On Tuesday, 9 May 2017, ASCoR & IViR present an Afternoon of Debate on how to win over voters with data and new technology (in Dutch). Inspired by their American counterparts, political campaign strategists examine how they can win over voters with data and new technology. More information, including information about registration can be found here.
Today, Sanne Kruikemeier will speak at SPUI25 about some of the findings from the personalised project. The event: “Who controls the algorithms?” starts at 17.00 and you can still sign up here! The panel of speakers also includes Marleen Elshof, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, and Balázs Bodó. Moreover, Claes de Vreese gave a keynote this morning at ProDemos at their Annual Inspiration…
Bert Bakker’s new ‘Big National Research’ (Groot Nationaal Onderzoek) project – funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) – has been launched! http://www.nwo.nl/actueel/nieuws/2017/magw/doe-mee-aan-het-groot-nationaal-onderzoek-onderbuiknl.html.
As of April 1, Claes de Vreese is chair of the Social Science Council (SWR) of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW). As Chair of the Council he is also vice chair of the domain Behavioral, Social, and Law sciences Domain of the KNAW. The KNAW fulfills several important roles at the national level: a learned society representing the full…
Addressing the call to move beyond a simple genre classification of TV shows as either substantive (hard) news or non-substantive (soft) infotainment, we propose using social media reactions to determine a program’s political relevance. Such an approach provides information that goes beyond genre or content characteristics and reflects what really reaches an audience. Analyzing tweets about two Dutch talk…