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Our blog shares reflections on how digitization is changing the world with specific attention to cultural processes and contexts
Between Generalisation and Provincialisation: Decolonising Platform Studies without Fragmentation

Max van Veen | March 28 2024 | Research Master’s student and Teaching Assistant at the University of Amsterdam

The Fall of Local News and Rise of Social Media Platforms: Information Disorders in the European Union and the Western Balkans

Stela Veta | March 7 2024 | Research Master’s student at the University of Amsterdam

Platform Empires: Navigating the Terrain of Data Colonialism and the Movement Towards Digital Decolonization

Anton Hansen | March 5, 2024 | Research Master’s student at the University of Amsterdam

Gendered Experience of Platform Workers: Women’s Challenges and the Promise of Online Groups

Sara Ungari | February 13, 2024 | Research Master’s student at the University of Amsterdam

Methodological Detours: Three Ways to Analyse AirBnB Listings

Valentina Carraro, Jelke Bosma and Alexandra Knight| January 23, 2024 | GDC Seed Funding Research Project: '‘Belong Anywhere’: The Politics of Hosting in Occupied Territories'

Collectives of Resistance – Bridging Isolation of Platform Workers

Leyla Dosch | January 12, 2024 | Research Master’s student and AI, Media and Democracy Lab at the University of Amsterdam

Between Precarity and Opportunity: Provincializing the “Precarity” of Platform Labor and Cultural Production

Bastian August | December 11, 2023 | Research Master’s student and Teaching Assistant Coordinator in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam

Crisis memes: Imagining human-nature relationships during the Anthropause

Daniël de Zeeuw | May 1, 2023 | Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam and FWO post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Media Studies at KU Leuven

Bothered (or not bothered) to care? Affects, Affordances and Algorithms of Digital Caring

Peter Safronov | April 24, 2023 | Guest researcher for the Global Digital Cultures Project at the University of Amsterdam

Interrogating the ‘Global’

Lars Klute | September 26, 2022 | Master’s student in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam

Value in the digital world; markets, local studies, and creative labour

Jasmin Leech | September 26, 2022 | Master’s student in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam

Abraham begat Isaac; and precarity begets more precarity

Tristan Bannerman | September 27, 2022 | Master’s student in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam

I am not just a tool: on tool agnosticism and Brazilian female hip-hoppers

Sarah Vorndran | September 26, 2022 | Master’s student in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam

(Self)branding and (Self)care: A Neoliberal Disconnect

Sara Gelao | September 26, 2022 | Master’s student, Film Studies, University of Amsterdam

Rethinking Power Relations of Knowledge Production

Nadia Murady | September 26, 2022 | Master’s student in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam

What is Authentic?

Gaurika Chaturvedi | September 26, 2022 | Master’s student in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam

On Display: What's Inside the Shop?

Claire van den Helder | September 24, 2022

Connecting the Local Hops: The Friction Between Network Topology and Municipal Topography

Niels ten Oever & Maxigas Dunajcsik | May 14, 2022 | Niels is a postdoctoral researcher and Maxigas is a Senior Lecturer in Media & Culture at the Media Department of the University of Amsterdam

Expectations of the Transparency Agenda in Brazil

Sandy Rafaela Krambeck | April 13, 2022 | Master’s student in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam

Affective Publics and Defective Politics

Dylan O'Sullivan | April 13, 2022 | Research Master's student in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam

Walking the infrastructure walk and dancing the frequency dance — You only see it when you get it

By Jeroen Matthijs de Vos, Niels ten Oever, and Maxigas Dunajcsik | April 12, 2022 | As part of The People’s 5G Laboratory project funded by the Global Digital Cultures

Quality Over Quantity: COVID-19 Community Data

By Anniek de Koning, Research Master student in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam | September 2, 2021

Podcasts as Public Media: Challenges in the Age of Platforms

By Emma Breuer, Research Master student in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam | July 30, 2021

The Digitalisation of Health in the European Union: Better Healthcare, or New Market?

By Roxana Varvara Boboc, Research Master student in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam | July 19, 2021

Digital Health Tracking – Private Choice or Public Necessity?

By Vanessa Richter, Research Master student in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam | July 15, 2021

Negation as the Informed Practice for Action: Exploring the Politics of Refusal in the Context of COVID-19

By Dieuwertje Luitse, Research Master student in Media Studies (New Media & Digital Culture) at the University of Amsterdam | July 12, 2021

Shadowbanning in Relation to (De)platformization

By Laura Köpping, research master’s student at the Media Studies Department of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam | July 07, 2021

Performing Sexual Identity With #KinkTok

By Veronica Fanzio, Research Master student in Media Studies, New Media, and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam | June 29, 2021

Internet for and against the Colombian National Strike

By Luisa F. González Valencia, PhD candidate at the Centre for Documentation and Research on Latin America – CEDLA, as part of the Global Digital Cultures research project P(r)otestas | June 16, 2021

Instagram’s New Guidelines: Their Impact on Freedom and Self-Expression

By Laura Köpping, research master’s student at the Media Studies Department of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam | May 10, 2021

“Big data sees through you”: Sexual identifications in an age of algorithmic recommendation

By Shuaishuai Wang and Rachel Spronk as part of the GDC-funded project “From Performativity to Behavioral Data: The Algorithmic Configurations of Sexuality on Social Media in China“ | April 16, 2021

Everyday Gaming and Digital Urban Worlds

by Carolyn Birdsall, Wouter van Gent, Thijs Jeursen as part of the GDC-funded project “Gaming the Global City: Imagining and Experiencing Digital Urban Worlds“ | March 30, 2021

Race as absent presence: the Dutch tax subsidy scandal and Covid-19.

By Lonneke van Kampen| March 26, 2021| “Global Digital Cultures in times of COVID-19” series

Global boss, local workers? Investigating algorithmic imaginaries and practices of UberEats workers in Amsterdam, Milan and Buenos Aires

By Davide Beraldo, Letizia Chiappini and Giovanni Rossetti as part of the GDC-funded project “Global boss, local workers? How context influences food delivery riders’ relation to platforms (GLOBLOW)“ | March 16

Contact Tracing Apps: Digital Sovereignty vs Infrastructural Power

Varvara Boboc | March 16 | “Global Digital Cultures in times of COVID-19”

Between digital democratization and securitization: Looking into the politics and aesthetics of digital authoritarianism and protest in the Global South

By Julienne Weegels, Yatun Sastramidjaja and Luisa Gonzalez Valencia as part of the GDC-funded project “P(R)OTESTAS: The politics and aesthetics of digital authoritarianism and protest in the Global South“ | March 9, 2021

Cultural Diversity in the Age of Global Digital Media: The Case of Netflix in the Netherlands

By Daphne Rena Idiz as part of the GDC-funded project “Cultural Diversity in the Age of Global Digital Media: the Case of Netflix in the Netherlands” | March 1, 2021

EdTech platforms as infrastructural blackholes

By Vanessa Richter | February 25, 2021| “Global Digital Cultures in times of COVID-19” series

Smart cookies? Prioritizing equity in ‘smart’ COVID-19 measures in Amsterdam

By | February 25, 2021| “Global Digital Cultures in times of COVID-19” series

Political Microtargeting on Social Media in Diverse Democracies

by Ursula Daxecker and Stefania Milan of the GDC-funded project “Political Microtargeting on Social Media in Diverse Democracies” | February 16, 2021

Crypto Art – The new kid on the block

By Monika Kackovic, Giovanni Colavizza Andrea Leiter of the “Global digital art: Perspectives on categories, place, and economic value in the crypto art market”.| February 15, 2021

Pandemic Memes and Zoom Fatigue

By Laura Schäfer| Februray 12, 2021 | "Global Digital Cultures in times of COVID-19" series

Deplatforming Politicians and the Implications for Europe

By Ronan Fahy, Judith Möller and Rocco Bellanova of the GDC-funded project “Digital Platforms and the Digitisation of Expression and Surveillance“ | February 12, 2021

Artificial Intelligence for Ethical Integrity? Questions and Challenges for AI in Times of a Pandemic

By Dieuwertje Luitse | February 11, 2021| “Global Digital Cultures in times of COVID-19”

Platform moderation and users’ migration 

By Veronica Fanzio | February 5, 2021 | “Global Digital Cultures in times of COVID-19” series

Disease Control and Inequalities in a Pre-Digital World

By Lonneke van Kampen| February 4, 2021| “Global Digital Cultures in times of COVID-19” series