Andreas Schuck is an Associate Professor for Political Communication at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. He is affiliated with the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), The Netherlands - Flanders Communication Association (NEFCA) and the Center for Politics and Communication (CPC).
He holds a B.A. degree in Communication Science from the University of Erfurt (Germany), a M.A. degree in European Communication Studies from the International School of Humanities and Social Sciences (ISHSS) and a Ph.D. degree in Political Communication from the University of Amsterdam.
His research focuses on media effects on political opinions, attitudes and behavior. More in particular, current projects focus on public opinion dynamics during election campaigns, political participation and mobilization, public support for EU integration, and the role of emotions in political communication. His Ph.D. dissertation investigated the role of the news media in affecting vote choice, turnout and support for direct democracy during the Dutch 2005 EU Constitution referendum campaign and was awarded the NESCoR dissertation award for the best PhD dissertation defended in Communication Science in the Netherlands in 2009.
In 2011 he was awarded a personal VENI grant (€ 259,000) by the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO). The project is entitled "Dealing with feelings: The (de-)mobilizing role of emotions in political communiction" and investigates which emotions are sparked by political news coverage and how these engage or disengage citizens in politics (2012-2015). For an interview regarding the VENI project (in English), please see the link below.
He has been invited as visiting scholar to the University of Technology Sydney (Australia) and The School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington (USA) and has taught courses as visiting lecturer at the University of Berne (Switzerland). In Amsterdam, he co-supervised two PhD dissertations to completion (Moniza Waheed and Matthijs Elenbaas [cum laude]) and is currently co-supervising two PhD dissertations (Alina Feinholdt and Sjoerd Stolwijk). Furthermore, he is teaching courses on media effects and public opinion in the 'Political Communication' MA-program at the Graduate School of Communication at the University of Amsterdam and is Academic Advisor for the Amsterdam track specialization 'Media and Politics' in the international MA program in 'Journalism, Media and Globalisation' (EU-funded) in cooperation with the Danish School of Journalism Arhus (Denmark), City University London (UK), University of Hamburg (Germany), and University of Swansea (Wales).
His work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Communication Research, European Union Politics, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, European Journal of Communication, International Journal of Press/Politics, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, Electoral Studies, Journal of Political Marketing, Discourse & Society, or Journal of Intercultural Communication .
2014-present:
Associate Professor for Political Communication at the University of Amsterdam (tenured).
2010-2014:
Assistant Professor for Political Communication at the University of Amsterdam.
2008-2010:
Post-doctoral research fellow at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam.
2005-2008:
PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam.
2002-2004:
Master of Arts (M.A.) - " With Honours ". European Communication Studies. University of Amsterdam (UvA), International School for Humanities and Social Sciences (ISHSS).
1999-2002:
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.). Communication Science and European History. University of Erfurt (Germany).
1998-1999:
Leibniz Kolleg, Tübingen (Germany). Studium Generale.
(26) Moniza Waheed, Andreas Schuck, Peter, Neijens & Claes de Vreese (forthcoming 2015). The Effects of News Frames and Political Speech Sources on Political Attitudes: The Moderating Role of Values. Communications. The European Journal of Communication, 40(2).
(25) Andreas Schuck, Rens Vliegenthart & Claes de Vreese (forthcoming 2014). Who's Afraid of Conflict? The Mobilizing Effect of Conflict Framing in Campaign News. British Journal of Political Science. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007123413000525
(24) Matthijs Elenbaas, Claes de Vreese, Andreas Schuck , Hajo Boomgaarden (2014). Reconciling Passive and Motivated Learning: The Saturation-Conditional Impact of Media Coverage and Motivation on Political Information. Communication Research, 41(4), 481-504.
(23) Sophie Lecheler, Andreas Schuck & Claes de Vreese (2013).Dealing with Feelings: Positive and Negative Discrete Emotions as Mediators of News Framing Effects. Communications. The European Journal of Communication, 38(2), 189-209.
(22) Andreas Schuck , Hajo Boomgaarden & Claes de Vreese (2013). Cynics all around? The impact of election news on political cynicism in comparative perspective. Accepted for publication in: Journal of Communication, 63(2), 287-311.
(21) Hajo Boomgaarden, Claes de Vreese, Andreas Schuck , Rachid Azrout, Matthijs Elenbaas, Joost van Spanje & Rens Vliegenthart (2013). Across time and space: Explaining variation in news coverage of the European Union. European Journal of Political Research, 52(5), 608-629.
(20) Moniza Waheed, Andreas Schuck , Peter Neijens & Claes de Vreese (2013). Values in U.N. Speeches: Understanding the Speechwriters' Perspective. International Communication Gazette, 75(7), 597-618.
(19) Matthijs Elenbaas, Hajo Boomgaarden, Andreas Schuck & Claes de Vreese (2013). The Impact of Media Coverage and Motivation on Performance-Relevant Information. Political Communication, 30(1), 1-16.
(18) Andreas Schuck , Rens Vliegenthart, Hajo Boomgaarden, Matthijs Elenbaas, Rachid Azrout, Joost van Spanje & Claes de Vreese (2013). Explaining campaign news coverage: How medium, time and contextexplain variation in the media framing of the 2009 European Parliamentary elections. Journal of Political Marketing, 12(1), 8-28.
(17) Joost van Spanje, Hajo Boomgaarden, Matthijs Elenbaas, RensVliegenthart, Rachid Azrout, Andreas Schuck & Claes de Vreese (2013): Getting the message across. Perceived effectiveness of political campaign communication. Journal of Political Marketing, 12(1), 100-120.
(16) Silke Adam, Michaela Maier, Claes de Vreese, Andreas Schuck , Vaclav Stetka, Carlos Jalali, Rosa Berganza, Ralph Negrine, Gilg Seeber, Lilia Raycheva, Jolan Roka, Boguslawa Dobek, Lars Nord, Matthias Balzer, Manuela Baumli (2013): Campaigning on and against Europe? The role of euroskeptic parties in the 2009 European Parliament election. Journal of Political Marketing, 12(1), 77-99.
(15) Moniza Waheed, Andreas Schuck , Claes de Vreese & Peter Neijens (2013). Values in the News: Comparing the News Coverage of Political Speeches of Developed and Developing Countries. Journalism Studies, 14(4), 618-634.
(14) Andreas Schuck & Claes de Vreese (2012). When good news is bad news: Explicating the moderatedmediation dynamics behind the reversed mobilization effect. Journal of Communication, 62(1), 57-77.
(13) Matthijs Elenbaas, Claes de Vreese, Hajo Boomgaarden &
Andreas Schuck (2012). The Impact of Information Acquisition on EU
Performance Judgments. European Journal of Political Research, 51(6),
728-755.
(12) Andreas Schuck & Claes de Vreese (2011). Finding Europe:
Mapping and ExplainingAntecedents of "Europeanness" in News about the 2009
European Parliamentary Elections. Studies in Communication / Media
(SCM), 1(2), 265-294.
(11) Hajo Boomgaarden, Andreas Schuck , Matthijs Elenbaas & Claes de Vreese (2011): Mapping EU attitudes: Conceptual and empirical dimensions of Euroskepticism and EU support. European Union Politics, 12/2, 241-266.
(10) Andreas Schuck & Claes de Vreese (2011). Public support for referendums: The role of the media. West European Politics, 34(2), 181-207.
(9) Andreas Schuck , Georgios Xezonakis, Matthijs Elenbaas, Susan Banducci & Claes de Vreese (2011). Party contestation and Europe on the news agenda: The 2009 European Parliamentary Elections. Electoral Studies, 30(1), 41-52.
(8) Moniza Waheed, Andreas Schuck ,Peter Neijens & Claes de Vreese (2011): More different than similar:Values in political speeches of leaders from developed and developing countries. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 26.
(7) Hajo Boomgaarden, Rens Vliegenthart, Claes de Vreese & Andreas Schuck (2010). News on the move. Exogenous events and news coverage of the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy, 17(4), 506-526.
(6) Andreas Schuck & Claes de Vreese (2009). Reversed mobilization in referendum campaigns: How positive news framingcan mobilize the skeptics. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 14(1), 40-66.
(5) Rens Vliegenthart, Andreas Schuck , Hajo Boomgaarden & Claes de Vreese (2008). News coverage and support for European integration,1990-2006. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 20(4), 415-439.
(4) Andreas Schuck & Claes de Vreese (2008): The DutchNo to the EU Constitution: Assessing the role of EU skepticism and thecampaign. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties, 18(1), 101-128.
(3) Andreas Schuck & Janelle Ward (2008): Dealing with the inevitable: Strategies of self-representation and meaning construction in the final statements of inmates on Texas Death Row. Discourse & Society, 19(1), 43-62.
(2) Andreas Schuck & Claes de Vreese (2007). Wel of niet stemmen? Hoe politieke scepticikunnen worden gemobiliseerd door positieve frames in het nieuws. [To vote or not to vote?How positive news framing can mobilize the skeptics] Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap, 35(4), 337-356.
(1) Andreas Schuck & Claes de Vreese (2006): Between Risk and Opportunity : News Framing and its Effects on Public Support for EU Enlargement. European Journal of Communication, 21(1), 5-32.
Andreas Schuck & Alina Feinholdt (2014). News Framing Effects and Emotions: Research Trends and Developments. In: Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, (eds.) Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Claes de Vreese & Andreas Schuck (2014). Political Communication in Referendums. In: Reinemann, C. (ed.) (2014). Handbook of Communication Science (HOCS 18) - Political Communication Volume. Berlin: de Gruyter Muton.
Andreas Schuck & Claes de Vreese (2013). EU-phoria or -phobia? Danish Public Opinion about the EU and how it matters. In: Miles, L. & Wivel, A.(2014). Denmark and the European Union. London: Routledge.
Andreas Schuck , Rachid Azrout, Hajo Boomgaarden, Matthijs Elenbaas, Joost van Spanje, Rens Vliegenthart & Claes de Vreese (2011). Media visibility and framing of the European Parliamentary Elections 2009:A media contentanalysis in 27 countries. In: Maier, M., Strömbäck, J.& Kaid, L.L. (Eds.). Campaigning in Europe : Strategies, Effects, and Media Coverage inParliamentary Elections. Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Lynda Lee Kaid, Silke Adam, Michaela Maier, Matthias Balzer, Rosa Berganza, Carlos Jalali, Ralph Negrine, Lilia Raycheva, Jolan Roka, Andreas Schuck , Vaclav Stetka & Claes de Vreese (2011). Televised Advertising in the 2009 European Parliamentary Elections: Comparing Campaign Strategies and Videostyles. In: Maier, M., Strömbäck, J. & Kaid, L.L. (Eds.). Campaigning in Europe: Strategies, Effects, and Media Coverage in Parliamentary Elections. Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Michaela Maier, Silke Adam, Claes de Vreese, Andreas Schuck , Rosa Berganza, Vaclav Stetka, Ralph Negrine, Carlos Jalali, Gilg Seeber, Lilia Raycheva, Jolan Roka, Boguslawa Dobek, Marie Grusell ( 2011).Between integration and demarcation: Effects of Europeanizedand national campaigns on voters in the 2009 European parliament Elections. In:Maier, M., Strömbäck, J. & Kaid, L.L. (Eds.). Campaigning in Europe:Strategies, Effects, and Media Coverage in Parliamentary Elections. AshgatePublishing Limited.
Claes de Vreese & Andreas Schuck (2007).Le "non" neerlandais: Motivations de vote paralleles et apogee du nouvel euroscepticisme aux Pays-Bas. In Ph. J. Maarek (Ed.), Chroniqued'un "non" annoceé: La communication politique et l'Europe(pp.193-207). Paris : L'Harmattan.
Andreas Schuck (2009). Referendum campaign dynamics: News media, campaign effects and direct democracy. PhD dissertation, University of Amsterdam. ISBN: 978-90-9023949-1
"News media, emotions and political behavior" (University of Bern/SUI) (2012)
"Communicating Europe" (2011)
"Citizens and Public Opinion" (2010 & 2011)
"Media and Direct Democracy" (University of Bern/SUI) (2011)
"News Media and Politics" (2010)
"Production, Contents and Effects of News (2009)
"News Media and Politics" (2009)
"Introduction to Research Methodology" ( 2007 )
"Production, Contents and Effects of News" (2007)
"Introduction to Research Methodology" ( 2006 )
"Production, Contents and Effects of News" (2006)
"Introduction to Research Methodology" (2006)
"Introduction to Research Methodology" (2005)
"Making (sense of) the News" (2005)
"Europe in the News" (2004)
"Introduction to Research Methodology" (2004)
"Introduction to Research Methodology" (2003)
"Einführung in die Kommunikationswissenschaft "
(2001)
"Einführung in die Kommunikationswissenschaft" (2000)
I am supervising BA and MA theses in Dutch and English language. There is a maximum amount of supervisions I can take on which is usually exceeded. However, motivated students who are interested to write their BA or MA thesis on a 'political communication' topic can always contact me via email.