I am a cultural anthropologist specialized in media and urban studies. I study and teach on cities, (digital) material culture, and how people produce and experience these infrastructures. In my current role as PhD candidate at GPIO, I focus on how places change through media platform logic. I combine urban and digital ethnographic methods to study digital curation.

Media appearances

Book launch Together: Towards Collaborative Housing

Interview NRC Handelsblad “Met lichte slag naar de krullenkapper”

Research methods

urban ethnography, digital methods, collaborative methods

Current research projects

Curating the Digital City: how media platforms change places and spatial relations, by producing rankings and imaginaries.

Growing up on Instagram: study on the experience of Instagram from the perspective of young people, focusing on how they feel through the platform.

Research grants & honours

Global Digital Cultures, NWO Open Competition XS, Stimuleringsfonds voor Creatieve Industrie.