Damian will focus on the Communication in the Digital Society strategic initiative, combining research and teaching activities. Together with Theo Aroujo, Damian will set up an internal infrastructure to accelerate digital research within ASCoR in partnership with the Digital Communication Methods Lab.
We are very proud of Alyt Damstra, who wrote an excellent dissertation and defended it with much conviction. Her dissertation is titled Economic News. How It’s Made and How It Matters. More info can be found here.
Katjana hosts an ACES public roundtable on “The new European Commission. On the Spitzenkandidaten procedure and the challenges ahead”. Register here: https://www.spui25.nl/spui25-en/events/events/2020/01/the-new-european-commission.html?origin=NY%2F9hMhAQhOv8%2FEeoPahTA
Joost’s project is called: ‘New Parties on the News: How New(s) Media and New Parties Shape Attention and Electoral Support for Political Ideas’ “ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature,…
Big Brother wants your vote: how critical micro-targeting influences Dutch democracy NWO has awarded 750.000 euro to study political microtargeting in the Netherlands. Political actors send citizens tailored, microtargeted messages, hoping to get more votes. This approach comes with potential upsides (more political engagement) and potential downsides (deceit of citizens). This project studies the chances and threats of microtargeting…
Both PhD candidates are part of Joost van Spanje’s vidi project ‘Legal action against politicians’. Lisanne will visit Stanford University, and Sjifra visits New York University.
CPC’s Robin Tschötschel co-organizes this event on climate change and potential ways to tackle the problem. CPC’s Andreas Schuck will serve as a panellist. The event takes place on 31 October at Roeterseiland. More info here.
Joost van Spanje and Rachid Azrout examined voters’ reactions to news media coverage of the Dutch party PVV. They found that exposure to stigmatization lowered perceived legitimacy of the PVV among voters who held anti-immigrant attitudes. In turn, this decreased these voters’ propensity to vote for the PVV. Joost and Rachid conclude that stigmatization can be a useful tool…
Judith Möller and Natali Helberger (IVIR) wrote the report for the Dutch Media Commissioner. They conclude: no evidence for filter bubbles, but enough reason to be wary of societal effects of AI. Read report here (introduction in Dutch, but report in English).
Claes was part of a panel hosted at Facebook to discuss electoral integrity ahead of the European Parliament elections Andreas (Goldberg) will participate in the “Domestic Contestation of the European Union” conference at the LSE. Alyt will be attending the workshop “Media, Crisis, and Bubbles” at the University of Navarra, Spain. New research on the construction and effects of economic and financial news is…