Helmond, Anne

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Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. Member of the Digital Methods Initiative and App Studies Initiative research collectives (2022)

Anne Helmond is Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She is a member of the Digital Methods Initiative and App Studies Initiative research collectives where she focuses her research on the history and infrastructure of social media platforms and apps. Her research interests include digital methods, software studies, platform studies, platformization, app studies, and web history.

In her dissertation on ‘The web as platform: Data flows in social media‘ (2015), Anne developed the notion of “platformization” to conceptualise the rise of the platform as the dominant infrastructural and economic model of the web and its expansion and integration into other websites, apps, and industries. Her dissertation received an honorable mention in the AoIR 2016 Best Dissertation Award for standing “to make a significant long-term impact in the field”.

Anne’s work has been published in highly-ranked peer-reviewed journals such as New Media & Society, Big Data & Society, Theory, Culture & Society, Media, Culture & SocietySocial Media + Society, Internet Histories, First Monday, and Computational Culture.

From 2021–2024 she is Principal Investigator of the project “Historische Technografie des Online-Kommentars” where she is examining the history of online commenting systems and practices within the DFG funded SFB 1472 “Transformationen des Populären” at the University of Siegen, Germany.

From 2017–2020 she held a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for the project ‘App ecosystems: A critical history of apps’ (2017–2020). In this project she developed novel digital methods for writing app histories on three interrelated levels – individual apps, app stores, and platforms – to understand the emergence of this new cultural form.

In Spring 2019, she was Comenius Professor of Digital Methods and Web History at the University of Siegen, Germany.

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CIS #20 Anne Helmond
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CIS #20 Anne Helmond et Fernando van der Vlist

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Le séminaire du CIS #20 accueille en visioconférence Anne Helmond (University of Amsterdam) et Fernando van der Vlist (Utrecht University and University of Siegen)