cognitive processes, writing models, keystroke logging, text production processes, writing strategies

In 2017 I became a teacher of English as a foreign language (TEFL). In the same year I started my Research Master studies, my work was focused on Facebook and its consequences in terms of self-esteem, identity, and affective feelings.

From 2018 on, I have been teaching EFL in Chilean Universities.

In 2020, I started my PhD, which is focused on Instagram and some psychiatric consequences of its use.

Bachelor Human Technology: as a human technology engineer I act as an intermediary between users and developers of technical products. I do research, advise and facilitate the development of technology in such a way that the characteristics, wishes and needs of the different user groups are based on. Master of Communication and Information Sciences: as a communication expert I look at the form, function and effects of language and language use in communicative situations such as websites or manuals.

My researches aim to support patients with ‘limited literacy’, who have problems to understand and act on health information and communication, in their disease and treatment understanding and management. My main research focuses on chronic kidney disease (CKD) and limited health literacy (LHL). This project, Bridging the gap, is financed by the Social Sciences Call of the Dutch Kidney Foundation and aims to develop both a training for health care professionals to support patients with limited health literacy as well as the multimedial intervention ‘Keep a Grip on Your Kidneys’ for patients with all kind of visual information and advices to protect the kidneys. I am also part of a research team on social insurance literacy. With quantitative and qualitative methods our project on social insurance literacy aims to learn how literacy problems affect social insurance processes and what is needed to improve the support of people with these problems.

- Digital Media Use
- Digital Literacy
- Digital Inclusion
- Media Education in Schools 
- Media and Migration
- Inter- and Transcultural Communication

Theory and history of developmental psychology (esp. the Cold War popularization of Jean Piaget by American psychologists and educators), archival history (esp. Piaget's unpublished causality manuscripts), historiography, knowledge translation & indigenization / internationalization, taxonomic incommensurability, indeterminacy in translation, digital humanities, PsycINFO

Digital journalism, global journalism, digital media criticism, media accountability/policy, comparative studies, digital media culture, data and activism, media representation and media participation

Information, internal and external communications for the Faculty of Law.

I am a language-focussed, critical discourse analyst/applied linguist interested in the role of language in professional and business contexts, in particular online. In my work I explore how language constitutes our social reality, and how we can best educate the world about this important knowledge. 
I conduct empirical linguistic-discourse analytical research, theorise and educate  about language awareness and discourse consciousness. I am an experienced and passionate researcher-educator with a sense of responsibility to nurture a future generation of critical text consumers who are also ethical, responsible and empowered communicators.
I lead on courses based on discourse analysis, often with a business/professional communication slant. I co-host the Words and Actions podcasts and am the proud co-author of the textbook Language in Business, Language at Work (working currently on the 2nd edition).

I am a discourse analyst and interactional sociolinguist primarily interested in health and language, and more specifically in health and the media, food and health, and the body in health discourses. Secondarily, I am also interested in sibling interaction.

Digital Media; Social Networks; Computational Social Science

- Language and social interaction
- Questionnaire design and research methodology

Research Communication

Bharath is a political geographer focusing on new media, political communication, and cultures of hate and intolerance online using computational and qualitative methods.  

Research Interests  

- Hate, Intolerance, and Prejudice in Europe and North America
- Racism and Bigotry in Digital Propaganda
- Regulatory Responses to Extremism Online
- Social Media and Political Culture
- Disinformation, Social Media Manipulation, and Digital Advertising 

Methodological Interests  

- Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, and Critical Discourse Analysis
- Social Network Analysis
- Visual Methods 

Biography  

Prior to joining the University of Groningen, Bharath was a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford. At the OII, he contributed to three projects: (1) the Computational Propaganda Project, where he contributed to analysis of Russian social media manipulation in the United States; (2) the VOX-Pol Project, where he contributed research on digital cultures of the far right in Europe and North America; and (3) the Data Science in Local Government Project, where he contributed survey design and data analysis to understand the state of the art of data science techniques used in local government in the UK (2017-2018).

Bharath completed his PhD in Geography at UCL in 2017, funded by the Bonnart Trust (www.fbbtrust.org.uk). From 2014 to 2017, he was also Senior Researcher at Tell MAMA (www.tellmamauk.org), a British charity that monitors and supports victims of anti-Muslim hate crime. Bharath has commented widely on issues related to disinformation on social media, Russian involvement in the 2016 United States election, hate speech, and the radical right in the UK Houses of Parliament, United Nations, and international media outlets. His recent publications have appeared in journals including the Journal of International Affairs and European Societies. 

After completing her PhD at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2016, she spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies at the University of Bremen. She is the author of "Security Threats and Public Perception: Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis" (Palgrave, 2017). Her other publications include peer-reviewed articles on nationalism, sexuality, and social networks, as well as regular blog posts at “The Duck of Minerva”. Lisa's research is situated on the intersection of political theory, international relations, media and cultural studies. 

Survey Methodology: mixed-mode and mixed-device surveys, targeting of hard-to-survey populations, interviewer-respondent interaction.

Qualitative Research methods: interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis

Member Educational Committee Sociology

Language and literacy development

aphasia, everyday interaction, spontaneous speech, liveliness, comprehensibility, enactment

Communication advisor of the Knowledge Platform, which collects and shares knowledge and research that is relevant for social policy in the Groningen gas extraction area. The Knowledge Platform stimulates partnerships to create more attention for social impact. It brings people and knowledge together and strives for a society where industry, state and society are in harmony.


Communication science, Creative concepting, Event organisation, Graphic design, Photography, Styling

Through my research, I aim to contribute to the co-creation of a socio-technical context that empowers individuals to enhance their wellbeing.

Topics: Information system implementation, adoption and adaptation, Communication, Aging, Organizational change, Societal challenges, Mixed methods, Participatory research

Berber Hagedoorn is Assistant Professor Media Studies & Audiovisual Culture at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research interests revolve around screen cultures (representations and crossmedia storytelling practices, particulary around television) and audiovisual cultural memory in Europe. For example, she studies how the combination of television with new (cross-)media technologies has influenced the role of television as a storyteller (‘history teacher’) and information source for current media generations. Hagedoorn is the Vice-Chair of ECREA’s Television Studies section (European Communication Research and Education Association) and Member of the EUscreen Foundation Board, organizing cooperation for European research and education into television’s history and its future as a multi-platform storytelling practice. She received the 2021 CLARIAH Teaching Fellowship for a project teaching students in the international classroom to use the English-language collections in the CLARIAH Media Suite for creative multimodal storytelling projects and she received the 2018 Europeana Research Grant award for digital humanities research into Europe’s cultural heritage online. She has extensive experience in Media and Culture Studies and Digital Humanities through large-scale European and Dutch best practice projects on digital audio-visual heritage and cultural memory representation, including Europeana, EUscreen and CLARIAH. Hagedoorn has published in a.o. Critical Studies in Television, Media and Communication, Studies in Documentary Film, Journal of European Studies, Continuum and VIEW. She is the co-editor of two special issues on ‘The Youthification of Television’ in Critical Studies in Television (16.2 & 16.4, 2021) and the forthcoming edited volume New Challenges in European Television Series: National Experiences in a Transnational Context (Comares). For more information, see: https://berberhagedoorn.wordpress.com

Identity negotiation in companion service

Chinese populism, discourse polarization, political communication

Persuasive Communication

Qian's research interests and expertise include digital vigilantism, digital harms, creator culture, and digital culture in general. Her research intersects media studies and surveillance studies through lenses of critical theories such as feminism and post-colonialism. She is currently working on research projects studying how content creators negotiate their identities and manage their visibility in daily production practices in contemporary surveillance culture (including potential peer surveillance, platform governance, and state censorship), especially in transnational contexts.

Conversation Analysis / Multimodal Communication / Health Communication

Emillie is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, a researcher at the University of Amsterdam’s Open Intelligence Lab, and a research consultant for the UN DPPA Innovation Cell. Her research lies on the formation of speech norms in social media content moderation and their impact in the formation of online counter-spheres. With the UN DPPA Innovation Cell, she develops analytical software and research methods for monitoring public conflict and dialogue across the web.

Keywords: digital methods, content moderation, online extremism, conflict monitoring

- Conversation Analysis
- Classroom interaction
- Emergency calls
- Health communication

Language and Social Interaction, Health Communication

Children's use of digital media - The development of digital literacy; media literacy; news competencies; citizenship

Decoloniality
Theory from the South
Media & National Identity
Digital & Emerging Media
Video Games
Media Theory
Critical Race Theory
Decolonial Ecopolitics

Communication advice, background articles, news and press releases, social media

Survey Research Methodology, Interviewer-respondent interaction in Survey interviews, Sequence Viewer

Coach, Communications, Trainer

Conversation analysis

Political discourse, propaganda, media trust & media use, civic engagement

Argumentation theory, health communication, metaphor studies, pragmatics, rhetoric

Robert Prey is a media scholar who studies the relationship between technology, capitalism and culture. Dr. Prey's research and writings focus on algorithmic recommendation systems and the interdependent processes of ‘datafication’ and ‘platformization’. His current focus is on music streaming platforms and the music, musicians and industry developing around them.  

Dr. Prey completed his PhD in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University (Canada) in 2015. Before this, he worked with Migrant World Television (MWTV) in Seoul, South Korea. 

Areas of Expertise:
Technology and Society
Cultural Industries (esp. the music industries)
Cultural/Creative Labour
Social and Media Theory
Political Economy of (New) Media

Discourse & Communication

Photography, content creation, science journalism and -communication, strategy development, strategic communication

Conversation Analysis, Interactional Linguistics, Institutional interaction, Multimodal interaction

Conversation Analysis, Text Analysis, Survey Research

human communication, information presentation, human computer interaction, natural language generation, affective computing, multimodal interaction.

My overall research program is to identify pathways toward sustainability, and develop communication models and products that help materialize these pathways. This takes a broad view of sustainability that includes improving social relations as well as our relation with the natural environment. It also reflects a focus both on developing theory and applying it to specific focal topics. Fields of interest include environmental communication, behavior change, and program design and evaluation. Focal topics include sustainable food transitions (e.g., protein transition; plant-based eating) and protecting vulnerable populations (e.g., child protection; human-animal relations).

Discourse studies, text linguistics, stylistics, cognitive linguistics

Multimodal Communication

Mediated political participation and citizenship; political and social theory; critical platform studies; content moderation and other aspects of platform governance; data colonialism

Corporate and Marketing Communication

Ancient Greek linguistics; Ancient Greek Literature; Discourse Analysis

medical communication, education, psychosocial oncology

Multimodality, Semiotics, Text and Discourse Analysis, Discourse Semantics, Media Analysis (films, comics, social media, games)

Media Studies
Cultural Industries
Cultural Sociology
Game Studies
Sociology of Religion
Conspiracy Culture

Interaction in the classroom, conversation analysis, learning in interaction, institutional interaction, mulitmodal interaction

Satire, Humor, Environmental Humanities, Ecocriticism, Identity

Social and political implications of new media technologies, Political communication,Citizen (dis)engagement, polarization