Fernando van der Vlist, PhD

🔍Critical Data & AI · 💼Assistant Professor & Programme Coordinator, Master’s in Cultural Data & AI at the University of Amsterdam · 🏅NWO Veni Laureate · 📚Author, Platforms: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 2026)

“ He is a researcher, designer, and professor specialising in digital media and technology, with a focus on critical internet and platform studies. He is currently Assistant Professor in Critical Data & AI in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), where he also coordinates the Master’s programme in Cultural Data & AI. As the PI of the NWO-funded ‘AI Power’ project, his research examines how AI ecosystems and Big Tech’s infrastructure reshape power dynamics in society. He co-directs the App Studies Initiative and is the co-author of Platforms: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 2026).

Field: 📍Media Studies (Social Sciences and Humanities) │ Areas: 🏷Internet Studies 🏷Platform Studies 🏷Platformization 🏷App Studies 🏷Digital Methods 🏷Software Studies 🏷Critical AI Studies 🏷Critical Data Studies 🏷Social Media 🏷Web History 🏷Platform Ecosystems 🏷Controversy Mapping

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

Education: 🎓 🇳🇱Utrecht University 🎓 🇳🇱University of Amsterdam │ 🎓 🇳🇱Willem de Kooning Academy’ (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences)

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