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!
Bert has recently discussed the developments concerning the coalition negotiations in the Netherlands for AD.nl. The news segment is available here.
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…
Joost van Spanje has been awarded a JSPS Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan. In the framework of his ERC Consolidator Grant he will spend two months in 2022 at Waseda University, Tokyo, working with Professor Airo Hino on new political parties and new(s) media in contemporary established democracies.
Judith Möller has studied algorithmic news recommender systems and their impact on niche audiences. Recently, Judith received a Veni grant for her project ‘Vocal, Visible and Vaulting? (Dis)connected niche audiences in the age of artificial intelligence’. She is also appointed adjunct Associate Professor at the Sociology and Political Science department of the University of Trondheim.
ICA 2021 Bakker, B.N., Jaidka, K., Dorr, T., Fasching, N., & Lelkes, Y.. Questionable and open research practices: attitudes and perceptions among quantitative communication researchers Bos, L. (2021). Morality unites and divides: The positive and negative effects of political moral appeals in multiparty contexts.Boukes, M. (2021). Who’s watching satire? Generating a typology of the political satire audience. Boukes, M. & LaMarre, H….
Lukas Otto, together with Michaela Maier (U of Koblenz-Landau) and Sebastian Stier (GESIS, Cologne) received funding from the DFG (German Science Foundation) for their project “Tracking the effects of negative political communication during election campaigns in on- and offline communication environments”. In the next three years, they will investigate dynamics of negative campaigning effects with panel, experience sampling, and…