Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap
The Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap 2016, organised by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam under the aegis of NeFCA, will be held 4-5 February 2016 in Amsterdam.
The theme of the 2016 conference is CLOSER: CONNECTING THROUGH INTIMATE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES. Mobile technologies have made it possible to be constantly connected with others through devices that fit in our pockets but have the computing power of full-fledged desktop computers. The new devices are intimate in the sense that they are always around, connect us to others regardless of place and time, provide us with neighborhood alerts, breaking news, and feedback on important bodily functions. Constant updates challenge people to regulate their media consumption. The information gathered by and communicated through these new communication technologies does not stay on the devices people use: it is shared with peers, loved ones and tech companies, sometimes willingly, often unknowingly. At the Etmaal 2016 communication scholars from Flanders and the Netherlands exchange and discuss conceptual ideas, societal challenges, research methods and data analyses needed to make sense of this new media landscape.
The 2016 ETMAAL VAN DE COMMUNICATIEWETENSCHAP is organized by the Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Research at the department focuses on the societal and personal consequences of media content that result from communication choices made by senders and receivers in a changing media landscape. The research program focuses on three main topics: Media Monitoring and Public Opinion, Social Media, and Media Psychology. These topics include research on social media and corporate communication, virtual reality, social robotics, news frames, self-regulation of media use, cyber bullying, automatic semantic network analysis, selective exposure and digital media, biased language and communication, morality and media use, and many others.
Metaphor Lab members will present their work at Etmaal: