The Digital Communication Methods Lab is happy to publish the results of the first edition of the Thesis Funding Grants. These grants provided financial support for theoretically-relevant and digitally innovative (research) master theses written at the University of Amsterdam’s Graduate School of Communication for semester 2 of the 2018-2019 academic year. Their main findings are available below.
- Can AI trust you? Cultivating perceptions of trustworthiness in online Conversational Agents by Eirine Ntaligkari
- Disclosing or Disguising Influencer Marketing on Instagram? by Céline Müller
- Fake News in the 2018’s Brazilian Presidential Election: An analysis of its diffusion on Twitter by Pieter Attema Zalis
- Mapping the Issue Arena of Plastic Soup: Applying the Network Agenda-Setting (NAS) Model in Big-Data Research by Louelle Pesurnaij
- What’s really the difference? Developing machine learning classifiers for identifying Russian state-funded news in Serbia by Ognjan Denkovski
Find more results from digicomlab Thesis Grants and information about application procedure here.