔍Conference Proceeding 🔓Open Access
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├ DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13509
├ Part of e-ISSN: 2162-3317
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 ├ Funded by Grant №: 262513311
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📌 platform.html
├ DOI: 10.4324/9781032674612-4
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 ├ Part of ISBN: 978-1-032-67460-9
 ├ Part of e-ISBN: 978-1-032-67461-2
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 Platform 2024-11-11 📄 📗Book Section 🔒Closed
📌 big-ai.html
├ DOI: 10.1177/20539517241232630
├ Part of e-ISSN: 2053-9517
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 Big AI 2024-03-12 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
📌 super-appification.html
├ DOI: 10.1177/14614448231223419
├ Part of ISSN: 1461-4448
 ├ Part of e-ISSN: 1461-7315
 ├ Linked to OSF DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/fetps
 ├ Funded by Grant №: SPI.2021.001
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 Super-Appification 2024-01-10 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
📌 the-platform-as-ecosystem.html
├ DOI: 10.33540/1284
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 The Platform as Ecosystem 2022-09-16 🎓 📗 🔍Thesis │ 📜📜 🌍Public
📌 api-governance.html
├ DOI: 10.1177/20563051221086228
├ Part of e-ISSN: 2056-3051
 ├ Linked to OSF DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/wfxyp
 ├ Funded by URL: cais.nrw
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 ├ Funded by Grant №: 275-45-009
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 API Governance 2022-05-07 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
📌 pandemic-platform-governance.html
├ DOI: 10.14763/2021.3.1568
├ Part of e-ISSN: 2197-6775
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 Pandemic Platform Governance 2021-08-06 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
📌 how-partners-mediate-platform-power.html
├ DOI: 10.1177/20539517211025061
├ Part of e-ISSN: 2053-9517
 ├ Linked to OSF DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/ekum8
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 How Partners Mediate Platform Power 2021-06-14 📄 🔍Research Article │ 📜 🔓Open Access
📌 social-media-and-platform-historiography.html
├ DOI: 10.18146/tmg.434
├ Part of URL: tmgonline.nl
 ├ Part of e-ISSN: 2213-7653
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 Social Media and Platform Historiography 2019-11-06 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
📌 apps-and-infrastructures-a-research-agenda.html
├ URL: computationalculture.net
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 Apps and Infrastructures – A Research Agenda 2019-10-21 📄 📗Issue Editorial 🔓Open Access
📌 regramming-the-platform.html
├ URL: computationalculture.net
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 Regramming the Platform 2019-10-21 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
📌 multi-situated-app-studies.html
├ DOI: 10.1177/2056305119846486
├ Part of e-ISSN: 2056-3051
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 Multi-Situated App Studies 2019-06-06 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
📌 facebooks-evolution.html
├ DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1593667
├ Part of ISSN: 2470-1475
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 Facebook’s Evolution 2019-05-01 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
📌 accounting-for-the-social.html
├ DOI: 10.1177/2053951716631365
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 Accounting for the Social 2016-06-01 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
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📌 seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees.html
├ Part of DOI: 10.1177/1461444820940293
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 Seeing the Forest for the Trees Diagrams 2021-09 📊Infographics 🔓Open Access
📌 the-platform-society.html
├ DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190889760.001.0001
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 The Platform Society Diagrams 2018-11-02 📊Infographics
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 The Platform as Ecosystem (Data Sets) 2022-04-15 🗄Research Data 🔓Open Access
📌 appstudies.org/data
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📌 appstudies.org/tools
└ Part of URL: appstudies.org
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📌 media-studies-reference-worksheets.html
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├ DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1593667
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📌 multi-situated-app-studies.html
├ DOI: 10.1177/2056305119846486
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 Multi-Situated App Studies 2019-06-06 📄 🔍Research Article 🔓Open Access
📌 how-partners-mediate-platform-power.html
├ DOI: 10.1177/20539517211025061
├ Part of e-ISSN: 2053-9517
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 How Partners Mediate Platform Power 2021-06-14 📄 🔍Research Article │ 📜 🔓Open Access
📌 social-media-and-platform-historiography.html
├ DOI: 10.18146/tmg.434
├ Part of URL: tmgonline.nl
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📌 api-governance.html
├ DOI: 10.1177/20563051221086228
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