We welcome no less than six (!) new PG members this term. Last week Frederic Hopp (Assistant Professor), Corinna Oschatz (Assistant Professor), Marie Garnier (Lecturer), Christopher Starke (postdoc in Human(e) AI), Annelien van Remoortere (postdoc in Sanne’s ERC), Philipp Mendoza (PC&J Ph.D. student supervised by Alessandro Nai and Linda Bos) and a familiar face, Jelle Boumans (Lecturer), had their…
Joost van Spanje has been awarded a JSPS Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan. In the framework of his ERC Consolidator Grant he will spend two months in 2022 at Waseda University, Tokyo, working with Professor Airo Hino on new political parties and new(s) media in contemporary established democracies.
Judith Möller has studied algorithmic news recommender systems and their impact on niche audiences. Recently, Judith received a Veni grant for her project ‘Vocal, Visible and Vaulting? (Dis)connected niche audiences in the age of artificial intelligence’. She is also appointed adjunct Associate Professor at the Sociology and Political Science department of the University of Trondheim.
Bert will focus on the adoption of an open science framework at ASCoR. Through encouraging transparent research processes, Bert aims to increase the credibility of our work and enhance the impact of our scholarship in meaningful ways. Naturally, Bert will remain a member of CPC.
ICA 2021 Bakker, B.N., Jaidka, K., Dorr, T., Fasching, N., & Lelkes, Y.. Questionable and open research practices: attitudes and perceptions among quantitative communication researchers Bos, L. (2021). Morality unites and divides: The positive and negative effects of political moral appeals in multiparty contexts.Boukes, M. (2021). Who’s watching satire? Generating a typology of the political satire audience. Boukes, M. & LaMarre, H….
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.