Thomas Poell
Institution
University of Amsterdam
Department
New Media and Digital Culture
Position
Assistant Professor
Country
Netherlands
Information
Thomas Poell is Senior Lecturer in New Media & Digital Culture and Program Director of the Research Master Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His research is focused on digital platforms and the transformation of public communication around the globe. He has published on social media and popular protest in Canada, Egypt, Tunisia, India, and China, as well as on the role of these media in the development of new forms of journalism. He is vice-director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS), and part of the core team Audiovisual Data and Media Studies of the national infrastructural project CLARIAH (NWO). He sits on the editorial board of Social Media & Society and of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. During the Spring semester of 2015, Poell was Research Associate at UC Santa Cruz, and visiting lecturer at the University of Helsinki. In early 2016, he gave a series of mini-lectures (in Dutch) for the Universiteit van Nederland.
