Category: Political Communication
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Bias What, Who?
Emily Gravesteijn Feb 2025 In Europe, Public Service Media (PSM) are increasingly getting accused of being biased. In democratic societies, Public Service Media function as impartial news outlets and uniquely serve to create a shared public space by delivering factual news and providing balanced representation of diverse perspectives on societal issues. While the increasing presence of bias accusations…
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Do Recommender Systems Mobilize People for Collective Actions?
Jin Wan Jul 2024 Tools and platforms that collective actions such as protests and parades rely on to mobilize, organize, and communicate with people have evolved tremendously due to technological advancement. One important change is the wide application of social media, which heavily incorporates algorithms to rank, filter, and disseminate content. This set of algorithms…
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Political ads on social media: Do they know it’s not that sophisticated at all?
Mads Fuglsang Hove May 2024 When I started my PhD, something that pulled me in was the idea that modern campaign technology decides elections. Obama’s famous field operations and Facebook campaign in 2008, the technology behind Cambridge Analytica, and the cinematics of the use of data in the Brexit Vote Leave campaign. However, getting into…
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The symbolic power of women in protest coverage
Alexandra Schwinges Mar 2023 As she raises up a picture of Mahsa Amini, a determined and proud woman fixes her gaze on us. She is one of many protesters in the background mirroring her. Photo used by CBC News in its coverage of the Iranian protests. The coverage of the recent protests in Iran has…
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Hey Google! What’s in the news?
Valeria Resendez Gómez Nov 2022 Voice assistants The usage of conversational agents (CAs) such as Google Assistant and Alexa doubles every year. CAs can be used to access information and to consume news via voice by allowing users to (1) decide the news sources of their preference or (2) let the algorithm decide the news…
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How Loud Did They Bark? – The Watchdog Role of Journalism in the Age of Big Tech
Alexandra Schwinges Oct 2022 The past two decades have witnessed a meteoric rise of Big Tech(nology) companies to powerful political players in our societies. To exemplify: every step, from writing to sharing this blogpost alone, involved a number of these companies. The dynamic digital reality we are left with has many people worried. The question…
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Past the tipping point: Climate change communication and research in the 2020’s
Robin Tschötschel May 2022 Let’s face it: stopping climate change is one of humanity’s most challenging endeavours. And we are definitely not on the right track to reaching the Paris Agreement goals of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Concerned scientists, activists, and politicians alike often focus on trying to convince people that the…
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Pointing fingers in politics
Emma van der Goot Apr 2022 Political campaigns are often filled with negativity and conflict. To convince voters of their qualification for office, politicians are not only concerned with promoting themselves but also with discrediting the reputation of their opponent. This is also called ‘mud-slinging. Prime examples of such mud-slinging can be found in former…
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From Sensitives to Hedonists: A Nuanced Framework of News Avoidance
Kiki de Bruin News avoidance is a hot topic. Not only did news avoidance receive academic attention in the past decade, but there is also growing interest in the field of journalism. However, a lot is still unclear about news avoidance. Why do people avoid the news, what news do they avoid, and does this…
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You’ve Got a Friend in Me: How Journalists Report on Political Sources
Emma van der Goot What determines politicians’ presence in the news? Why do we often read about some politicians but not about others? Politicians rely on the news media to get their messages to the citizens, and their access to the media is limited. Relatively few politicians get their ideas to print, yet fewer make…
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