Anne Helmond

For the Utrecht University website I did a nice long interview about our book on Platforms: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 2026) co-authored with Fernando van der Vlist.

Very happy to have contributed a short piece on “the feed” for Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary, bringing me back to my early dissertation times when I started studying feeds, APIs, and other syndication protocols.

Platforms Everywhere: Understanding What Platforms Are and How to Study Them For years, much of public and academic debates about platforms revolved around social media.

In this discussion we examine the notion of the datafied web by situating it historically and methodologically.

Over ten years ago I coined the term ‘platformization’ (2015) to understand how platforms expand beyond their own boundaries in Social Media + Society.