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Michael Hameleers is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with a focus on sociology, political science, communication, artificial intelligence, and social psychology. Hameleers's work spans various subfields, emphasizing the interactions between media, politics, and society.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas including misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, populism and right-wing movements, media influence and politics, media studies and communication, and public relations and crisis communication.

Michael Hameleers has contributed notably to academic journals with multiple publications in venues such as:

  • International Journal of Public Opinion Research
  • Political Communication
  • Information Communication & Society
  • Mass Communication & Society
  • The International Journal of Press/Politics

Selected recent papers authored by Michael Hameleers include:

  • "A Picture Paints a Thousand Lies? The Effects and Mechanisms of Multimodal Disinformation and Rebuttals Disseminated via Social Media" (2020), published in Political Communication
  • "Separating truth from lies: comparing the effects of news media literacy interventions and fact-checkers in response to political misinformation in the US and Netherlands" (2020), published in Information Communication & Society
  • "Populist Disinformation: Exploring Intersections between Online Populism and Disinformation in the US and the Netherlands" (2020), published in Politics and Governance

Frequent co-authors of Michael Hameleers include:

  • Toni G.L.A. van der Meer
  • Anna Brosius
  • Claes H. de Vreese
  • Marina Tulin
  • L. Bos

Best Publications

  • “They Did It”: The Effects of Emotionalized Blame Attribution in Populist Communication:

    Michael Hameleers;Linda Bos;Claes H. de Vreese

  • Misinformation and Polarization in a High-Choice Media Environment: How Effective Are Political Fact-Checkers?:

    Michael Hameleers;Toni G. L. A. van der Meer

  • It’s us against them: a comparative experiment on the effects of populist messages communicated via social media

    Michael Hameleers;Desirée Schmuck

  • A Picture Paints a Thousand Lies? The Effects and Mechanisms of Multimodal Disinformation and Rebuttals Disseminated via Social Media

    Michael Hameleers;Thomas E. Powell;Toni G.L.A. Van Der Meer;Lieke Bos

  • Separating truth from lies: comparing the effects of news media literacy interventions and fact-checkers in response to political misinformation in the US and Netherlands

    Michael Hameleers

  • The effects of populism as a social identity frame on persuasion and mobilisation: Evidence from a 15-country experiment

    Linda Bos;Christian Schemer;Nicoleta Corbu;Michael Hameleers

  • The Appeal of Media Populism: The Media Preferences of Citizens with Populist Attitudes

    M. Hameleers;L. Bos;C.H. de Vreese

  • Whom to trust? Media exposure patterns of citizens with perceptions of misinformation and disinformation related to the news media

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  • Visual Mis- and Disinformation, Social Media, and Democracy:

    Viorela Dan;Britt Paris;Joan Donovan;Michael Hameleers

  • Can Fighting Misinformation Have a Negative Spillover Effect? How Warnings for the Threat of Misinformation Can Decrease General News Credibility

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  • Closer to the people: A comparative content analysis of populist communication on social networking sites in pre- and post-Election periods

    Desirée Schmuck;Michael Hameleers

  • Disinformation as a context-bound phenomenon: toward a conceptual clarification integrating actors, intentions and techniques of creation and dissemination

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  • Selective Exposure to Populist Communication: How Attitudinal Congruence Drives the Effects of Populist Attributions of Blame

    M. Hameleers;L. Bos;C.H. de Vreese

  • Prospect Theory in Times of a Pandemic: The Effects of Gain versus Loss Framing on Risky Choices and Emotional Responses During the 2020 Coronavirus Outbreak - Evidence from the US and the Netherlands

    Michael Hameleers

  • They Are Selling Themselves Out to the Enemy! The Content and Effects of Populist Conspiracy Theories

    Michael Hameleers

  • Start Spreading the News: A Comparative Experiment on the Effects of Populist Communication on Political Engagement in Sixteen European Countries:

    Michael Hameleers;Linda Bos;Nayla Fawzi;Carsten Reinemann

  • Feeling “disinformed” lowers compliance with COVID-19 guidelines: Evidence from the US, UK, Netherlands and Germany

    Michael Hameleers;Toni G. L. A. van der Meer;Anna Brosius

  • Framing blame: toward a better understanding of the effects of populist communication on populist party preferences

    M. Hameleers;L. Bos;C. de Vreese

  • Populist Disinformation: Exploring Intersections between Online Populism and Disinformation in the US and the Netherlands

    Michael Hameleers

  • The Rise of a Populist Zeitgeist? A Content Analysis of Populist Media Coverage in Newspapers Published between 1990 and 2017

    Michael Hameleers;Rens Vliegenthart

  • Constructing Discourses on (Un)truthfulness: Attributions of Reality, Misinformation, and Disinformation by Politicians in a Comparative Social Media Setting:

    Michael Hameleers;Sophie Minihold

  • The populism of online communities: Constructing the boundary between “blameless” people and “culpable” others

    Michael Hameleers

  • Shoot the messenger? The media’s role in framing populist attributions of blame:

    M. Hameleers;L. Bos;C.H. de Vreese

  • Fighting for truth? The role perceptions of Filipino journalists in an era of mis- and disinformation

    Hon Sophia S Balod;Michael Hameleers

  • Putting Our Own People First: The Content and Effects of Online Right-wing Populist Discourse Surrounding the European Refugee Crisis

    Michael Hameleers

  • The Effects of Populist Identity Framing on Populist Attitudes Across Europe: Evidence From a 15-Country Comparative Experiment

    Michael Hameleers;Desirée Schmuck;Anne Schulz;Dominique Stefanie Wirz

Frequent Co-Authors

Claes H. de Vreese
Claes H. de Vreese University of Amsterdam
Rens Vliegenthart
Rens Vliegenthart Wageningen University & Research
Jesper Strömbäck
Jesper Strömbäck University of Gothenburg
Jörg Matthes
Jörg Matthes University of Vienna
Hajo G. Boomgaarden
Hajo G. Boomgaarden University of Vienna
Toril Aalberg
Toril Aalberg Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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