February 3 (17:00, GMT)

Online (Zoom)

iNOVA Media Lab I NOVA FCSH I Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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Open Webinar | SMART Data Sprint 2021

We are pleased to announce that José van Dijck is joining SMART Data Sprint 2021 with a keynote open to the public on the theme of a European perspective on platformization. José van Dijck is a distinguished professor at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands), and a former dean of the University of Amsterdam. From 2015 to 2018, she also served as president-elect of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Van Dijck's field of research focuses on media studies and digital society. Her work covers a wide range of topics in media theory, technologies and communication, social media, and digital culture. She is the co-author and co-editor of ten books and over one hundred journal articles and book chapters. Van Dijck’s book The Culture of Connectivity. A Critical History of Social Media (Oxford UP, 2013) was distributed worldwide and was translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Farsi. Her latest book, co-authored by Thomas Poell & Martijn de Waal is titled The Platform Society. Public values in a connective world (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Van Dijck's lecture will be online (via Zoom) and open to SMART Data Sprint participants and the general public under free registration at https://bit.ly/SMARTDataSprint_keynoteJvD.

About SMART Data Sprint

SMART Data Sprint is an international event promoted by the SMART research group (iNOVA Media Lab/NOVA University of Lisbon) that provides an intense hands-on experience, driven by online data and digital methods.

More info at http://smart.inovamedialab.org/.