Dr. L.C. (Lonneke) van der Velden
Faculty of Humanities
Departement Mediastudies
Visiting address
- Turfdraagsterpad 15
Postal address
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Postbus 94550
1090 GN Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
Lonneke van der Velden is Assistant Professor Global Digital Cultures at the University of Amsterdam. Her work centres around issues of datafication, surveillance, digital inequalities, and responses by social movements and civil society. She teaches at the Media Studies Department.
Lonneke contributes to AIsymmetries, a 3-year research project focusing on AI, Power Asymmetries and Data Justice. Her focus is on AI in education, digital literacy and resistance. She is also involved with Data Publics and the Information Front, a seed-grant project funded by the Global Digital Cultures (GDC) Research Priority Area, which is dedicated to analysing Open Source Investigation (OSI) cultures in the context of Russia's war on Ukraine.
From 2015-2021 she was postdoctoral researcher with DATACTIVE, an ERC funded research project that investigated the politics of data according to civil society. From 2013-2023 she was part of the editorial board of Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy.
Lonneke engages with various tech, art and civil society networks outside of the university. She has contributed to Unlike Us, a network that invested in theorizing and developing alternative social media (INC, 2012-2013), and served on the board of directors of the Dutch Digital Rights organization Bits of Freedom (2012-2020; Chair 2016-2020).
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Publications
- refereed (10)
- academic (4)
- professional (7)
- popular scientific (2)
- conference contributions (1)
- recognitions (9)
- doctoral thesis (1)
- working papers / preprints (1)
2025
- Dodds, T., van der Velden, L., Torres, G., El-Masri, A., Reese, S. D., Fiorella, G., Adams Row Farr, R., Ivens, G., & Kotišová, J. (2025). On the Institutionalization of OSINV in Journalistic Practice. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990251334382
2024
- Sharma, S., Howell, N., Ventä-Olkkonen, L., Iivari, N., Eden, G., Hartikainen, H., Kinnula, M., Durall, E., Nitsche, M., Okkonen, J., Pait, S., Rubegni, E., Sluis-Thiescheffer, W., van der Velden, L., & Varanasi, U. S. (2024). Promoting Criticality with Design Futuring with Young Children. In Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3679318.3685335
2023
- Kotišová, J., & van der Velden, L. (2023). The Affective Epistemology of Digital Journalism: Emotions as Knowledge Among On-the-Ground and OSINT Media Practitioners Covering the Russo-Ukrainian War. Digital Journalism. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2273531
2019
Kazansky, B., Torres , G., van der Velden, L., Wissenbach, K., & Milan, S. (2019). Data for the Social Good: Toward a Data-Activist Research Agenda. In A. Daly, S. K. Devitt, & M. Mann (Eds.), Good Data (pp. 244-259). (Theory on Demand; No. 29). Institute for Network Cultures. http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-29-good-data/ [details]
2018
- Milan, S., & van der Velden, L. (Eds.) (2018). Data Activism. Krisis : Journal for contemporary philosophy, 2018(1). http://krisis.eu/issue-1-2018-data-activism/ [details]
2016
- Deville, J., & van der Velden, L. (2016). Seeing the invisible algorithm: The practical politics of tracking the credit trackers. In L. Amoore, & V. Piotukh (Eds.), Algorithmic Life: Calculative devices in the age of big data (pp. 87-106). New York: Routledge. [details]
- Milan, S., & van der Velden, L. (2016). The Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activism. Digital Culture & Society, 2(2), 57–74. https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2016-0205 [details]
2015
- van der Velden, L. (2015). Forensic devices for activism: Metadata tracking and public proof. Big Data & Society, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715612823 [details]
- van der Velden, L. (2015). Leaky Apps and Data Shots: Leakage and Insertion in NSA-surveillance. Surveillance & Society, 13(2), 182-196. http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/snowden_leakage [details]
2014
- van der Velden, L. (2014). The Third Party Diary: Tracking the trackers on Dutch governmental websites. NECSUS, 3(1), 195-217. https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.1.VELD [details]
2025
- Vogiatzoglou, P. A., Biasin, E., Dogot, D., Gürses, S., Karagianni, A., Leiter, A., Naudts, L. P. A., Petersmann, M., Siapka, A., Snelting, F., Traxler, T., & van der Velden, L. C. (2025). To Reclaim or Resist: Can Digital Sovereignty Ever Be Feminist?. Web publication or website, Critical Legal Thinking. https://criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/18/to-reclaim-or-resist-can-digital-sovereignty-ever-be-feminist/
- van der Velden, L. C. (2025). Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance in the Age of Datafication. In V. Dziekan, & A. Munster (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art: Curation and Culture Bloomsbury Visual Arts. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474207973.017
2018
- Milan, S., & van der Velden, L. (2018). Reversing Data Politics: An Introduction to the Special Issue. Krisis : Journal for contemporary philosophy, 38(1), 1-3. http://krisis.eu/reversing-data-politics-an-introduction-to-the-special-issue/ [details]
2013
- van der Velden, L. (2013). Meeting the Alternatives: notes about making profiles and joining hackers. In G. Lovink, & M. Rasch (Eds.), Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives (pp. 312-322). (INC Readers; No. 8). Institute of Network Cultures. http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publication/unlike-us-reader-social-media-monopolies-and-their-alternatives/ [details]
2012
2011
- van der Velden, L. (2011). Law Interrupted? Latour snooping around Le Conseil d’Etat [Review of: B. Latour (2010) The making of law: an ethnography of the Conseil d'État]. Krisis, 2011(3), 79-83. [details]
- van der Velden, L. (2011). Vragen om onzekerheid: de bijdrage van forensische expertise in het recht. In H. Dijstelbloem, & R. Hagendijk (Eds.), Onzekerheid troef: het betwiste gezag van wetenschap (pp. 191-213). Van Gennep. [details]
- van der Velden, L. (2011). [Review of: C. van 't Hof, R. van Est (2011) Check in - Check out: the public space as an internet of things]. Open (English Edition), 24, 122. http://www.onlineopen.org/article.php?id=384 [details]
2009
- van der Velden, L. C., & Ponte, M. (2009). Zappen, Sniffen en Klonen: interventies met RFID-chips. Tijdschrift voor Humanistiek, 10(39). http://voetnoot.org/andere-schrijfsels/zappen-sniffen-en-klonen-interventies-met-rfid-chips/
2007
- van der Velden, L. C. (2007). Het monopolie op wetenschappelijke onzekerheid. BLIND : Interdisciplinair Tijdschrift. Advance online publication. http://ziedaar.nl/index.php?theme=13&id=290
2013
- van der Velden, L. C. (2013). Alternatieve Sociale Netwerken: Een onderzoek. In M. Stumpel, & M. Rasch (Eds.), Unlike Us Magazine: 10 artikelen over social media (pp. 39-41). Institute of Network Cultures. http://unlikeus.dmci.hva.nl/
- van der Velden, L. C. (2013). Is het gekluns van de overheid op it-gebied zorgelijk? (Doorgeefvraag). Folia. http://www.foliaweb.nl/wetenschap/is-het-gekluns-van-de-overheid-op-it-gebied-zorgelijk/
2023
- Kotišová, J., & van der Velden, L. C. (2023). The affective epistemology in conflict reporting: Emotions as knowledge among on-the-ground and OSINT media practitioners covering the Russo-Ukrainian War. Paper presented at RMeS Conference: All About Media?, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Media appearance
- van der Velden, L. (08-06-2019). Zeventig jaar na 1984: Zo actueel is de roman van George Orwell Nu.nl. Zeventig jaar na 1984: Zo actueel is de roman van George Orwell. https://www.nu.nl/weekend/5926896/zeventig-jaar-na-1984-zo-actueel-is-de-roman-van-george-orwell.html
- van der Velden, L. (01-04-2018). Het Experiment: data-activisme via zwangerschaps-apps Filosofie Magazine. Het Experiment: data-activisme via zwangerschaps-apps. https://www.filosofie.nl/het-experiment-data-activisme-via-zwangerschaps-apps/
- van der Velden, L. (28-02-2018). Teruggluren op het internet [Radio] Radio 1. Teruggluren op het internet. https://www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/focus/8cefcfb2-b045-40c1-954c-312a3ea7d866/2018-02-28-teruggluren-op-het-internet
- van der Velden, L. (17-06-2017). “Infrastructuren” [Print] De Volkskrant. “Infrastructuren”, a contribution to “21 ideeën voor een beter internet: Voorstellen om het internet weer te democratiseren”. http://www.volkskrant.nl/media/21-ideeen-voor-een-beter-internet~a4501135/
- van der Velden, L. (29-09-2016). Onlineactivisme blijft altijd een kat-en-muisspel Vice Versa: journalistiek over mondiale samenwerking. Dossier: De Kracht van Tegenmacht. Onlineactivisme blijft altijd een kat-en-muisspel. http://hetnieuwe.viceversaonline.nl/dossiers/onlineactivisme-blijft-altijd-kat-en-muisspel/#.WEhxomfn77g
- van der Velden, L. (25-09-2016). Revolutie I: Data activisme en de (r)evolutie van de kraker [Radio] Radio Swammerdam. Revolutie I: Data activisme en de (r)evolutie van de kraker. https://data-activism.net/2016/10/lonneke-van-der-velden-in-the-news-on-data-activism/
- van der Velden, L. (01-11-2012). Overheidssites sturen gegevens door naar derden Nu.nl. Overheidssites sturen gegevens door naar derden. https://www.nu.nl/internet/2947863/overheidssites-sturen-gegevens-derden.html
- van der Velden, L. (09-10-2012). Hoe wij de webtrackers hebben onderzocht De Correspondent. Hoe wij de webtrackers hebben onderzocht. https://decorrespondent.nl/67/hoe-wij-de-webtrackers-hebben-onderzocht/2060652-a414f8e7
Others
- Kotišová, J. (organiser), van der Velden, L. (organiser), Burlyuk, O. (organiser) & Torres Sepulveda, G. (organiser) (12-10-2023 - 13-10-2023). Covering Russia’s War on Ukraine: Local Media Professionals and Open-Source Investigators, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://fixersandjournalists.humanities.uva.nl/covering-russias-war-on-ukraine-local-media-professionals-and-open-source-investigators/
2012
- Thielmann, T., van der Velden, L., Fischer, F., & Vogler, R. (2012). Dwelling in the Web: Towards a Googlization of Space. (HIG Discussion Paper Series; No. 2012-03). Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2151949
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Kazansky, B., Torres , G., van der Velden, L., Wissenbach, K., & Milan, S. (2019). Data for the Social Good: Toward a Data-Activist Research Agenda. In A. Daly, S. K. Devitt, & M. Mann (Eds.), Good Data (pp. 244-259). (Theory on Demand; No. 29). Institute for Network Cultures.