Media
Op-eds, interviews, and coverage of my research.
AI insiders warn it could end humanity. Does the public agree?
With Claes de Vreese. Three years of AlgoSoc panel data show the Dutch public is split almost evenly on AI, and that four in ten sceptics see it as a threat to humanity's survival.
1 in 10 Dutch citizens are likely to ask AI for election advice. This is why they shouldn't
AlgoSoc research ahead of the Dutch elections: a sizeable group of voters would turn to AI chatbots for voting advice, yet those chatbots give biased and potentially misleading answers.
Using data donations to study social media platforms
Featured on the Dutch national evening news, discussing how data donations let researchers see what people actually encounter on social media platforms.
Dealing with conspiracy theories: Debunking works
How can the media curb conspiracy theories? A feature on real-time research from Bern during the pandemic, and a workshop bringing researchers and journalists together.
70% of Dutch people don't use generative AI
The launch of the AlgoSoc AI Opinion Monitor, which lets anyone explore how different groups in the Netherlands use and feel about AI, from chatbots to AI cancer diagnoses.
Does curiosity make you read more hard news? How about anxiety?
Coverage of research linking personality traits such as curiosity and anxiety to how much hard news people consume online.
How many people read the news? Not as much as people report
On the gap between how much news people say they read and what web-tracking data show they actually read.
Wie Algorithmen unseren Nachrichtenkonsum beeinflussen
How algorithms influence our news consumption. On how the algorithms that bring order to the online flood of information shape which news people end up seeing.
Social Media trüben das Vertrauen
Social media clouds confidence. University of Bern magazine piece on how news and social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic related to trust in politics.