digicomlab Master Thesis Funding Grants
Since 2018 the digicomlab has a reoccurring call for applications for the Digital Communication Methods Lab Master Thesis Grant. These grants provide financial support for theoretically-relevant and digitally innovative (research) master theses written at the University of Amsterdam’s Graduate School of Communication.
This pages provides a list of currently funded theses and completed theses that received funding in 2020 and 2019.
Funded theses in progress (2021)
Stay tuned for a new round of digiciomlab Thesis Grants in the new academic year!
Completed Funded Theses
2021
Infectious interactions: Identifying user-communities in German-language Twitter topic networks on vaccination throughout the Covid-19 pandemic by David Leimstädtner
Partisan news, polarized audiences? A quantitative content analysis of digital news and user comments in India by Apeksha Shetty
The Effect of Humour in Political Messaging: An Investigation Combining Fine-Tuned Neural Language Models and Social Network Analysis by Janice Butler
Conspiracy Consequences for Whom? By Timothy Dorr
What’s in a voice? The direct and conditional effects of vocal characteristics on voting choices by Lonneke van Riele
A User-Centric Evaluation of Democratic News Recommenders by Nordin Bouchrit
Understanding users’ responses to disclosed vs. undisclosed customer service chatbots by Nathalie Koubayová
2020
Acquiring Political Knowledge through Meme Exposure on Facebook: An Eye Tracking Experiment by Julia Dalibor
Do Individual Differences Moderate the Effect of Political Attacks Conveyed via a Deepfake on Evaluations of Politicians? by Mónika Simon
Viral Violence: The Effects of Police Violence Framing, Group Identity, and Militarization on Public Outrage and Perception of Police by Neil Fasching
Designing Virtual Reality Experiences to Promote Pro-Environmental Behaviour: The Longitudinal Effects of Prompts by Hana Hegyiova
Online vigilance and goal conflict stress smartphone users out: An in-situ approach to digital stress by Alicia Gilbert
Assessing political news quality: An automated comparison of political news quality indicators across German newspapers with different modalities and reach by Nicolas Mattis
Emotions as the Impetus of Negative Campaigning Effects. Investigating the mediating role of anger and fear in the effects of negative campaigning by Vladislav Petkevic
2019
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
Consuming Less Meat For Me or For Us? by Demi van der Plas
Expectation Hurts? by Xiaotong Chu
Immersive Persuasion by Jonas Schlicht
The Sound of Immersion by Noëlle S. Lebernegg