Talks and interviews this week

Last week Damian Trilling went to Bergen in Norway to take part in a workshop about automatic content analysis/computational social science. Bert Bakker was interviewed by NOS.nl about the new Freedom Party program on Friday (here). His #hotpolitics project which he co-conducted at the Lowlands Festivale received some media attention, including NOS.nl; NPO Radio 1 Nieuws & Co;  Kennis van Nu; New Scientist; de Stentor; Folia (1 & 2) and…

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CPC summer activities: #Hotpolitics & interviews

Bert Bakker, who is a CPC affiliate and Assistant Professor at ASCoR, conducted an innovative study together with Matthijs Rooduijn (Sociology, Utrecht University) and Gijs Schumacher (Political Science, University of Amsterdam) at the Dutch Lowlands Festival, that took place from 19 to 21 August. The purpose of their project “Politics isn’t cool. It’s HOT” was to study physiological reactions to…

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