S.B. (Sjoerd) Stolwijk PhD

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

CW : Political Communication & Journalism

Photographer: Huisfotograaf Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO)

Visiting address

Nieuwe Achtergracht 166

Postal address

Postbus 15791
1001 NG Amsterdam

Contact details

s.b.stolwijk@uva.nl

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I am a postdoctoral researcher within the TWON (Twins of Online Networks) EU Horizon project of Dr. Damian Trilling and member of the EU COST OPINION network. Together we investigate the influence of algorithmic design on democratic debate quality of online platforms. I have a broad and interdisciplinary research interest combining (political) communication science with psychology and computational methods. Before rejoining the Political Communication (PolCom) group at the Amsterdam School of Political Communication (ASCoR), I worked as a methodologist at the Dutch public broadcaster (NPO), worked as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, and a postdoc on the NWO VIDI High-Risk Politics project of Prof. Barbara Vis at that same university studying how heuristic biases influence decisions by politicians. My PhD was on the effect of media coverage of opinion polls on political behavior (supervised by Dr. Andreas Schuck and Prof.dr. Claes de Vreese, completed at UvA, 2017).
Research
Reseach interests

Online debate quality

Heuristics and biases

Opinions

Emotions

Computational methods

Current research

I design and study the online debate quality metrics for the EU-wide TWON consortium headed by Dr. Damian Trilling, which builds a replica of a social media platform to find out how to improve online communication through algorithmic design.
Publications

Peer reviewed publications

Vis, B., & Stolwijk, S.B. (2022). In ‘a league of their own?’ Judgement and decision-making by politicians and non-politicians. In A. Weinberg (ed) Psychology of Democracy: Of the People, By the People, For the People. (pp. 124-145). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108774871.

Stolwijk, S. B., & Schuck, A. R. (2021). All in the game: Effects of opinion polls on party coverage in the 2013 German election campaign. Journalism, 22(9), 2297-2312.

Stolwijk, S. B., & Vis, B. (2021). Politicians, the representativeness heuristic and decision-making biases. Political Behavior, 43(4), 1411-1432.

Vis, B., & Stolwijk, S. B. (2021). Conducting quantitative studies with the participation of political elites: best practices for designing the study and soliciting the participation of political elites. Quality & Quantity, 55(4), 1281-1317.

Stolwijk, S. B., & Schuck, A. R. (2019). More interest in interest: Does poll coverage help or hurt efforts to make more young voters show up at the ballot box?. European Union Politics, 20(3), 341-360.

Stolwijk, S.B. (2019). The Representativeness Heuristic in Political Decision Making. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.981.

Stolwijk, S. B., Schuck, A. R.T. and de Vreese, C. H. (2017). How Anxiety and Enthusiasm Help Explain the Bandwagon Effect. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 29(4), 554-574.doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edw018.

den Hond, F., Stolwijk, S. and Merk, J. (2014). A Strategic-Interaction Analysis of an Urgent Appeal System and Its Outcomes for Garment Workers. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 19(1), 83-112.

Dissertation

Stolwijk, S.B. (2017). Who’s driving whom: The media, voters and the bandwagon. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam. http://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/06619114-993b-4678-b81f-128806a9030a
Publications
2024

Vermeer, S., Trilling, D., Stolwijk, S., Kruikemeier, S., & de Vreese, C. (2024). What’s on and who’s Watching? Combining People-Meter Data and Subtitle Data to Explore Television Exposure to Political News. Political Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2024.2409405

2023

Stolwijk, S. B., Oschatz, C., Heseltine, M., & Trilling, D. (2023). Refining deliberative standards for online political communication: Introducing a summative approach to designing deliberative recommender systems. In S. Vrijenhoek, L. Michiels, J. Kruse, A. Starke, J. Viader Guerrero, & N. Tintarev (Eds.), Proceedings of the First Workshop on the Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems (NORMalize 2023): co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023) : Singapore, Singapore, September 19, 2023 Article 5 (CEUR workshop proceedings; Vol. 3639). CEUR-WS. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3639/paper5.pdf [details]
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2021

Stolwijk, S. B., & Schuck, A. R. T. (2021). All in the game: Effects of opinion polls on party coverage in the 2013 German election campaign. Journalism, 22(9), 2297-2312. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884919857347 [details]
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All in the game
Supplementary files
Supplementary Material-All in the game

2019

Stolwijk, S. B., & Schuck, A. R. T. (2019). More interest in interest: Does poll coverage help or hurt efforts to make more young voters show up at the ballot box? European Union Politics, 20(3), 341-360. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116519837351 [details]
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More interest in interest
Supplementary files
Supplemental Material 1 (zip)
Supplemental Material 2

2017

Stolwijk, S. B., Schuck, A. R. T., & de Vreese, C. H. (2017). How Anxiety and Enthusiasm Help Explain the Bandwagon Effect. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 29(4), 554–574. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edw018 [details]
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How Anxiety and Enthusiasm Help Explain the Bandwagon Effect
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2014

den Hond, F., Stolwijk, S., & Merk, J. (2014). A strategic-interaction analysis of an urgent appeal system and its outcomes for garment workers. Mobilization, 19(1), 83-111. http://mobilization.metapress.com/media/7pab6qgbap1upkf1bpvn/contributions/n/7/4/3/n743kw1twlm37268.pdf [details]
2024

Heseltine, M. J., Münker, S., Stolwijk, S. B., Trilling, D. C., & Oschatz, C. M. (2024). Generative User Content for Social Media Platforms: Comparing LLM Effectiveness and Approaches. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap.

2021

Vermeer, S. A. M., Trilling, D. C., Stolwijk, S. B., Kruikemeier, S., & de Vreese, C. H. (2021). NPOlitics: Using a computational approach to understand television news consumption. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, .

2020

Vermeer, S. A. M., Trilling, D. C., Stolwijk, S. B., Kruikemeier, S., & de Vreese, C. H. (2020). Combining people-meter data with an automated content analysis of subtitles: A computational approach to examine television news consumption. Abstract from Young Scholars in Computational Social Science, Zürich , Switzerland.

2015

Stolwijk, S. B., & Schuck, A. R. T. (2015). Be published or perish? Polls and party coverage in the run up to the 2013 German election campaign. Abstract from Paper presented at the Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Antwerp, Belgium, .

Stolwijk, S. B., & Schuck, A. R. T. (2015). Effects of opinion polls on media coverage: All in the game?. Abstract from Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, .

Stolwijk, S. B., Schuck, A. R. T., & de Vreese, C. H. (2015). Emotions and bandwagons: How anxiety and enthusiasm help explain the bandwagon effect. Abstract from Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, .

2014

Stolwijk, S. B., Schuck, A. R. T., & de Vreese, C. H. (2014). Polls, emotions and vote choice among first time voters in the 2014 European Parliament elections in the Netherlands.. Abstract from Paper presented at the Leuven University Conference "Youth, Politics and Society: What Makes Adolescents learn in the 21th Century”, Leuven, Belgium, .

Stolwijk, S. B., Schuck, A. R. T., & de Vreese, C. H. (2014). Polls, media, emotions and voting: How polls influence media party coverage, the emotions towards parties and election outcomes.. Abstract from Paper presented at the ICA International Summer School in Political Communication and Electoral Behavior, Milan, Italy, .

Stolwijk, S. B., Schuck, A. R. T., & de Vreese, C. H. (2014). The emotional mechanism behind the influence of poll reporting on vote choice in the 2013 German elections.. Abstract from Paper presented at the annual conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Lisbon, Portugal, .

Stolwijk, S. B., Schuck, A. R. T., & de Vreese, C. H. (2014). The impact of affective poll reporting on vote intention in the 2013 German elections.. Abstract from Paper presented at the Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Wageningen, .

Stolwijk, S. B., Schuck, A. R. T., & de Vreese, C. H. (2014). The impact of affective poll reporting on vote intention in the 2013 German elections.. Abstract from Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Rome, Italy, .

Stolwijk, S. B., Schuck, A. R. T., & de Vreese, C. H. (2014). The role of emotions in the bandwagon effect of poll reporting on vote switching in the 2013 German elections.. Abstract from Paper presented at Aarhus University “Analysis of Panel Data” Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark, .
2017

Stolwijk, S. B. (2017). Who is driving whom: The media, voters and the bandwagon. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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Thesis
Front matter
Introduction
Chapter 1: All in the game: Effects of opinion polls on party coverage in the 2013 German election campaign
Chapter 2: More interest in interest: Does poll coverage help or hurt efforts to get young voters into the ballot box?
Chapter 3: How anxiety and enthusiasm help explain the bandwagon effect
Discussion and conclusion
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F: Sampling distribution
Appendix G: Question wording emotion items
Appendix H: Party emotion descriptives
Appendix I: SEM results
English summary / Nederlandse samenvatting
Acknowledgements on authorship
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