We got a new project – SHARENEWS! We are happy to announce that we got funding (and data access) to conduct a multi-national project on the shareworthiness of news on Facebook. The multi-national project is coordinated by a PI from ccs.amsterdam, Damian Trilling; and also Judith Möller, Wouter van Atteveldt, and Claes de Vreese are part of the Amsterdam team. See here for the whole team.
We are happy to share that a large number of our submissions for the upcoming conference of the International Communication Association (ICA 2019) were accepted. Gathering Mobile News Consumption Traces: An Overview of Possibilities and a Prototype Tool based on Google Takeout Wouter van Atteveldt, Laurens Bogaardt, Vincent van Hees, Felicia Loecherbach, Judith Moeller, Damian Trilling This paper gives an overview of technical, legal, and ethical possibilities and challenges in collecting digital trace data of mobile news consumption.
We are pleased to announce that we are hosting a workshop on the use of tracking data in communication science. By bringing together scholars from different institutions and countries, we hope to get insights into pitfalls and opportunities as well as best practices.
We are extremely happy to announce that we have hired Felicia Loecherbach, who will be joining us as PhD student on the Filter Bubbles Project. Felicia combines a strong communication science background with very good technical skills. She completed the UvA research master in Communication Science. For her thesis she implemented her own news recommender system and web interface in python for conducting live, large-scale experiments tracking usage over time. It combines web scraping, machine learning, different customization options as well as gamification elements to enable testing various forms of news personalization in a controlled, yet realistic environment.
We are very excited to announce that we just launched Computational Communication Research (CCR), a new open-access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to development and applications of computational methods for communication science. We hope that CCR will serve as central home for communication scientists with an interest in and focus on computational methods — a place to read and publish the cutting edge work in our growing subfield. Please see the inaugural call for papers at http://computationalcommunication.