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Het hedendaagse leven vindt steeds meer plaats online, zo ook de zorg voor onze gezondheid. Denk aan het zoeken naar online gezondheidsinformatie en het gebruik van slimme accessoires, of zelfs sensoren in onze kleding die onze lichamelijke activiteiten monitoren. Al deze handelingen laten digitale sporen na, met als resultaat een exponentiële groei aan data. Deze veranderingen roepen, voor zowel de wetenschap als voor de praktijk, vele vragen op zoals: ”Wat kunnen we met deze grote hoeveelheden data?” en “Passen we ons onderzoek en bedrijfsvoering aan op basis van deze data, of gebruiken we de data als een middel ter ondersteuning van onze activiteiten?” Tijdens het vijfde, halfjaarlijkse symposium van het Amsterdam Center for Health Communication (ACHC) zullen deze vragen, en meer, aan bod komen. Continue reading >>

The Kentucky Conference on Health Communication (KCHC) in Lexington was a great success for our Persuasive Communication group.
Melanie de Looper, together with Julia van Weert, Ellen Smets (AMC-UvA), Olga Damman and Daniëlle Timmermans (both VUmc) won two awards, i.e. the Top Conference Paper Award” ánd the ‘Top Conference Paper Award Harrington Honors’.

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The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is ranked best in the world in the field of Communication Science and Media Studies in the 2018 QS World University Rankings by Subject. In the latest QS Rankings, which were published on Wednesday, 28 February, Communication & Media Studies jump from 2nd to 1st place.

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Professor Julia van Weert will be awarded the Lewis Donohew Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award during the 2018 Kentucky Conference on Health Communication (KCHC).The award was established in Dr. Donohew’s name in 1998 to recognize outstanding research contributions to the health communication field made during the biennium preceding each conference. The list of award recipients includes some of the most highly funded and recognized communication scholars in the world. Van Weert is the first non-American to obtain it. Continue reading >>

At last week’s Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap in Ghent, Stefan Bernritter received the NeFCA Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Examining Consumers’ Online Brand Endorsements on Social Media.” The award aims to acknowledge excellent dissertations in the field of Communication Sciences and wants to recognize the quality of doctoral research in the Netherlands and Flanders.

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Eva van Reijmersdal received an Aspasia premium from the National Dutch Science Foundation NWO of 200.000 euro for a five-year research project. Van Reijmersdal is an Associate Professor in the persuasive communication group. Continue reading >>

This summer, Dr. Eline Smit received the prestigious Early Career Award from the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS). Continue reading >>

Minh Hao Nguyen, one of our PhD candidates, received a travel grant of € 3.000 as part of the UvA385 ‘Lustrumbeurs’. Continue reading >>

In June 2017, Claire Segijn has received the ASCoR Baschwitz Young Researcher Award for the best article published in a peer-reviewed journal in 2016. She received the award for the article entitled “The Underlying Mechanisms of Multiscreening Effects”, which is co-authored by Hilde Voorveld and Edith Smit. Continue reading >>

Eva van Reijmersdal (ASCoR, Persuasive Communication), Sanne Opree (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Moniek Buijzen (Radboud University) won the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence of the European Journal of Marketing for their article ‘The impact of advertising on children’s psychological wellbeing and life satisfaction’. Continue reading >>

Today, people have access to a variety of screens, such as a television, laptop, smartphone, and tablet. Screen saturation and the convergence of these technologies have led to an increase in combining different screens simultaneously, known as multiscreening. In her research on everyday multiscreening, Claire Segijn examines how information processing and advertising effectiveness are influenced by the simultaneous usage of multiple screens. Continue reading >>

At the ICA conference 2017 in San Diego Corine Meppelink won the Abby Prestin Dissertation of the Year Award from the Health Communication divisions of ICA and NCA for her dissertation entitled “Designing Digital Health Information in a Health Literacy Context”. From the same divisions, Remco Sanders received the Amanda L. Kundrat Thesis of the Year Award for his master thesis “Consulting the Internet before a Consultation”. In addition, four top paper awards were obtained by members of the Persuasive Communication group. Continue reading >>

Friday May 26

• Social Media, Marketing, and Consumer Studies
  Division: Communication and Technology
  Fri, May 26, 9:30 to 10:45, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, 2, Indigo Ballroom A
  Differences in Characteristics and Perception of Sponsored vs. Organic Reviews
  Su Jung Kim, & Ewa Maslowska
• Top Papers in Communication Law and Policy 2017
  Division: Communication Law & Policy
  Fri, May 26, 9:30 to 10:45, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, 3, Aqua 310AB
  Tracking Walls, Take-It-Or-Leave-It Choices, and EU Data Privacy Law
  Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Sophie C. Boerman, & Natali Helberger

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The UvA’s Communication and Media Studies programmes have risen to 2nd place amongst universities worldwide in Communication & Media Studies, according to the 2016-17 QS World University Rankings by Subject published on Wednesday, 8 March 2017. With this, we are only one spot away from being recognised as the world’s best. Last year, the UvA placed 6th for this subject. With a total of 19 subjects listed in the top 50, the UvA is the highest ranked university in the Netherlands for the second consecutive time.
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Anne Roos Smink won the ‘Doctoral Dissertation Grant 2017’ from the American Academy of Advertising. Continue reading >>

De concurrentie in de voedingsindustrie is groot. Het succes van een merk is daarmee sterk afhankelijk geworden van branding. Verpakkingen spelen daarbij een grote rol. Continue reading >>

Decision aids increase older adults’ risk perception, improve their knowledge, decrease decisional conflict, and improve older patients’ participation in decision making. This is concluded by a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating the efficacy of decision aids as compared to usual care or alternative intervention(s) for older adults facing treatment, screening or care decisions. Continue reading >>

The paper ‘How Modality and Explicitness of Disclosures of Sponsored Branded Online Video Content Affect Consumers’ Online Brand Engagement’ that is co-authored by Stefan Bernritter, Somaiya Tabibi, and Sophie Boerman received the Best Paper Award at this year’s International Conference on Research in Advertising (ICORIA). Continue reading >>

Together with former ASCoR members Sanne Opree and Moniek Buijzen, Eva van Reijmersdal received a top paper award at the annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan. Continue reading >>

ASCoR PhD Candidate Verena Wottrich won the Top Student Award of the Communication and Technology (CAT) division for her paper ‘The Role of Customization, Brand Trust, and Privacy Concerns in Advergaming’ at this year’s annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), held in Fukuoka, Japan. The paper was co-authored by prof. dr. ir. Peeter Verlegh and prof. dr. Edith Smit.

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The Annie Lang Dissertation Award recognizes the most outstanding dissertation in a topic relevant to the Information Systems Division in the preceding year. Congratulations, Nadine!

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Op dinsdag 10 mei vond het openingssymposium van het ACHC plaats. Veel belangstellenden vanuit de praktijk en wetenschap kwamen naar de UvA v oor een middag in het teken van effectieve communicatie voor mensen met lage gezondheidsvaardigheden.

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For the past 4 years, Alexandra Dima and Marijn de Bruin from ASCoR have partnered with 6 European organizations in the ASTRO-LAB project, a European Commission-funded longitudinal cohort study investigating the long-term impact of asthma treatment and self-management on health outcomes in France and the United Kingdom. On the 14^th of April, the ASTRO-LAB final symposium took place in Lyon, France. Continue reading >>

Digital health information is widely available, especially on the Internet, but not everyone fully benefits from this information source due to limited health literacy. This is unfortunate, as people with limited health literacy are a vulnerable group that needs health information the most. Continue reading >>

Nadine Bol and Hao Nguyen both won the Philip C. Palm Green Top Student Paper Award at the Kentucky Conference on Health Communication 2016. They received the exact same reviewer score, and the scientific advisory board could not make a final decision between the two papers. The committee therefore decided to award them both with the award. Congratulations to both Nadine and Hao!
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Het vinden, begrijpen, beoordelen en gebruiken van gezondheidsinformatie is moeilijk voor mensen met beperkte gezondheidsvaardigheden. Deze groep mensen heeft echter juist baat bij goede gezondheidsinformatie. In het openingssymposium van het Amsterdam Center for Health Communication (ACHC) presenteren we verschillende effectieve strategieën voor het communiceren met deze kwetsbare doelgroep. Continue reading >>

ASCoR PhD candidate Claire Segijn received the award for her paper “Consumers’ Multiscreening Viewing Behavior, Reporting, and Effects: An Eye-Tracking Study” at the annual conference of the American Academy of Advertising (AAA) held March, 2016 in Seattle. The paper was supervised by prof. Edith Smit, dr. Hilde Voorveld, and dr. Lisa Vandeberg. This is the second year in a row that she wins the best student conference paper award of the AAA.
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Eva van Reijmersdal received a research fellowship grant from the American Academy of Advertising to do research on the effects of online advertising disclosures on children. Continue reading >>

Social media are playing an increasingly important role in the marketing strategies of many brands, as consumers now use social media to write reviews about the products they have purchased, create advertisements for brands and participate in the development of brands. Continue reading >>

Marijn Meijers, Assistant Professor Persuasive Communication, receives the NeSCoR Dissertation Award 2016. Continue reading >>

Consumers of online health information often do not question the quality of what they find online and tend to evaluate the information based on criteria not recognized by existing web quality guidelines. People with low health literacy, in particular, use less established criteria and rely more heavily on non-established ones compared to those with high health literacy.  Continue reading >>

Dutch adolescents from lower secondary education levels are more likely to engage in alcohol abuse than adolescents from higher education levels. Moreover, they start doing so at an earlier age. For to the Dutch government,  health education materials are an important part of their overall prevention approach. However, the materials that are currently available were originally developed for the general population of secondary education students, and therefore less suitable to this particular target group. Continue reading >>

During herinaugural lecture on Friday, 22 January, Julia van Weert, professor of Health Communication at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), will launch the new Amsterdam Center for Health Communication (ACHC). The centre aims to improve health by conducting scientific research into effective communication and promoting the implementation of research in the field of health and welfare. Continue reading >>

Hoe kunnen online en offline communicatie ingezet worden voor kwetsbare patiënten? Julia van Weert stelt in haar oratie dat nieuwe technologieën, als aanvulling op de communicatie in de spreekkamer, een meerwaarde kunnen hebben. De mogelijkheden worden volgens haar echter nog bij lange na niet optimaal benut. Continue reading >>

Providing information to cancer patients is crucial within cancer care, and in the current technology age, this information is increasingly presented through the Internet. Continue reading >>

After successfully defending her PhD thesis last month, Sanne Schinkel – together with Julia van Weert, Barbara Schouten and Maria van den Muijsenbergh from Pharos – was awarded a grant from KWF for a 2-year postdoc project (halftime). Continue reading >>

Theo Trostli de Araújo Costa onderzoekt welke factoren van invloed zijn op de verspreiding van merkcontent op sociale netwerksites, en welke effecten deze berichten hebben op de ontvanger. Continue reading >>

In today’s multicultural society, medical communication increasingly involves intercultural medical communication, with patients and doctors from different ethnic backgrounds. Continue reading >>