Honours for CPC researchers

We are proud to announce that Mark Boukes won the “Top paper panel award” of the Political Communication Division at the National Communication Association conference last week. Mark co-authored the paper with Alyssa Morey and Steven Kleinman, and it was entitled: “Talking politics: Discussion partner and group preferences.” Penny Sheet’s co-authored paper also won this award. Congratulations!!

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This week in the media

Damian Trilling is quoted in a Volkskrant article on how Facebook handles ‘fake news’. He was also interviewed for EenVanDaag on Saturday (around minute 27). On Saturday, Sanne Kruikemeier was interviewed about the same topic by the NOS. Joost van Spanje was on national TV (RTL4 EditieNL) last Wednesday in an item about the Dutch political party 50PLUS. Claes de Vreese was…

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Travel & talk corner

Last week Damian Trilling gave an invited talk on automated content analysis of social media at the Institute for Future Media and Journalism (FuJo) at Dublin City University. This week Anna Brosius is presenting the WAPOR conference in Barcelona and Andreas Goldberg is presenting at the NIG conference in Antwerp. On November 24, Sanne Kruikemeier will give a talk at the The Hague Peace…

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New talks and interviews

CPC-related researchers are not only busy with the US elections but also deal with other pressing questions  – although certainly research into populism is very informative these days. Last week, Joost van Spanje was interviewed by “Heute Journal” of the German TV broadcaster ZDF about the Wilders trial in the Netherlands. Bert Bakker‘s research on populism as well as…

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Perspectives on the US Presidential Elections

Last week, Bert Bakker ran a small study during the President’s Night as part of his #HotPolitics project in the Melkweg (see picture, with Gijs Schumacher & Matthijs Rooduijn). Dozens of people measured how their heart rate responded when watching Trump or Clinton. Later that night, he gave a talk during the President’s Night of the Roland Holst College in Hilversum…

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Carlos Brenes Peralta wins Political Communication top abstract award at ECREA

CPC and the ASCoR Program Group on Political Communication & Journalism was represented by 11 paper presentations at the 6th European Communication Conference in Prague. We are proud that Carlos Brenes Peralta won the Political Communication division’s top abstract award. His abstract of the paper “Desired vs. Correct Conclusions: The Motivated Selection of Balanced Content”, that is co-authored by Magdalena…

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Andreas Schuck new Chair of the ECREA Political Communication Section

Last week, several CPC-related researchers took part in the 6th European Communication Conference in Prague. We are proud to announce that Andreas Schuck, Associate Professor at ASCoR, was elected as the new Chair of the Political Communication Section of ECREA. His new team also comprises the vice-chairs Vaclav Stetka (Loughborough University / Charles University Prague) and Melanie Magin (University of…

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Election day is here!

Today is election day! To help celebrate (or commiserate), Bert Bakker, along with Gijs Schumacher (UvA, political science) and Matthijs Rooduijn (Utrecht University), will set-up a physiological lab during the President’s Night in the Melkweg in Amsterdam (see link here). Bert and colleagues will be measuring visitors “gut feelings” (i.e., arousal) towards Clinton and Trump.

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New time-series analysis tool

Joanna Strycharz, Damian Trilling and Nadine Strauß developed a tutorial for conducting time-series analysis (VAR models) in Python. It is very similar to the way this is done in STATA, but it has several advantages. In particular, it is easier to repeat the analysis for more variables, and the results can be saved together with the code, making research…

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Research on filter bubbles and guest lectures

Last Friday, Dutch newspaper Trouw published a two-page story on Filter Bubbles, based on interviews with Judith Möller and Damian Trilling. Damian was also on radio Radio 1: Argos to talk about Filter Bubbles and microtargeting on Saturday (listen back to the interview here). Rens Vliegenthart is in Aarhus, Denmark, this week to take part in in the committee of former…

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