The number of people that intentionally avoid the news is growing. This could have several personal and societal implications. Previous research exposed various motives to avoid news, which lead to different manifestations of news avoidance, and consequently different implications. However, so far less …

Live blogs are a popular format for covering crises, breaking news, politics, or sports events. Despite their popularity among journalists and the public, the format has also been subject to scholarly debate regarding the conflict between immediacy versus credibility, resulting in a high degree of uncertainty …

While there is extensive research on how Russian interference – in particular Russian disinformation operation – has played out in different European countries, indications of Russian interference directly targeting EU, its institutions or policies received little attention. This paper argues why there …

The Dutch government believes that clarity and accessibility of texts are important (for example, the “Direct Duidelijk” initiatives), and many organizations are working hard to improve their communication. Being able to understand and use these texts is essential for citizens to handle their affairs …

This paper describes a mixed method research conducted by three different research groups on the same corpus of government text documents. The paper first addresses the need for this research, then the different methods and their strengths. Finally, the results are summarized, with a short example and …

Begrijpelijkheid van overheidsteksten staat al decennialang op diverse agenda’s. Zo investeerde de overheid in allerlei verbeterprojecten, tools en kritische kwaliteitscontroles door bijvoorbeeld de Nationale Ombudsman. Alom bekend is de Belastingdienst, die de begrijpelijkheid van brieven wilde verbeteren …

Over the past decades, journalism schools and journalism training programmes have been trying to keep up with the constant technological and societal developments. Numerous studies have been done about what knowledge and skills should be taught and several on how they should be taught, to be more adaptive …

Expectations are high for digital technologies to address sustainability related challenges. While research into such applications and the twin transformation is growing rapidly, insights in the actual daily practices of digital sustainability within organizations is lacking. This is problematic as …

This chapter explores the legal and moral implications of the use of data science in criminal justice at two levels: police surveillance and the criminal trial of a defendant. At the first level, police surveillance, data science is used to identify places and people at high risk of criminal activity, …

Regelmatig duiken in de media berichten op over virtuele verkrachtingen of aanrandingen. Virtuele verkrachting en aanranding houden in de kern in dat het slachtoffer ongewenst geconfronteerd wordt met beelden van seksuele aard die betrekking hebben op de eigen avatar (zijn of haar virtuele representatie …