✨ New journal officially launched! Welcome to Platforms & Society! Read our inaugural editorial and submit your article - or even a multimedia piece! The editors (we are an editorial collective!) are me, Niels van Doorn, Cheryll Soriano, andrea pollio & Julie Yujie Chen journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS

7 down, 14 to go! After two years of hard work the first papers in our double special issue on 'Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production' for International Journal of Cultural Studies are coming out. Here are some papers you may have missed:

so Sarah Brkhrdt @[email protected] and I just published a paper on the political economy of large pre-trained AI models (aka 'foundation models'); we are specifically focusing on the role of prompting, how it changes the way AI applications are built, and what that means; journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

⚡️🚗*New article* on 'Challenges as catalysts: how Waymo's Open Dataset Challenges shape AI development' w/ Fernando van der Vlist + Max Kanderske.🔓

Call for Participation: Internet Research with Foundation Models? cat4smr.humanities.uva.nl/index.php/2024…

Searching for a new Full Professor in Performing Arts & Society. Applications open until 2 June 2024!

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#OutNow in #iCS
How AI competitions shape the model of production of evaluation on medical imaging research?
In this article @Dluitse Tobias Blanke @Tpoell critically evaluate the medical AI research pipeline.
#ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalMedicine
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Join Sandra Ponzanesi and me next week wednesday April 24th in Utrecht for a Lecture by Karina Horsti & book launch Doing Digital Migration Studies with talks by Nadica Denić, Irene Gutierrez Daniel Leix Palumbo & Rosa Wevers. More info and registration here: uu.nl/en/events/lect…

'Challenges as catalysts: how Waymo’s Open Dataset Challenges shape AI development' by Sam Hind Fernando van der Vlist and Max Kanderske in AI & Society: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

This masterclass and public lecture, led by artist and professor Ben Grosser, will challenge the prevailing mythologies about TikTok’s famed algorithmic feed. Join us on April 25th to engage with questions of time and memory. More info: rmes.nl/rmes-mastercla…

Excited to announce our upcoming seminar series on Digital Ethnography! We invite interested persons to join our series of six seminars in 2024, to explore the power, potential, challenges, and ethics of digital ethnography as a lens. Info & registration: rmes.nl/rmes-digital-e…

Please join this lecture by Marc Steinberg on 'Platformed Conveniences' Governing the Digital Society on 30 May '24, exploring how Japanese convenience stores offer a lineage of “lean convenience,” shaping the smartphone-centric model of on-demand digital services.
More info: uu.nl/en/events/from….

🌈Call for Papers🌈

Thrilled to announce the cfp for a SI in #OrganizationStudies Organization Studies on #Platform organizations and societal change!

With Prof Annabelle Gawer stefan haefliger Evelyn Micelotta and Georg Reischauer

Have a look at the Call here 👉🏼 journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmsc…

Deadline for the PhD position in Digital Inclusion and Migration is approaching, apply until 10. April!

Also my colleagues at the Computational Social Science Department at GESIS in Köln are looking for a postdoc in social data science. Super cool team and a 4 year position with possible tenure: hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesi…

Join us for Nadia Feci Seminar on ‘The Audiovisual Media Services Directive in the Context of Influencers’ on Monday 8 April 14:00 - 16:00 in Utrecht

Hot online conference CFP: “Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context”

Abstracts due on Earth Day 🌎 uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-the…

What happens when local electric grids reach capacity due to data center energy demands?

Find out in my new article on “competing digital capacities” & data center tradeoffs out now in Information, Communication & Society.

Quick🧵👇

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New paper with DanjoKaZooie (@danjokaz00ie.bsky.social 'Advertising as governance: The digital commodity audience and platform advertising dependency' in Media, Culture and society - out open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

'Green Clouds?' Voor alle geïnteressierde mensen in en om Amsterdam diskutieren wij samen over duurzame data infrastructuren ↘️ woensdag, 20 maart, 8 uur SPUI25 spui25.nl/programma/gree…