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Biography

Dr. David B. Nieborg is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at the �������ϲʿ����ӿ� with a graduate appointment at the Faculty of Information. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam (’22-’23), a Faculty Research Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute (’23-’24) and a Residential Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (’23-’24). He held visiting and fellowship appointments with MIT, the Queensland University of Technology, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. David published on the game industry, app and platform economics, and game journalism in academic outlets such as New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, and Internet Policy Review. He is the co-author of Platforms and Cultural Production (Polity, 2021) and Mainstreaming and Game Journalism (MIT Press, 2023). His research has been supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Teaching Interests

Social media, platforms, globalization, political economy, games

Research Interests

Platform studies, app studies, political economy, cultural production

Awards and Grants

2021 - Partnership Grant (SSHRC, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada). “Global Media and Internet Concentration Project” (2021-2028)
2020 - Knowledge Synthesis Grant (SSHRC). “The Impact of Digital Platforms on Canadian Media Production” (2020-2021)
2019 - Project Grant (CIHR, Canadian Institutes of Health Research). “E-GAMES Canada: la monétisation des jeux à l'ère des technologies mobiles et du numérique” (2019-2023)

Publications

Nieborg, D. B., & Foxman, M. (2023). Mainstreaming and Game Journalism. MIT Press. 

Poell, T., Nieborg, D. B., & Duffy, B. E. (2022). Spaces of Negotiation: Analyzing Platform Power in the News Industry. Digital Journalism, Online First. 1–19. 

Poell, T., Nieborg, D. B., & Duffy, B. E. (2021). Platforms and Cultural Production. Polity.

Nieborg, D. B., Young, C. J., & Joseph, D. J. (2020). App Imperialism: The Political Economy of the Canadian App Store. Social Media + Society, 6(2), 1–11.

Rietveld, J., Ploog, J. N., & Nieborg, D. B. (2020). The coevolution of platform dominance and governance strategies: Effects on complementor performance outcomes. Academy of Management Discoveries, 6(3), 488–513.

Nieborg, D. B., & Helmond, A. (2019). The political economy of Facebook’s platformization in the mobile ecosystem: Facebook Messenger as a platform instance. Media, Culture & Society, 41(2), 196–218. ;

Nieborg, D. B., & Poell, T. (2018). The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity. New Media & Society, 20(11), 4275–4292.

Projects

App Studies Initiative

Critical Digital Methods Institute