Previous research largely supports the notion that mediated contact and engagement with minority characters can improve viewers’ real-life minority attitudes. However, it is unclear to what extent different forms of media engagement such as parasocial friendship and wishful identification are linked …

Content moderation is commonly used by social media platforms to curb the spread of hateful content. Yet, little is known about how users perceive this practice and which factors may influence their perceptions. Publicly denouncing content moderation—for example, portraying it as a limitation to free …

The internationalization of higher education has been driven by an increasingly globalized and interconnected world. One concept that embodies this internationalization process is global citizenship, which can be promoted through student mobility, internationalization-at-home, or other forms of intercultural …

In this paper, we present a digital tool named Diversity Perspectives in Social Media (DivPSM) which conducts automated content analysis of strategic diversity communication in organizational social media posts, using supervised machine-learning. DivPSM is trained to identify whether a post makes mention …

The development of intercultural competences has become a prominent goal for many study programs in higher education. A widely used frame to measure intercultural competence is Cultural Intelligence (CQ). While empirical research has focused extensively on the development of CQ by means of (student) …

Current understandings of similarity with media characters often focus on visible attributes including gender and race, yet overlook deep-level characteristics such as personality, attitudes, and experiences. In the present research, we address this limitation and develop and validate the Character Recognizability …

Het Engelstalige Edubook Culture & Intercultural communication richt zich op het aanleren en toepassen van interculturele vaardigheden en competenties. Studenten ontwikkelen een manier van denken die in elke interculturele situatie toegepast kan worden. Het leermiddel is relevant voor iedere student …

In deze casestudy is bij één expertgroep en de regiegroep van het Montessori College Arnhem onderzocht of een reflectieve en generatieve dialoog over kunst in het Museum Arnhem, tot het in werking stellen van de leermechanismen identificatie en reflectie leidt, waardoor er kennis gemaakt wordt van elkaars …