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Thomas Poell is Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the Department of Media Studies (Faculty of Humanities) at the University of Amsterdam.
He studied political science, sociology, history, and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam (NL), The New School for Social Research (US), and Columbia University (US). In 2007 he defended his PhD-dissertation on the democratization and centralization of the Dutch state during the revolutionary period around 1800. From 2005 until 2009, he worked as a lecturer-researcher of New Media and Digital Culture at Utrecht University.
Publications
Refereed journals
Poell, T. & K. Darmoni. 2012. “Twitter as a Multilingual space: the articulation of the Tunisian revolution through #sidibouzid.” NECSUS - European Journal of Media Studies (forthcoming).
Poell, T. & E. Borra. 2011. "Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr as Platforms of Alternative Journalism. The Social Media Account of the 2010 Toronto G20 Protests." Journalism (forthcoming). OnlineFirst: http://jou.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/12/14/1464884911431533.full.pdf
Poell, T. 2004. “Liberal Democracy versus Late Medieval Constitutionalism: Struggles over Representation in the DutchRepublic (1780-1800).” Redescriptions,Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History 8:114-145. http://www.jyu.fi/yhtfil/redescriptions/Yearbook%202004/Poell_2004.pdf
Book Chapters
Poell, T. 2010. “The French Occupation and the Transformation of the Dutch Public Sphere (1795-1813)”. In Ballare col nemico? Reazioni all'espansione francese in Europa tra entusiasmo e resistenza (1792-1815) / Mit dem Feind tanzen? Reaktionen auf die franzosiche Expansion inEuropa zwischen Begesterung und Protest (1792-1815), edited by C Nubola & A Würgler. 283-306. Berlijn: Dunckler & Humblot. http://dare.uva.nl/record/408198
Poell, T. 2009. “Conceptualizing Forums and Blogs as Public Spheres.” In Digital Material, edited by J. Raessens, et.al. 239-251. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. http://dare.uva.nl/document/163534
Poell, T. 2009. “Local Particularism Challenged (1795-1813).” In The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic, edited by O. Gelderblom. 291-320. Aldershot: Ashgate. http://dare.uva.nl/en/record/335556
Poell, T. 2005. “Het einde van een tijdperk. De Bataafs-Franse tijd 1795-1813’.” In Geschiedenis van Amsterdam, edited by M. Prak, and W. Frijhoff. vol. II-2, 429-499. Amsterdam: Wagenaar Stichting, SUN.
Poell, T. 2004. “Movement and Time in Cinema.” In Discernements: Deleuzian Aesthetics, edited by J. Bloois, et.al. 1-21. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
PhD thesis
Poell, T.2007. “The Democratic Paradox. Dutch Revolutionary Struggles over Democratisation and Centralisation (1780-1813).” PhD diss., UtrechtUniversity. http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2007-0907-200742/index.htm
Book reviews
Poell, T. 2012. Sociale media als platformen van politiek en cultureel burgerschap. Book review of C. Aalberts & M. Kreijveld, Veel gekwetter, weinig wol. Den Haag: Sdu uitgevers, 2011. Speciale uitgave van het Nationaal Comite 4 en 5 mei.
Poell, T. 2009. Book review of P. van Wissing(ed.), Stookschriften. Pers en politiek tussen 1780 en 1800. Nijmegen: Uitgeverij Vantilt, 2008. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 122: 110-111.
Poell,T. 2008. Book review of L. Hunt, Inventing Human Rights. A History. New York:W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. Krisis 3: 43-46.
Poell, T.2008. Book Review of S. Bloemgarten, Hartog de Hartog Lémon, 1755-1823. Joodse revolutionair in Franse Tijd. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2007. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis121: 112-113.
Poell,T. 2001. Book Review of W. Reinhard, Geschichte der Staatsgewalt: Ein vergleichende Verfassungsgeschichte Europas von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, München: Beck, 1999. Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 27 (2): 241-44.
Poell, T. 2001. Book Review of J. Leerssen, Nationaal denken in Europa. Een cultuurhistorische schets, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2000. Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 27 (2): 237-38.
Poell, T. 2001. Book Review of P. Pastureen J. Verberckmoes. eds. Working-Class Internationalism and the Appeal of National Identity. Historical Debates and Current Perspectives on Western Europe, Oxford: Berg, 1998. Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 27 (2): 236-37.
Other
Waal, M. de, A. Leurdijk, L. Nordeman & Poell, T. 2012. ‘Mapping Digital Media: Netherlands. A Report of the Open Society Foundations . Research Report. New York: Open SocietyFoundations. http://www.soros.org/initiatives/media/articles_publications/publications/mapping-digital-media-netherlands-20120123
Poell, T. “Online public debate in theory and practice.” Routledge Website. Routledge, 2009. Web. 21 December 2009. http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415431613/case-studies.asp
Poell, T. (2008) “De democratische paradox.” Openbaar Bestuur, Tijdschrift voor beleid, organisatie & politiek 18 (5): 34-40.
Conferences & Presentations
with J. de Kloet. "Online Activism and ChineseVoices of Discontent." Paper presented at the Digital East Asia Conference of the Modern East Asia Research Centre. Leiden University, Netherlands, 10 December 2011.
with A. Helmond, R. Rustema, and E. Weltevrede. "FromVirtual Communities to Social Networks." Presentation at the 1991@2011_Media_in_Motion Symposium of the Departement ofMedia Studies of the Faculty of the Humanities. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 21 October 2011.
"Twitter and the Tunisian Revolution." Presentation at the second summit of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Faculty of the Humanities, University ofAmsterdam, Netherlands, 28 September 2011.
"Twitter als begrensde en onbegrensde ruimte." Presentation at Grenzeloze Geesteswetenschappen - The opening ceremony of the academic year of the Faculty of the Humanities. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8 September 2011.
with E. Borra. “The Social Media Protest Environment”. Paper presented at MIT7: Unstable Platforms Conference. Boston, US, 14 May 2011.
‘Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr as Platforms of Alternative Journalism. The Social MediaAccount of the 2010 Toronto G20 Protests.’ Paper presented a Digital Methods Winter Conference. Amsterdam, 25 January 2011.
with E. Borra “The Social Media Protest Environment: Constructing the Collective Now.” Paperpresented at Platform Politics - A Multidisciplinary Conference. Cambridge, Great Britain,13 May 2011.
“Digital Activism in an Authoritarian Context.” Presentation at the Theory and Practice of Development Dilemmas Hivos Knowledge Programme Dialogue, The Hague, 29 September – 1 October 2010.
“From Production to Search:the Role of Public Service Media in the Digital Landscape” Paper presented at the Staff Research Seminar ofMedia Studies, Facultyofthe Humanities, University of Amsterdam,Netherlands, 23 November 2010.
“Controversy on Twitter.” Presentation in the Digital Methods: Seemingly Intractable Issues Lecture, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 23 September 2010.
“Colliding Media Spheres: the Interaction between On- and Offline. Media in Contentious Politics.” Presentation at the Balans vande Journalistiek Jubileum Conferentie of the MA Journalistiek, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4 June 2010.
“Drawing mass mediaattention: television and newspaper reporting on radical left-wing activist performances and spectacles in the Netherlands (2004-2009)” Paper presented at the Media, Communication and the Spectacle Conference of the European Communication Researchand Education Association (ECREA), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 26-27 November, 2009.
“Activist Media and the Mainstream Press in Daily Practice: Covering Protests in the Netherlands (2004-2009).”Paper presented at the Future of Journalism Conference of the The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff, Groot-Brittannië, 9-10 september, 2009.
“The MassMedia in Multicultural Conflict.” Paper presented at the 2nd European Communication Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Barcelona, Spain, 25-28 November 2008.
“Mediated Citizenship in Multicultural Conflict. An Analysis of the Role of the Media in the Public Debate Following the Assassination of Theo van Gogh.” Paper presented at the 4th Annual Conference 2008: Culture and Citizenship of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), Oxford, Great Britain, 3-5 September 2008.
“The Unification of the Dutch State, 1795– 1813.” Paper presented in the Contentious Politics workshop of Columbia University,New York, United States, 31 January 2005.
“Local Particularism Challenged (1795-1813).” Paper presented at the 1st Dutch-Flemish conference on the Economic History of the Low Countriesbefore 1850 ofthe N.W. Posthumus Institute, Antwerp, Belgium, 18-19 November 2004.
“Liberal Democracy versus Late Medieval Constitutionalism: Struggles over Representation in the Dutch Republic (1780-1800).”Paper presented in the The Formation ofRepresentative Democracy workshop of The Politics and History of European Democratization Network van de European Science Foundation (ESF), University of Malaga, Spain, 10-11 October 2003.
“The Unification ofthe Dutch State, 1795 – 1813.” Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Urban History of the European Association of Urban Historians in Edinburgh, Great Britain, 5-7 September 2002.
“The Amsterdam elite and the formation of the Dutch state (1780-1813).” Paper presented in the Advanced Seminar on Urban History van de European graduate School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER), University of Athens, Greece, 18-22 February 2002.
“The Role of AmsterdamElite in the Transition of theRepublic tothe DutchNational State.”Paper presented atFifth International Conference on Urban History of the European Association of Urban Historians, Berlin, Germany, 31 Augustus–2 September2000.
Positions
Aug. 2009 - Assistant professor of New Media and Digital Culture (1,0 fte) University of Amsterdam, Faculty of the Humanities, Department of Media Studies Aug. 2005 - Aug. 2009 Lecturer (0,8 fte) Utrecht University, Faculty of the Humanities, Department of Media and Culture Studies
April 2005-Nov. 2005 Lecturer (0,4 fte) Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of History and Arts
Feb. 2002 – Aug.2005 Lecturer (0,2 fte) Utrecht University, Faculty of the Humanities, Department of Media and Culture Studies
Jan. 2000 – April. 2005 PhD-student (0,8 fte) Utrecht University, Faculty of the Humanities, Department of History. Project:The Democratic Paradox. Dutch Revolutionary Struggles over Democratisation and Centralisation(1780-1813.)
Sept.– Nov.1999 Contract researcher (0,6 fte) International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam Project: Collectie Velle
Other
April 2012 - Member of the editorial board of the Illustere School of the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sept. 2011- Project leader of the Research cluster: Connectivity of the GlobalizationResearch Priority Area of the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sept. 2011 - Member of the board of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Jan. –Sept. 2011 Interim team coordinator of the New Media team,Department of Media Studies, Facultyof the Humanities, University ofAmsterdam. Sept. 2010 - Member of the Opleidingscommissie(OC) of the Department of Media Studies, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Amsterdam.
Training
2010 Participation in the DigitalMethods Summer School, Training CertificateProgram & Advanced Projects Program, Faculty of theHumanities, University of Amsterdam, 28 June -9July, 16 – 27 August.
2006-2007 BKO (Basic Qualification Education). Facultyof the Humanities, UtrechtUniversity
2002 Writing Scientific Texts in English for Publication. James BoswellInstitute
2000-2001 Ph.D. training program of the European graduate Schoolfor Training in Economic and Social-Historical Research (ESTER)
1998 Graduated cumlaude inboth Political Science and International Relations at the Universityof Amsterdam
1996-'97 Academic year at the NewSchool for Social Research and Columbia University in New York
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