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Anne Helmond is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University, where she co-directs the focus area ‘Governing Digital Society.’ Her research explores the societal impact and governance of digital technologies, especially emphasizing platformization—the expansion of platforms in the web and mobile ecosystems. Helmond examines the material and programmable data infrastructures that shape the process of platform expansion. She focuses on developing empirical and historical methods to study platformization and critiques the politics of governance surrounding platforms and the operationalization of platform power. Additionally, she contributes to advancing digital methods to investigate how apps and app stores mediate sociocultural practices, as well as the political economy of mobile data flows. Her dissertation, 'Web Platform: Data Flows' (2015), and her influential article 'Platformization of the Web' (2015), introduced the concept of platformization and its implications. Helmond’s work has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals such as New Media & Society and Big Data & Society. Currently, she supervises PhD projects focused on automation practices, platform governance, and the role of AI in education.
University of Amsterdam • Amsterdam, Netherlands
Focused on New Media and Digital Culture.
Department of Psychology