Dr. E.J.T. (Esther) Weltevrede
Universitair Hoofddocent (UHD)
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
Dep. Mediastudies
Bezoekadres
- Turfdraagsterpad 15
Postadres
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Postbus 94550
1090 GN Amsterdam
Contactgegevens
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Profile
Esther Weltevrede is an Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture in the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam. Her research examines the research affordances of digital media, with a particular focus on conceptual and methodological advancements in studying mobile apps, platforms, and the market dynamics of social media engagements.
Her work has been featured in renowned, peer-reviewed journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, Journal of Cultural Economy, Social Media + Society, New Media & Society, Computational Culture, Platform & Society, and Big Data & Society. Esther is a founding member and co-director of the App Studies Initiative (ASI) and also co-coordinates the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI). In addition, she contributes to the Beyond Verification (BV) research group and Public Data Lab (PDL), and serves on the steering committee for the cross-faculty Digital Citizenship research program at UvA. Her project on Apps and Data Infrastructures has been supported by a research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Publicaties
2024
Lindquist, J., & Weltevrede, E. (2024). Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems. Social Media + Society, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231224721 [details]- Weltevrede, E. J. T., & Lindquist, J. A. (2024). The platformization of the follower factory: Para-platforms, automation, and labor in the market for social media engagements. Platform & Society, 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624241297751
- van der Vlist, F. N., Helmond, A., Dieter, M., & Weltevrede, E. (2024). Super-appification: Conglomeration in the global digital economy. New Media & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231223419
- van der Vlist, F. N., Helmond, A., Weltevrede, E. J. T., Dieter, M., Duguay, S., Emsley, I., Zhang, F., Burton, A., Dietzel, C., Filice, E., Parry, D., & Johnson, C. (2024). Exploring Appification. In AoIR2024: Research from the Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (Selected Papers in Internet Research; Vol. 2024). Association of Internet Researchers. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.14099
2023
- Burton, A. G., Chun, W. H. K., Bounegru, L., Devries, M., Harris, A., Holtzclaw, H., Jucan, I., Juhasz, A., Kamish, D. W., Langlois, G., Proctor, J., Tomlinson, C., Vasudevan, R., & Weltevrede, E. (2023). Algorithmic Authenticity. Meson Press. https://doi.org/10.14619/2102 [details]
- van der Vlist, F. N., Helmond, A., Dieter, M., & Weltevrede, E. J. T. (2023). Super-Appification: Conglomeration in the Mobile Ecosystem. In AoIR2023: Research from the Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (Selected Papers in Internet Research; Vol. 2023). Association of Internet Researchers. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13509
2022
- Bounegru, L., Devries, M., & Weltevrede, E. (2022). The Research Persona Method: Figuring and Reconfiguring Personalised Information Flows. In C. Lury, W. Viney, & S. Wark (Eds.), Figure: Concept and Method (pp. 77-104). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2476-7_5 [details]
2021
- Dieter, M., Helmond, A., Tkacz, N., van der Vlist, F., & Weltevrede, E. (2021). Pandemic platform governance: Mapping the global ecosystem of COVID-19 response apps. Internet Policy Review, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.14763/2021.3.1568 [details]
- Weltevrede, E. (2021). Apps and Their Affordances for Data Investigations. In L. Bounegru, & J. Gray (Eds.), The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards A Critical Data Practice (pp. 246-256). (Digital Studies). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qr6smr.37, https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462989511_ch34, https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048542079.035 [details]
2020
- Gerlitz, C., & Weltevrede, E. (2020). What happens to ANT, and its emphasis on the socio-material grounding of the social, in digital sociology? In A. Blok, I. Farías, & C. Roberts (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory (pp. 345-356). (Routledge companions). Routledge. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315111667-38 [details]
2019
- Dieter, M., Gerlitz, C., Helmond, A., Tkacz, N., van der Vlist, F. N., & Weltevrede, E. (2019). Multi-Situated App Studies: Methods and Propositions. Social Media + Society, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305119846486 [details]
- Gerlitz, C., Helmond, A., van der Vlist, F. N., & Weltevrede, E. (2019). Regramming the Platform: Infrastructural Relations between Apps and Social Media. Computational Culture, 7. http://computationalculture.net/regramming-the-platform/ [details]
- Weltevrede, E., & Jansen, F. (2019). Infrastructures of Intimate Data: Mapping the Inbound and Outbound Data Flows of Dating Apps. Computational Culture, 7. http://computationalculture.net/infrastructures-of-intimate-data-mapping-the-inbound-and-outbound-data-flows-of-dating-apps/ [details]
2017
- Borra, E., Niederer, S., Preuß, J., & Weltevrede, E. (2017). Mapping troll-like practices on twitter. In L. Bounegru, J. Gray, T. Venturini, & M. Mauri (Eds.), A 'Field Guide' to 'Fake News' and Other Information Disorders: A collection of recipes for those who love to cook with digital methods (pp. 161-196). Public Data Lab. [details]
- Pentzold, C., Weltevrede, E., Mauri, M., Laniado, D., Kaltenbrunner, A., & Borra, E. (2017). Digging Wikipedia: The Online Encyclopedia as a Digital Cultural Heritage Gateway and Site. ACM journal on computing and cultural heritage : JOCCH, 10(1), Article 5. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1145/3012285 [details]
2016
- Gerlitz, C., Helmond, A., van der Vlist, F., & Weltevrede, E. (2016). App Studies: Platform Rules and Methodological Challenges: panel overview. In Selected papers of AoIR 2016: The 17th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Reseachers: Berlin, Germany, 5-8 October 2016 (Selected Papers of Internet Research; Vol. 2016). Association of Internet Researchers. https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/8431 [details]
- Weltevrede, E., & Borra, E. (2016). Platform affordances and data practices: The value of dispute on Wikipedia. Big Data & Society, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716653418 [details]
2015
- Borra, E., Weltevrede, E., Ciuccarelli, P., Kaltenbrunner, A., Laniado, D., Magni, G., Mauri, M., Rogers, R., & Venturini, T. (2015). Societal Controversies in Wikipedia Articles. In CHI 2015 : Crossings: proceedings of the 33rd annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems : April 18-23, 2015, Seoul, Republic of Korea (pp. 193-196). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702436 [details]
2014
- Weltevrede, E., Helmond, A., & Gerlitz, C. (2014). The Politics of Real-time: A Device Perspective on Social Media Platforms and Search Engines. Theory, Culture and Society, 31(6), 125-150. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276414537318 [details]
2013
- Marres, N., & Weltevrede, E. (2013). Scraping the social? Issues in real-time social research. Journal of Cultural Economy, 6(3), 313-335. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2013.772070 [details]
- Rogers, R., Weltevrede, E., Borra, E., & Niederer, S. (2013). National Web Studies: The Case of Iran Online. In J. Hartley, J. Burgess, & A. Bruns (Eds.), A Companion to New Media Dynamics (pp. 142-166). Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118321607.ch8 [details]
2012
- Weltevrede, E., & Helmond, A. (2012). Where do bloggers blog? Platform transitions within the historical Dutch blogosphere. First Monday, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v17i2.3775 [details]
2011
- Weltevrede, E. (2011). Digital methods to study digital natives with a cause. In N. Shah, & F. Jansen (Eds.), Digital alternatives with a cause? Book two: to think (pp. 10-23). The Centre for Internet and Society / Hivos. http://cis-india.org/digital-natives/dnbook2/at_download/file [details]
Prijs / subsidie
- Helmond, A., Weltevrede, E. & van der Vlist, F. (2020). COVID-19 App Store and Data Flow Ecologies. https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES/V004905/1
- Weltevrede, E. (2019). Data infrastructures: Research affordances of the new socio-technical data of apps. https://www.nwo.nl/en/projects/viveni191c048
2023
- van der Vlist, F., Helmond, A., Dieter, M. & Weltevrede, E. (1-6-2023). Global ‘super-app’ landscape. Open Science Framework. https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/fetps
2022
- van der Vlist, F., Helmond, A., Chao, J., Dieter, M., Tkacz, N. & Weltevrede, E. (2022). Historical [COVID-19]-related Android (Google Play) and iOS (App Store) app ecosystems, 2020–2022. Open Science Framework. https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/2hbnu
- van der Vlist, F., Helmond, A., Gerlitz, C. & Weltevrede, E. (2022). Social media-related Android (Google Play) and iOS (iTunes Store) app ecosystems. Open Science Framework. https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/n3mpj
2021
- van der Vlist, F., Helmond, A., Chao, J., Dieter, M., Tkacz, N. & Weltevrede, E. (2021). [COVID-19]-related Android (Google Play) and iOS (App Store) app ecosystems. Open Science Framework. https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/wq3dr
2020
- Helmond, A., Chao, J., Dieter, M., Tkacz, N., van der Vlist, F. & Weltevrede, E. (2020). COVID-19 Apps (Collection). Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/COVID-19_Apps
2019
- van der Vlist, F., Helmond, A. & Weltevrede, E. (12-1-2019). Historical Google Play and iTunes (App) Store charts, 2010–2019. Open Science Framework. https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/t29g8
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Lindquist, J., & Weltevrede, E. (2024). Authenticity Governance and the Market for Social Media Engagements: The Shaping of Disinformation at the Peripheries of Platform Ecosystems. Social Media + Society, 10(1).