Bert appeared in Dr Kelder & Co to talk about the role of anxiety in contemporary politics. (listen here) Claes appeared in Folia, de Groene Amsterdammer, NRC, Altinget (DK), P1 DR (DK), Information (DK). Judith appeared in Folia. Sanne appeared in RedPers, NOS, NOS (2), Volkskrant, RTL Nieuws, AL Jazeera, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Tom appeared in NOS, NOS (2),…
Linda and Katjana have been confirmed as members of the new steering committee of the ECPR Standing Group ‘Political Communication’ – alongside Loes Aaldering, Laura Jacobs and Jonas Lefevere. Their term will last for three years.
Dr. Lisanne Wichgers defended her dissertation successfully and got awarded her PhD. She wrote her dissertation on news coverage of hate speech prosecution of politicians, and its effects on democratic support. Lisanne is currently working as a postdoc at Stanford University.
Mass Communication and Society publishes articles on a wide variety of topics that advance mass communication theory, especially at the societal or macrosocial level. More information about MC&S can be found here.
Together with Ronan Fahy and Rocco Bellanova, Judith will use the RPA global digital cultures grant to work on Digital Platforms and the Digitisation of Expression and Surveillance. More information can be found here.
Sanne, Alex, Lukas, together with Sophie Lecheler (U of Vienna) are organizing a digital pre-conference for the ICA 2021 on: “Comparative perspectives on negativity, incivility, and toxic talk in political discussions”. Find the call for papers here: https://lukasotto.com/preconference-ica-2021/
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…
Michael Hameleers presented his pre advice on the influence of disinformation and post-truth politics in digital societies. Read the pre advice here (pdf).
Wednesday December 2 from 13-15, Bert organizes a session “Experimentation in the Wild”. This is a round table where speakers from three companies/organizations come to talk about the way they use experiments in their daily practice. Speakers are Minou van der Werf (Nibud; here), Hazjier Pourkhalkhali (Optimizely) and Tom te Buck (BKB – the campaign agency). People can join via…
On Saturday Claes gave a keynote at the Amsterdam Universiteitvereniging yearly alumni Day. He spoke together with Marietje Schaake on the topic ‘Media, Macht en Manipulatie’ Last week Monday, Judith was invited to speak about filter bubbles and human-in-the-loop in newsrooms adopting AI technology on an evening about AI as journalistic buddy in Pakhuis de Zwijger. Michael was interviewed…