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Month: December 2017

How Government Coalition affects Demonstration Composition.

December 5, 2017
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New publication by Ruud Wouters, together with Pauline Ketelaars, Stefaan Walgrave and Nina Eggert. “How Government Coalition affects Demonstration Composition. Comparing Twin Austerity Demonstrations in Belgium”  is published at Acta Politica. Please read the abstract below. Abstract: Does the composition of a government affect the beliefs, motivations and mobilization trajectories of protest participants addressing the government? We make use…

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Bernd Schlipphak visiting CPC

December 5, 2017
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Bernd Schlipphak, University of Muenster, will be visiting the communication department at the UvA from January 15 to February 8, 2018. While staying in Amsterdam, he focuses on two projects. Firstly, he analyzes the (contrasting) effects of elite vs. popular cues on citizens’ international attitudes in (non-)authoritarian settings. Secondly, he will work on a grant proposal that explores necessary conditions…

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Katjana Gattermann presents at MAPLE conference

December 5, 2017
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Katjana Gattermann is in Lisbon on 4-5 December to take part as presenter and discussant in the MAPLE Conference. MAPLE stands for “Measuring and Analysing the Politicisation of Europe before and after the Eurozone crisis” and is an ERC project by Prof Marina Costa Lobo. For more information about the conference, please click here.

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Save the date – Political Psychology meeting

December 5, 2017
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Bert Bakker, Mark Dechesne, and Jojanneke van der Toorn kindly invite you to join them for the sixth Political Psychology Meeting, which will take place on Friday March 9th at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam). It is important to register for the meeting so that  an accurate head count for coffee/tea and lunch can be made. Participation is…

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Guest lecture by Catriona Bonfiglioni

December 5, 2017
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This Wednesday, Dec 6th, at 16:00 in REC C 10.20 the CPC visiting guest scholar from UTS Sydney, Catriona Bonfiglioni, is giving a guest lecture. The title of the talk is  “Citizen journalism for health, science & the environment – Investigating innovations in participatory journalism”. Please find a teaser about the talk’s topic below! In the post-truth era, controlling narratives is…

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Judith Möller writes report for Dutch Media Authority about filter bubbles

December 1, 2017
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There is growing attention for filter bubbles en their potentially detrimental consequences for society. As a co-author of the paper ‘Should we worry about filter bubbles’, CPC’s Judith Möller is commissioned by the Dutch Media Authority to write a report about the state of research on filter bubbles. She will work together with Natali Helberger (professor of Information Law…

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