2,455 search results for “media studies” in the Public website
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Prepare for your studies
You’ve been accepted! Leiden University looks forward to welcoming you as a new student. Your next step is to prepare for your studies. Below you can find some tips to help you get a head start as you embark on your studies at Leiden University.
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Ursic gave interview about privacy, digital technologies and social media
Our researcher and PhD candidate Helena Ursic was interviewed with Druzina, one of the biggest weekly newspapers in Slovenia.
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What's Next? Alumni Talks on Life after Media Technology
With the What's Next? series we hope to inspire current Media Technology MSc students, show the variety of paths taken after the studies, and bring together alumni. Editions of the series are generally organized around a particular theme by Media Technology MSc students themselves, and followed by social…
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Robert Zwijnenberg
Faculty of Humanities
r.zwijnenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Our year on social media
It’s been a turbulent, bizarre and extraordinary year, 2020. Coronavirus turned the lives of everyone at our University upside down. Out teaching, research and all the events that are held in a year: nothing was the same as before. That this affected all of us is clear from the highlights and many reactions…
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How China is muzzling the commercial media
The commercial media in China are more likely to promote the stability of the regime than to undermine it. Political scientist Daniela Stockmann analyses in her new book, Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China why this is the case. ‘Many journalists do not want a disrupted society.’
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John Boy
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.d.boy@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3825
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Victor Posthuma
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
v.posthuma@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9400
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Fitri Murfianti
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
f.murfianti@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3451
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Digital Activism in Asia: Good, Bad, and Banal Politics Online
This article introduces the special issue on ‘Digital Activism’ by exploring some of the trends in social media activism and scholarship thereof. The authors ask to what extent this literature helps us understand Asian forms of online activism, which forms of activism have relatively done well, and…
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Media on sustainable energy space uptake
The production of sustainable energy can take up to 1000 times more space than fossil fuels, environmental researcher Paul Behrens concludes in a publication in Energy Policy. Various media reported on this remarkable outcome.
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Media attention for the learning adolescent brain
The brains of adolescents react more strongly to receiving rewards. This can lead to risky behaviour, but research in Leiden has shown that it also has a positive purpose: it makes learning easier. The publication of an article on the research findings led to a lot of media attention.
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Jeroen ten Voorde: In the media
Stay tuned for updates on relevant media appearances of Jeroen ten Voorde.
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Isabelle Duijvesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
i.g.b.m.duijvesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9325
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Deniz Tat
Faculty of Humanities
d.tat@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7100
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Lena Riecke
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
l.riecke@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9506
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Guita Winkel
Faculty of Humanities
m.winkel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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James McAllister
Faculty of Humanities
j.w.mcallister@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2004
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Ugur Derin
Faculty of Humanities
u.derin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Ajay Gandhi
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.gandhi@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9100
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Omer Kocyigit
Faculty of Humanities
o.kocyigit@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Elly Mulder
Faculty of Humanities
c.mulder@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Onur Ada
Faculty of Humanities
o.ada@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5485
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David Henley
Faculty of Humanities
d.e.f.henley@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2226
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Henk van Steenbergen: In the media
Stay tuned for updates on relevant media appearances of Henk van Steenbergen.
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Bouncing gel balls popular in the media
The explanation from physicist Scott Waitukaitis for the screaming and bouncing gel balls in a hot pan has been covered in several media, including the Washington Post.
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Stress or study delay?
Being a student can be stressful. Study pressure, living on your own, moving country, financial stress: things can be difficult. Unexpected difficulties may lead to study delay.
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Media on the dissertation of Wimar Bolhuis
Electoral promises are not always realized in the coalition agreement, and that is often at the expense of households. On an average they pay 4 billion euros more than planned. That is what the PhD research of Wimar Bolhuis shows. Several media reacted on his PhD research.
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Media attention for lime-producing Neanderthals
Neanderthals were the first people to make glue, but how did they do that? Leiden archaeologists discovered how, and their findings did not go unnoticed.
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Sharing knowledge about social media in Africa
Africa is online. Leiden Africa expert Mirjam de Bruijn is fascinated by the fast development of mobile telephony and social media in Africa. She maintains a website on the topic, focusing on isolated, marginalised and conflict-ridden areas in Middle Africa.
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Ellen de Bruijn: In the media
Stay tuned for updates on relevant media appearances of Ellen de Bruijn.
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Anna van Duijvenvoorde: In the media
Stay tuned for updates on relevant media appearances of Anna van Duijvenvoorde.
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Extensive media attention for research into income inequality
On behalf of trade union FNV, Egbert Jongen and Heike Vethaak from Leiden University conducted a study on income distribution over the past 40 years. Dutch national media outlets have given extensive news coverage to their study.
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Media attention inaugural lecture ecotoxicologist Martina Vijver
Time and again synthesised substances have been shown to pollute the environment more than lab tests predicted. In her inaugural lecture on 16 November, professor of Ecotoxicology Martina Vijver gives a warning for the risks of new, man-made chemical substances and nanomaterials. Various media payed…
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What's Next? Alumni Talks on Life after Media Technology
With the What's Next? series we hope to inspire current Media Technology MSc students, show the variety of paths taken after the studies, and bring together alumni. Editions of the series are generally organized around a particular theme by Media Technology MSc students themselves, and followed by social…
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‘The influence of the media on legislation is limited’
News articles have only a limited influence on the course of legislative processes. This is the finding of political science expert Lotte Melenhorst in her PhD dissertation. Defence 21 March.
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Corona research crowdfunder attracts media attention
Within a month, the Wake Up to Corona crowdfunding campaign had already raised 600,000 euros for corona research in Leiden. The goal is to raise enough money for the LUMC to set up a second laboratory that is safe enough for research into the new virus. The initiative has not escaped the attention of…
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Erik-jan Zurcher
Faculty of Humanities
e.j.zurcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Elpine de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
e.de.boer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2562
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Media about the late Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nicolaas Bloembergen, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981, passed away on 5 September in Tucson, Arizona. Bloembergen obtained his PhD on nuclear spin resonance in 1948 at Leiden University. Some articles about his life.
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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
o.van.marion@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2128
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Nicolas Rodriguez Idarraga
Faculty of Humanities
n.rodriguez.idarraga@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities
a.t.gerritsen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4692
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Luzia Helfer, How Politics Becomes News and News Becomes Politics
Political scientist Luzia Helfer (Leiden University) empirically tested claims about media-politics relatiopns using unique data from experimental studies with elected politicians and political journalists in Switzerland and the Netherlands.
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Clara Bik
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
c.m.b.bik@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4066
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Miguel Mira
Faculty of Humanities
m.mira@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Federico De Musso
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
f.de.musso@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Anouk van Vliet
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.l.van.vliet@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9512
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Bart Barendregt
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
barendregt@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3475
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Eric van Hoof
Bestuursbureau
e.j.m.a.van.hoof@bb.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4896