My new article on ‘Technological alienation and how networked digitality constitutes a map for understanding the complexity of individual and collective consciousness’ in AI & SOCIETY Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Betto van Waarden
@bettovanwaarden.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History @ Maastricht University | transnational history of politics & mass media | time and politics | disinformation and democracy
Our new book on Transnational Journalism History, in which I contributed a chapter on ‘Parliamentary Reporting’ www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
My essay on Europe in English: www.freiheitmachtpolitik.de/en/essays/eu... and in German: www.freiheitmachtpolitik.de/essays/europ...
I presented at a Film & Talk this week (sold out!). If you want to learn more about propaganda, check out this documentary...
My new podcast interview on the history of media & politics on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast series: newbooksnetwork.com/politicians-... (also available on Spotify etc.) A big thank you to Miranda Melcher for having me on the show!
My podcast interview on 'Publicity Politicians, Public Opinion, and the Birth of Media Politics' on the SOCIAL MEDIA & POLITICS podcast: socialmediaandpolitics.org/media-histor... Also on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4jyl... Many thanks to Michael Bossetta for hosting me on the show!
Vacancies: Post-doc in Disinformation & European Democracy: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Ass. Prof European Political History since 1900: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Ass. Prof Political and Social Philosophy: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566...
Post-doctoral researcher in Disinformation and European Democracy (4-year)
Post-doctoral researcher in Disinformation and European Democracy (4-year)
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
My new book is now out in print: POLITICIANS AND MASS MEDIA IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE Examines how an expanding mass media created a new type of politician and system of transnational media politics between 1890 and World War I. www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
A short blog article about my research: DEMOCRACY EXPANDED OR ERODED? ‘Publicity Politicians’ and the Transnational Media Politics of Empire cambridgeblog.org/2025/10/demo...
‘The Communication of Fame’, a chapter I wrote for our new book A Cultural History of Fame in the Age of Revolution, edited by Eva Giloi: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-... If anyone would like a digital copy, let me know 😊
my new book on Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire: www.cambridge.org/core/books/p... #history #politicalhistory #mediahistory #twitterstorians
Bsky friends! With colleagues I run the WOinActie Limburg bsky page. We are striking today to protest devastating cuts to higher ed totalling over 1 billion euro. It's part of the global onslaught on higher ed. Help us out; give the page a follow and repost to spread awareness. In solidarity! 🟥
WOinActie Limburg🟥@woinactielimburg.bsky.social · last yr.🟥 Dutch universities are presenting their self-regulation plan for internationalization today - a thoughtful alternative to the government's damaging TAO framework. 🟥
Vandaag staakt Maastricht! Aujourdhui, Maastricht en grève! Heute streikt Maastricht! Today Maastricht is on strike! ✊ #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs www.fnv.nl/nieuwsberich...
Woensdag duizenden stakers naar Maastricht voor protest tegen onderwijsbezuinigingen
Woensdag ligt het hoger onderwijs in Maastricht plat. Duizenden docenten, onderzoekers, studenten en werknemers van het hoger onderwijs staken tegen de heilloze onderwijsbezuinigingen van het kabinet....
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Disinformation isn’t new—it’s just evolved🏛️📜 Democracy was never about ‘pure truth’ but about competing worldviews. The real battle? Who controls the narrative📰⚖️ Read the interview with Betto van Waarden about the relationship between #democracy and #disinformation 👉 tinyurl.com/2wv3wvaz
