Samenvatting

Martijn de Waal is a senior researcher at the lectorate of Play and Civic Media and a member of the Citizen Data Lab at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Het is the author of The City as Interface. How Digital Media Are Changing the City (2014), and the project leader of The Hackable City research project. He is also the co-founder of TheMobileCity.nl an international think tank that since 2007 addressed the relation between digital media and urbanism. His most recent book, co-authored with José van Dijck and Thomas Poell – only available in Dutch – is The Platform Society. The Struggle for Public Value in an Onlie World (2016).