NEWS
Political Communication ECPR Standing group
Latest news, News / October 11, 2018Political Communication is now a formal Standing Group of the European Consortium of Political Research (EPCR). The group currently comprises 185 scholars from 30 countries. Katjana Gattermann and our former
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Guest Lectures “Defending or damaging democracy”
Latest, News / October 11, 2018This week, two guest lectures related to the VIDI project of Joost van Spanje are organized: • guest lecture by Erik Bleich (Middlebury) Thursday 11 October, 16h-17h30, REC C10.20, entitled:
Bert Bakker presents at Betweterfestival
Latest news, News / October 2, 2018This Friday Bert Bakker will give a “Silent Science” lecture--“science” version of a silent disco-at the Betweter Festival about the role of emotions in politics. Check it out here. Woede
Talks and travels
News / September 18, 2018Bert Bakker presents and discusses the Mobile Lab at the Department of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam. Judith Möller participates in a workshop on methods in computational social science, held at
Claes de Vreese wins David Swanson Career Achievement Award
Latest, Latest news, News / September 4, 2018At the business meetings of the ICA and APSA Political Communication divisions, Claes de Vreese was awarded the David Swanson Career Achievement Award. It recognizes “distinguished and sustained contributions to the field
CAP Conference 2018 has started
News / July 4, 2018The 11th annual Comparative Agenda Project conference takes place in Amsterdam, and is organized by CPC member Rens Vliegenthart, Alyt Damstra, Ruud Wouters, as well as ASCoR's Toni van der
Kimberley Gross Talk
Latest news, News / June 5, 2018On June 12th, Professor Kimberly Gross (George Washington University) gives a talk on “Framing Effects from Racialized Partisanship in US Election News” in REC C10.20 from 16.00 till 17.00. Kimberly
Talk by Morten Skovsgaard
News / June 5, 2018As a member of the doctoral committee of Jeroen Jonkman (defence on June 6), prof. dr. Morten Skovsgaard (University of Southern Denmark) will visit the UvA this week. Morten is
ICA Awards for CPC members
Latest news, News / June 5, 2018Knut De Swert won the PolCom Best Reviewer Award at ICA. Nice to see ICA rewarding those who take the time and write good, substantive reviews for conference papers. Congrats!
38 CPC papers @ ICA
Latest news, News / May 23, 2018From May 24th till May 28th the 68th ICA conference takes place in Prague. We are super proud that no less than 38 papers of CPC-members will be presented at
Spui25 Event ‘F*ke news and its societal consequences’
News / May 17, 2018On June 5, CPC director Claes de Vreese and CPC member Judith Möller discuss how 'f*ke news' has risen to prominence in the last few years, and what its consequences
Addicted to the Algorithm
Latest news, News / May 1, 2018Last week, Sanne Kruikemeier participated in a Tegenlicht Meet Up "Verslaafd aan het algoritme” (addicted to the algorithm) in Pakhuis de Zwijger. More information about the topic of that night and
Joost van Spanje visits U.S. conferences and universities
Latest, News / April 5, 2018The last two weeks, Joost presented two papers at the CES Conference in Chicago, and one at the MPSA Annual National Conference, being also a panel chair and discussant. In addition, he gave
Tom Dobber in the news
News / April 3, 2018CPC-member Tom Dobber has been a popular interview partner regarding the Cambridge Analytica topic and the municipality elections recently; see news articles here, here, here and here. And here! Well done,
CPC director Claes de Vreese installed as member of the Royal Holland Society for Sciences
Latest, News / March 27, 2018The royal society was established in 1752 and aims to 'promote science in the broadest sense', and to bridge the distance between academia and society. The RHSS is the oldest
PUBLICATIONS
Augmenting polarization via social media?
Latest publications / October 11, 2018 New publication by Michael Haemeleers in Acta Politica, titled "Augmenting polarization via social media? A comparative analysis of Trump’s and Wilders’ online populist communication and the electorate’s interpretations surrounding theREAD MORE →Boerman, S.C., Kruikemeier, S., & Zuiderveen Borgesius F.J., (2018). Exploring Motivations for Online Privacy Protection Behavior: Insights from Panel Data.
Latest publications / October 11, 2018 New publication by Sanne Kruikemeier and colleagues in Communication Research, titled "Exploring Motivations for Online Privacy Protection Behavior: Insights from Panel Data" Abstract: Personally managing and protecting online privacy has becomeREAD MORE →Patterns of intra-election volatility.
Latest publications / October 11, 2018 New publication by Sabine Geers and Jesper Stromback in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. Read the abstract below: One key trend changing political environments across advanced industrial democracies isREAD MORE →
Augmenting polarization via social media? A comparative analysis of Trump’s and Wilders’ online populist communication and the electorate’s interpretations surrounding the elections.
Latest publications / October 10, 2018 New publication by Michael Hameleers in Acta Politica, titled “Augmenting polarization via social media? A comparative analysis of Trump’s and Wilders’ online populist communication and the electorate’s interpretations surrounding the elections".READ MORE →PEOPLE
Sanne Kruikemeier
Sanne Kruikemeier (PhD, University of Amsterdam, 2014) is an assistant professor of Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of…