Highlighted publications
Kerssens, N., Pangrazio, L., & Nichols, T. P. (2024). Googlization(s) of education: intermediary work brokering platform dependence in three national school systems. Learning, Media and Technology, 49(3), 478–491. [DOI] [Repository]
Kerssens, N., & van Dijck, J. (2022). Governed by Edtech? Valuing Pedagogical Autonomy in a Platform Society. The Harvard Educational Review, 92(2), 284–303. [DOI] [Repository]
Kerssens, N., & van Dijck, J. F. T. M. (2021). The platformization of primary education in The Netherlands. Learning, Media and Technology, 46(3), 250-263. [DOI] [Repository]
Kerssens, N., & van Dijck, J. (2024). Transgressing local, national, global spheres: The blackboxed dynamics of platformization and infrastructuralization of primary education. Information Communication and Society, 27(15), 2600-2616. [DOI] [Repository]
Publications
2026
Scholarly publications
Zomer, C., & Kerssens, N. (2026). Educational Legitimacy in the Platform Economy: The Case of The Google Teacher Approved Program. Digital Education Review, 48. [DOI] [Repository]
Kerssens, N. (2026). (Micro)soft power in Dutch public education: Making classrooms platform-ready through partner work. Critical Studies in Education, 67(1), 58-77. [DOI] [Repository]
Professional publications
Zomer, C., & Kerssens, N. (2026, Apr 14). Google promotes ‘teacher approved’ apps for kids. Here’s what parents should know. The Conversation. [DOI]
2025
Scholarly publications
Kerssens, N., & van Es, K. (2025). Fostering Autonomy in the Digital Classroom: Strengthening Schools' Control over Data and Pedagogy through Collective Action. In J. V. Dijck, K. V. Es, A. Helmond, & F. V. D. Vlist (Eds.), Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence ,and Public Values (pp. 227-244). (Digital Studies; Vol. 5). Amsterdam University Press. [DOI] [Repository]
Komljenovic, J., Birch, K., Sellar, S., Bergviken Rensfeldt, A., Deville, J., Eaton, C., Gourlay, L., Hansen, M., Kerssens, N., Kovalainen, A., Nappert, P.-L., Noteboom, J., Parcerisa, L., Pardo-Guerra, J. P., Poutanen, S., Robertson, S., Tyfield, D., & Williamson, B. (2025). Digitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concerns. Discourse Studies, 46(2), 276-292. [DOI] [Repository]
Professional publications
Kerssens, N., & Pijpers, R. (2025). Digitale macht in de klas en constructieve weerstand. In F. Cornelissen (Ed.), Maak samen je eigen onderwijs : Veranderen, verbeteren en vernieuwen voor schoolteams (pp. 185-194). Boom. [Portal]
Kerssens, N., van den Berghe, R., Leijgraaf, M., & Geenen, M. (2025). Pak de digitale regie terug. Web publication/site, Didactief Online. https://didactiefonline.nl/artikel/pak-de-digitale-regie-terug
2024
Scholarly publications
Kerssens, N., Pangrazio, L., & Nichols, T. P. (2024). Googlization(s) of education: intermediary work brokering platform dependence in three national school systems. Learning, Media and Technology, 49(3), 478–491. [DOI] [Repository]
Kerssens, N., & van Dijck, J. (2024). Transgressing local, national, global spheres: The blackboxed dynamics of platformization and infrastructuralization of primary education. Information Communication and Society, 27(15), 2600-2616. [DOI] [Repository]
Professional publications
Pijpers, R., Kerssens, N., Dondorp, L., & Bomas, E. (2024). Data in de klas: een pleidooi voor meer vrije ruimte in het onderwijs. In Kinderrechten in een digitale wereld (pp. 30-39). UNICEF Netherlands, Den Haag. https://www.unicef.nl/files/UNICEF-essaybundel-Kinderrechten-in-de-digitale-wereld.pdf [Repository]
2023
Scholarly publications
Kerssens, N., & van Dijck, J. (2023). How platformisation affects pedagogical autonomy in primary schools. In B. Williamson, J. Komljenovic, & K. Gulson (Eds.), World Yearbook of Education 2024: Digitalisation of Education in the Era of Algorithms, Automation and Artificial Intelligence (1 ed., pp. 89-105). Routledge. [DOI] [Repository]
Kerssens, N., & van Dijck, J. (2023). The platformization of primary education in the Netherlands 1. In A. Rivas, & C. Cobo (Eds.), The New Digital Education Policy Landscape : From Education Systems to Platforms (pp. 9-28). Routledge. [DOI] [Repository]
Kerssens, N. (2023). Schooled by Dashboards? Learning Platforms’ Performance-Centered Pedagogy and Its Impact on Teaching. In Situating Data: Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture (pp. 241-254). Amsterdam University Press. [DOI] [Repository]
2022
Scholarly publications
Kerssens, N., & van Dijck, J. (2022). Governed by Edtech? Valuing Pedagogical Autonomy in a Platform Society. The Harvard Educational Review, 92(2), 284–303. [DOI] [Repository]
Kerssens, N., & de Haan, M. (2022). The tipping point in the platformisation of Dutch public education? How to approach platformisation from a values-based perspective. In L. Pangrazio, & J. Sefton-Green (Eds.), Learning to Live with Datafication : Educational Case Studies and Initiatives from Across the World (pp. 119-134). Routledge. [DOI] [Repository]
Professional publications
Kerssens, N. (2022, Dec 1). Valuing autonomy of teacher and child in cloud classrooms. https://www.digitalchild.org.au/blog/international-perspectives-valuing-autonomy-of-teacher-and-child-in-cloud-classrooms/
2021
Scholarly publications
Kerssens, N., & van Dijck, J. F. T. M. (2021). The platformization of primary education in The Netherlands. Learning, Media and Technology, 46(3), 250-263. [DOI] [Repository]
2020
Scholarly publications
Kerssens, N. (2020). Governing education’s public space: a case for value-driven digitisation. Digital Culture & Education. https://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/reflections-on-covid19
Kerssens, N. (2020). De platformisering van het klaslokaal: De impact van platformen en data op de rol van de docent. School en Wet, 100(3), 21-26. [Repository]
Kerssens, N. (2020). Rethinking legacies in internet history: Euronet, lost (inter)networks, EU politics. Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society, 4(1), 32-48. [DOI] [Repository]
Professional publications
Kerssens, N., & van Dijck, J. (2020). De platformisering van het primair onderwijs: sturen of gestuurd worden? In Anders organiseren met ICT: 10 essays over ICT in het onderwijs (pp. 20-25). Stichting Kennisnet. [Repository]
2019
Scholarly publications
Kerssens, N. (2019). De-Agentializing Data Practices: The Shifting Power of Metaphor in 1990s Discourses on Data Mining. Journal of Cultural Analytics, 1-26. [DOI] [Repository]
2018
Scholarly publications
Kerssens, N. (2018). The database ‘revolution’: The technological and cultural origins of the big-data-based mindset in American management, 1970s–1980s. TMG – Journal for Media History, 21(2), 7-29. [DOI] [Repository]
2017
Scholarly publications
Kerssens, N. (2017). When search engines stopped being human: Menu interfaces and the rise of the ideological nature of algorithmic search. Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society, 1(3), 219-237. [DOI] [Repository]
2016
Scholarly publications
Kerssens, N. (2016). Cultures of Use - 1970s/1980s: An Archaeology of Computing's Integration with Everyday Life. [Doctoral thesis 3 (Research UU / Graduation NOT UU), Academic Medical Center]. https://dare.uva.nl/search?identifier=6985dbcc-a855-4b9a-854c-126583620b1e
2015
Other output
Kerssens, N. (2015). Engines Retrieve, Humans Seek: Remembering the History of Online Search Practices. Paper presented at Changing Platforms of Ritualized Memory Conference, Groningen, Netherlands.
2014
Other output
Kerssens, N. (2014). The ‘Problem’ of Using Engines: Online Searching as Praxis. Paper presented at Creating Cultures, London.
Kerssens, N. (2014). Beyond the Engine: Toward an Archaeology of Online Searching. Paper presented at Archaeologies of Media & Film, Bradford, United Kingdom.
2013
Scholarly publications
Kerssens, N. (2013). Digging Machines. New formations: A journal of Culture/Theory/Politics (online), (79).
Other output
Kerssens, N. (2013). Reprocessing the Word: The Reconfiguration of an Obsolete System. Paper presented at Creating Cultures, London, United Kingdom.