Dr. Bernhard Rieder

Biography

Bernhard Rieder is an Associate Professor in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He collaborates with the Digital Methods Initiative and focuses on the history, theory, and politics of software, particularly the role algorithms play in the production of knowledge and culture. His work encompasses the development, application, and analysis of computational research methods, investigating the political and economic challenges posed by large online platforms. He studied Communication, History, and Philosophy in Vienna and obtained his PhD in Information Communication Sciences from Paris 8 University in 2006. After that, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Département Hypermédia, co-directing the "Création et Édition Numériques" Master's program. He has also served as a visiting fellow at Utrecht University's Centre for Humanities, participating in the EMAPS project, an EU-funded study on electronic mapping led by Professor Bruno Latour. In 2018, he joined the European Commission's Observatory on the Online Platform Economy as a nominated expert. Over the past 20 years, he has contributed to various software projects in digital research methodology, data visualization, and geolocalization, including the development of Netvizz, a data extraction application for Facebook, and the DMI Twitter Capture Analysis Toolset. His recent software work is part of the CAT4SMR project funded by the Dutch PDI-SSH foundation.

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