Special issue of Comparative European Politics

The Special issue on Turkish membership in the EU is out. The issue is based on the NORFACE funded research project REM (Religion, Euroskepticism and the Media). Palgrave offers FREE access to the special articles:

 http://www.palgrave-journals.com/cep/journal/v10/n2/index.html

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Research group at NIAS

Together with Wouter van der Brug, we will host a group of international and Dutch scholars at The Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) in 2012/13 with the theme ‘Europe’.

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New people @ polcom Amsterdam

A number of faculty changes are taking place in Amsterdam this summer, we are looking forward to welcoming:  

Yph Lelkes (PhD candidate from Stanford University) as an Assistant Professor.

Rachid Azrout as a post doctoral researcher in relation to my NWO VICI project.

Damian Trilling as Lecturer


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Seminar on framing research

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.

 

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Special issue of Journalism on key concepts in political journalism

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

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ICA conference underway

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.

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The EU in the media

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

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