2025

• van Hardeveld, A. A. (2025). Google's expansion into security: Platforms, infrastructure, (in)visibility. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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    • Thesis (complete) (embargo until 12 November 2027)
    • Front matter
    • Chapter 1: Introduction
    • Chapter 2: Securing the platform: How Google appropriates security
    • Chapter 3: Machine learning and the platformization of the military: A study of Google's machine learning platform TensorFlow
    • Chapter 4: Playing the (in)visibility game: How Google maintained its AI leadership during the Project Maven controversy (embargo until 12 November 2027)
    • Chapter 5: In browsers, we trust? The infrastructural power of browers in internet standardization (embargo until 12 November 2027)
    • Chapter 6: Conclusions
    • Bibliography; Appendix A - Overview of documents; Appendix B- List of interviews; Summary; Samenvatting