Biografie

Thomas Poell

Universitair docent

Thomas Poell is Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions at the University of Amsterdam and director of the Research Priority Area on Global Digital Cultures. His research is focused on the societal consequences of the rise of digital platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Spotify, and WeChat. He has published extensively on social media and popular protests in Canada, Egypt, Tunisia, India and China, as well as on the role of these media in the development of new forms of journalism. Thomas is co-author of The Platform Society (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Platforms and Cultural Production (Polity, 2021).

Twitter: @tpoell