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).
The NORFACE project DATADRIVEN has kicked-off on December 1. Lukas, Susan, Claes, Sophie M. and Sanne will participate in an online meeting. DATADRIVEN studies if data-driven campaigns using online microtargeting techniques are a threat to democracy. The studies will focus on micro (consequences for citizens), meso (consequences for political elites), and macro level effects (consequences for democracy).
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…
Together with Wouter van Atteveldt and Carlos Arcila, Damian has written 450 pages and 300 code examples in Python and R side-by-side. Next to the printed book, there will also be an Open Access online version. The book does not assume any previous knowledge. The book is now in its final stages of editing and will be released open access…
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…
Bert will bring his expertise on open science and replication to the Dutch/Flemish journal.