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I am an interdisciplinary scientist by training, having received my M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and a joint Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and Communication Science from the VU Amsterdam. In the decade since being awarded a VENI grant on mediatized agenda setting, I have grown into a leading computational communication scientist, developing and using state of the art computational communication science techniques. Combining these computational techniques with traditional panel survey methods allows studying the effect of individual media diets, for example in the recent Dutch parliamentary elections.

I have also co-founded and chaired the Computational Methods division in our international scientific association ICA, and I founded and am editor-in-chief of a new open access journal Computational Communication Research published by Amsterdam University Press and sponsored by multiple international universities.

Research

My main research agenda is developing and applying the computational methods and tools needed to study media effects in a fragmented digital media landscape. As people consume news from an increasing number of traditional and social media sources, the field urgently needs to develop better ways to measure news consumption in order to study the effects of each person’s individual media diet. My research directly contributes to this development by furthering our pioneering work on data donation, where (fully informed and consenting) respondents donate a cleaned and minimized version of their social, mobile and digital news browsing history.

A second key methodological part of my research agenda is the introduction, adaptation and validation of methods from AI and computational linguistics into communication science research. Recent years have seen enormous gains in the development of attention models in deep learning, but these are only very slowly being used in the social sciences

Ancillary activities

  • La Jupe Sauvage | Amsterdam | Partner | 2017-01-01 - present
  • Stichting Computational Communication Research | Amsterdam | Bestuurder | 2021-11-01 - present

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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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