Alex Gekker

556 total citations
23 papers, 275 citations indexed

About

Alex Gekker is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Gekker has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 275 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 3 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Alex Gekker's work include Digital Games and Media (10 papers), Social Media and Politics (2 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 papers). Alex Gekker is often cited by papers focused on Digital Games and Media (10 papers), Social Media and Politics (2 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 papers). Alex Gekker collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Israel and United Kingdom. Alex Gekker's co-authors include Mirko Tobias Schäfer, Annelies Zoomers, Emma Knight, Sybille Lammes, Chris Perkins, Jiří Pánek and Avishai Ben‐David and has published in prestigious journals such as New Media & Society, American Behavioral Scientist and Geoforum.

In The Last Decade

Alex Gekker

17 papers receiving 254 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alex Gekker Netherlands 10 133 60 29 29 28 23 275
Michiel de Lange Netherlands 12 114 0.9× 27 0.5× 18 0.6× 20 0.7× 23 0.8× 22 374
Manuela Farinosi Italy 9 81 0.6× 71 1.2× 18 0.6× 9 0.3× 36 1.3× 26 230
Karin Fast Sweden 10 178 1.3× 141 2.4× 14 0.5× 23 0.8× 12 0.4× 24 307
Mél Hogan United States 9 86 0.6× 31 0.5× 13 0.4× 14 0.5× 39 1.4× 24 305
Germaine Halegoua United States 9 176 1.3× 68 1.1× 13 0.4× 63 2.2× 18 0.6× 17 397
Prahastiwi Utari Indonesia 10 155 1.2× 25 0.4× 70 2.4× 4 0.1× 35 1.3× 75 312
Carolyn D. Rude United States 7 68 0.5× 55 0.9× 34 1.2× 3 0.1× 17 0.6× 17 247
Michael Dieter United Kingdom 8 113 0.8× 39 0.7× 15 0.5× 6 0.2× 35 1.3× 18 217
Stephen B. Crofts Wiley United States 8 121 0.9× 56 0.9× 13 0.4× 17 0.6× 11 0.4× 25 246

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex Gekker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Gekker

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gekker, Alex, et al.. (2025). IN THE SHADOW OF LLMS: TROUBLE IN THE “SMART” AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.
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Gekker, Alex, et al.. (2024). Migrating the state into corporate clouds. Information Communication & Society. 27(14). 2566–2586. 1 indexed citations
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Gekker, Alex, et al.. (2023). THE DATA CENTER CANNOT HOLD: DATA COLONIALISM AND THE “NIMBUS PROJECT”. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.
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Gekker, Alex, et al.. (2022). Automotive parasitism: Examining Mobileye’s ‘car-agnostic’ platformisation. New Media & Society. 26(7). 3707–3727. 5 indexed citations
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Gekker, Alex, et al.. (2022). Financial playthings: Interrogating gamification in retail trading interfaces. Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds. 14(3). 267–284. 1 indexed citations
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Gekker, Alex. (2022). Google Maps’ COVID-19 layer as an interface for pandemic life. Mobile Media & Communication. 11(2). 193–212. 4 indexed citations
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Gekker, Alex. (2021). Against Game Studies. Media and Communication. 9(1). 73–83. 6 indexed citations
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Gekker, Alex, et al.. (2021). The Industry of Landlords: Exploring the Assetization of the Triple-A Game. Games and Culture. 17(1). 47–69. 15 indexed citations
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Gekker, Alex & Avishai Ben‐David. (2021). Data Cudgel or how to Generate Corona-Compliance in Israel. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 40.
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Gekker, Alex, et al.. (2020). TEMPORAL FRAMES FOR PLATFORM PUBLICS: THE PLATFORMIZATION OFBREADTUBE. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.
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Knight, Emma & Alex Gekker. (2020). Mapping Interfacial Regimes of Control: A Qualitative Analysis of America’s Post-9/11 Security Technology Infrastructure. Surveillance & Society. 18(2). 231–243. 12 indexed citations
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Gekker, Alex, et al.. (2019). Infrastructural surveillance. New Media & Society. 22(8). 1414–1436. 25 indexed citations
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Gekker, Alex, et al.. (2019). On Autopilot: Towards a Flat Ontology of Vehicular Navigation. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 2 indexed citations
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Gekker, Alex. (2018). Let’s not play: Interpassivity as resistance in ‘Let’s Play’ videos. Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds. 10(3). 219–242. 12 indexed citations
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Pánek, Jiří, et al.. (2017). Encountering Place: Mapping and Location-Based Games in Interdisciplinary Education. The Cartographic Journal. 55(3). 285–297. 13 indexed citations
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Perkins, Chris, et al.. (2016). Playful mapping in the digital age. Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation). 9 indexed citations
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Gekker, Alex. (2016). Casual Power. 2(1). 107–122. 4 indexed citations
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Zoomers, Annelies, Alex Gekker, & Mirko Tobias Schäfer. (2015). Between two hypes: Will “big data” help unravel blind spots in understanding the “global land rush?”. Geoforum. 69. 147–159. 36 indexed citations
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Gekker, Alex, et al.. (2014). Games for Health 2014: Proceedings of the 4th conference on gaming and playful interaction in healthcare. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 10 indexed citations
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Gekker, Alex, et al.. (2014). 'Outsmarting Traffic, Together': Driving as Social Navigation. Exchanges The Interdisciplinary Research Journal. 1(2). 165–180. 19 indexed citations

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