Andreas S. together with colleagues from Anthropology and Media Studies received a grant from the Global Digital Cultures RPA for the project ‘From Climate Change to COVID-19: Communicating complexity and collective trauma through digital memes‘. The project starts in September and will run for one year and examines the ways in which memes are entangled in the daily cultural…
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…
Lukas took part in a roundtable discussion with representatives from Facebook and the Oversight Board about the first 17 binding decisions of the Oversight Board on hate speech, political violence, and incitement. For more information on the Oversight Board and its decisions see here and here.
Robin is organising a political/science communication crossover event to figure out how The Netherlands can “solve climate change by 2030”. Polemics aside, the next ten years are a crucial window for determining if and how Europe and The Netherlands can uphold their commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Together with experts from sustainability science and politics, we will discuss the most important…
CPC-director Claes de Vreese will focus on the ever-increasing role that automated decision-making and artificial intelligence play in our digital society, bringing together various sub-areas, including politics, media and democracy. Find more information here.
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.
Sjifra de Leeuw defended her dissertation and got awarded her PhD cum laude! Sjifra’s dissertation is An empirical investigation of authoritarian framing effects in 42 democracies.
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