Dr. G.L.A. (Toni) van der Meer
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
CW : Corporate Communication
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
- Postbus 15791
1001 NG Amsterdam
Contact details
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About Toni van der Meer
Toni G. L. A. van der Meer is an Associate Professor at the Department of Corporate Communication of ASCoR, University of Amsterdam. In 2016 Toni defended his PhD on crisis communication (2013-2015). The dissertation focused on the communicative interplay between the organization, news media, and the public in times of crisis. After his PhD, Toni has continued his line of research in crisis communication to answer questions like, what is the role of news media and/or social media in the framing of a crisis? What happens if inaccurate information gets spread during a crisis?
A second and related line of his research focuses on biases in thes news and mediatization. From 2019, Toni works on a NWO-funded Veni project titled “Is the world really in crisis? News bias in the contemporary media environment”. Despite long-term global trends demonstrating how living conditions have improved, media coverage is often event-driven and skewed to the negative side when it comes to selecting news items, leaving a different impression among audiences. This discrepancy between reality and media reality has resulted in research questions such as; has media coverage grown further apart from real-world developments over time? Who expose themselves to this type of negative news in today's high-choice media environment? and what are the effects of such exposure on public perceptions?
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Publications
2022
- Kroon, A. C., van der Meer, G. L. A., & Pronk, T. (Accepted/In press). Does information about bias attenuate selective exposure? The effects of implicit bias feedback on the selection of outgroup-rich news. Human Communication Research.
- Kroon, A. C., van der Meer, G. L. A., & Vliegenthart, R. (Accepted/In press). Beyond counting words: Assessing performance of dictionaries, supervised machine learning, and embeddings in topic and frame classification. Computational Communication Research.
- van der Meer, G. L. A., & Hameleers, M. (2022). I Knew It, the World is Falling Apart! Combatting a Confirmatory Negativity Bias in Audiences’ News Selection Through News Media Literacy Interventions. Digital Journalism.
- van der Meer, G. L. A., Brosius, A., & Hameleers, M. (2022). The role of media use and misinformation perceptions in optimistic bias and third-person perceptions in times of high media dependency: Evidence from four countries in the first stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mass Communication & Society.
2021
- Austin, L., van der Meer, T. G. L. A., Lee, Y-I., & Spangler, J. (2021). Managing misinformation and conflicting information: A framework for understanding misinformation and rumor. In Y. Jin, B. H. Reber, & G. J. Nowak (Eds.), Advancing crisis communication effectiveness: Integrating public relations scholarship with practice (pp. 113-129). (Routledge Research in Public Relations). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Advancing-Crisis-Communication-Effectiveness-Integrating-Public-Relations/Jin-Reber-Nowak/p/book/9780367353179 [details]
- Brosius, A., Hameleers, M., & van der Meer, G. L. A. (2021). Can we trust measures of trust? a comparison of results from open and closed questions. Quality and Quantity.
- Hameleers, M., & van der Meer, G. L. A. (2021). The scientists have betrayed us! The effects of anti-science communication on negative perceptions toward the scientific community. International Journal of Communication : IJoC, 15, 4709-4733. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/17179/3589
- Hameleers, M., van der Meer, G. L. A., & Vliegenthart, R. (2021). Civilized truths, hateful lies? Incivility and hate speech in false information – evidence from fact-checked statements in the US. Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1874038
- Kroon, A. C., & van der Meer, G. L. A. (2021). Who’s to fear? Implicit sexual threat pre and post the “refugee crisis”. Journalism Practice. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512786.2021.1916401
- Kroon, A. C., & van der Meer, T. G. L. A. (2021). Who takes the lead? Investigating the reciprocal relationship between organizational and news agendas. Communication Research, 48, 51-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650217751733
Kroon, A. C., van der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Mastro, D. (2021). Confirming Bias Without Knowing? Automatic Pathways Between Media Exposure and Selectivity. Communication Research, 48(2), 180-202. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650220905948 [details]- Ohme, J., Hameleers, M., Brosius, A., & Van der Meer, T. (2021). Attenuating the crisis: the relationship between media use, prosocial political participation, and holding misinformation beliefs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 31(S1), 285-298. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2021.1924735 [details]
- Powell, T. E., Hameleers, M., & van der Meer, T. G. L. A. (2021). Selection in a Snapshot? The Contribution of Visuals to the Selection and Avoidance of Political News in Information-Rich Media Settings. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 26(1), 46-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161220966730 [details]
- van der Goot, E. S., van der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Vliegenthart, R. (2021). Reporting on political acquaintances: Personal interactions between political journalists and politicians as a determinant of media coverage. International Journal of Communication : IJoC, 15, 229–251. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15313/3317 [details]
- van der Meer, G. L. A., & Hameleers, M. (2021). Fighting biased news diets: Using news media literacy interventions to stimulate online cross-cutting media exposure patterns. New Media & Society, 23(11), 3156. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820946455
- van der Meer, G. L. A., Kroon, A. C., & Vliegenthart, R. (2021). Do news media kill? How a biased news reality can overshadow real societal risks, the case of aviation and road traffic accidents. Social Forces. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soab114
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Jonkman, J. G. F. (2021). Politicization of corporations and their environment: Corporations’ social license to operate in a polarized and mediatized society. Public Relations Review, 47(1), [101988]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2020.101988 [details]
2020
- Araujo, T., & van der Meer, T. G. L. A. (2020). News values on social media: Exploring what drives peaks in user activity about organizations on Twitter. Journalism, 21(5), 633-651. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884918809299 [details]
- Hameleers, M., & van der Meer, T. (2020). Fight or flight? Attributing responsibility in response to mixed congruent and incongruent partisan news in selective exposure media environments. Information, Communication & Society, 23(9), 1327-1352. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1566394 [details]
- Hameleers, M., & van der Meer, T. G. L. A. (2020). Misinformation and polarization in a high-choice media environment: How effective are political fact-checkers? Communication Research, 47(2), 227-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650218819671 [details]
- Hameleers, M., Powell, T. E., Van Der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Bos, L. (2020). A picture paints a thousand lies? The effects and mechanisms of multimodal disinformation and rebuttals disseminated via social media. Political Communication, 37(2), 281-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2019.1674979 [details]
- Hameleers, M., van der Meer, G. L. A., & Brosius, A. (2020). Feeling “disinformed” lowers compliance with COVID-19 guidelines: Evidence from the US, UK, Netherlands and Germany. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review , 1(Special Issue on COVID-19 and Misinformation). https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-023
- Jin, Y., van der Meer, G. L. A., Lee, Y-I., & Lu, X. (2020). The effects of corrective communication and employee backup on the effectiveness of fighting crisis misinformation. Public Relations Review, 46, [101910]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2020.101910
- Kroon, A. C., Trilling, D., van der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Jonkman, J. G. F. (2020). Clouded reality: News representations of culturally close and distant ethnic outgroups. Communications : The European Journal of Communication Research, 45(s1), 744–764. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2019-2069 [details]
- Strikovic, E., van der Meer, T. G. L. A., van der Goot, E., Bos, L., & Vliegenthart, R. (2020). On behalf of the people: The use of public opinion and the perception of “the people” in political communication strategies of Dutch MPs. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 25(1), 135-157. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161219864297 [details]
- van der Meer, G. L. A., Hameleers, M., & Kroon, A. C. (2020). Crafting our own biased media diets: The effects of confirmation, source, and negativity bias on selective attendance to online news. Mass Communication & Society, 23, 937-967 . https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2020.1782432
- van der Meer, G. L. A., Hameleers, M., & Kroon, A. C. (2020). Faces of Biased Selectivity: A Latent Profile Analysis to Classify News Audiences and Their Selection Biases in the U.S. and UK. International Journal of Communication, 14, 5375-5393. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/13496 [details]
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Jin, Y. (2020). Seeking formula for misinformation treatment in public health crises: The effects of corrective information type and source. Health Communication, 35(5), 560-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2019.1573295 [details]
2019
- Gerken, F., & van der Meer, T. G. L. A. (2019). Crises frame dynamics: Frame diversity in news media and the role of governmental actors. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research, 2(2), 149-180. https://doi.org/10.30658/jicrcr.2.2.1 [details]
- Powell, T. E., van der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Brenes Peralta, C. (2019). Picture power? The contribution of news visuals to politically motivated selective exposure. Media and Communication, 7(3), 12-31. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v7i3.1991 [details]
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A., Kroon, A. C., Verhoeven, P., & Jonkman, J. (2019). Mediatization and the disproportionate attention to negative news: The case of airplane crashes. Journalism Studies, 20(6), 783-803. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2018.1423632 [details]
2018
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A. (2018). Public frame building: The role of source usage in times of crisis. Communication Research, 45(6), 956-981. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650216644027 [details]
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Vliegenthart, R. (2018). The consequences of being on the agenda: The effect of media and public attention on firms’ stock market performance. Communications - The European Journal of Communication Research, 43(1), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2017-0027 [details]
2017
- Strauß, N., & van der Meer, T. G. L. A. (2017). News media coverage and initial public offerings in Germany: Explaining flotation performance. Corporate Communications, 22(4), 523-541. https://doi.org/10.1108/CCIJ-04-2017-0028 [details]
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A., Verhoeven, P., Beentjes, H. W. J., & Vliegenthart, R. (2017). Communication in times of crisis: The stakeholder relationship under pressure. Public Relations Review, 43(2), 426-440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2017.02.005 [details]
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A., Verhoeven, P., Beentjes, J. W. J., & Vliegenthart, R. (2017). Disrupting gatekeeping practices: Journalists’ source selection in times of crisis. Journalism, 18(9), 1107-1124. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884916648095 [details]
2016
- Gerken, F., Van der Land, S. F., & van der Meer, T. G. L. A. (2016). Crisis in the Air: An investigation of AirAsia’s crisis-response effectiveness based on frame alignment. Public Relations Review, 42(5), 879-892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2016.09.002 [details]
- van Zoonen, W., & van der Meer, T. G. L. A. (2016). Social media research: The application of supervised machine learning in organizational communication research. Computers in Human Behavior, 63, 132-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.028 [details]
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A. (2016). Automated content analysis and crisis communication research. Public Relations Review, 42(5), 952-961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2016.09.001 [details]
2015
- van Zoonen, W., & van der Meer, T. (2015). The importance of source and credibility perceptions in times of crisis: crisis communication in a socially mediated era. Journal of Public Relations Research, 27(5), 371-388. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2015.1062382 [details]
2014
- van Zoonen, W., van der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Verhoeven, J. W. M. (2014). Employees work-related social-media use: his master's voice. Public Relations Review, 40(5), 850-852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2014.07.001 [details]
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A. (2014). Organizational crisis-denial strategy: the effect of denial on public framing. Public Relations Review, 40(3), 537-539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2014.02.005 [details]
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Verhoeven, J. W. M. (2014). Emotional crisis communication. Public Relations Review, 40(3), 526-536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2014.03.004 [details]
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A., Gelders, D., & Rotthier, S. (2014). E-democracy: exploring the current stage of e-government. Journal of Information Policy, 4, 489-506. [details]
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A., Verhoeven, P., Beentjes, H., & Vliegenthart, R. (2014). When frames align: The interplay between PR, news media, and the public in times of crisis. Public Relations Review, 40(5), 751-761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2014.07.008 [details]
2013
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Verhoeven, P. (2013). Public framing organizational crisis situations: social media versus news media. Public Relations Review, 39(3), 229-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2012.12.001 [details]
2012
- van der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Zwier, S. (2012). Cause-related marketing: een driehoeksverhouding tussen consument, bedrijf en goed doel. Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap, 40(1), 26-45. [details]
2017
- van der Meer, G. L. A. (Author). (2017). Nepnieuws, voorkomen is beter dan genezen (Blog).. Web publication/site, versvak.nl: .
- van der Meer, T. (Author). (2017). The science behind fake news. Web publication/site, ComCom. Retrieved from https://www.communicatingcommunication.com/single-post/2017/03/15/The-Science-Behind-Fake-News
Award
- Hameleers, M. & van der Meer, T. (2021). ASCoR Baschwitz Faculty Article of the Year Award.
- Kroon, A. C. & van der Meer, G. L. A. (2016). Best student paper award: Who takes the lead? Investigating the dynamic interplay of organizational and news agendas..
- van der Meer, G. L. A. (2014). Best Student Paper Award: Framing the crisis: A semantic-network approach to inquire frame alignment among PR, news media, and the public..
- van der Meer, G. L. A. (2013). Unilever Research Prize.
Talk / presentation
- van der Meer, T. (keynote speaker) (11-3-2019). Crisis communication in contemporary media environment, International Crisis & Risk Communication Conference, Orlando.
- van der Meer, T. (speaker) (2019). "Everything under Control?", Gemeente Amsterdam.
- van der Meer, T. (speaker) (2019). Dangers of current media environment for crisis communication, SWOCC.
- Verhoeven, P. (speaker) & van der Meer, G. L. A. (speaker) (1-12-2016). Making news about organisations: A co-production, VPRA WetenschapsUpdate, Amstelveen.
Others
- van der Meer, T. (other) (31-10-2016). Managing organisational crisis with communication (other).
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Ancillary activities
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Kroon, A. C., van der Meer, T. G. L. A., & Mastro, D. (2021). Confirming Bias Without Knowing? Automatic Pathways Between Media Exposure and Selectivity. Communication Research, 48(2), 180-202.