By Monika Kackovic (University of Amsterdam Economics and Business), Giovanni Colavizza (Faculty of Humanities), Andrea Leiter (Faculty of Law). We focus on the intersection between categories and place, and investigate the impact on economic value. Using categorization as our theoretical lens, we study the extent to which the meaning of categories in one market context…
DetailsBy Daphne Idiz (Faculty of Humanities), Kristina Irion (Faculty of Law), Rens Vliegenthart (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences), Joris Ebbers (University of Amsterdam Economics and Business). Today’s global digital environment challenges how media content is created, produced, distributed, and consumed, playing an increasingly important role in the construction of cultural identities. In light of…
DetailsBy Ronan Fahy (Faculty of Law), Judith Möller (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences), Rocco Bellanova (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences). In Europe today, digital platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, provide essential means for millions of people to express themselves, engage in public debate, and organise politically. However, governments can leverage the…
DetailsBy Ursula Daxecker (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences), Stefania Milan (Faculty of Humanities). Digital platforms and mobile apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook have become important political tools in elections in India and other emerging democracies in the Global South but have potentially worrisome consequences. In diverse societies, religious, ethnic, and political cleavages are…
DetailsBy Carolyn Birdsall (Faculty of Humanities), Wouter van Gent (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences), Thijs Jeursen (Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University). Digital gaming has become an increasingly important everyday pastime and a leading global cultural industry, with revenues for games now far surpassing that of films. Both the production and consumption of games…
DetailsBy Davide Beraldo (Faculty of Humanities) and Letizia Chiappini (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences). This project explores dynamics within platform capitalism from the workers’ perspective, investigating a number of dimensions associated with workers’ relation towards the platform in a global comparative fashion. It focuses on the food delivery sector, investigating workers’ relation towards the…
DetailsBy Julienne Weegels (Faculty of Humanities), Yatun Sastramidjaja (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences), Luisa F. González Valencia (Faculty of Humanities). In this cross-regional research project, we critically examine the tension between digital democratization and securitization in the Global South, focusing on recent cases in Latin America (Nicaragua, Colombia) and Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Thailand). Addressing…
DetailsYou can now watch the keynote discussion of our kick-off event, between Louise Amoore (Durham University) and Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam). In their conversation, Amoore and Milan discussed Amoore’s new book Cloud Ethics (Duke University Press) – which examines how algorithms transform society’s ethics and politics – and how it relates to Milan’s project…
DetailsYou can now watch the full seminar on “Digital Sex Work in the Age of COVID”, featuring Angela Jones, Yvette Luhrs, and Zaïre Krieger. Digitization is transforming the global sex industry. With their low barrier of entry, live, and highly interactive character, webcam sex platforms such as Chaturbate or LiveJasmin have become one of the…
DetailsOn September 23, we held the Online Seminar “Digital Public Infrastructures” with the participation of Jack Linchuan Qiu (University of Singapore), Seda Gürses, (TU Delft), and Geert-Jan Bogaerts (PublicSpaces). The event, chaired by Thomas Poell, looked into whether there is a need for digital public infrastructures. It asks: Which digital public services are needed and…
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