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Dr S.A.M. (Susan) Vermeer

Assistant Professor
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
CW : Political Communication & Journalism

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
  • Room number: C8.00
Postal address
  • Postbus 15791
    1001 NG Amsterdam
Contact details
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  • Publications

    2023

    • Möller, A. M., Vermeer, S. A. M., & Baumgartner, S. E. (2023). Cutting through the comment chaos: A Supervised Machine Learning approach to identifying relevant YouTube comments. Social Science Computer Review, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393231173895
    • de León, E., & Vermeer, S. A. M. (2023). The news sharing gap: Divergence in online political news publication and dissemination patterns across elections and countries. Digital Journalism, 11(2), 343-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2099920
    • de León, E., Vermeer, S., & Trilling, D. (2023). Electoral news sharing: A study of changes in news coverage and Facebook sharing behaviour during the 2018 Mexican elections. Information, Communication & Society, 26, 1193-1209. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1994629

    2022

    2021

    • Vermeer, S. A. M., Kruikemeier, S., Trilling, D., & de Vreese, C. H. (2021). WhatsApp with politics?!: Examining the effects of interpersonal political discussion in instant messaging apps. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 26(2), 410-437. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161220925020 [details]

    2020

    2019

    2017

    2021

    2019

    • Vermeer, S. A. M. (Author), & Trilling, D. C. (Author). (2019). df2markov: A simple way to create Markov chains from dataframes. Software, Retrieved from https://pypi.org/project/df2markov/

    2018

    2019

    2023

    • Guldemond, P., Boerman, S., Vermeer, S. A. M., & Kruikemeier, S. (2023). Centre of attention? An eye-tracking experiment explaining how politically targeted ads attract visual attention. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Enschede, Netherlands.
    • Lin, Z., Duncan, S., Trilling, D., Vermeer, S., Kiddle, R. T., & Welbers, K. (2023). Care to share? Investigating what drives news sharing with a customized news aggregator. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Enschede, Netherlands.
    • Trilling, D., Dubèl, R., Kroon, A., Lin, Z., Simon, M., Vermeer, S., Welbers, K., & Boukes, M. (2023). Over-time dynamics in article readership on Dutch newspaper websites. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Enschede, Netherlands.
    • Vermeer, S., & van den Heijkant, L. (2023). Examining the effects of Instagram Stories on adolescents' engagement with political news. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Enschede, Netherlands.

    2022

    • Errenst, E., Vermeer, S. A. M., Van Remoortere, A., & Kruikemeier, S. (2022). Instaworthy? Examining the effects of (targeted) civic education ads on Instagram. Paper presented at Politicologenetmaal, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
    • Errenst, E., Vermeer, S. A. M., Van Remoortere, A., & Kruikemeier, S. (2022). The need for a political feed? Studying the effects of (targeted) civic education ads on Instagram. Paper presented at 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference.
    • Lin, Z., Welbers, K., Vermeer, S., & Trilling, D. (2022). Beyond discrete genres: Mapping news items onto a multidimensional framework of genre cues. Paper presented at the 72nd annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), 26-30 May 2022, Paris, France.
    • Lin, Z., Welbers, K., Vermeer, S., & Trilling, D. (2022). Genre cues in a continuum: A multi-dimensional framework for organizing news text. Paper presented at International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Textual Data (COMPTEXT), Dublin, Ireland.
    • Lin, Z., Welbers, K., Vermeer, S., & Trilling, D. (2022). Who is watching what? Exploring news consumption on YouTube through data donation. Paper presented at European Communication Conference (ECREA), Aarhuus, Denmark.
    • Trilling, D., Kroon, A. C., Lin, Z., Simon, M., Vermeer, S., Welbers, K., & Boukes, M. (2022). Over-time dynamics in article readership: An analysis of log-data from regional newspaper websites. Paper presented at European Communication Conference (ECREA), Aarhuus, Denmark.
    • Vermeer, S. A. M., van Remoortere, A., & Vliegenthart, R. (2022). Still going strong? The role of traditional media in the 2021 Dutch parliamentary elections. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschappen 2022.

    2021

    • Kruikemeier, S., Vermeer, S. A. M., Metoui, N., Dobber, T., & Zarouali, B. (2021). (Tar)getting you: Understanding how political actors use microtargeted messages. Paper presented at International Communication Association (ICA), United States.
    • Vermeer, S. A. M., Kruikemeier, S., Trilling, D. C., & de Vreese, C. H. (2021). Changes in news consumption during times of crisis: The role of political interest and news media trust during the COVID-19 pandemic. Paper presented at International Communication Association (ICA), United States.
    • 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., Kruikemeier, S., Trilling, D. C., & de Vreese, C. H. (2020). Sharing and discussing news on WhatsApp: Affective, behavioural and cognitive outcomes. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
    • 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.
    • Vermeer, S., Kruikemeier, S., Trilling, D., & Vreese, C. D. (2020). Interpersonal political discussion on WhatsApp: A field experiment with adolescents. Paper presented at International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.
    • de León, E., Vermeer, S. A. M., & Trilling, D. (2020). How context matters to news sharing: Comparing the predictors of Facebook interactions with news items in election and routine periods. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

    2019

    • Vermeer, S. A. M., Kruikemeier, S., Trilling, D. C., & de Vreese, C. H. (2019). Now we’re talking: Examining interpersonal political discussion on WhatsApp. Abstract from 5th Conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics, Loughborough, United Kingdom.
    • Vermeer, S. A. M., Trilling, D. C., Kruikemeier, S., & de Vreese, C. H. (2019). Finding your way: How news consumers seek and find news about different topics on online platforms. Paper presented at International Communication Association (ICA), Washington, United States.
    • Vermeer, S. A. M., Trilling, D. C., Kruikemeier, S., & de Vreese, C. H. (2019). Pathways through the online maze: Exploring patterns of online news consumption in the Netherlands by tracking Web behavior. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

    2017

    • Vermeer, S., Araujo, T. B., van Noort, G., & Bernritter, S. F. (2017). Getting a handle on webcare: Comparing automated content analysis techniques to detect eWOM messages. Abstract from ICORIA, Ghent, Belgium.
    • Vermeer, S., Araujo, T. B., van Noort, G., & Bernritter, S. F. (2017). Webcare as a well-oiled machine: A machine learning approach to identify eWOM messages that require a webcare response. Abstract from Etmaal 2017: , Tilburg , Netherlands.

    Prize / grant

    • Vermeer, S. (2020). ASCoR Baschwitz Young Scholar Award, Amsterdam School of Communication Research, Title: "Seeing the wood for the trees: How machine learning can help firms in identifying relevant electronic word-of-mouth in social media"..
    • Vermeer, S. (2020). Top Student Paper Award of the Political Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia. Title: "Interpersonal political discussion on WhatsApp: A field experiment with adolescents".
    • Vermeer, S. A. M. (2019). Travel Grant, International Communication Association (ICA), Washington, United States.
    • Vermeer, S. A. M. (2019). Emerging Scholar Research Grant of the Mobile Communication Interest Group, International Communication Association (ICA), Washington, United States.

    Media appearance

    • Vermeer, S. (06-05-2022). Expeditie NEXT: Kinderverkiezingen [Radio] Omrop Fryslân. Expeditie NEXT: Kinderverkiezingen.

    Talk / presentation

    • Vermeer, S. (speaker) (8-2-2023). Spelen sociale media een te grote rol in de politiek?, deBuren.
    • Vermeer, S. (speaker) (22-11-2021). Do digital technologies promote or hinder political engagement?, Texas A&M University.
    • Vermeer, S. (invited speaker) (9-12-2020). Conducting a field experiment to examine interpersonal political discussion on WhatsApp.
    • Vermeer, S. (speaker) (7-5-2020). Social media with Generation Z: Understanding how young citizens consume news, Clio Conference 2020, Groningen.
    • Vermeer, S. (invited speaker) (10-3-2020). WhatsApp today? Understanding news consumption among younger generations.
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