Faculty and lecturers are very exited to welcome the new students following the Graduate School of Communication’s one year Master program in political communication and the Erasmus Mundus program. Classes start on August 31.
Joost van Spanje and Claes de Vreese received a Honorable Mention for the ‘2014 Lynda Lee Kaid Best Published Paper in Political Communication Award’ from the ‘AEJMC Political Communication Interest Group’ for the article: “Europhile Media and Eurosceptic Voting: Effects of News Media Coverage on Eurosceptic Voting in the 2009 European Parliamentary Elections”, which was published in ‘Political Communication’….
Sophie Lecheler and Andreas Schuck (together with Mario Keer and Regula Hänggli) wrote a blogpost in Communication Currents (the online web magazine of the National Communication Association), based on their 2015 Communication Monograph article on repetitive framing. Click here to view the blogpost.
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awards Katjana Gattermann with Veni Grant for her project “Facing Europe: The Personalization of European Union Politics in News Coverage and its Consequences for Democracy”. During the next three years, she will examine how political personalization in the news promotes the relationship between politicians and citizens in the European Union.
Last week, the CPC-researchers cycled to a “tea-garden” in Zuiderwoude where they enjoyed a high tea.