I research how conflicts transform in online information spaces, and how conflict resolution methods from peace studies, the philosophy of dialogue and democratic theory can be operationalised into content moderation, social media and AI affordances.
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam. Research associate at the University of Manchester. Research consultant to the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs since 2020, and co-founder of the Open Intelligence Lab.
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Postdoctoral researcher
University of Amsterdam
Research associate
University of Manchester
Postdoctoral researcher
University of Copenhagen
Research consultant
UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
PhD intern
Microsoft Research New England
PhD researcher
University of Groningen
Co-founder and researcher, Open Intelligence Lab
University of Amsterdam
OILab specialises in studying online political (sub)cultures across the Web. We contribute new methods for cross-platform studies and online political analysis, and stretch collaborations across academic, government and journalistic partners, including the UN, the UK Home Office, the BBC, Politico, De Correspondent, Volkskrant, Nieuwsuur, VPRO, Brut and Médiapart.
Researcher
Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University
Supervised by Wendy H. K. Chun and Jonathan Gray (KCL). Taught PhD and MA students critical data studies and contributed to research on online political polarisation and content moderation.
Research fellow
King’s College London
Member of the research project Infodemic: Combatting COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories. Co-produced five methodological recipes for journalists to explore information flows between the fringe and the mainstream Web.
Junior researcher
University of Utrecht and CLARIAH
Contributed to the development of the Media Suite, a tool for searching and studying digitised broadcast and film data in the Dutch Sound & Vision Archive.
Junior researcher, Time Machine and the Amsterdam Time Machine
University of Amsterdam
Lecturer
University of Amsterdam
Assistant editor to Bernhard Rieder
University of Amsterdam
Contributed research and in-depth feedback to Engines of Order: a Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques.
Research intern
Clingendael Institute of International Relations
Collected data from over ten surveys and semi-structured interviews with members of the Dutch and Korean Ministries of Foreign Affairs and NGOs, and an expert seminar on digital diplomacy in Seoul.
PhD in Media Studies
University of Groningen
Supervisors: Marcel Broersma and Bharath Ganesh, with additional supervision by Jonathan Gray and Wendy Chun.
MPhil in New Media and Digital Culture
University of Amsterdam
GPA 8.3/10. Thesis (distinction): Algorithmic Diplomacy: Implementing Conflict Mediation Techniques in YouTube’s Recommender System. Supervisor: Bernhard Rieder. Second reader: Marc Tuters.
MA in History of Political Thought and Intellectual History
University College London
Merit. Thesis (distinction): Meaning and Function: Changing Conceptions of Marxist Materialism via the Sciences and Technologies in Simondon and Althusser, 1954–1972. Supervisor: Julia Ng. Second reader: Richard Bourke.
Minor in the History of Latin-American Political Thought
Universidade de São Paulo
BA (Hons) in Human Interaction and Contemporary Political Philosophy
Leiden University College
Magna cum laude, GPA 3.4/5. Capstone thesis (A−): I See and I See I Am Seen: the Cartesian Self as a Visual Subject. Supervisors: Cissie Fu and Bruce Mutsvairo. Second reader: Martin Roth.
OSCE Peace Leadership Programme — six workshops, a community of practice and full-time training in peacebuilding in Austria. One of 22 selected from a pool of around 1,000 candidates.
Council for Tech and Social Cohesion — member.
DDCxTrygFonden fellowship — a grant to develop methods, prototypes and regulatory frameworks for prosocial platform mechanisms, with Claes de Vreese.
Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab grant on the Ethics of Large Scale Models — for studying how to train large language models to bridge answers to prompts in minority languages with a history of conflict.
Digital Democracies Institute Fellowship, Simon Fraser University.
Member of the Computational Social Science group, University of Amsterdam.
Member of the Research School for Media Studies.
Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Honourable Mention — for Re-designing algorithms for a non-polarised retrieval of information.
Brill-Nijhoff Prize — best overall thesis presentation, for I See and I See That I Am Seen: the Cartesian Self as a Visual Subject.
Dutch, German
Programming, intermediate. Research software, advanced.
Interactive research pages and datasets. Each is self-contained and open source.
My PhD manuscript, rendered as an interactive piece: the corpus, its classification, and every figure downloadable as CSV, SVG or a 300 ppi PNG.
A methodological piece setting out how researchers can examine value alignment: how to trace the way companies define desirable conduct and potential harms, translate those definitions into training, and make them measurable through benchmarks.
Who gets cited when AI companies justify their conduct: the actors named across model cards, company policies, principles, grants and audits, and how thinly that coverage is spread.
A faceted directory of the civil society organisations named in the academic literature on censorship, moderation and alignment, filterable by country, platform, type, language and issue focus.
Online content policies, laws and regulations gathered from countries and regional organisations, from the early 1990s to 2025, with original documents and translations, as conceived by Norman, Flonk, Koliev and Gorni.
How language models answer contested questions about the Nagorno-Karabakh wars: partisanship and rhetoric across five response runs per model, with the original and translated answers side by side.
Transitions, frictions and new realities in global platform governance: a summary of the 2025 conference of the Platform Governance Research Network, written with Diyi Liu.
Drawings, lettering and found text, mostly made to be printed on cloth. Click any one to enlarge.
Field recordings and compositions. Nothing here yet.
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Everything that fits nowhere else. Nothing here yet.
Set in ABC Otto and Test National.
© 2026 Emillie de Keulenaar.