ASCoR (Bas Sietses) and PhD students Nadine Strauss, Anne Kroon & Tom Powell organised a career event on Friday 6th November. The aim was to orient and discuss career options for PhDs in the academic and non-academic sectors. The day included individual consultations, career orientation presentations, and a panel discussion with former ASCoR members now working in the commerce,…
Claes de Vreese was mentioned by the Dutch newspaper Het Parool in a list of Amsterdam academics under the age of 45 with an international impact. See the full list here.
by Bert Bakker, Matthijs Rooduijn en Gijs Schumacher, from the Universiteit van Amsterdam Tijdens de Algemene Beschouwingen vorige maand beweerde Wilders dat “dit kabinet en deze Kamer het Nederlandse volk niet meer vertegenwoordigen”. Deze anti-elite retoriek definieert populistische partijen. In haar laatste verkiezingsprogramma schrijft Die Linke bijvoorbeeld dat het afgelopen moet zijn met de achterdeurtjespolitiek van de Duitse elite. Een zelfde boodschap…
By Aron Dekker, Master student Political Communication at the University of Amsterdam The refugee crisis and online activism Currently Europe has to deal with a huge influx of refugees, who flee from war in their home countries. They are mainly from the Middle East and Africa, and risk their lives by crossing the Mediterranean Sea on small, old boats….
Thema: “Intolerantie jegens intoleranten? Politieke, media- en juridische reacties op anti-immigratiepartijen in hedendaags Europa.” Met onder anderen: Frits Bolkestein, Xandra Schutte, Arendo Joustra, prof. Bert Klandermans (VU Amsterdam) en Piet Bakker. Georganiseerd door Joost van Spanje. Datum en tijd: Maandag, 7 december 2015, vanaf 15.30 uur. Plaats: Zaal REC C10.20, Roeterseiland Campus, Department of Communication Science, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam…
Last Thursday Claes de Vreese gave an interview to the Danish public service radio current affairs program on the upcoming referendum in the Netherlands on the Association Treaty between the EU and Ukraine. Magdalena Wojcieszak was interviewed by Aleks Krotoski for ‘The Digital Human’ series on BBC Radio 4, where she talked about the impact of the digital world on…
Damian Trilling and Sanne Kruikemeier presented their research (about eye-tracking and news sharing) during the weekend of science (Weekend van de Wetenschap) at Science Park during the weekend of science. Sanne Kruikemeier also gave a lecture at Spui25 on Thursday about e-democracy (together with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision). Yph Lelkes gave a talk at the ERCOMER…
Claes de Vreese gave an interview to Danish public television on the ‘participatiesamenleving’ and he was interviewed for an article in Financieel Dagblad on Friday on the current changes in the political landscape of Europe. He also co-authored an op-ed in Berlingske Tidende on the importance of public service news provision also in the digital age.
With a festive kickoff event in the Agnietenkapel, the personalized communication launched their project. A lot of interested guests and partners of the project attended the event. Combining perspectives from law, policy, media studies, computer science and journalism, a panel of experts discussed the state of personalised communication and its implications (for more information see: http://personalised-communication.net/we-officially-started/).
Damian Trilling gave an invited talk at the annual meeting of the Dutch Platform for Survey Research (Nederlandstalig Platform voor Surveyonderzoek, NPSO). In his talk, Damian provided an overview of different techniques for automated content analysis, as they are used in research conducted at ASCoR. The slides are available on slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/damiantr/npso