On Friday 12 November 2021, the SIM-Lab organized a one-day workshop “Visuals in Science Communication”. The event was well-attended by researchers from the various departments of our Faculty of Social Sciences as well as some external stakeholders in the field … Continue reading
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Social robot SAMbuddy wins Computational Award
SAMbuddy, a social robot developed by Hogeschool Utrecht and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has won the 2021 Computable Award 2021 for best educational project. SAMbuddy has been developed in a Social Robotics-program of Hogeschool Utrecht, together with a consortium of socially … Continue reading
First episode Made SIMple podcast out now!
Made SIMple is a podcast on Spotify, aiming to make sense of complex phenomena involving media, technology and society, through the words of the very researchers who study them. Crossing disciplines and collecting stories, we bring you topics you thought … Continue reading
‘Me, My Selfie, and I’ most downloaded APA journal article of 2020
Jolanda Veldhuis, Nadia Bij de Vaate & Elly Konijn (in collaboration with Jessica Alleva, Maastricht University, and Micha Keijer, Sociology, VU at that time) wrote a paper ‘Me, My Selfie, and I’. It came in as the most downloaded APA … Continue reading
Students Communication Science have a virtual classroom
Communication Science Students in the Media Psychology track take online education to the next level, to be precise a virtual level. In their class Problematic and Beneficial Effects of Media Use, they collaborated with professor Tilo Hartmann and postdoc Miguel … Continue reading