Claes de Vreese

Seminar on framing research

Claes de Vreese — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:45:53 +0000

On January 26 I am giving a key note lecture as part of a one-day seminar on “Bridging micro and macro: New developments in framing research” at Aarhus University. Other speakers include Frank Baumgartner, Jamie Druckman, Regula Hanggli, Rune Slothuus, Lene Aaroe and Camilla Jensen.

Special issue of Journalism on key concepts in political journalism

Claes de Vreese — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:48:33 +0000

Frank Esser, Jesper Stromback and I edited and contributed to a special issue of Journalism (published in 2012, but all articles are on Online First: http://jou.sagepub.com/content/early/recent)

The special issue contains:

Peter Van Aelst, Tamir Sheafer, and James Stanyer: The personalization of mediated political communication: A review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings.

Günther Lengauer, Frank Esser, and Rosa Berganza: Negativity in political news: A review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings.

David Nicolas Hopmann, Peter van Aelst, and Guido Legnante: Political balance in the news: A review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings.

Toril Aalberg, Jesper Strömbäck, and Claes H . de Vreese: The framing of politics as strategy and game: A review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings.

Carsten Reinemann, James Stanyer, Sebastian Scherr, and Guido Legnante: Hard and soft news: A review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings.

Susana Salgado and Jesper Strömbäck: Interpretive journalism: A review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings

ICA conference underway

Claes de Vreese — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:13:04 +0000

The International Communication Association’s annual conference to be held in Phoenix, Arizona in May 2012 is currently being planned. The Political Communication division’s program (which I am putting together this year) is looking exciting with plenty of sessions on online political communication and campaign research. The program will be released in January 2012.

The EU in the media

Claes de Vreese — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:12:10 +0000

In the past week I gave interviews to NRC Next (Dutch newspaper) on the Dutch news coverage of European issues in the past decade and to the Danish national radio (P1) on communication and the upcoming Danish EU presidency. The radio interview can be found here: http://www.dr.dk/P1/P1Morgen/Udsendelser/2011/12/17/103758.htm

The Danish Presidency starts January 1, 2012

Annual meeting Danish Political Science Association

Claes de Vreese — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:44:41 +0000

On November 3 and 4, the annual meetings are held of the Danish Political Science Association. I am presenting a paper on campaign effects on euroskeptic voting, written with Joost van Spanje, on the basis of the VICI project Communication and the Future of EUrope.

Guest lecture Aarhus University

Claes de Vreese — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:44:22 +0000

On October 11, I gave a guest lecture at Aarhus University and interacted with faculty and PhD students, many doing very interesting work on political communication and public opinion: http://ps.au.dk/en/research/

Roundtable on the media and the 2012 Danish EU presidency

Claes de Vreese — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:00:15 +0000

On Friday September 30 I am speaking at the European Community Studies Association’s meeting in a Roundtable on the media and the upcoming 2012 EU presidency in Denmark. Latest results of our large scale media analyses will be used to show how a presidency can spark media attention and public EU debate. If the presidency is done well…

WAPOR conference Amsterdam biggest ever

Claes de Vreese — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:57:42 +0000

The annual WAPOR conference held in Amsterdam between September 21-23 was the largest ever in the history of WAPOR. The conference was a big success and papers from all across the globe were presented. The new IJPOR team started its work: Claes de Vreese is Editor-in-Chief and Yariv Tsfati, Kate Kenski, and Mike Elasmar are the Editors. We look forward to working together on the journal.

WAPOR conference in Amsterdam

Claes de Vreese — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:28:46 +0000

This week I will be at the WAPOR conference in Amsterdam: http://wapor.unl.edu/64th-annual-conference/

I am a co-organizer of the conference with Professor Peter Neijens. The conference marks the end of the Peter’s term as Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. I am the incoming Editor in Chief.

Danish elections

Claes de Vreese — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:48:55 +0000

The Danish elections (15/9) will lead to a change in Danish politics. The minority right wing government with support from the Danish People’s Party will be replaced by a center-left government, headed by Social Democrat Helle Thorning Schmidt. I gave interviews to the several Dutch broadcasters, including this on on NOS Radio 1: http://nos.nl/audio/272872-de-meeste-denen-zijn-klaar-voor-wisseling-van-de-wacht.html