Andreas Schuck is currently at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) as visiting scholar and as part of the Erasmus Mundus lecturer exchange. He presented a paper entitled “Making sense of climate change – How news coverage shapes citizens’ attitudes and pro-environmental behaviour” at the Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) last week at the…
Previous research shows effects of the advice from voting advice applications (VAAs) on party choice. These effects could be spurious because of common origins of the obtained advice and party choice in antecedent factors like prior voting, issue voting and campaign effects. Here three-wave panel surveys and media content data for the Dutch national election campaigns of 2010 and…
Jasper van de Pol and Magdalena Wojcieszak both won prizes at the departmental teaching awards last week. And Marcel van Egmond has successfully completed his Senior University Teaching Qualification (SKO). Congratulations all!
Two former PhD candidates at ASCoR have recently successfully defended their PhDs. On 21st June Michael Hameleers defended his dissertation entitled “They did it! The Content, Effects, and Mechanisms of Blame Attribution in Populist Communication.” And on 22nd June Guus Bartholome defended his dissertation entitled “Faces of Conflict: Interventionism and Substantiveness in the Conflict Framing Process.” Congratulations both of…