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…
Sanne will study the positive and negative impact of data-driven political targeting. Damian will study how feedback loops influence citizens’ beliefs and shape societies. Click here for more information. Congratulations Sanne and Damian!
Among other things, EDMO reports to the European Commission about the main trends and other key research findings relating to disinformation. The Advisory Board, composed of experts who act in their individual capacity, provides guidance on strategy and monitors the Executive Board’s compliance with the project guidelines and principles.
Linda received an Apasia grant. Bert received a KNAW Early Career Partnership and will organize a multidisciplinary workshop.
At the virtual edition of ICA, Claes took over from Terry Flew. Claes’ presidential term will last one year. For more information about Claes’ priorities as ICA-president, click here.
The presentations are recorded as we speak. We need much bandwidth, seeing all these diverse topics CPC will cover. From disinformation, to open science and from satire to news recommender systems. And much, much more. PolCom PG ICA 2020 papers: Araujo, T., Zarouali, B., Ohme, J., & de Vreese, C.H. (2019). Open science for (automated) private interactions: Chatbots as (open) data collection engines. Bos,…
Sanne (PI), Sophie Lecheler, Katharine Dommett, Rachel Gibson, Jörg Matthes, Lukas Otto, and Claes de Vreese will study if and how data-driven campaigns using online microtargeting techniques are a threat to democracy.
Together with eight other researchers, Damian, Judith and Claes will carry out the study, using data from Social Science One. Click here for more info.
On 29 April, ACES and VICES organise the Amsterdam live-stream of the “Maastricht debate” of the candidates for the presidency of the European Commission. The debate will be followed by a discussion with Gareth Davies (VU, tbc), Katjana Gattermann (UvA), Alessandro Nai (UvA), and Lukas Otto (UvA, tbc). Five candidates – Violeta Tomič (Party of European Left), Frans Timmermans…