dr. Kasper Welbers

Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Communication Science

Associate Professor, Network Institute

Associate Professor, Research Programmes - Social Sciences, Communication Choices, Content and Consequences (CCCC)

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Kasper Welbers is an associate professor at the department of communication science. He is a co-Director of The Societal Analytics Lab at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Vice Chair of the computational methods division at the International Communication Association, and scientific representative of the OPINION COST Action network.

Research

Kasper's research combines methodological contributions in the field of computational communication science with substantive research in the areas of journalism and political communication. A central theme in his work is how news gets around and who the most important gatekeepers are in this process. In addition to publishing research, he is an open-source developer of research tools and infrastructure.

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