Congratulations to Katjana Gattermann and Linda Bos for receiving an NWO-M grant! Katjana will work on the project “And the winner is…!? The battle for the most impactful framing of election results between media and politics in multi-party systems” Election nights are exciting moments for politicians, journalists, and voters, but researchers still know little about what really happens on…
Last Summer, the CPC together with ASCoR and the ECPR Standing Group of Political Communication organized a Summer School for PhD candidates in the field. We welcomed 22 participants who were equipped with essential insights, skills, and critical thinking on their journey to completing their PhD and beyond. The programme covered theoretical challenges, methodological opportunities, research design considerations, and societal impact in connection with implementing ground-breaking political communication…
This year, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is again the best in the world in the field of Communication & Media Studies according to the QS World University Rankings by subject 2021. It is the fourth year in a row that the UvA has been ranked number 1 is being assessed. Congratulations to everyone for making it possible!
Last Friday Susan did a marvellous job defending her dissertation on “News for you! News consumption in a world of news sites, algorithms, and social media” in the Aula, after which she was given the doctorate. Congratulations Dr. Vermeer!
After serving two terms (+ 1 extra ‘corona-year’, 5 years total) as Chair of the ECREA Political Communication section, Andreas was elected last week (7 September) at the general ECREA conference to become a member of the ECREA Executive Board. The ECREA Executive Board is the main administrative body of the association and is elected every four years by all ECREA members at…
Bert will focus on the adoption of an open science framework at ASCoR. Through encouraging transparent research processes, Bert aims to increase the credibility of our work and enhance the impact of our scholarship in meaningful ways. Naturally, Bert will remain a member of CPC.
Andreas S. together with colleagues from Anthropology and Media Studies received a grant from the Global Digital Cultures RPA for the project ‘From Climate Change to COVID-19: Communicating complexity and collective trauma through digital memes‘. The project starts in September and will run for one year and examines the ways in which memes are entangled in the daily cultural…
Lukas took part in a roundtable discussion with representatives from Facebook and the Oversight Board about the first 17 binding decisions of the Oversight Board on hate speech, political violence, and incitement. For more information on the Oversight Board and its decisions see here and here.
Sjifra de Leeuw defended her dissertation and got awarded her PhD cum laude! Sjifra’s dissertation is An empirical investigation of authoritarian framing effects in 42 democracies.
From December 14 – 18, Bert is the Paul Lazarsfeld Professor at the Faculty of Social Science of University of Vienna. The professorship is awarded to outstanding scholars with an innovative profile in the areas of theory and methodology in the social sciences. Bert will teach a graduate course on Transparency in the Social Science for PhD students, give…