Penny Sheets wins “Communication Tiger” award
CPC’s Penny Sheets was elected best teacher of 2017-2018 by UvA’s Communication Science students.
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Kimberley Gross Talk
On June 12th, Professor Kimberly Gross (George Washington University) gives a talk on “Framing Effects from Racialized Partisanship in US Election News” in REC C10.20 from 16.00 till 17.00. Kimberly Gross is an Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs and Political Science at the George Washington University. Her focuses on media framing and public opinion and has appeared…
38 CPC papers @ ICA
From May 24th till May 28th the 68th ICA conference takes place in Prague. We are super proud that no less than 38 papers of CPC-members will be presented at this “High Mass” of Communication Science! Have a look at our paper presenters below: Araujo; Lock; van de Velde. A Protocol for Communication Research With Machine Vision: Using Recognition…
Addicted to the Algorithm
Last week, Sanne Kruikemeier participated in a Tegenlicht Meet Up “Verslaafd aan het algoritme” (addicted to the algorithm) in Pakhuis de Zwijger. More information about the topic of that night and a recorded livestream can be checkd out by following this link
Judith Möller gives keynote at meeting of European regulators
At the meeting of European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) in Zagreb, Judith explained the link between algorithmic news recommendation and the selective reach of misinfomation.
CPC on the road
Jasper Van De Pol was on the Dutch public broadcaster talking about VAAs in the context of the upcoming municipality elections. Last Thursday Judith Möller was invited to speak at the annual debate of the royal Limburgian history and ancient history association in Maastricht about social bubbles then and now. Claes de Vreese is part of a debate Wednesday night on…
The Mobile Lab
Bert Bakker, Claes De Vrees, Gijs Schumacher and Frans Oort have received an NWO Investment Grant – Medium (E150,000) to establish the “Mobile Lab”. In the coming years they will create a facility to conduct lab-in-the-field studies (physiology, eye-tracking, EEG, video observations, etc.). The mobile lab will be a national facility available for all researchers at Dutch universities. Congratulations!
Doris Graber
This week we received the sad news that Doris Graber passed away. Doris Graber was a central to the development of the political communication sub-discipline. She was the founding editor of Political Communication, our joint ICA-APSA journal. Dr Graber spent most of her career at the University of Illinois, Chicago (PhD Columbia University). She was a prolific author and…
Judith Möller and Damian Trilling on Digital Traces
Last week Damian Trilling and Judith Möller presented their work on news use in Digital trace data at the symposium ‘Integrating and Analyzing Data from Surveys and Social Media‘ in Bochum. Judith was also invited to give a lecture at Bildung in Delft, a student organized workshop series for engineering students on social topics. Judith spoke about social bubbles,…
Laura Jacobs on Roma portrayal
On Friday February 23, Laura Jacobs gave an invited talk at the conference ‘Antigypsyism and Film’ in Berlin about the effects of Roma portrayals in the news on anti-Roma attitudes. Find more about the conference here