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DDD Lab at Etmaal 2025

Our research will be well represented at this years’ Etmaal in Bruges. See here for an overview of the panels we are featured in. Looking forward to meeting our Dutch and Flemish communication science colleagues. See you there! 👋 Monday, 3rd of February 2025 Political Communication – Misinformation and Trust – 14:20-15:20 Lotte Schrijver, Rens Vliegenthart,Continue reading “DDD Lab at Etmaal 2025”

ERC/DDD Lab Workshop on Political Microtargeting

On the 17th and 18th of April 2024, we organized a two-day ERC/DDD Lab Workshop at Wageningen University on Political Microtargeting, as part of our ERC-funded project “Hunting for Voters”. In this project, we study the effects of data-driven political microtargeting to identify under which conditions and to what extent they affect citizens’ attitudes, opinions andContinue reading “ERC/DDD Lab Workshop on Political Microtargeting”

Guest lecture Stephan Lewandowsky: From alternative conceptions of honesty to alternative facts

On Tuesday the 31st of October Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky from the University of Bristol (UK) visited our research group to give a lecture in the ‘Digital Matters’ series about mis- and disinformation, entitled ‘When liars are considered honest: From alternative conceptions of honesty to alternative facts in communications by American politicians’. Stephan Lewandowsky is anContinue reading “Guest lecture Stephan Lewandowsky: From alternative conceptions of honesty to alternative facts”

NORFACE Project Meeting in Manchester

From Wednesday the 11th until Friday the 13th of October, members of the DDD Lab Sanne Kruikemeier, Xiaotong Chu and Annelien van Remoortere went to Manchester for a project meeting of the NORFACE Data-driven project. On Thursday, we had a day full of project meetings. We started the day with updates from the different workContinue reading “NORFACE Project Meeting in Manchester”

Guest Lecture Severin-Nielsen: Between traditional and social media

On Monday the 9th of October Majbritt K. Severin-Nielsen, visiting scholar from Aalborg University (DK) gave a guest lecture to the department on her PhD research: between traditional and social media on traditional and social media usage of Danish MPs. In her PhD research, Severin-Nielsen examines politicians’ social media usage contextualized with their broader communicationContinue reading “Guest Lecture Severin-Nielsen: Between traditional and social media”

Inaugural Lecture Prof. Dr. Kruikemeier and Prof. Dr. Vliegenthart

On the 15th of June, Prof. dr. Sanne Kruikemeier (Professor of Digital Media and Society) and Prof. dr. Rens Vliegenthart (Professor of Strategic Communication) will give their inaugural lecture, entitled (Social) media: binding or blinding? On digitalisation and polarisation in a life science context. The lecture will take place in the Omnia building at WageningenContinue reading “Inaugural Lecture Prof. Dr. Kruikemeier and Prof. Dr. Vliegenthart”

Professor Rens Vliegenthart receives Vici grant

Professor Rens Vliegenthart, Strategic Communication Chair Holder at the Department of Social Sciences at Wageningen University & Research has been awarded a Vici grant for his research project entitled The mobilisation of political dissatisfaction: causes, content and consequences. The €1.5 million grant will enable him to conduct further research and extend his research group. Vliegenthart plansContinue reading “Professor Rens Vliegenthart receives Vici grant”