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PhD students & early career scholars in Communication Science about their research. Based @ University of Amsterdam / ASCoR. Editors @sspelaa @emlgravesteijn
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined September 2015
All good things come to an end. But when life closes a door, it opens a window 🥳. Say hello to your new editors: @sweeney0630 and Anna Wickenkamp!.
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Welcome to the new ComCom team: Anna Wickenkamp & Sweeney Liu! After having had so much fun with being editors of this blog, we - Emily & Spela - think it is time to hand over the task to two fresh...
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Check out our latest blog on the truth behind political microtargeting, written by our lovely visiting PhD-friend @MadsHoveThy .
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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...
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Read our newest blog on insights into language barriers at healthcare providers for first-gen migrants, written by the lovely @BrittanyMCChan .
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Picture this:You are an 11-year-old second-generation immigrant from Vietnam, born and raised here in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Your mum has been feeling very sick and needs to visit the general...
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We are approaching 🎄🎅 folks! Therefore, we have some tips and tricks that could come in handy for you ⤵️⤵️⤵️.
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With Christmas just around the corner, your lovely editors-in-chief are coming to the rescue with some useful tips and tricks to get you through the holidays. How to make sure you can keep eating for...
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Whoop Whoop! Check out this new blog written by the wonderful Olivia Mac. Enjoy reading (pun intended) 📖.
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Should we be writing health information to target a grade 8 reading level? Find all about it in Olivia Mac's blog on her interesting findings from her research
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Qualitative research and open science - read about all the ins and outs about preregistering qualitative research in @linabuttgereit's new blog!. #newblogpost #openscience #qualitativeresearch.
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Curious about preregistering your qualitative research? Read all about it in Lina's new blog!
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Make sure to read our book recommendations for this summer!.
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Now that summer finally has arrived, we did not want to commence our holiday plans without providing you with some good book recommendations. Keep reading, because Spela, Shreya and Emily have some...
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. What effects do health messages in times of crises have on individuals? Read it in @sspelaa's new blog!.
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Health messages – necessary, but harmful for mental well-being? Health messages are a crucial tool during health crises. For example, during the recent Covid-19 pandemic, they helped raise awareness...
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How do visuals convey and frame protests and the image of the protester? Read all about it in @Alex_Schwinges' new blog!.
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The coverage of the recent protests in Iran has featured imagery of strong, determined women taking to the streets after the death of 22-year old Mahsa Amini. Visuals like these have become an icon...
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We say goodbye to our former Editors @EmmavanderGoot and @RebeccaWald_, and welcome to our new editors @sspelaa and @emlgravesteijn!.
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The things we do for data? In our new blogpost, @LeonieWesterb reflects upon the challenges she faced while conducting a randomized controlled trial, how it frustrated her at times, but how in the end it was all worth it!
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Collecting data is a big part of doing research but it does not always come easy. For my own PhD project, for instance, we rely on a very time-consuming in-person data collection strategy: a Random...
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Doing a PhD in itself is one thing, doing it at two different universities is another. Our amazing @_sophism_ is giving us insight into her Joint-PhD program at @UvA_ASCoR and @univienna in our new ComCom blogpost
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Are you considering pursuing a Joint-PhD program, or you’re just curious to know what it is? Then this blogpost is perfect for you! I will tell you about this (mostly) exciting graduate school...
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RT @YSN_NeFCA: A happy and healthy 2023! .Let's start the new year with a workshop on Effective Brainstorming by Communication scholar and….
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Bringing smart speakers into the family. Who does it? And why? @RebeccaWald_ surveyed Dutch parents about this growing phenomenon. Read her findings in our last blogpost of 2022. Merry Christmas🎄✨.
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The popularity of smart speakersAlmost everyone has by now heard of Virtual Assistants like Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant that can be installed on smart speaker devices in people’s homes (or, for...
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With more and more people speaking to #GoogleAssistant or #Alexa at home asking for the news 📰 it becomes important to understand what effects this can have on us as citizens. The amazing @vresendezg explains what she found here on ComCom.
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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...
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#BigTech companies have become powerful political players. But are journalists also holding them accountable for their influence on society? You can read all about it in @Alex_Schwinges blogpost!
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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...
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How to make numbers less daunting😱and more fun 😍? To all PhD’s who have just started teaching #statistics and worry about engaging students, we’ve got you covered! Check out our new blogpost by the wonderful @sdubey03. She has 5 tips for you:.
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From the outside, it might look like PhD-students are only concerned with their dissertation. But, for many, PhD-life includes more than just time for own research. It also includes time for teachi...
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Summer is here ☀️ComCom is out 😎.We hope you take a nice break - we for sure will 😉.We see you in September! #summerbreak
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ComCom has a summer-reading tip for you ☀️📣In our new blogpost, @si_moni_ka shares insights from her study on the Dutch Telegramsphere - including very cool visualizations! She analyzed the narrative space using “BERTopic modelling” #Telegram .
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Telegram, the app that some of your friends obnoxiously insist on moving your group chats to – so that you can escape the privacy-evading grip of the “evil “Meta machine – is not exactly an innocent...
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💫15 Seconds of TikTok Fame💫.Ever wondered whyTikTok is so popular at the moment? @favstats explains in his latest blogpost whyTikTok is the most downloaded social media app right now. Happy #reading ✌️.
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TikTok has rapidly developed from a punchline for jokes about "kids these days" into a social media juggernaut. The speed of this development is unprecedented, even in the rapidly-changing world of...
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