Anne Helmond
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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