In the new year, I will be giving a lecture in the Research Master program of the national media research school, RMeS. The course is comprised of such guest lectures from experts from institutes across […]
Sneak Peek: Podcast Launching Soon
We’ll soon be publishing the first episode of the new podcast series called Going Public. I’m really looking forward to this! It’s a production I’m working on together with Frans van Dam from the Freudenthal […]
Organizing Symposium on Digital EThnography for Public Engagement
Together with a team of wonderful colleagues, I’m organizing the first national symposium on digital ethnographic methods. Our focus is on how digital ethnography is suited to being combined with researchers’ public engagement efforts. Here’s […]
starting new Collaboration with Sustainability Studies
I’m very pleased to have been awarded a new seed grant last month. This grant will help me do some of the groundwork for future, larger research projects on social media platforms and their impact […]
Speaking in Digital Ethnography Seminar Series
Very pleased to be one of the speakers in the series coordinated by Prof. Annette Markham on Digital Ethnography. The full line-up includes Nancy Baym, Tania Lewis, Sarah Pink, Payal Arora and many more inspiring […]
ECREA Panel on platforms and Science Communication
Delighted to have been invited to present in the panel, Science communication as political communication? Scientific experts, policy-making, and media in the digital age, at this year’s ECREA conference. My paper will give a bit […]
Workshop on PublicLy Communicating Climate Science In the social media Age
Here’s a video summary of the workshop we organized as part of a team-based seed-project I’m leading at UU on the public communication of science about climate change in the era of social media’s dominance […]
Invited speaker at ALLEA event in Portugal
In the new year, I’ll be presenting some of the insights from my collaborative work in the Peritia project at an event organized by the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA). The […]
Sharing research insights at RIVM Symposium on Pandemic Communication
At the end of the month, I’ll be joining other academics and policymakers at a symposium on pandemic behaviour organized by the RIVM (the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment). I’ll be […]
Moderating Event on Digital Disinformation
This week, I moderated an inspiring public event on disinformation and its societal impacts. The speakers were Prof. Herman Wassermann, Professor of Journalism at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and Giancarlo Fiorella, the Director for Research […]
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