Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap - Volume 41, Issue 4, 2013

Jaren geleden maakten Fokke en Sukke er al een grapje over: ‘Fokke en Sukke doen tentamen – Hoeveel communicatiewetenschappen zijn er?’ Hoewel het grapje toentertijd cynisch bedoeld was en een geringschattend oordeel uitsprak over een jonge academische discipline, bracht de enorme diversiteit aan onderwerpen in de aanmeldingen voor het Etmaal 2013 deze ‘tentamenvraag’ opnieuw in gedachte. In dit them Read More

Credibility in E-WOM: how review perceptions impact their persuasiveness Credibility in E-WOM: how review perceptions impact their persuasiveness Previous research illustrated the impact of (a) a review’s valence and (b) its perceived credibility on customers’ product attitudes. Though both might have independent effects on product attitudes, we propose they are interrelated. To test the different possible interr Read More

The effect of personalization and age congruency in narrative communication on website satisfaction en recall of online health information. The effect of personalization and age congruency in narrative communication on website satisfaction en recall of online health information. The effect of personalization and age congruency on website satisfaction and recall of information was tested in a 2 (personalization: personalized Read More

Going global. Trends in pop music charts 1960-2010 Going global. Trends in pop music charts 1960-2010 This paper studies the cultural globalization of pop music by (a) describing trends in pop music single charts in nine countries in the period 1960-2010, and (b) explaining global success using a double comparative design in which multiple origin groups are observed in multiple destinations. Our explanatory analyses thus compris Read More

More local news media, more of the same news More local news media, more of the same news The aim of this study was to map the Dutch local media landscape. What defines this landscape? Are there regional differences? Is any change noticeable in the relationship between offline and online news media?Results show that residents of Dutch municipalities have access to an average of 29 news media. However, only 40 p Read More

The ethics of ‘reality show’ production(s): Issues, dimensions, and discourses of program-makers and participants The ethics of ‘reality show’ production(s): Issues, dimensions, and discourses of program-makers and participants In this article we elaborate the ethical issues of ‘intrusion’, ‘humiliation’, and ‘misrepresentation’ as related to the production of ‘reality shows’. Our focus is on dilemmas between moral and profe Read More

Karen Donders, Hilde Van Den Bulck (red.) (2012). De VRT in de 21ste eeuw. Overbodige luxe of maatschappelijke meerwaarde? Brussel: Academic & Scientific Publishers (ASP). [ISBN 9789070289263]

Piet Bakker & Peter L.M. VastermanWilders en de media