Month: October 2016

Call for Papers: CPC members Sophie Lecheler and Sanne Kruikemeier (together with Sarah van Leuven – University of Gent, Belgium and Liesbeth Hermans) are organising a pre-conference “Digital and newsworthy? Have digital sources changed journalism?”. The pre-conference is co-sponsored by CPC. They welcome both theoretical and empirical papers for the proposed preconference, and want to encourage PhD students and young…

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On Wednesday evening, Bert Bakker is giving a talk “Would you vote for Trump? Insights from psychology and political communication” as part of the Amsterdam Research Initiative. He will discuss the psychological roots of support for Trump – as well as Clinton. Bert will show that Trump speaks the language of the personality of his voters. Bert will base…

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Two PhD candidates will defend their theses: Björn Burscher will present his thesis titled “Machine-learning based content analysis” to the thesis committee in The Aula on Wednesday; Alina Feinholdt will defend her thesis on “Fight or flight: Affective news framing effects” in the Agnietenkapel on Friday. Good luck to you both! Rens Vligenthart and Claes de Vreese will take part…

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