Andreas Schuck
Andreas Schuck Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Political Communication.
Andreas Schuck is an Assistant Professor for Political Communication at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam and Lecturer in the Political Communication MA program as well as Lecturer and Academic Advisor for the Erasmus Mundus MA program in Journalism, Media & Globalisation. He is affiliated with the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), the Netherlands School of Communications Research (NESCoR) and the Center for Politics and Communication (CPC). He holds a M.A. degree in European Communication Studies (cum laude) and a Ph.D. degree in Political Communication from the University of Amsterdam for which he was awarded the national NESCoR dissertation award for the best PhD dissertation defended in Communication Science in the Netherlands in 2009.
His research focuses on public opinion dynamics during election campaigns and the impact of news media coverage about Europe on public support for EU integration, electoral mobilization or support for direct democracy. His most recent work deals with the study of media and campaign effects during European referenda and European Parliamentary elections as well as with affective media effects. In 2011 he was awarded a competitive VENI grant by the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO). The research project is entitled “Dealing with feelings: The (de-) mobilizing role of emotions in political communication” and investigates which emotions are sparked by political news coverage and how these engage or disengage citizens in politics (2012-2015).
His work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Communication, Political Communication, European Union Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, European Journal of Communication, International Journal of Press/Politics, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Electoral Studies, Journal of Political Marketing, Journal of Intercultural Communication or Discourse & Society. His research has received several national and international awards, such as the Worcester Prize for the best article published in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research (2008), as well as Top Paper Awards of the International Communication Association ICA (2008, 2010) and of the Netherlands School of Communications Research NESCoR (2007), or the Baschwitz Article of the Year Award (2006, 2008, 2009).
For more information see: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.r.t.schuck/
For more information about the VENI project “Dealing with feelings: The (de-) mobilizing role of emotions in political communication”, see interviews in Dutch and English.
