Category: Grants

  • AI, Media & Democracy Lab (ELSA Lab)

    AI, Media & Democracy Lab (ELSA Lab)

    The AI, Media and Democracy Lab researches the impact of AI on the democratic function of the media, and its role in promoting an inclusive society as a key technology. In 2022, AIMD started its trajectory as a Dutch Research Council-funded Ethical, Legal, and Societal Aspects Lab. Its overarching goal is to develop and test…

  • BENEDMO

    BENEDMO

    BENEDMO aims to prevent and combat the spread of disinformation in Flanders (Belgium) and the Netherlands. This initiative is part of a European network (EDMO) in which all European countries collaborate on disinformation. The Flemish-Dutch BENEDMO hub consists of a core of nine consortium partners, four associate partners, and a knowledge network of disinformation experts…

  • Conflict & Society

    Conflict & Society

    Research Priority Area – includes fundamental research (postdocs) and seed grants for the UvA/FMG community Funder: FMG RPA Researchers: Alessandro Nai, Chiara Vargiu Start date: 1-1-2024 End date: 31-12-2028

  • Modelling Real-Time Dynamics in SSH Research:An Integrated Research Workflow to Societal Events in the Digital Society

    Modelling Real-Time Dynamics in SSH Research:An Integrated Research Workflow to Societal Events in the Digital Society

    This project aims to integrate key elements of the SSH National Research Infrastructure to address an increasingly pressing challenge for SSH research: How can SSH researchers investigate, model and predict individual-and group-level reactions – i.e., how people feel, think and behave – during planned and unplanned events in an increasingly complex, dynamic and fragmented (digital)…

  • Understanding the Youth Vote in the 2023 Dutch Election

    Understanding the Youth Vote in the 2023 Dutch Election

    This project extends the data collection of the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study 2023 with both self-reported media exposure data and digital trace data in order to gain more insights in youth political preference formation in the context of an election campaign. Funder: ODISSEI grant Researchers: Linda Bos, Felicia Loecherbach Start date: 1-11-2023 End date: n/a

  • Moral Compass: How Moral Language of Dutch Politicians and Journalists Guide Citizens

    Moral Compass: How Moral Language of Dutch Politicians and Journalists Guide Citizens

    Political elites use moral language to shift public debates and to persuade and mobilize voters. Despite the significant consequences of morality, little is known about how Dutch politicians use moral language, how journalists amplify this use of moral language, and how citizens’ moral judgment is shaped by public moral discourse. This project studies (1) the…

  • From News Choice to Misbelief: Exploring the Role of Selective News Exposure in a (Mis)Informed Society using Online Web-Tracking

    This project investigates how selective news exposure contributes to public misbeliefs in the Netherlands. In an era where media choices are abundant and misinformation is widespread, larger groups of citizens solely consume news that align with their political views, potentially fostering misbeliefs. This project employs an innovative methodology combining web-tracking data and a two-wave panel…