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Our Giulia Scapin has just presented her recent study at the Etmaal conference on the validation of a new 12-item scale that measures empathy and identification with (fictional) characters. Get in touch if you want to use the scale in your own research! #mediapsy #network_elit

Gaia Yona, our starting phd student, presents her first study showing that higher preference for narrative complexity positively correlates with tolerance of ambiguity and negatively correlates with conservative ideology and conservative vote. #etmaal2024

Tess Lankhuizen, our finishing PhD, just presented her innovative study at #etmaal2024 on the effect of audio-visual formal features in cinema on viewers' empathy with characters. With Katalin E. Balint @EllyKonijn

Our Camiel Beukeboom just presented research on ways in which ChatGPT-generated texts show gender stereotypes. With @MasurPhil and Eva Moen. #etmaal2024

New Research: Inequalities in Privacy Cynicism: An Intersectional Analysis of Agency Constraints, by Christian Pieter Hoffmann (Christian Pieter Hoffmann), Christoph Lutz (Christoph Lutz) and Giulia Ranzini (@giuliaranzini). Open Access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Our colleagues are presenting today at the symposium Media to Inspire at Radboud University. Guila Scapin will show the results of her study on foregrounding and empathy, Katalin Balint is presenting her project on fictional narratives and self-disclosure. ru.nl/en/about-us/ev…

New publication by our colleague Alberto López on what explains citizens' opposition to state-sponsored LGBTQ+ symbols! Out now in Research & Politics

Our colleagues are at the Conference of the Society of Cognitive Film Studies. Cynthia Cabanas talks about the effect of information density in serial tv, Gaya Yona presents on the experience of narrative complexity, Tess Lankhuizen on the effect of cinematography on empathy.

Congratulations, Nicolas Mattis! Fantastic!

☀️The 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association starts in Gold Coast, Australia today! ☀️ The Department of Communication Science is present with 14 talks across a variety of division. Check out the schedule: 👇 #ica24 #communicationscience

While one half of the Department of Communication Science is in Goldcoast, Australia to attend #ica24, the other half is in Nijmegen at the European Communication Science Event (#esce24)! Check out the list of talks and workshops by our colleagues: 👇

Workshop by Reshmi Kiran on Knowledge Management in Newsrooms (K-min): deadline sept 30th! k-min.info Submissions on knowledge management ideas or solutions in newsroom tasks, and/or ethical considerations associated with such techniques are welcome!

PhD position on Simulation & Virtual Field Experiments open at our department!

We are very happy to have you at our department Doug Parry ! Welcome 🙌

Tomorrow! Don't miss our Mariken van der Velden presenting her research with Maurits Meijers at the EMMA in Den Haag, 16:45 - more info: montesquieu-instituut.nl/id/vmgzho532lw…