Next week, we’re holding an international workshop on Platforms as Epistemic Infrastructures. The workshop will take place in a hybrid form across the respective media studies departments of Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam, […]
Authors’ Workshop for Special Issue
This week we’re welcoming a phenomenal set of authors to Utrecht to discuss their work with us and one another. They’re the contributors to the special issue we’re editing on sustainability and platforms. We’ll be […]
New Project and research Team: “Mediated Science”
I’m very pleased to have received funding from the NWO (Dutch Science Council) to embark on a new project called Mediated Science. A summary of the project can be found below. Over the coming five […]
Co-Supervising new PhD Project
Together with Professors Bruce Mutsvairo, James Kennedy, and Dr. Wouter Omen, I’m supervising an exciting new PhD research project designed and undertaken by Reinier Vriend at Utrecht University. I will lead the supervision of one […]
New Essay on Science and the new digital Knowledge Order
I have an essay coming out with Internet Policy Review! Here’s the draft summary of the piece, which will be published at the end of the month (I’ll update this post with the link as […]
EDiting Special Issue on Platforms and Climate Crisis
Together with my wonderful colleagues from the Greening the Digital Society Special Interest Group at Utrecht Uni, I’m currently co-editing a special issue for the journal Platforms & Society. See the full call, below. Very […]
Conference Panel Presentation on Media and Sustainability
We learned the good news today that our conference panel for NECS‘ sustainable media section has been accepted! That means we’ll be in Lisbon, Portugal in June to talk about media practices and environmental accountability. […]
Interview on Disinformation in Dutch Digital Governance magazine
The magazine iBestuur interviewed myself and information studies Professor, Felienne Hermans (VU) about the Dutch goverment’s current approach to disinformation. A longer and more detailed version of the interview will be published in the next […]
Co-Leading Research Group on Greening the Digital Society
I’m delighted to be joining Judith Keilbach and Anne Helmond on as one of the lead researchers of the UU Special Interest Group, Greening the Digital Society, at Utrecht University. Together with talented new postdoc, […]
International Collaboration on Platforms and Knowledge Production
I recently heard the wonderful news that I will be part of an international research team working on the new project, Platforms as epistemic infrastructures: investigating ways of engaging, resisting, and knowing. The project will […]
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