Dr A.M. (Marthe) Möller
Assistant Professor of Entertainment Communication
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
CW : Youth & Media Entertainment
Area of expertise: media-induced connectedness, shared online experiences, user comments, online social influence, machine learning
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
- Room number: C10
Postal address
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Postbus 15791
1001 NG Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
A. Marthe Möller (PhD, 2021) is an Assistant Professor of Entertainment Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). In her work, Marthe studies how social media usage can foster connection. On the one hand, she investigates the boundary conditions and psychological mechanisms explaining the development of connectedness among social media users. On the other hand, Marthe investigates how computational methods and machine learning in particular can be used to study this topic. Marthe is an affiliate member of the UvA Data Science Centre and a co-director of the Digital Communication Methods Lab.
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Research
Research methods
- Experimental research
- Content analysis
- Computational text analysis methods (CTAM)
Current research
Amongst others, Marthe is currently involved in the following research projects:
- Connected through Entertainment: In this project, Marthe serves as a co-supervisor of PhD candidate Zhiying (Diana) Liu. The project studies how media usage can foster interpersonal connectedness and focuses on the role of social TV (i.e., discussing television content with others online) in particular.
- Sustainable Connections (in collaboration with dr. Rhianne W. Hoek): This project investigates how influencers communicate about the climate crisis on social media and how this impacts individuals' willingness to help society by adopting a sustainable lifestyle.
- AnNoBias: This project (PI: dr. Anne C. Kroon) investigates the causes of annotation bias in crowd codings tasks. Furthermore, it studies how this affects classifications done by machine learning models trained on data containing such bias.
Research grants & honours
- Seed Funding Grant Receiver (2021, 2022)
- ASCoR Baschwitz Young Scholar Award (2022)
- Van Reijmersdal Aspasia Fund Research Grant (2021)
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Teaching and PhD supervision
Bachelor
- Computational Communication Science 2 (see course description)
- Graduation Project (Bachelor thesis, see course description)
Master
- Individual Thesis Supervision (see course description)
- Academic Writing (part of the course Research Methods Tailored to the Thesis, see course description)
PhD supervision
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Publications
- refereed (10)
- popular scientific (1)
- conference contributions (17)
- recognitions (2)
- doctoral thesis (1)
2024
Möller, A. M., Vermeer, S. A. M., & Baumgartner, S. E. (2024). Cutting Through the Comment Chaos: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Relevant YouTube Comments. Social Science Computer Review, 42(1), 162-185. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393231173895 [details]- Trilling, D., Araujo, T., Kroon, A., Möller, A. M., Strycharz, J., & Vermeer, S. (2024). Computational Communication Science in a Digital Society. In T. Araujo, & P. Neijens (Eds.), Communication Research into the Digital Society: Fundamental Insights from the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (pp. 247-264). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048560608-016 [details]
2023
- Möller, A. M., & Boukes, M. (2023). Online social environments and their impact on video viewers: The effects of user comments on entertainment experiences and knowledge gain during political satire consumption. New Media & Society, 25(5), 999-1022. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211015984 [details]
2022
- Möller, A. M., & Boukes, M. (2022). Satirizing the clothing industry on YouTube: How political satire and user comments jointly shape behavioral intentions. Media Psychology, 25(5), 724-739. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2022.2066004 [details]
2021
- Möller, A. M., Baumgartner, S. E., Kühne, R., & Peter, J. (2021). Sharing the fun? How social information affects viewers’ video enjoyment and video evaluations. Human Communication Research, 47(1), 25-48. https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqaa013 [details]
- Möller, A. M., Baumgartner, S. E., Kühne, R., & Peter, J. (2021). The effects of social information on the enjoyment of online videos: An eye tracking study on the role of attention. Media Psychology, 24(2), 214-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1679647 [details]
2020
- Möller, A. M., Kühne, R., Baumgartner, S. E., & Peter, J. (2020). A social identity perspective on the effect of social information on online video enjoyment. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 14(4), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.5817/CP2020-4-6 [details]
2019
- Möller, A. M., & Kühne, R. (2019). The effects of user comments on hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment experiences when watching online videos. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, 44(4), 427-446. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2018-2015 [details]
- Möller, A. M., Kühne, R., Baumgartner, S. E., & Peter, J. (2019). Exploring user responses to entertainment and political videos: An automated content analysis of YouTube. Social Science Computer Review, 37(4), 510-528. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439318779336 [details]
2018
- de Vries, D. A., Möller, A. M., Wieringa, M. S., Eigenraam, A. W., & Hamelink, K. (2018). Social comparison as the thief of joy: Emotional consequences of viewing strangers' Instagram posts. Media Psychology, 21(2), 222-245. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2016.1267647 [details]
2025
- Möller, A. M. (2025). Do we really like what we like? How social influence processes shape our experiences when we are online. Web publication or website, In-Mind Magazine. https://www.in-mind.org/article/do-we-really-like-what-we-like-how-social-influence-processes-shape-our-experiences-when-we
2025
- Möller, A. M., & Hoek, R. W. (2025). Are Para-Social Interactions enough? The effects of greenfluencers' communication strategies on pro-environmental behavior. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap 2025, Brugge, Belgium.
- Möller, A. M., & Strycharz, J. (2025). Searching for traces of Kama Muta: Examining viewers' responses to online videos. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap 2025, Brugge, Belgium.
2024
- Ho, J. C., Möller, A. M., & Strycharz, J. (2024). Comparative Media Dataset from Web Crawl Data. Abstract from Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations, Utrecht, Netherlands.
- Möller, A. M. (2024). What difference do comments really make? Finding the smallest meaningful difference in the entertainment experiences of online video viewers. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap 2024, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2023
- Möller, A. M., Hoek, R. W., Helwegen, B., & Thijs, G. (2023). On the road to sustainability: Themes and strategies used by Dutch greenfluencers on Instagram and their relation with user activity. Abstract from Etmaal Communicatiewetenschap 2023, Enschede, Netherlands.
- Möller, A. M., Hoek, R. W., Helwegen, B., & Thijs, G. (2023). On the road to sustainability: Themes and strategies used by Dutch greenfluencers on Instagram and their relation with user activity. Paper presented at 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Canada.
2022
- Möller, A. M., & Boukes, M. (2022). Satirizing the clothing industry on YouTube: How political satire and user comments jointly shape behavioral intentions. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap.
2021
- Möller, A. M., & Boukes, M. (2021). Watching infotainment "together": The effects of user comments on entertainment experiences and knowledge gain of political satire viewers. Paper presented at International Communication Association (ICA), United States.
2020
- Möller, A. M., Baumgartner, S. E., Kühne, R. J., & Peter, J. (2020). Sharing the fun? How social information affects viewers' video enjoyment and video evaluations. Abstract from Cyberspace International Conference, Brno, Czech Republic.
- Möller, A. M., Kühne, R. J., Baumgartner, S. E., & Peter, J. (2020). A social identity perspective on the effects of social information. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap 2020.
- Möller, A. M., Kühne, R. J., Baumgartner, S. E., & Peter, J. (2020). A social identity perspective on the effects of social information. Paper presented at International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.
2019
- Möller, A. M., Baumgartner, S. E., Kühne, R. J., & Peter, J. (2019). Attention to user comments on YouTube: An eye tracking study. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Nijmegen.
- Möller, A. M., Baumgartner, S. E., Kühne, R. J., & Peter, J. (2019). Attention to user comments on YouTube: An eye tracking study. Poster session presented at International Communication Association (ICA), Washington, United States.
2018
- Möller, A. M., Baumgartner, S. E., Kühne, R. J., & Peter, J. (2018). Social information on YouTube. Poster session presented at 9th CAT MCIG Doctoral Consortium, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Möller, A. M., Kühne, R. J., Baumgartner, S. E., & Peter, J. (2018). Exploring user responses to entertainment and political videos: An automated content analysis of YouTube. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Ghen, Belgium.
2017
- Möller, A. M. (2017). Through the looking-glass: The effects of user comments on entertainment experiences in response to an animated short film. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap.
2016
- Wieringa, M. S., Eigenraam, A. W., Hamelink, K., Möller, A. M., & de Vries, D. (2016). Social comparison as the thief of joy: Emotional consequences of viewing strangers' Instagram posts. Abstract from Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Prize / grant
- Möller, M. (2022). ASCoR Baschwitz Young Scholar Award.
Others
- van der Wal, A. (organiser), Boerman, S. (organiser), de Jong, C. (organiser), Hendriks, H. (organiser), Jonkman, J. (organiser), Mollen, S. (organiser), Möller, M. (organiser), van Straten, C. (organiser) & Vliegenthart, R. (organiser) (6-2-2020 - 7-2-2020). Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Amsterdam. In February 2020, ASCoR hosted the “Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap”, the annual conference for all communication science scholars in the (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://nefca.eu/etmaal/etmaal-van-de-communicatiewetenschap-2020/
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Möller, A. M., Vermeer, S. A. M., & Baumgartner, S. E. (2024). Cutting Through the Comment Chaos: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Relevant YouTube Comments. Social Science Computer Review, 42(1), 162-185.