On November 16th, Tom Powell spoke at the second of two events at Pakhuis de Zwijger focused on informing citizens and opinion polling via the use of visuals. Gijs Rademaker, the opinion pollster from EenVandaag was also presenting. For more information about this event, click here.
On November 22 and 23, several CPC members will be travelling to Zurich to present their work at the ECREA PolCom section Interim conference. The title of the conference is ‘Political Communication in Times of Crisis: New Challenges, Trends & Possibilities’. Have a look at the exciting program here.
Three vacancies are out now for postdoc positions in the new FairNews project, funded by the NWA and NWO. The FairNews project is part of the larger personalized communication network. For more information on the FairNews project, read here. The vacancies at TU Delft, ASCoR/UvA and IvIR/UvA can be found here, here and here. We look forward to your applications!
Find out more about two postdoc vacancies at the University of Amsterdam, one on “youth; social media and political participation” supervised by Claes de Vreese and Rens Vliegenthart; another about “media coverage and the economy” supervised by Rens Vliegenthart. Apply now by following the respective links! .
On Tuesday, 17/10 Knut De Swert presented some of his current research on television news at an Amsterdam Research Initiative meeting, together with Ine Kuypers from the University of Antwerp. The title of their talk was: Public television news broadcasters: beacons of quality? An 18 country cross-European comparison. Here is the abstract of the talk: We often coin the…
The project studies potential electoral consequences of legal prosecution of (members of) Anti-Immigrant Parties, and the role of media therein. Under supervision of Joost van Spanje, the team consists of Rachid Azrout, Laura Jacobs, Lisanne Wichgers, Sjifra de Leeuw, and Roderik Rekker. The project is called ‘Defending or Damaging Democracy: Legal Action against Anti-immigrant Parties in Europe and its Effects on their Electoral…
The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) has approved a research network on Political Communication. CPC-member Katjana Gattermann is one of the conveners (together with Jonas Lefevre). Through (bi)annual activities, such as the organization of methods workshops for political communication scholars, and the organization of a dedicated Political Communication section at the ECPR General Conference, the research network strives…
The project “News for you!” (supervised by Claes de Vreese, Damian Trilling and Sanne Kruikemeier) has released a new vacancy. Read more about the the project, vacancy and how to apply here.
This week Claes de Vreese started his Shorenstein Fellowship at Harvard. Click here to read more about the Fall 2017 Fellows of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.