Ms S.M.C. Niederer (Sabine)
Professor Visual MethodologiesDr. Sabine Niederer is Professor of Visual Methodologies with the Visual Methodologies Collective at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries, specialises in developing visual methods for social and cultural research.
Research
Sabine is specialised in the study of online content, and online images in particular. She is rooted in the humanities and the arts, and interested in the visual language of social and cultural issues, such as sustainability and climate change.
Motivation
Developing novel techniques for visual and digital research with a special focus on images is an exciting and relatively new field of research. It is highly motivating to attune these techniques to the urgent issues of our times, and train our students to use these methods to get a better sense of the contributions they can make to their field and to society.
Current research projects
Sabine is currently working on an array of visual methods materials, from a book, to a teaching toolkit, and formats for participatory applied research. She is also working on the project Climate Futures, an experiment in (machine) learning from climate fiction in literature, indigineous stories, visual arts, and Hollywood cinema.
Furthermore, Sabine and colleagues participate in various applied research projects with other research groups and external partners, including CAMERA (on the urban foodscape of young people in Nieuw-West, headed by Health & Environment), STEC (on tools for citizen empowerment, headed by Play & Civic Media), and EMPOWER 2.0 (on empowering tools for the European energy transition, headed by Urban Analytics).
Current teaching activities
Sabine is responsible for developing and teaching the course in Issue Mapping for sustainable fashion, at the Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI), together with her colleague Carlo De Gaetano, where she also supervises theses in the MA Fashion Enterprise Creation. Furthermore, Sabine and her colleagues of the Visual Methodologies Collective are involved in the new Learning Communities on Storytelling and Critical Making.
Education
In 2016, Sabine obtained her Ph.D. with the University of Amsterdam, with a dissertation titled
Networked Content Analysis: The case of climate change, with supervisors Professor José van Dijck and dr. Bernhard Rieder. She obtained her MA from Utrecht University, where she studied art history and new media & digital culture.
Previous activities
In 2014, Sabine founded the Citizen Data Lab, as part of the centre of expertise Amsterdam Creative Industries Network, as a lab specialising in participatory data practices around urban issues. It is still active, as a collaboration of three research groups: Visual Methodologies, Play & Civic Media, and Urban Analytics.
Sabine has been curator of new media arts since 2001 for media arts festival Impakt and other programs such as Cinematiek and hoogt4.
From 2004 until 2012, Sabine worked at the Institute of Network Cultures with its founder Geert Lovink, coordinating numerous publications and events.
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Emotive Images Educational Toolkit
Arkenbout, C. C. (Photographer), Eckenhaussen, S. R. (Photographer), Lovink, G. W. (Photographer), Geboers, M. A. (Photographer), & Niederer, S. M. C. (Photographer). (2020). Emotive Images Educational Toolkit. Digital or Visual Products, Institute of Network Cultures. https://networkcultures.org/tacticalvisualculture/2020/12/21/out-now-emotive-images-educational-toolkit/
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The politics of social media manipulation
Rogers, R., & Niederer, S. M. C. (Eds.) (2020). The politics of social media manipulation. Amsterdam University Press. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048551675/the-politics-of-social-media-manipulation
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Visual methodologies to study climate change narratives
Warren Pearce, de Gaetano, C. A. M., & Niederer, S. M. C. (2020). Visual methodologies to study climate change narratives.
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Confronting bias in the online representation of pregnancy
Bogers, L., Niederer, S. M. C., de Gaetano, C. A. M., & Bardelli, F. (2020). Confronting bias in the online representation of pregnancy. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 26(Special issue: Digital Culture Meets Data: Critical Perspectives). https://doi.org/10.1177, https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856520938606
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Twitter, junk news and troll-like behaviour during the Dutch elections
Niederer, S. M. C., & Groen, M. N. (2020). Twitter, junk news and troll-like behaviour during the Dutch elections. In R. Rogers, & S. Niederer (Eds.), The Politics of Social Media Manipulation (pp. 123-146). Amsterdam University Press. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048551675/the-politics-of-social-media-manipulation
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Video Vortex Reader #3
Lovink, G. W. (Ed.), Lovink, G. W., Niederer, S. M. C., & Treske, A. (Ed.) (2020). Video Vortex Reader #3: Inside the YouTube Decade. Institute of Network Cultures. https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/video-vortex-reader-iii-inside-the-youtube-decade/
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Data in Beeld
Niederer, S. (2019). Data in Beeld: Visualisaties betrekken bewoners bij complexe processen. In S. Majoor, M. Poel, & M. de Waal (Eds.), Big data in een smart city: Verhalen uit een seminarreeks van het PMB Leerhuis (pp. 40-45). (Thematische seminarreeks PMB Leerhuis). Leerhuis/Projectmanagementbureau, Gemeente Amsterdam.
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Visual Methodologies for Networked Images: Designing Visualizations for Collaborative Research, Cross-platform Analysis, and Public Participation
Niederer, S., & Colombo, G. (2019). Visual Methodologies for Networked Images: Designing Visualizations for Collaborative Research, Cross-platform Analysis, and Public Participation. Diseña, 14, 40-67. http://www.revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/article/view/151
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CLICKNL 60"
Niederer, S. (Developer). (2019). CLICKNL 60": SABINE NIEDERER @ HOGESCHOOL VAN AMSTERDAM. Digital or Visual Products, CLICKNL. https://www.clicknl.nl/clicknl-60/sabine-niederer-hogeschool-van-amsterdam/
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Networked Content Analysis
Niederer, S. (2019). Networked Content Analysis: The case of climate change. (1 ed.) (Theory on Demand; No. 32). Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Lectoraat Netwerkcultuur. https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod32-networked-content-analysis-the-case-of-climate-change/
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Video Vortex and the Promise and the Perils of Online Video Art
Lovink, G. W., & Niederer, S. M. C. (2019). Video Vortex and the Promise and the Perils of Online Video Art. In A Critical History of Media Art in the Netherlands (pp. 333). Jap Sam Books. https://www.japsambooks.nl/products/a-critical-history-of-media-art-in-the-netherlands-platforms-policies-technologies
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The social media life of climate change
Pearce, W., Niederer, S., Özkula, S. M., & Sánchez Querubín, N. (2018). The social media life of climate change: platforms, publics, and future imaginaries. WIREs Climate Change, 10(2), [e569]. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.569
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Networked images
Niederer, S. (2018). Networked images: visual methodologies for the digital age. Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
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The Study of Networked Content: Five Considerations for Digital Research in the Humanities
Niederer, S. (2018). The Study of Networked Content: Five Considerations for Digital Research in the Humanities. In G. Schiuma, & D. Carlucci (Eds.), Big Data in the Arts and Humanities: Theory and Practice (pp. 89-100). (Data Analytics Applications). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b19744
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Forensics and fashion
van Calmthout, M., Henseler, H., Daanen, H., Niederer, S., Meijer, G., & Eikelenboom, T. (Ed.) (2016). Forensics and fashion: de gevolgen van digitalisering voor forensisch onderzoek en de mode-industrie. Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
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Introduction
Niederer, S. M. C. (2016). Introduction: objects of citizen participation. In M. Denecke, A. Ganzert, I. Otto, & R. Stock (Eds.), ReClaiming participation: technology, mediation, collectivity (pp. 13-17). Transcript Verlag.
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Networked content analysis
Niederer, S. M. C. (2016). Networked content analysis: the case of climate change. http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.534737
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Smart Citizens
Niederer, S., & Priester, R. (2016). Smart Citizens: exploring the tools of the urban bottom-up movement. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 25(2-3), 137-152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-016-9249-6
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Voorwoord
Meijer, G., & Niederer, S. (2016). Voorwoord. In T. Eikelenboom (Ed.), Forensics and fashion: de gevolgen van digitalisering voor forensisch onderzoek en de mode-industrie (pp. 2-3). Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
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Wikipedia’s miracle
Niederer, S. M. C. (2016). Wikipedia’s miracle. In Lausanne: EPFL Press (pp. 53-61)
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Deconstructing the cloud
Niederer, S., & Taudin Chabot, R. (2015). Deconstructing the cloud: responses to big data phenomena from social sciences, humanities and the arts. Big Data & Society, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715594635
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Analyse van Citizen Empowerment Tools in Amsterdam
Priester, R., & Niederer, S. (2014). Analyse van Citizen Empowerment Tools in Amsterdam. Citizen Data Lab - University of Applied Science Amsterdam.
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Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content?
Niederer, S., & van Dijck, J. (2010). Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content? Wikipedia as a sociotechnical system. New media & society, XX(X), 1-19.