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!
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…
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,…
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
On Monday February 5th, the digital communication methods lab was officially launched. The Digital Communication Methods Lab is an initiative of the RPA Communication, focusing on innovative research and bringing together existing and new projects with digital communication methods as its cornerstone. The lab aims at expand the innovative work on methods, analyses, and scientific practices critical to Communication Science,…
On 8 and 9 February the Etmaal 2018 will take place in Ghent. Many CPC members will be presenting work in progress at the communication conference of the low countries. Find out about the program here.
Claes de Vreese featured in a 25 minute interview on The Open Mind on US public television, speaking about the current information crisis and populism in an international perspective. You can see the episode by clicking here.
The study dealing with the effects of news consumption on mental well-being by Mark Boukes and Rens Vliegenthart featured in an article by the Washington Post. To read the academic article, click here; if you are interested in the WP-article, check it out here.
On December 18, the results of a study by Laura and colleagues from KU Leuven using data from the European Social Survey (ESS) about public attitudes toward refugees and immigrants were published in several national newspapers in Belgium (see for instance here) ). On December 12, Laura was also interviewed about the study in the Flemish radioshow ‘Hautekiet’ on…
On January 25th the Department of Political Science and the Department of Communication Science are happy to host a lecture on the presidentialization of politics by visiting scholar Amanda Bittner, associate professor in Political Science at the University of Newfoundland St. John’s. Dr. Bittner works on the personalization of politics, on which she published various influential books and articles….