Publications. 

International peer-reviewed journals


139. Machackova, H., et al.  (2024). Digital skills among youth: A dataset from a three-wave longitudinal survey in six European countries. Data in Brief. 


138. Sivis, S., Brändle, V., Eberl., J.-M. & Boomgaarden, H.G. (2024). Oscillating between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.  DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2024.2337196


137. Kaňková, J., & Boomgaarden, H.G. (forthcoming). Mapping the COVID-19 Anti-Vaccination Communities on Facebook in Czechia. Central European Journal of Communication.


136. Kosch, L., Schwabe, A., Boomgaarden, H. & Stocker, G. (2024). Experiencing Literary Audiobooks: A Framework for Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of the Auditory Reception of Literature. Journal of Literary Theory, 18(1), 67-88. https://doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2024-2005


135. Tolochko, P., Lebernegg, N., Balluff, P., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2024). What's in a Name? The Effect of Named Entities on Topic Modelling Interpretability. Communication Methods & Measures. 


134. Balluff, P., Waldherr, A., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2024). Automatically finding Actors in Texts: A performance review of multilingual named entity recognition tools. Communication Methods & Measures. 


133. Strömbäck, J., Lindgren, E., Tsfati, Y., Damstra, A., Vliegenthart, R., Boomgaarden, H.G., Broda, E., Lebernegg, N. & Galyga, S. (2023) Political Opinion Leaders in High-Choice Information Environments: Are They More Informed Than Others?, Mass Communication and Society, DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2023.2281311 


132. Bernhard, J., Teuffenbach, M., & Boomgaarden, H.G. (forthcoming). Validating Topic Models: Does it matter how we do it? Computational Communication Research. 


131.Betakova, D., Schäfer, S., Lecheler, S., & Boomgaarden, H.G., (forthcoming) I Do Not (Want to) Know! The Relationship Between Intentional News Avoidance and Low News Consumption. Mass Communication and Society.


130. Lebernegg, N., Eberl, J.-M., Tolochko, P., & Boomgaarden, H.G. (forthcoming). Do You Speak Disinformation? Computational Detection of Deceptive News-like Content Using Linguistic, Stylistic, and Psycholinguistic Features. Digital Journalism. 


129. De Coninck, D., Boomgaarden, H.G., Kronschnabl, H., & d’Haenens, L. (2023). The Trust Factor: Investigating the Triple Role of News Media Trust on Perceived Migrant Threat. International Journal of Communication, 17, 6076–6095, DOI: 1932–8036/20230005


128. Eisele, O., Heidenreich, T., Boomgaarden, H. G., Lytviak, O. (2023). Capturing a News Frame - Comparing Machine-Learning Approaches to Frame Analysis with Different Degrees of Supervision. Communication Methods & Measures, 17(3), 205-226, DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2023.2230560. 


127. Vliegenthart, R., Strömbäck, J., Boomgaarden, H.G., Broad, E., Damstra, A., Lindgren, E., Tsfati, Y., & van Remoortere, A. (2023). Taking political alternative media into account: Investigating the linkage between media repertories and (mis)perceptions. Mass Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2023.2251444


126. Tolochko, P., & Boomgaarden, H.G. (2023). Same But Different. A Comparison of Estimation Approaches for Exponential Random Graph Models for Multiple Networks. Social Networks, 76, 1-11, DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2023.05.003. 


125. Kathirgamalingam, A., Lind, F., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2023). Automated Detection of Voice in News Texts – Evaluating Tools for Reported Speech and Speaker Recognition. Computational Communication Research, 5(1), 85, DOI: 10.5117/CCR2023.1.004.KATH


124., Kosch, L., Stocker, G., Schwabe, A., & Boomgaarden, H.G., (2023). Bücher am Bildschirm - Empirische Befunde zu Leseerfahrungen und  Lesepraktiken mit digitalisierter Literatur. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, DOI: 10.1007/s41244-023-00294-2


123. Tsfati, Y., Lindgren, E., Strömbäck, J., Vliegenthart, R., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2023). What news outlets do people have in mind when they answer survey questions about trust in “media”? International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 35(2), DOI: 10.1093/ijpor/edad008 


122. Eisele, O., Heidenreich, T., Kriegler, N., Syed Ali, K. P., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2023). A Window of Opportunity? The Relevance of the Rotating European Union Presidency in the Public Eye. European Union Politics, 24(2), 327–347, DOI: 10.1177/14651165221142504. 


121. Balluff, P., Lind, F., Waldherr, A., & Boomgaarden (2023). Mapping the European media landscape – Meteor, a curated and community-coded inventory of news sources. European Journal of Communication, 38(2) 181–194, DOI: 10.1177/02673231221112006. 


120. Tsfati, Y., Strömbäck, J., Vliegenthart, R. Damstra, A., Lindgren, E., & Boomgaarden, H.G. (2022). Going Beyond General Media Trust: An Analysis of Topical Media Trust, its Antecedents and Effects on Issue (Mis)perceptions. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 34(2), DOI: 10.1177/19401612221104740. 


119. Heidenreich, T., Eberl, J.-M-, Lind, F., Tolochko, P., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022). My voters should see this! What news items are shared by politicians on Facebook? The International Journal of Press/Politics. doi.org/10.1177/19401612221104740


118. Schwabe, A., Kosch, L., Boomgaarden, H. G., & Stocker, G. (2023). Book Readers in the Digital Age: Reading Practices and Media Technologies. Mobile Media & Communication, 11(3), 367–390, DOI: 10.1177/20501579221122208


117. Lindgren, E., Lindholm, T., Vliegenthart, R., Boomgaarden, H.G., Damstra, A., Strömbäck, J., & Tsfati, Y. (2022). Trusting the Facts: The Role of Framing, News Media as a (Trusted) Source, and Opinion Resonance for Perceived Truth in Statistical Statements. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, DOI: 10.1177/10776990221117117


116. Schwabe, A., Lind, F., Kosch, L., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022). No negative effects of electronic reading media on comprehension of narrative texts compared to print: A meta-analysis. Media Psychology, 25(6), 779-796, DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2022.2070216. 


115. Nikolaou, A., Schwabe, A., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022). Changing social attitudes with Virtual Reality: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of the International Communication Association, 46:1, 30-61, DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2022.2064324. 


114. Eisele, O., Escalante Block, E., Kluknavska, A., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022). The Politicizing Spark? Exploring the Impact of #MeToo in the Gender Equality Discourse in Australian Print Media. Australian Journal of Political Science, 57(4), 309-327, DOI: 10.1080/10361146.2022.2045900. 


113. Heidenreich, T., Lind, F., Eberl., J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022). Discontentment trumps Euphoria: Interacting with European Politicians’ Migration-Related Messages on Social Media. New Media & Society, DOI: 07.711/1747/611446414484282120107744648. 


112. Kuhn, A., Schwabe, A., Boomgaarden, H.G., Brandl, L., Brendel-Kepser, I., Krause-Wolters, M., Lauer, G., & Stocker, G. (2022). Who gets lost? How digital academic reading impacts equal opportunity in higher education. New Media & Society, DOI: 10.1177/14614448211072306


111. Brandl, L., Stocker, G., Schwabe, A., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022). Reading Fiction with an E-Book or in Print: Purposes, Pragmatics and Practices. A Focus Group Study. Scientific Study of Literature, DOI: 10.1075/ssol.21012.kos. 


110. Heidenreich, T., Eisele, O., Watanabe, K., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022). Exploring Engagement With EU News on Facebook: The Influence of Content Characteristics. Politics and Governance, 10(1), 121–132, DOI:10.17645/pag.v10i1.4775


109. Gottlob, A. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022). Risk propensity, news frames and immigration attitudes. International Journal of Communication, 16, 2174–2197 DOI:1932–8036/20220005. 


108. Eisele, O., Balluff, P., Litvyak, O., Fischeneder, A., Sotirakou, C., Syed Ali, P., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022). An Emotional Rally: Exploring Commenters’ Responses to Online News Coverage of the COVID-19 Crisis in Austria. Digital Journalism, 10(6), 952-975, DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2021.2004552.


107. De Coninck, D., Buiter, A., D’Haenens, L.., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2023). Linking Citizens’ Anti-Migration Attitudes to their Digital User Engagement and Voting Behavior. Communications, The European Journal of Communication Research, 48(2): 292–314, DOI: 48(2): 292–314


106. Damstra, A., Strömbäck, J., Vliegenthart, R., Tsfati, Y., Lindgren, E., Broda, E., & Boomgaarden, H.G. (2021). What Does Fake Look Like? A Review of the Literature on Intentional Deception in the News and on Social Media. Journalism Studies, 22:14, 1947-1963, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2021.1979423. 


105. Eisele, O., Tolochko, P., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022). How do executives communicate about crises? A Framework for comparative analysis’ European Journal of Political Research, 61, 952–972, DOI:10.1111/1475-6765.12504. 


104. Pipal, C., Song, H., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2023). If You Have Choices, Why Not Choose (and Share) All of Them? A Multiverse Approach to Understanding News Engagement on Social Media. Digital Journalism, 11:2, 255-275, DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2022.2036623. 


103. Lind, F., Heidenreich, T., Kralj, C., & Boomgaarden, H. (2021). Greasing the Wheels for Comparative Communication Research: Supervised Text Classification for Multilingual Corpora. Computational Communication Research.


102. Lind, F., Heidenreich, T., Eisele, O., Eberl, J., Galyga, S., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022). Building the bridge: Topic modeling for comparative research. Communication Methods and Measures, 16(2), 96-114, DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2021.1965973

101. Damstra, A., Vliegenthart, R., Boomgaarden, H., Glüer, K., Lindgren, E., Strömbäck, J., & Tsfati, Y. (2023). Knowledge and the News: An Investigation of the Relation Between News Use, News Avoidance, and the Presence of (Mis) beliefs.The International Journal of Press/Politics, 28(1) 29–48, DOI: 19401612211031457.


100. Theorin, N., Meltzer, C. E., Galyga, S., Strömbäck, J., Schemer, C., Eberl, J.-M., Lind, F., Heidenreich, T., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2021). Does news frame affect free movement attitudes? A comparative analysis. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. DOI: 10.1177/10776990211006793. 


99. Greussing, E. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2021) Promises and Pitfalls. Taking a Closer Look on How Interactive Infographics Affect Learning from News. International Journal of Communication. 


98. Song, H., Tolochko, P., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2022). What You Expect is (Not) What You Get: The Impact of Initial and Post-hoc Judgments of Message Characteristics on Political Information Recall. Media Psychology, 25:1, 128-154, DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2021.1879655


97. Schwabe, A., Brandl, L., Stocker, G., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2021). Experiencing literature on the e-reader: The effects of reading narrative texts on screen. Journal of Research in Reading. 


96. Gruber, M., Eberl, J.-M., Lind, F., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2021). Qualitative Interviews with Irregular Migrants in Times of COVID-19: Recourse to Remote Interview Techniques as a Possible Methodological Adjustment. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 22(1). 


95. Kittel, B., Kritzinger, S., Boomgaarden, H. G., Preinsack, B., Eberl, J.-M., Kalleitner, F., Lebernegg, N. S., Partheymüller, J., Plescia, C., Schiestl, D., & Schlögl, L. (2021). The Austrian Corona Panel Project: Monitoring Individual and Societal Dynamics amidst the COVID-19 crisis. European Political Science, 20, 318–344, DOI: 10.1057/s41304-020-00294-7. 


94. Greussing, E., Kessler, S. H., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2020). Learning from science news via interactive and animated data visualizations: An investigation combining eye tracking, online survey, and cued retrospective reporting. Science Communication, 42(6) 803–828, DOI: 10.1177/1075547020962100


93. Meltzer, C., Schemer, C., Eberl, J.-M., Lind, F., Heidenreich, T., Boomgaarden, H. G. (2021). Media effects on policy preferences toward free movement: Evidence from five EU member states. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47:15, 3390-3408, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1778454


92. Schwabe, A., Brandl, L., Stocker, G., Boomgaarden, H. G. (2020). Literatur am Bildschirm. Zum Stand der empirischen Leseforschung. Orbit Literarum. 


91. Tsfatia, Y, Boomgaarden, H. G., Stromback, J. Vliegenthart, R., Damstra, A., & Lindgren, E. (2020). Causes and Consequences of Mainstream Media Dissemination of Fake News: Literature Review and Synthesis. Annals of the International Communication Association, 44:2, 157-173, DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2020.1759443.


90. Strömbäck, J., Tsfati, Y., Vliegenthart, R., Boomgaarden, H. G., Damstra, A., & Lindgren, E. (2020). News Media Trust and its Impact on Media Use: Toward a Framework for Future Research. Annals of the International Communication Association, 44:2, 139-156, DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2020.1755338


89. Song, H., Eberl, J.-M., Eisele, O., Galyga, S., Greussing, E., Heidenreich, T., Lind, F., Tolochko, P., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2020). In Validations We Trust? The Impact of Imperfect Human Annotations as a God Standard on the Quality of Validation of Automated Content Analysis. Political Communication, 37:4, 550-572, DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2020.1723752


88. Eberl, J., Tolochko, P., Heidenreich, T., Jost, P. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2020). What's in a Post? How Sentiment and Issue Salience Affect Users' Emotional Reactions on Facebook. Journal of Information Technology & Politics.


87. Lecheler, S., Matthes, J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2019). Setting the Agenda for Research on Media and Migration: State-of-the-Art and Directions for Future Research. Mass Communication and Society, 22(6), 691-707. DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2019.1688059. 


86. Heidenreich, T., Eberl., J.-M., Lind, F., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (forthcoming). Political Migration Discourses on Social Media: A Comparative Perspective on Visibility and Sentiment across Political Facebook Accounts in Europe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 


85. Song, H., Gil de Zuniga, H. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2019). Social Media News Use and Political Cynicism: Differential Pathways Through “News Finds Me” Perception. Mass Communiction & Society. DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2019.1651867


84. Nyhuis, D., Song, H. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2019). Disproportionality in media representations of campaign negativity. Political Science Research and Methods. DOI: 10.1017/psrm.2020.4.


83. Gottlob, A. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2020). The 2015 Refugee Crisis, Uncertainty and the Media: Representations of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigrants in Austrian and French Media. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research. 


82. Tolochko, P., Song, H. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2019). That Looks Hard!”: Effects of Objective and Perceived Textual Complexity on Factual and Structural Political Knowledge. Political Communication. DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2019.1631919


81. Lind, F., Heidenreich, T., Eberl, J.-M. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2019). When the Journey is as Important as the Goal: A Roadmap to Multilingual Dictionary Construction. International Journal of Communication.


80. Lind, F., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (online first). What We Do and Don’t Know: A Meta-Analysis about the Knowledge Gap Hypothesis. Annals of the International Communication Association. DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2019.1614475


79. Tolochko, P., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (forthcoming). Determining Political Text Complexity: Conceptualizations, Measurements, and Application. International Journal of Communication. 


78. Heidenreich, T., Lind, F., Eberl, J.-M. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (forthcoming). Media Framing Dynamics of the “European Refugee Crisis”: A Comparative Topic Modelling Approach. Journal of Refugee Studies. DOI: 10.1093/jrs/fez025


77. Kluknavska, A., Bernhard, J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (forthcoming). Claiming the crisis: Mediated public debates about the refugee crisis in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Journal of Refugee Studies. DOI: 10.1093/jrs/fez022


76. Song, H. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2018). Personalities Discussing Politics: The Effects of Agreement and Expertise on Discussion Frequency and the Moderating Role of Personality Traits. International Journal of Communication. 


75. Boomgaarden, H. G. & Song. H. (2019). Media use and its effects in cross-national perspective. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. 


74. Eberl, J.-M., Melzer, C. E., Heidenreich, T., Herrero, B., Theorin, N., Lind, F., Berganza, R., Boomgaarden, H. G., Schemer, C. & Strömbäck, J. (2018). The European Media Discourse on Immigration and its Effects: A Literature Review. Annals of the International Communication Association. 


73. Powell, T., De Swert, K., Boomgaarden, H. G., & de Vreese, C. H. (2018). Video killed the news article? Comparing multimodal framing effects in news videos and articles. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 


72.Hameleers, M., Bos, L., Fawzi, N., Reinemann, C., Andreadis, I., Corbu, N., Schemer, C., Shaefer, T., Aalberg, T., Axelsson, S., Balas, D. C., Berganza, R., Boomgaarden, H. G., Cremonesi, C., Dahlberg, S., de Vreese, C. H., Hess, A., Kartsounidou, E., Kasprowicz, D., Matthes, J., Negrea-Busuioc, E., Ringdal, S., Salgado, S., Sanders, K., Schmuck, D., Schulz, A., Stepinska, A., Strömbäck, J., Suiter, J., Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K. & Weiss-Yaniv, N. (2018). Start Spreading the News: A Comparative Experiment on the Effects of Populist Communication on Political Engagement in 16 European Countries. International Journal of Press/ Politics. 


71. Greussing, E. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2018). Simply Bells and Whistles? Cognitive Effects of Visual Aesthetics in Digital Longforms. Digital Journalism. 


70. Powell, T., De Swert, K., Boomgaarden, H. G., & de Vreese, C. H. (2018). Framing fast and slow: The processing of multimodal framing effects. Media Psychology. 


69. Grill, C. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2018). How Citizens (Could) Turn into an Informed Public: Explaining Citizens’ Attentiveness for European Parliamentary Elections. Communications. The European Journal of Communication Research. 


68. Boumans, J. W., Trilling, D., Vliegenthart, R., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (forthcoming). The Agency Makes the (Online) News World go Round: The Impact of News Agency Content on Print and Online News. International Journal of Communication. 


67. de Vreese, C. H., Azrout, R., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (forthcoming). One size fits all? Testing the dimensional structure of EU attitudes in 21 countries. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 


66. Grill, C., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2017). A Network Perspective on Mediated Europeanized Public Spheres: Assessing the Degree of Europeanized Media Coverage in Light of the 2014 EP Election. European Journal of Communication. doi: 10.1177/0267323117725971


65. Song, H., Nyhuis, D., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2017). A Network Model of Negative Campaigning: The Structure and Determinants of Negative Campaigning in Multi-Party Systems. Communication Research. doi: 10.1177/0093650217712596


64. Lind, F., Gruber, M., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2017). Content Analysis by the Crowd: Assessing the Usability of Crowdsourcing for Coding Latent Constructs. Communication Methods and Measures 11(3), 191-209. doi: 10.1080/19312458.2017.1317338 


63. Tolochko, P., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2017). Analysis of Linguistic Complexity in Professional and Citizen Media. Journalism Studies, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2017.1305285 


62. Song, H., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2017). Dynamic spirals put to test: An agent-based model of reinforcing spirals between selective exposure, interpersonal networks, and attitude polarization. Journal of Communication, 67(2), 256-281. doi: 10.1111/jcom.12288 


61. Greussing, E., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2017). Shifting the Refugee Narrative? An Automated Frame Analysis of Europe’s 2015 Refugee Crisis. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(11), 1749-1774. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1282813


60. Bos, L., Sheets, P., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2017). The Role of Implicit Attitudes in Populist Radical Right Support. Political Psychology. doi: 10.1111/pops.12401


59. McLaren, L., Boomgaarden, H. G., & Vliegenthart, R. (2017). News coverage and public concern about immigration in Britain. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edw033


58. Eberl, J.-M., Wagner, M., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2016). Are perceptions of candidate traits shaped by the media? The effects of three types of media bias. International Journal of Press/ Politics, 22(1), 111-132. doi: 10.1177/1940161216674651 


57. Eberl, J.-M., Wagner, M., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2016). Party advertising in newspapers: A source of media bias? Journalism Studies. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2016.1234356


56. Pincus, H., Wojcieszak,M., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2016). Do multimedia matter? Cognitive and affective effects of embedded multimedia journalism. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, , 94(3), 747-771. doi: 10.1177/1077699016654679


55. Boomgaarden, H. G., Boukes, M., & Iorgoveanu, A. (2016). Image versus Text: How Newspaper Reports Affect Evaluations of Political Candidates. International Journal of Communication, 10(27), 2529-2555. 


54. Kroon, A. C., Kluknavská, A., Vliegenthart, R., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (online first).Victims or Perpetrators? Explaining Media Framing of Roma across Europe. European Journal of Communication, 31(4). 375-392. doi: 10.1177/0267323116647235


53. Boomgaarden, H. G. & Schmitt-Beck, R. with Brandenburg, H. Cunha, C., Hopmann, D. N., O’Malley, E., Poletti, M., Popescu, M., Teperoglou, E., & Tworzecki, H. (2016). Media and Campaign Effects on Vote Choice at National Elections in Europe: A Review of a Multilingual Research Landscape. Studies in Media and Communication, 5(2), 129-172. doi: 10.5771/2192-4007-2016-2-129


52. Boomgaarden, H. G., Johann, D., & Kritzinger, S. (2016). Voting at National versus European Elections: An individual level test of the second order paradigm for the 2014 European Parliament Elections. Politics and Governance, 4(1), 130-144. doi: 10.17645/pag.v4i1.472


51. van Klingeren, M., Boomgaarden, H. G., & de Vreese, C. H. (forthcoming). Will Conflict Tear us Apart? The Effects of Conflict and Valenced Media Messages on Polarizing Attitudes Toward EU Immigration and Border Control. Public Opinion Quarterly, 81(2), 543-563. doi: 10.1093/poq/nfw051 


50. Eberl, J.-M., Boomgaarden, H. G., & Wagner, M. (online first). One bias fits all? Three types of media bias and their effects on party preferences. Communication Research, doi: 10.1177/0093650215614364


49. Boumans, J., Vliegenthart, R., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2016). Nuclear Voices in the News: A Comparison of Source, News Agency and Newspaper Content about Nuclear Energy over Time. European Journal of Communication, 31(3), 260-282. doi: 10.1177/0267323116629879


48. Powell, T., Boomgaarden, H. G., de Swert, K., & de Vreese, C. H. (2015). A clearer picture: The contribution of visuals and text to framing effects. Journal of Communication, 65(6), 997-1017. doi: 10.1111/jcom.12184


47. Boukes, M. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2016). Politician Seeking Voter: How Interviews on Entertainment Talk Shows Affect Trust in Politicians. International Journal of Communication, 10, 1145-1166. 


46. Wojcieszak,M., Azrout,R., Boomgaarden,H. G., Paz Alencar, A., & Sheets, P. (online first). Integrating Muslim Immigrant Minorities:The Effects of Narrative and Statistical Messages. Communication Research, 44(4), 582-607. doi: 10.1177/0093650215600490 


45. Kruikemeier, S., Aparaschivei, A. P., Boomgaarden, H. G., van Noort, G., & Vliegenthart, R. (2015). Party and candidate websites: A comparative explanatory analysis. Mass Communication & Society, 18(6), 821-850. doi: 10.1080/15205436.2015.1051233


44. Sheets, P., Bos L., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (online first). Media cues and citizen support for right-wing populist parties. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 28(3), 307-330. doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edv014


43. Boukes, M., Boomgaarden, H. G., Moorman, M., & De Vreese, C. H. (2015). At Odds: Laughing and Thinking? The Appreciation, Processing, and Persuasiveness of Political Satire. Journal of Communication, 65(5), 721-744. doi: 10.1111/jcom.12173


42. Boukes, M. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2015). Soft News with Hard Consequences?: Introducing a Nuanced Measure of Soft versus Hard News Exposure and its Relationship with Political Cynicism. Communication Research, 42(5), 701-731. doi: 10.1177/0093650214537520 


41. van Klingeren, M., Boomgaarden, H. G., Vliegenthart, R., & de Vreese, C. H. (2015). Real World is Not Enough: The Media as an Additional Source of Negative Attitudes Toward Immigration, Comparing Denmark and the Netherlands. European Sociological Review, 31(3), 268-283. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcu089


40. Boukes, M., Boomgaarden, H. G., Moorman, M., & De Vreese, C. H. (2015). Political News with a Personal Touch: How Human Interest Framing Indirectly Affects Policy Attitudes. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 92(1): 121-141. doi: 10.1177/1077699014558554


39. Boukes, M., Boomgaarden, H. G., Moorman, M., & De Vreese, C. H. (2014). News with an attitude: Assessing the mechanisms underlying the effects of opinionated news. Mass Communication & Society, 17(4):354-378. doi: 10.1080/15205436.2014.891136


38. Elenbaas, M., Schuck, A. R. T., Boomgaarden, H. G., & de Vreese, C. H. (2014). Reconciling Passive and Motivated Learning: The Saturation-Conditional Impact of Media Coverage and Motivation on Political Information. Communication Research, 41(4), 481-504. doi: 10.1177/0093650212467032


37. Boomgaarden, H.G., de Vreese, C. H., Schuck, A. R. T.Azrout R. Elenbaas, M., van Spanje, J. H. P., & Vliegenthart, R. (2013). Across time and space: Explaining variation in news coverage of the European Union. European Journal of Political Research, 52(5), 608–629. doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12009 


36. Golčevski, N., von Engelhardt, J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2013). Facing the past: Media framing of war crimes in post-conflict Serbia. Media, War & Conflict, 6(2), 117-133. doi: 10.1177/1750635213479206


35. Elenbaas, M., Boomgaarden, H. G., Schuck, A. R. T., & de Vreese, C. H. (2013). The Impact of Media Coverage and Motivation on Performance-Relevant Information. Political Communication, 30(1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/10584609.2012.737411


34. Schuck, A. R. T., Vliegenthart, R., Boomgaarden, H. G., Elenbaas, M., Azrout, R., van Spanje, J. & de Vreese, C. H. (2013). Explaining campaign news coverage: How medium, time and context explain variation in the media framing of the 2009 European Parliamentary elections. Journal of Political Marketing, 12(1), 8-28. doi: 10.1080/15377857.2013.752192


33. van Spanje, J., Boomgaarden, H. G., Vliegenthart, R., Elenbaas, M., Azrout, R., Schuck, A.R. T., & de Vreese, C. H. (2013). Getting the Message Across: Perceived Effectiveness of Political Campaign Communication. Journal of Political Marketing, 12(1), 100-120. doi: 10.1080/15377857.2013.752248


32. Schuck, A. R. T., Boomgaarden, H. G., & de Vreese, C. H. (2013). Cynics all around? The impact of election news on political cynicism in comparative perspective. Journal of Communication, 63(2), 287–311. doi: 10.1111/jcom.12023


31. van Klingeren, M., Boomgaarden, H. G., & de Vreese, C. H. (2013). Going soft or staying soft: Have identity factors become more important than economic rationale when explaining euroscepticism? Journal of European Integration, 35(6), 689-704. doi: 10.1080/07036337.2012.719506


30. Bouwman, J., Boomgaarden, H. G., Vliegenthart, R. (2013). Personalisation? Media visibility of politicians and parties in the UK and Netherlands, 1992-2007. Political Studies, 61(S1), 198-216. 


29. Vliegenthart, R., Boomgaarden, H. G., van Spanje, J. (2012). Anti-immigrant party support and media visibility: A cross-party, over-time perspective. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 22(3), 315-358. doi: 10.1080/17457289.2012.693933


28. Elenbaas, M., de Vreese, C. H., Boomgaarden, H. G., & Schuck, A. R. T. (2012). The Impact of Information Acquisition on EU Performance Judgments. European Journal of Political Research, 51(6), 728–755. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6765.2012.02055.x 


27. Boomgaarden, H. G., & Wüst, A. (2012). Religion and party positions towards Turkish EU accession. Comparative European Politics, 10(2), 180-197. doi: 10.1057/cep.2011.25


26. Minkenberg, M., & Boomgaarden, H. G., with de Vreese, C. H., & Freire, A. (2012). Introduction: Turkish membership in the European Union: The role of religion. Comparative European Politics, 10(2), 133-148. doi: 10.1057/cep.2011.23


25. Hinrichsen, M. C., Boomgaarden, H. G., de Vreese, C. H., van der Brug W., & Hobolt, S. B. (2012). Priming Religion: The Effects of Religious Issues in News Coverage on Public Attitudes Towards European Integration. Communications, European Journal of Communication Research 37(1). doi: 10.1515/commun-2012-0002 


Boomgaarden, H. G., & Semetko, H. A. (2012). Nachrichten-Bias: Medieninhalte, Bevölkerungswahrnehmung und Wahlverhalten bei der Bundestagswahl 2009. Politische Vierteljahresschrift. doi: 10.5771/9783845262178_449


24. Boomgaarden, H. G., Vliegenthart, R., & de Vreese, C. H. (2012). A world-wide Presidential election: The impact of the media on candidate and campaign evaluations. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 24(1), 42-61. doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edr041 


23. Boomgaarden, H. G., van Spanje, J., Vliegenthart, R., & de Vreese, C. H. (2011). Covering the crisis: Media coverage of the economic crisis and citizens’ economic expectations. Acta Politica 46(4), 353-379. doi: 10.1057/ap.2011.18 


22. Hobolt, S. B., van der Brug, W., de Vreese, C. H., Boomgaarden, H. G., & Hinrichsen, M. (2011). Religious Intolerance and Euroskepticism. European Union Politics 12 (4). doi: 10.1177/1465116511404620


21. Boomgaarden, H. G., Schuck, A. R. T., Elenbaas, M., & de Vreese, C. H. (2011). Mapping EU attitudes: Conceptual and empirical dimensions of euroskepticism and EU support. European Union Politics, 12(2), 241-266. doi: 10.1177/1465116510395411


20. de Vreese, C. H., Boomgaarden, H. G., & Semetko, H. A. (2011). (In)direct framing effects: The effects of news media framing on public support for Turkish membership in the European Union. Communication Research 38(2), 179-205. doi: 10.1177/0093650210384934


19. Vliegenthart, R., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2010). Why the media matter after all: A response to Pauwels. Electoral Studies 29(4), 719-723. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2010.08.001


18. Vliegenthart, R., Boomgaarden, H. G., van Aelst, P., & de Vreese, C. H. (2010). Covering the US Presidential election in Europe: A cross-national comparison. Acta Politica, 45(4), 444-467. doi: doi.org/10.1057/ap.2010.2


17. Boomgaarden, H. G., Vliegenthart, R., Schuck, A. R. T., de Vreese, C. H. (2010). News on the move: Exogenous events and news coverage of the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy, 17(4). doi: 10.1080/13501761003673294 


16. Boomgaarden, H. G., & Freire, A. (2009). Religion and euroskepticism: Direct, indirect or no effects? West European Politics, 32(6), 1240-1265. doi: 10.1080/01402380903230686 


15. De Vreese, C. H., Boomgaarden, H. G., with Minkenberg, M., & Vliegenthart, R. (2009). Introduction: Religion and the European Union. West European Politics, 32(6), 1181-1189. doi: 10.1080/01402380903230652


14. Boomgaarden, H. G., & Vliegenthart, R. (2009). How news content influences anti-immigration attitudes: Germany, 1993-2005. European Journal of Political Research, 48(4), 516-542. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6765.2009.01831.x 


Vliegenthart, R., Roggeband, C., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2008). Wie leidt en wie volgt? Invloedsrelaties tussen parlement en media in het Nederlandse integratiedebat. Migrantenstudies, 24(1), 23-39. 


13. Vliegenthart, R., Schuck, A. R. T., Boomgaarden, H. G., & de Vreese, C. H. (2008). News coverage and support for European integration, 1990 - 2006. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 20(4), 415-439. doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edn044


12. de Vreese, C. H., & Boomgaarden, H. G., & Semetko, H. A. (2008). Hard and soft: Predictors of public support for Turkish membership in the EU. European Union Politics, 9(4), 511-530. doi: 10.1177/1465116508095149 


11. Boomgaarden, H. G., & Vliegenthart, R. (2007). Explaining the rise of anti-immigrant parties: The role of news content in the Netherlands, 1990-2002. Electoral Studies, 26(2), 404-417. doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2006.10.018 


10. Vliegenthart, R., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2007). Real-world Indicators and the Coverage of Immigration and Minorities’ Integration in Dutch Newspapers. European Journal of Communication, 22(3), 293-314. doi: 10.1177/0267323107079676


9. Boomgaarden, H. G., & de Vreese, C. H. (2007). Dramatic real-world events and public opinion dynamics Media coverage and its impact on public reactions to an assassination. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 19(3), 354-366. doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edm012


8. Semetko, H. A., & Boomgaarden, H. G., (2007). Reporting Germany's 2005 Bundestag election campaign: Was gender an issue? Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 12(4), 154-171. doi: 10.1177/1081180X07307383


7. de Vreese, C. H., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2006). News, political knowledge and participation: The differential effects of news media exposure on political knowledge and participation. Acta Politica, 41(4), 317-341. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.ap.5500164


6. de Vreese, C.H., Banducci, S., Semetko, H. A., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2006). The news coverage of the 2004 European Parliamentary Election campaign in 25 countries. European Union Politics, 7(3), 477-504. doi: 10.1177/1465116506069440


5. de Vreese, C. H. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2006). Media message flows and interpersonal communication: The conditional nature of effects on public opinion. Communication Research, 33(1), 19-37. doi: 10.1177/0093650205283100 


4. de Vreese, C. H. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2006). Media effects on public opinion about the enlargement of the European Union. Journal of Common Market Studies, 44(2), 419-436. doi: 10.1177/0093650205283100 


3. de Vreese, C. H., Banducci, S., Semetko, H. A., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2005). “Offline”: The 2004 EP elections on television news in the enlarged Europe. Information Polity, 10(3/4), 177-188. 


Vliegenthart, R., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2005). Berichtgeving over immigratie en integratie en electorale steun voor anti-immigratiepartijen in Nederland. Migrantenstudies, 21(3), 120-134. 


2. de Vreese, C. H., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2005). Projecting EU Referendums: Fear of Immigration and Support for European Integration. European Union Politics, 6(1), 59-82. doi: 10.1177/1465116505049608


1. de Vreese, C. H., & Boomgaarden, H. (2003). Valenced news frames and public support for the EU. Communications, The European Journal of Communication Research, 28, 361-381. doi: 10.1515/comm.2003.024 



Contributions to books


22. Uninformed or Misinformed? A Review of the Conceptual–Operational gap Between (Lack of) Knowledge and (Mis)perceptions

Elina Lindgren, Alyt Damstra, Jesper Strömbäck, Yariv Tsfati, Rens Vliegenthart & Hajo Boomgaarden Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments (HB ISBN: 9780367629250) (the ‘Work’) edited by Jesper Strömbäck, Åsa Wikforss, Kathrin Glüer, Torun Lindholm, and Henrik Oscarsson (the ‘Editor’).



21. From Low-choice to High-choice Media Environments: Implications for Knowledge Resistance

Jesper Strömbäck, Hajo Boomgaarden, Elena Broda, Alyt Damstra, Elina Lindgren, Yariv Tsfati, & Rens Vliegenthart


20. Boomgaarden, H. G., & Meltzer, C. E. (2021). Mapping public attitudes toward immigration within and into Europe. In (Eds. Strömbäck et al.) Media and Public Attitudes Toward Migration in Europe: A Comparative Approach. Routledge. 


19. Eberl, J.-M., Kathirgamalingam, A., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2020). On the Road to Peak TV Debate? In: (Eds. J. Juárez-Gámiz, C. Holtz-Bacha, A. Schroeder). Routledge International Handbook on Electoral Debates. 


18. Boomgaarden, H. G. & Schmitt-Beck, R. (2019). The Media and Political Behavior. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.621


17. Eberl, J.-M. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2019). Wahlkampfkommunikation. In T. Faas, O. Gabriel & J. Maier (Eds.). Einstellungs- und Verhaltensforschung. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Nomos Verlag. 


16. Boomgaarden, H. G. & Kritzinger, S. (2017). Election Surveys. In J. Matthes (Ed.). 

International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods. Wiley-Blackwell.


15. Boomgaarden, H. G. (2017). Media Representations: Politics. In P. Rössler (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Media Effects. Wiley-Blackwell/ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication. 


14. Schmuck, D., Matthes, J. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2016). Austria: Candidate centered and anti-immigrant right-wing populism. In T. Aalberg, F. Esser, C. Reinemann, J. Strömbäck & C. H. de Vreese (Eds.), Populist political communication in Europe. New York: Routledge. 


13. Boomgaarden, H. G. (2015). Talking it up or talking it down? How national democracy conditions the relationship between talking about and democratic satisfaction with European politics. In W. van der Brug & C. H. de Vreese (eds.). (Un)intended consequences of European Parliament elections. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


12. Boomgaarden, H. G. & de Vreese, C. H. (2015). Do European elections create a European public sphere? In W. van der Brug & C. H. de Vreese (eds.). (Un)intended consequences of European Parliament elections. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198757412.003.0002


11. de Vreese, C. H. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2015). Effects of News Media Coverage on Public Support for European integration. In W. van der Brug & C. H. de Vreese (eds.). (Un)intended consequences of European Parliament elections. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198757412.003.0012


10. Van der Brug, W., van der Pas, D., van de Wardt, M., van Klingeren, M., de Vreese, C. H., de Lange, S., de Vries, C., Boomgaarden, H. G., & Vliegenthart, R. (2014). New lines of conflict: European integration and immigration. In: Carsten K.W. De Dreu (ed.) Social Conflict within and between Groups. London: Psychology Press.


9. Boomgaarden, H. G. (2014). Interpersonal and mass mediated political communication. In C. Reinemann (ed.), Political Communication. Handbook of Communication Sciences. Berlin: DeGruyterMouton. 


8. Schuck, A. R. T., Azrout, R., Boomgaarden. H. G., Elenbaas, M., van Spanje, J., Vliegenthart, R., & de Vreese, C. H. (2013). Media visibility and framing of the European Parliamentary Elections 2009: A media content analysis in 27 countries. In M. Maier, J. Strömbäck & L. L. Kaid (Eds.), Campaigning in Europe: Strategies, Effects, and Media Coverage in Parliamentary Elections. Farnham: Ashgate Publishers. 


7. de Vreese, C. H., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2011). Explaining cross-national and over-time patterns in news coverage of European Parliamentary Election. In F. Esser & T. Hanitzsch (Eds.), Handbook of Comparative Communication Research. London: Sage. 


6. Boomgaarden, H. G., Semetko, H. A., & de Vreese, C. H. (2011). Hast’ es nicht gesehen? Haupt- und Nebenwahlkämpfe in deutschen Fernsehnachrichten. In J. Tenscher (Ed.), Kampagnen nach Wahl: Vergleichende Analysen aus Anlass der Wahlen zum Deutschen Bundestag und zum Europäischen Parlament im Jahr 2009 (pp. 181-197). Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.


5. Vliegenthart, R., Boomgaarden, H. G., & Boumans, J. (2011). Changes in political news coverage. In K. Brants, & K. Volkmer (Eds.), Challenging the Primacy of Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 


4. de Vreese, C. H., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2009). A European public sphere: Media and public opinion. In I. Salovaara-Moring (Ed.), Manufacturing Europe: Spaces of Democracy, Diversity and Communication (pp. 113-124). Gothenburg: Nordicom. 


3. de Vreese, C. H., & Boomgaarden, H. G., Banducci, S. A., & Semetko, H. A. (2009). Light at the end of the tunnel? Media and the European public sphere. In J. Thomassen (Ed.), The legitimacy of the European Union after enlargement (pp. 45-65). Oxford: Oxford University Press.


2. Boomgaarden, H. G., & Semetko, H. A. (2007). Duell Mann gegen Frau?! - Geschlechterrollen und Kanzlerkandidaten in der Wahlkampfberichterstattung [Duel man versus woman?! – Gender roles and chancellor candidates in campaign coverage]. In F. Brettschneider, E. Roller, & J. van Deth (Eds.), Die Bundestagswahl 2005 (pp. 170-196). Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. 


1. de Vreese, C. H., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2007). Immigration, identity, economy and the government: Understanding variation in explanations for outcomes of EU related referendums. In C. H. de Vreese (Ed.), The Dynamics of Referendum Campaigns in an International Perspective (pp. 185-205). New York: Palgrave. doi: 10.1057/9780230591189_9 



Non refereed journals


Boomgaarden, H. G., & Vliegenthart, R. (2007). Aanwakkeren of blussen? De journalistieke rol in het integratiedebat verdient een genuanceerde beschouwing. Tijdschrift voor de Surinamistiek, 345-349. 


Boomgaarden, H. G., & Vliegenthart, R. (2005). Berichterstattung über Zuwanderung und Ausländerintegration und das Erstarken ausländerfeindlicher Parteien in den Niederlanden, 1990-2002. Media Tenor Forschungsbericht, 149(1), 81-88. 



Books


Strömbäck, J, Meltzer, C. E., Eberl, J.-M., Schemer, C. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (Eds.) (2021). Media and Public Attitudes Toward Migration in Europe: A Comparative Approach. New York: Routledge. 


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2007). Framing the others: News and ethnic prejudice. Dissertation manuscript, University of Amsterdam. 



Guest editor

Lecheler, S., Matthes, J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2019). Media and Migration: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Mass Communication and Society, 22(6). 


Minkenberg, M., Boomgaarden, H. G., & de Vreese, C. H. (2012). Turkish membership in the European Union: The role of religion [Special issue]. Comparative European Politics, 10(2). doi: 10.1057/cep.2011.23


De Vreese, C. H., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2009). Religion and the European Union [Special issue]. West European Politics, 32(6). doi: 10.1080/01402380903230652



Book review

Boomgaarden, H. G. (2008). [Review of the book Post-Broadcast Democracy. How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections]. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 20, 398-400. doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edn036



Invited lectures and writings


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2018, March). Invited keynote and panel discussion at the OECD Defenders of Democracy Award ceremony, Vienna, AT. 


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2016, June). Medienberichterstattung und Parteipräferenzen: Eine Analyse deutscher Medien- und Umfragedaten von 1994 bis 2015. Invited lecture at the Department of Political Science, Universität Münster, GER.


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2015, June). Media portrayals of Europe and their effects on public opinion – micro and macro perspectives. Invited lecture at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, AT.


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2014, October). From mass media to social networks: Is the public sphere finally becoming public? Invited keynote lecture at the conference on Media and the Public Sphere. Evaluating Media Ethics in the Digital Era, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, RO. 


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2013, May). Media and Public Opinion: The Politicization of EU Politics in Times of Crisis. Invited lecture at the Euroculture symposium: Going Dutch No More?, University of Groningen, NL. 


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2012, June). Politics on the web and political cognition, attitudes, behaviour: A state of the art overview. Invited lecture at the International Communication Association Preconference: Political Communication in the Online World: Innovation in Theory and Research Designs, Phoenix, AZ.


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2012, April). The EU on the news agenda: From negligence to all-time highs? Invited lecture at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung., Mannheim, Germany. 


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2012). Integration ist keine Einbahnstraße. In T. Boomgaarden & M. Mathes (ed.) Standpunkte. Greven: Outlaw/ der Verlag.

 

Boomgaarden, H. G. (2011, October). Across time and space: Explaining EU news coverage. Invited lecture at workshop What is news? Reexaminig news criteria, Haifa University, Israel. 


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2011, March). Populaire media en populistische politiek. Folia 64(23) 8. 


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2011, March). The role of the media inmass-leveleuroskepticism. Invited lecture at the Centre for the Study of European Governance, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK.


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2010, September). Breaking the media logic of immigration coverage. Invited lecture given at a research meeting of the Policy Network, London, UK.


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2009, June). Decomposing exposure: News content and anti-immigration attitudes in Germany. Invited paper presentation at a workshop of the QMSS2 network, Bolzano, Italy. 


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2008, November). Media and Populism: Democracy and Citizen Education. Invited lecture given at the conference of Networking European Citizenship Education, Sofia, Bulgaria. 



Selected Academic Conference Papers


Boomgaarden, H. G. (2018, March). Counteracting Populist Appeals. Presentation at the COST Action Populist Political Communication in Europe conference, Madrid, ES.

Boomgaarden, H. G., Eberl, J.-M., Heidenreich, T., Lind, F., Meltzer, C., Schemer, C., Strömbäck, J. & Theorin, N. (2018, May). The Influence of Media Use on Attitudes Towards Immigration in the European Union. A Comparative Analysis in Seven Countries. Paper presentedat the International Communication Association conference, Prague, CZ.


Boomgaarden, H. G., Lind, F., Gruber, M. (2018, May). Content Analysis by the Crowd. Paper presentedat the International Communication Association conference, Prague, CZ.


Lind, F., Heidenreich, T., Eberl, J.-M., Herrero, B., Berganza, R. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2018, May). Multilingual Dictionary Construction: Comparing Different Approaches for the Measurement of Migration Frames. Paper presentedat the International Communication Association conference, Prague, CZ.


Boomgaarden, H., Tolochko, P., & Song, H. (2017, April) News coverage and party preferences in longitudinal perspective. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, MPSA, Chicago, Il.


Song, H. & Boomgaarden, H. (2017, June). Dynamic spirals put to test: An agent-based model of reinforcing spirals between selective exposure, interpersonal networks, and attitude polarization. Paper presentedat the 2017 annual International Communication Association conference, San Diego, CA.


Tolochko, P., Song, H., & Boomgaarden, H. (2017, June)). Conceptualizing and measuring political text complexity using topic modeling and Exponential Random Graph Models for two-mode networks. Paper presented at the 2017 annual International Communication Association conference, San Diego, CA.


Song, H., Nyhuis, D., & Boomgaarden, H. (2016, June). A network model of negative campaigning: Structures and determinants of negative campaigning in multi-party systems. Paper presented at the 2016 annual International Communication Association conference, Fukuoka, Japan.


Nyhuis, D., Song, H., & Boomgaarden, H. (2016, June). Disproportionality in media representations of campaign negativity. Paper presented at the annual International Communication Association conference, Fukuoka, Japan (also presented at the 74th annual Midwest Political Science Association conference, Chicago, IL.)


Meltzer, Christine E., Christian Schemer, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Jesper Strömbäck, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Nora Theorin, Tobias Heidenreich (2017). ‘Media Effects on Attitudes toward Migration and Mobility in the EU’. Literature Review, by order of the European Commission, URL: http://www.reminder-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/REMINDER_D9_1_Media_effects_migration_mobility_web.pdf(Last accessed: 6th October 2017)


Eberl, Jakob-Moritz, Tobias Heidenreich, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Beatriz Herrero, Rosa Berganza, Will Allen, Peter Bajomi-Lazar (2017). Discourses on Intra-EU Mobility and Non-EU Migration in European Media Coverage. Review, by order of the European Commission, URL: http://www.reminder-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/REMINDER-D8-1_Discourse_mobility_European_media_web.pdf


Eberl, Jakob-Moritz, Markus Wagner and Hajo Boomgaarden (2016). ‘Are candidate evaluations shaped by the media? The effects of three types of media bias', prepared for presentation at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Fukuoka, June 9-13, 2016.


Eberl, Jakob-Moritz, Markus Wagner and Hajo Boomgaarden (2016). ‚Are candidate evaluations shaped by the media? The effects of three types of media bias on political and non-political trait perceptions’, prepared for presentation at the Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, April 7-10, 2016.


Boukes, M., Iorgoveanu, A., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2015, May). Image Versus Text: How Newspaper Reports Affect Evaluations of Political Candidates. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, ICA, San Juan, PR.

Boumans, J., Vliegenthart, R., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2015, May). Outsourcing the News: An Assessment of the Relationship Between Sources, News Agencies, and Newspapers. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, ICA, San Juan, PR.

Wojcieszak, M., Azrout, R., Boomgaarden, H. G., Alencar, A. P., Sheets, P. (2015, May). The Influence of Narrative and Numerical Messages on Integration-Relevant Attitudes among Muslim Immigrant Minorities. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, ICA, San Juan, PR. 

Kroon, A. C., Kluknavská, A. Vliegenthart, R., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2015, May). Victims or Perpetrators? Explaining Media Framing of Roma across Europe. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, ICA, San Juan, PR.

Powell, T., Boomgaarden, H. G., De Swert, K., de Vreese, C. H. (2015, May). Unpacking visuals: Images enhance but do not direct framing effects. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, ICA, San Juan, PR.

Boomgaarden, H. G. (2015, April). Mass Media, Interpersonal Talk and Political Populism: Information Heterogeneity and Populist Attitudes. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, MPSA, Chicago, Il. 

Eberl, J.-M., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2015, April). The effects of bias consistency on vote choice. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, MPSA, Chicago, Il. 

Boomgaarden, H. G., Johann, D., & Kritzinger, S. (2015, March). Testing the second-order election paradigm. Paper presented at the ACCESS Europe workshop, Amsterdam, NL. 

Grill, C., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2015, March). The Europeanness of the 2014 European Parliament Election and Its Interplay with Citizens’ Information Seeking. Paper presented at the ACCESS Europe workshop, Amsterdam, NL. 

Kroon, A. C., Kluknavská, A. Vliegenthart, R., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2015, February). Victims or Perpetrators? Explaining Media Framing of Roma across Europe. Paper presented at the Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Antwerp, BE.

Boukes, M., Boomgaarden, H. G., Moorman, M., & De Vreese, C. H. (2015, February). It’s Fun! But is it Effective?: The Appreciation, Processing, and Persuasiveness of Political Satire. Paper presented at the Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Antwerp, BE.

Powell, T., Boomgaarden, H. G., De Swert, K., de Vreese, C. H. (2015, February). Unpacking visuals: Images enhance but do not direct framing effects. Paper presented at the Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Antwerp, BE.

Pincus, H. G., Boomgaarden, H. G., & Wojcieszak, M. (2014, October). Media Effects of Multimedia Journalism: A Study on Cognitive and Affective Effects of Feature Multimedia Storytelling. Paper presented at the Digital Disruption to Journalism and Mass Communication Theory conference, Brussels. 

Boomgaarden, H. G., McLaren, L., & Vliegenthart, R. (2014, September). News Coverage and Public Concern about Immigration in Britain. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association, APSA, Washington, DC. 

Boukes, M., Boomgaarden, H. G., & Moorman, M. (2014, May). Opinionated News and how it Affects Political Attitudes. Paper presented at annual conference of the International Communication Association, Seattle, WA.

Boomgaarden, H. G. (2014, May). Mediated Populism and its Indirect Effects in Germany and Austria. Paper presented at annual conference of the International Communication Association, Seattle, WA.

Boumans, J., Vliegenthart, R., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2014, May). Outsourcing the News. Paper presented at annual conference of the International Communication Association, Seattle, WA.

Boukes, M., Boomgaarden, H. G., Moorman, M., & De Vreese, C. H. (2014, February). Assessing the Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Opinionated News: How Opinionated News Affects Political Attitudes. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Wageningen, NL.

Alencar, A. P., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2014, February). Actors and their Actions in Political Dramas”: Exploiting the Properties of Narrative in News Coverage of Election Campaigns. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Wageningen, NL.

Boomgaarden, H. G., Sheets, P., & Bos, L. (2014, April). Explicit and Implicit Measurement of Far-right Party Support. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, MPSA, Chicago, Il.

Sheets, P., Bos, L., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2014, April). Media Cues and Citizen Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, MPSA, Chicago, Il.

Kritzinger, S., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2013, September). The Influence of News Media Blame Attributions on Public EU Support. Paper presented at the conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, ECPR, Bordeaux, France.

Sheets, P., Bos, L., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2013, September). Media Cues and Citizen Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties. Paper presented at the conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, ECPR, Bordeaux, France.

Boomgaarden, H. G., Sheets, P., & Bos, L. (2013, September). Explicit and Implicit Measurement of Far-Right Party Support. Paper presented at the conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, ECPR, Bordeaux, France. 

Boomgaarden, H. G. (2013, June). Populism in the Mass Media across Europe. Paper presented at the International Conference of Europeanists, Amsterdam, NL. 

Fitzner, J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2013, June). Conditions of Europeanized Voting Behaviour: News Exposure and Information Environment Effects on Voting in European Parliament Elections. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, ICA, London, UK. 


Van Noort, G., Kruikemeier, S., Aparaschivei, P., Boomgaarden, H. G., & Vliegenthart, R. (2013, June). Online Politics: A Cross-National Explanatory Analysis of Political Websites. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, ICA, London, UK.


Sheets, P., Bos, L., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2013, June). Media Cues and Citizen Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, ICA, London, UK.


Boomgaarden, H. G., & de Vreese, C.H. (2013, April). A Longitudinal Assessment of the Conditional Effect of News Media Coverage on Public Support for European Integration. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the World Association for Public Opinion Research, WAPOR, Boston, MA. 


Schuck, A. R. T., Boomgaarden, H. G. & de Vreese, C. H. (2012, May). Cynics all around? The impact of election news on political cynicism in comparative perspective. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ. 

van Drunen, A., Boomgaarden, H. G., Vliegenthart, R. (2012, May). Type of frame dependence: variation in media frames affecting attitudes via audience frames. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ.

Boukes M., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2012, May). Soft news and political cynicism: How exposure to political information genres affects public cynicism about politics. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ. 

van Klingeren, M., Boomgaarden, H. G., de Vreese, C. H., & Vliegenthart, R. (2012, June). Issue-Evolution in a Mediated Society: The Indigenousness Relationship Between Media and their Public in the Evolution of the European Integration and Immigration Issue. Paper presented at the meeting of the World Association for Public Opinion Research, Hong Kong. 

van Klingeren, M., de Vreese, C. H., Boomgaarden, H. G. & Vliegenthart, R. (2012, April). Issue-Evolution in a Mediated Society: The Causal Connections between Media and the Public in the evolution of the European Integration issue. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.

van Drunen, A., Boomgaarden H. G., & Vliegenthart, R. (2011, September). Do audience frames matter? News about Muslims and their mediated effect on attitudes. Paper presented at the meeting of the World Association for Public Opinion Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

Boomgaarden, H. G. (2011, August). Information and Voting. Mass Media Effects on the (Pro- and) Anti-EU Vote in Macro and Micro Perspective. Paper presented at the meeting of European Consortium for Political Research, Reykjavik, Iceland. 

van Drunen, A., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2011, May). Audience Frames: The Missing Link: How Audience Frames Differ From Media Frames Regarding Muslims. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Boston. 

Schuck, A. R. T., Vliegenthart, R., Boomgaarden, H.G., Elenbaas, M., Azrout, R., van Spanje, J. & de Vreese, C. H. (2011, May). Explaining campaign news coverage: How medium, time and context explain variation in the media framing of the 2009 European Parliamentary elections. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Boston.

van Klingeren, M., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2011, May). The Conditioning Impact of Information Environments on EU Public Opinion Dynamics. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Boston. 

Boomgaarden, H. G., de Vreese, C. H., et al. (2010, October). Across Time and Space. Explaining over-time and cross-country variations in the coverage of European Elections. Paper presented at the meeting of the European Communication Research and Education Association, Hamburg.

Van Klingeren, M., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2010, August). Explaining Germans’ EU Attitudes: Macro and micro level perspectives and the role of information environments. Paper presented at the 2010 Graduate Student Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research ECPR, Dublin, Ireland. 

Boomgaarden, H. G., van Spanje, J., Vliegenthart, R., & de Vreese, C. H. (2010, June). Covering the Crisis: Economic News and Economic Expectations. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Singapore. 

van Egmond, M., Boomgaarden, H. G., van der Brug, W. (2010, June). Channeling the Economy: Mass Media and Economic Perceptions. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Singapore. 

Boomgaarden, H. G., Schuck, A. R. T., Elenbaas, M., & de Vreese, C. H. (2010, May). Mapping EU Attitudes: Conceptual Considerations and Empirical Evidence. Paper presented at the meeting of the World Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, IL. 

van Spanje, J., Boomgaarden, H. G., Vliegenthart, R., & de Vreese, C. H. (2010, April). Covering the Crisis: Media Coverage of the Economic Crisis in the Netherlands and its Impact on Citizens’ Economic Expectations. Paper presented at the meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. 

Boomgaarden, H. G., & Freire, A. (2010, July). Religion, Values, Immigration, and Public Support for the European Union: A robust test of direct and indirect effects. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, Sweden. 

Boomgaarden, H. G. (2009, September). Religion and Support for Turkish Membership in the EU. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Organization, Toronto, Canada. 

Boomgaarden, H. G., & Freire, A. (2009, July). Religion and Euroscepticism: direct and indirect effects – examining old questions with new evidence. Paper presented at the meeting of the European Consortium for Political Research, Potsdam, Germany. 

Vliegenthart, R., van Spanje, J., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2009, July). Anti-immigrant party support and newspaper coverage: a cross-national and over-time perspective. Paper presented at the meeting of the European Consortium for Political Research, Potsdam, Germany. 

Boomgaarden, H. G., Vliegenthart, R., de Vreese, C. H., & Schuck, A. R. T. (2009, May). News on the Move: Exogenous Events and News Coverage of the European Union. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communications Association, Chicago, IL. 

De Vreese, C. H., Boomgaarden, H. G., Schuck, A. R. T., van Spanje, J., Vliegenthart, R., Azrout, R., & Elenbaas, M. (2009, May). Campaign Dynamics in the 2009 European Elections: Designing a Dynamic Cross-National Study. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communications Association, Chicago, IL.

Hinrichsen, M., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2009, May). Religious Issues in News and Their Effect on Public Attitudes Towards the EU. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communications Association, Chicago, IL.

Freire, A., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2009, April). Religion and Euroskepticism: Direct and Indirect Effects – Examining Old Questions with New Evidence. Paper presented at the meeting of the European Union Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA.

Von Engelhart, J., Golcevski, N., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2008, November). Framing the past: Media and public opinion in post-conflict Serbia. Paper presented at the meeting of the European Communication Research and Education Association, Barcelona, Spain. 

Boomgaarden, H. G., & Vliegenthart, R. (2008, August). News coverage and anti-immigration party support in the Netherlands and Germany. Paper presented at the meeting of the Nordic Political Science Association, Tromsø, Norway. S

Semetko, H. A., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2008, August). Germany's Election News 1990-2005: A Multi-Level Approach to Explaining Change. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA. 

Boomgaarden, H. G., & Vliegenthart, R. (2008, May). News and immigration attitudes in over-time perspective, Germany 1993-2005. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communications Association, Montreal, Canada. 

de Vreese, C. H., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2008, April). A spiral of cynicism for some: The Conditional Relationship Between Strategic News Coverage, Political Cynicism and Turnout. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.

Boomgaarden, H. G., de Vreese, C. H., & Semetko, H. A. (2007, September). News coverage of ethnic minorities and its impact on anti-immigration sentiments: Evidence from panel surveys and media content analyses. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the World Association of Public Opinion Research, Berlin, Germany.

de Vreese, C. H., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2007, September). Explaining cross-national variation in media coverage of the 2004 European election campaign. Paper presented at the meeting of the European Consortium for Political Research, Pisa, Italy. 

Boomgaarden, H. G. (2007, May). Right-Wing Populism and the Anti-EU Vote. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communications Association, San Francisco, CA. 

Boomgaarden, H. G. (2006, June). Covering Immigrants and Immigration in Germany: Xenophobic News? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany.

de Vreese, C. H., Boomgaarden, H. G., & Semetko, H. A. (2006, June). Effects of issue news framing on public support for Turkish membership in the EU. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany.

de Vreese, C. H., Boomgaarden, H. G., & Semetko, H. A. (2006, April). Hard and soft: News and the antecedents of support for Turkey in the European Union. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. 

Banducci, S., de Vreese, C. H., Semetko, H. A., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2005, August) Mobilizing or Demobilizing? Media and the European Parliamentary Elections. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC. 

Boomgaarden, H. G., de Vreese, C. H., & Semetko, H. A. (2005, September). News media and ethnic prejudice: the framing of ethnic minorities and its impact on anti-immigration sentiment. Paper presented at the meeting of the European Consortium for Political Research, Budapest, Hungary. 

Boomgaarden, H. G., Atkinson, J., & de Ronde, E. (2005, May). News and Right-Wing Voting: Political Campaigning in New Zealand and Its Consequences in the 2002 General Election. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New York.

de Vreese, C. H. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2005, May). “It’s the content.” How content moderates the effects of news on political knowledge and participation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New York. 

de Vreese, C. H., & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2005, April). Media Effects on Public Opinion about the Enlargement of the European Union. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. 

de Vreese, C. H. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2005, April). Media message flows and interpersonal communication: The conditional nature of effects on public opinion. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. 

Boomgaarden, H. G., & Vliegenthart, R. (2004, September). Explaining the rise of anti-immigrant populist parties: The role of news media content in the Netherlands, 1990-2002. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties specialist group of the UK Political Science Association, Oxford, United Kingdom. 

Boomgaarden, H. (2004, May). The news media and economic voting in the 1998 German Bundestag Election. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA. 

Boomgaarden, H. (2003, September). The News Media and Economic Voting in the 1998 German Bundestag Election. Paper presented at the annual conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Marburg, Germany. 

de Vreese, C. H. & Boomgaarden, H. (2003, May). Valenced News Frames and Public Support for the EU: Linking content analysis and experimental data. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA.