Congrats to Cynthia Dekker and Susanne Baumgartner on this awesome paper!🤩: "Is life brighter when your phone is not? The efficacy of a grayscale smartphone intervention addressing digital well-being" 📱.

Congrats @susanvermeer and @lindavdheijkant!! 🎉.

In this project supported by the @digicomlab_eu, Marijn Meijers, @RagnheidurT, Anke Wonneberger, and @ehmaslowska investigate how VR can influence cognitions, emotions, and pro-environmental behaviors and intentions 🌳🤩 Read all about it in their new pub!

@MartheMoller and @StrJoanna will use social media comments to detect entertainment experiences 🎉.

@linzilinn, @susanvermeer, and @annekroon study the potential of crowdsourcing for machine learning 🤓.

@CarolinIschen, @theoaraujo, Jochen Peter, and @alainstarke study personalization in recommendations by conversational agents 🤖.

The project by @freddy_hopp and @LindaBos80 investigates the use of moral foundations by Dutch political elites on social media ⚖️.

@phrygianmodus will explore diverse embodiment through the use of innovative digital methods with a focus on podcasting as a medium for science communication 🔊.

Five new exciting projects have been selected to receive seed funding from the Digital Communication lab in 2023!🤩 Read more about the project in this 🧵 and on our website:

For those who missed this earlier: We are hiring! Come and join us @UvA_ASCoR @UvA_Amsterdam 🥳.

Happy New Year!🎆 We start 2023 with some exciting info: we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to come work with us at the lab!🤓 You can find more info about the position here (please do share!):

And we're off! We are very excited to host the 6th international CONVERSATIONS workshop that is happening right now @UvA_ASCoR! Two days that are all about chatbot research, applications and design 🤩🥳 Read more about the program and initiative here:

Warm welcome to @LaraWolfers & @ZephMCvanBerlo who join our Advisory Board 👋 The Board helps to steer the Lab’s activities and to ensure that it lives up to its charter of advancing methodological work.

How to improve digital competence among those with low literacy? The #DigCom project run by @jesstpiotrowski, Frank Huysmans, and @DianDeVries received funding to develop DigIQ - a tool to test and improve digital competence🤩👏 Read more here:

RT @UvA_ASCoR: Congratulations to @StrJoanna and @MartheMoller who are going to be the new co-directors of the Digicomlab!..

Good luck to all new projects, and we can't wait to see the results! 🎉🎉🎉.

Let’s talk about climate change: Can virtual reality stimulate climate change conversations and climate friendly behavior? by @MHCMeijers, Jeroen Lemmens, and Hanneke Hendriks.

Machines and Overconfidence: Antecedents, Extent, and Correction @shaikh_sj.

Understanding Climate Polarization and Depolarization Dynamics by @ChristelvanEck, @annekroon and @damian0604.