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'''Anne Helmond''' is a New Media PhD candidate with the ''Digital Methods Initiative'' at the Mediastudies department at the University of Amsterdam where she studied New Media from 2004-2008. She graduated cum laude with a thesis on ‘Blogging for Engines. Blogs under the Influence of Software-Engine Relations.’ This research on the symbiotic relationship between blog software and search engines contributes to the existing research on blogs and blogging by framing it from a software-engine perspective and describing a different role of the blogger in this relationship.
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'''Anne Helmond''' is Assistant Professor of New Media & Digital Culture and Program Director of the MA New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She is a member of the [http://www.digitalmethods.net Digital Methods Initiative] research collective where she focuses her research on the infrastructure of social media platforms and apps. Her research interests include digital methods, software studies, platform studies, app studies, infrastructure studies and web history.
  
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It aims to contribute to the emerging field of Software Studies which addresses the role that software plays in our society. She recently participated in [http://workshop.softwarestudies.com/ SoftWhere 2008], the Software Studies Workshop led by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Lev Manovich at the University of San Diego and gave a lecture on software-engine relations at the HASTACII conference at UC Irvine. Anne continues her research on software-engine relations with the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam.
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In her dissertation on [http://dare.uva.nl/search?metis.record.id=485895 ‘The web as platform: Data flows in social media’], Anne Helmond has developed the notion of [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305115603080 “platformization”] to understand the dual logic of social media platforms’ extension into the rest of the web and, simultaneously, their drive to make external web data “platform ready”.
  
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From 1999 – 2003 Anne studied at the Utrecht School of Arts where she received a Bachelor degree in Interaction Design and a Master degree in Interactive Multimedia. As a freelance photographer she works for VPRO 3VOOR12, the Institute of Network Cultures and covered various new media conferences such as New Cultural Networks, the Next Web and PICNIC.
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Anne Helmond participated in [http://workshop.softwarestudies.com/ SoftWhere 2008], the Software Studies Workshop led by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Lev Manovich at the University of San Diego and gave a lecture on software-engine relations at the HASTACII conference at UC Irvine.  
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Besides blogging on her personal blog about new media and software issues she previously blogged for the [http://www.blogherald.com/author/annehelmond/ Blog Herald], the [http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/ Masters of Media blog] and the [http://thenextweb.org/author/anne/ Next Web blog].
 
  
 
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*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/silvertje/ Anne Helmond's Flickr]
 
 
*[http://www.annehelmond.nl Anne Helmond's New Media Research blog]  
 
*[http://www.annehelmond.nl Anne Helmond's New Media Research blog]  
  
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Latest revision as of 13:43, 3 December 2022

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

In her dissertation on ‘The web as platform: Data flows in social media’, Anne Helmond has developed the notion of “platformization” to understand the dual logic of social media platforms’ extension into the rest of the web and, simultaneously, their drive to make external web data “platform ready”.

Anne Helmond participated in SoftWhere 2008, the Software Studies Workshop led by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Lev Manovich at the University of San Diego and gave a lecture on software-engine relations at the HASTACII conference at UC Irvine.

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