2020

• CONVERSATIONS 2020, the 4th International Workshop on Chatbot Research
• Workshop: DIY – Using Python apps to test (news) recommender systems, January 29

2019

• CONVERSATIONS 2019 – 3rd International Workshop of Chatbot Research, November 19-20
• Perceiving and Interacting with Algorithms and Bots, by prof. Sundar, November 19
• Analyzing (intensive) longitudinal data, with Gloria Grommisch, October 9 and 10
• Beyond Filter Bubbles, by prof. Lance Bennett, Sep 3
• Trust and Its Influence on Advertising Processes and Effects, by prof. Huh, June 26
• Tips for Using Eye Tracking Technology in Communication Research, with dr. Searles, May 17
• News and Democratic Citizens in the Mobile Era, with dr. Searles, May 16
• Innovative methods for visual imagery and health communication research, with dr. King, April 23
• RPA Communication Project Presentations: Virtual Reality, January 31  
• Applying eye tracking in today’s research environment, January 23

2018

• Workshop: ESM and mobile sensing data, with dr. Bayer, December 07
• Digital Trace Data Collection in the GDPR Era – Opportunities and Challenges, December 06
• Linking Classic and Computational Social Science, with dr. Bayer, December 06
• Ethics in AI and Conversational Agent Research, with dr. Shah, November 22
• AI, Conversational Agents and Social Robots, with dr. Shah, November 22
• Tailored virtual health assistant interventions, by prof. Krieger, October 23
• Tracking the Coverage of Public Policy, by prof. Wlezien, June 15
• Digital (Big) Data and Health Communication: Changes in Research and Practice, June 1
• ML Series 3 – Applying Computational Social Science in Communication Research, May 15
• ML Series 2 – Big (Communication) Data Mining, 24 April
• Data Quality of Lab, Panel, and Crowdsourcing Subject Pools (Prof. Jeremy Kees), April 17
• A cluster-centric approach to social media research (Dr. Itai Himelboim), April 12
• Workshop – NodeXL, social media and network analysis (Dr. Itai Himelboim), 12 April
• ML Series 1 – What is Machine Learning?, 10 April
• Launch event: RPA Communication 2018-22 and Digital Communication Methods Lab, 5 February

2017
Lectures

• • Prof. Michael Scharkow (Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany), 27 March
  • Dr Natalie (Talia) Stroud, (University of Texas at Austin), 19 April
  • Prof. Maria Elizabeth (Betsi) Grabe (Indiana University), 20 September

 

Personalised communication lectures

• Prof. Michael S. Schudson (Columbia University, New York), 6 March
• Prof. Christian Sandvig (University of Michigan), 7 September
• Dr. Daniel Kreiss, 22 September
• Jason Kint, 9 October
• Keynote Lecture during ACHC Symposium – Prof. Mia Lustria, 24 November
• Prof. Colin J. Bennett (University of Victoria, BC, Canada), 14 December

2016
Distinguished Lecture Series

• Dr. Steven Kassels (Community Substance Abuse Centers), 21 March

Lectures

• Dr. Christian Steglich (University of Groningen), 5 April
• Dr. Dannagal Young (University of Delaware), 28 June
• Prof. Sinan Aral (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 31 August
• Prof. Andrew Flanagin & Prof. Miriam Metzger (University of California, Santa Barbara), 15 September
• Prof. Nicholas A. Valentino (University of Michigan, 7 October
• Prof. Timothy Coombs (Texas A&M University), 18 October

Workshops

• Prof. Donald P. Green (Columbia University, NY), 17-18 May
• Prof. Sinan Aral (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 1 September

Symposium

• Dr. Veronika Karnowski (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) & Dr. Nathalie Sonck (Stichting Kijkonderzoek, The Netherlands) & Dr. Harsh Taneja (University of Missouri), 21 September

Sponsoring Symposia

• ‘Health literacy. Effectieve communicatie voor mensen met beperkte gezondheidsvaardigheden.’ Openingssymposium Amsterdam Center for Health Communication, 10 May
• ‘Alcohol en Sociale Netwerk Sites: Voorspellers en Effecten van Online Communicatie van Jongeren over Alcohol.’ Amsterdam Center for Health Communication, 9 December

Personalised communication lectures

• Dr. Joshua Tucker (New York University), 2 February
• Dr. Maurits Kaptein (Tilburg Unversity), 19 February
• Dr. Jacob Groshek (Boston University Massachusetts), 22 February
• Prof. Philip Howard (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), 21 September
• Dr. Mike Ananny (USC Annenberg), 3 October
• Dr. Nick Anstead (London School of Economics), 25 October
• Prof. Ralph Schroeder (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), 24 November

2015
Distinguished Lecture Series

• Prof. Lance Holbert (Temple University), 22 January
• Prof. Kevin Arcenaux (Temple University), 5 February
• Prof. Victor Lamme (University of Amsterdam), 17 February
• Dr. Sheila Sasser (Eastern Michigan University & University of Michigan), 26 February
• Prof. Yariv Tsfati (University of Haifa), 12 March
• Prof. Amy Jordan (Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania), 9 April
• Prof. Jeffrey Boase (University of Toronto), 21 April

Workshop

• Prof. Marco Steenbergen (University of Zürich), 19-20 March Seminar
• Mediation Analyses by Prof. Kosuke Imai (Princeton University), 10 June

2014
Distinguished Lecture Series

• Prof. Nicholas Valentino (University of Michigan), 23 January
• Prof. Markus Prior (Princeton University), 12 May
• Prof. Markus Prior (Princeton University), 13 May
• Dr. Sandra Bailon (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania), 10 June
• Prof. Eun-Ju Lee (Seoul National University), 8 October
• Prof. Shanto Iyengar (Stanford University), 24 November Big Data Workshop
• ‘Hands-On-Workshop Big (Twitter) Data”, 30-31 January

Big Data Spring Colloquium meetings

• Dr. Laura Hollink (VU) & Prof. dr. Rens Vliegenthart (UvA), 18 February
• Daan Odijk (UvA) & Björn Burscher (UvA), 4 March
• Dr. Silvia Olabarriaga (AMC) & Theo Araujo (UvA), 20 March
• Prof. dr. Willemijn van Dolen (UvA), 3 April
• Dr. Bernhard Rieder (UvA) & Dr. Damian Trilling (UvA), 15 April
• Dr. mr. Natali Helberger (UvA) & Dr. Olga Gritsai (UvA), 22 April

Conference Big Data: Expert Meeting

• Opportunities & Pitfalls for the Social Sciences. Keynote speakers: Prof. Edward Malthouse (Northwestern University), Prof. dr. Max Welling (UvA), Prof. dr. Richard Rogers (UvA), Prof. Paul Pavlou (Temple University) and Prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke (UvA), 17 June
• Big Breakfast “Ethical, normative, social and cultural implications of profiling & targeting in an era of big data – towards a research agenda”, with Prof. Joseph Turow (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) & Prof. Tal Zarsky (University of Haifa), 2 July

Symposium

• Media Exposure: Can it be Measured? An International Expert Meeting on the Measurement of the most Important Media and Communication Variable. Key note speakers: Dr. Susanna Dilliplane (Aspen Institute), Karin Fikkers MSc. (UvA), Dr. Michael LaCour (UCLA), Mr. Frans Kok (CustomerPulse), Dr. Ericka Menchen-Trevino (Erasmus University), Prof. Dhavan Shah (University of Wisconsin), 2 October

2013
Distinguished Lecture Series:

• Prof. dr. Dhavan Shah (University of Wisconsin-Madison),21 January
• Dr. Rajiv Rimal (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), 24 January
• Prof. dr. Wolfgang Donsbach (Dresden University of Technology), 26 April

Method Workshop Series:

• • Getting Started with R, 4 &11 June Symposium:
  • Symposium Automatic processes.
    Keynote speakers: Prof. dr. Annie Lang (Indiana University), Prof. dr. Enny Das (Radboud University Nijmegen), 23 May

 

2012
Distinguished Lecture Series:

• Prof. dr. Daniel Nagin (Carnegie Mellon University), 14 May
• Prof. dr. Ellen Wartella (Northwestern University), 12 June
• Prof. dr. Robert Hornik (Stanford University), 15 November
  Method Workshop Series:
• Implicit Measures Workshop. Guest lecturers: Prof. dr. Jan de Houwer (Ghent University) & Prof. dr. Jaap Murre (UvA), 14 March
• Physiological Measures Workshop. Guest lecturer: Prof. dr. Robert Potter (Indiana University), 6-7 November
  Symposium:
• StoryNet Symposium.
  Keynote speakers:Prof. dr. Melanie Green (University of North Carolina) & Prof. dr. Rick Busselle (Washington State University), 21-22 June