Dr. Michael Hameleers (Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, 2017) is Associate Professor in Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests include populism, disinformation, and corrective information. He has published extensively on the impact of populism, (visual) disinformation, fact-checking, media literacy interventions and (media)trust in leading peer-reviewed journals. In recent and ongoing projects, he explores the societal impact of populist communication related to different issues, the impact of disinformation in digital information settings, and the longer-term impact of deepfakes and corrective information. He is part of the Dutch/Belgian EDMO hub on misinformation and fact-checking, which aims to understand and implement solutions to combat disinformation using a large interdisciplinary network of scientists, fact-checkers, journalists and media policy makers. He applies a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods to understand the intersections between media, politics, and society.
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Master: The Misinformation Crisis? |
Research Master: Qualitative Analysis of Media Content