At the business meetings of the ICA and APSA Political Communication divisions, Claes de Vreese was awarded the David Swanson Career Achievement Award. It recognizes “distinguished and sustained contributions to the field as planners, editors, and leaders and in roles that require time and energy, innovation, and personal dedication.” The award honors David Swanson, one of the founders of Political Communication who…
On June 12th, Professor Kimberly Gross (George Washington University) gives a talk on “Framing Effects from Racialized Partisanship in US Election News” in REC C10.20 from 16.00 till 17.00. Kimberly Gross is an Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs and Political Science at the George Washington University. Her focuses on media framing and public opinion and has appeared…
As a member of the doctoral committee of Jeroen Jonkman (defence on June 6), prof. dr. Morten Skovsgaard (University of Southern Denmark) will visit the UvA this week. Morten is a professor with special responsibilities in Journalism at the Center for Journalism. On Tuesday, June 5 from 12-13, he will give a lecture with the title ‘The X Factor…
Knut De Swert won the PolCom Best Reviewer Award at ICA. Nice to see ICA rewarding those who take the time and write good, substantive reviews for conference papers. Congrats! Mark Boukes won the Top Faculty Paper award of the ICA Communication and Technology Division for his paper “Social Network Sites and Learning about Current Affairs Knowledge: The Impact…
From May 24th till May 28th the 68th ICA conference takes place in Prague. We are super proud that no less than 38 papers of CPC-members will be presented at this “High Mass” of Communication Science! Have a look at our paper presenters below: Araujo; Lock; van de Velde. A Protocol for Communication Research With Machine Vision: Using Recognition…
Last week, Sanne Kruikemeier participated in a Tegenlicht Meet Up “Verslaafd aan het algoritme” (addicted to the algorithm) in Pakhuis de Zwijger. More information about the topic of that night and a recorded livestream can be checkd out by following this link
The last two weeks, Joost presented two papers at the CES Conference in Chicago, and one at the MPSA Annual National Conference, being also a panel chair and discussant. In addition, he gave an invited talk at Stanford University.
CPC-member Tom Dobber has been a popular interview partner regarding the Cambridge Analytica topic and the municipality elections recently; see news articles here, here, here and here. And here! Well done, Tom!
The royal society was established in 1752 and aims to ‘promote science in the broadest sense’, and to bridge the distance between academia and society. The RHSS is the oldest Dutch ‘scholarly society’.
At the meeting of European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) in Zagreb, Judith explained the link between algorithmic news recommendation and the selective reach of misinfomation.