Dashboard about Twitter activity (e.g. no. of tweets) & success (e.g. engagement) of Professors of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA)

In redesigning its curriculum and learning environment, the HU Business School focuses on improving student engagement. In its turn, this should improve the academic success rates. Moreover, challenging honours students in regular courses is also an aim of the redesign. With this in mind, we developed …

Previous research suggests that narrative engagement (NE) in entertainment-education (E-E) narratives reduces counterarguing, thereby leading to E-E impact on behavior. It is, however, unclear how different NE processes (narrative understanding, attentional focus, emotional engagement, narrative presence) …

An increasing amount of cities are trying to increase civic engagement by using digital tools and platforms which gather data in a variety of ways on relevant topics within the city. Tools and platforms that focus on handling easy to fix issues on a local scale such as broken streetlights have been successfully …

As web technology and (big) data continue to transform how we organize ourselves, scholarly research increasingly zooms in on the socio-material conditions of citizen participation and public engagement, the objects and devices that organize publics. Where social issues may often be the driver of such …

Research in the Netherlands on the success of students in higher education is highly influenced by Tinto’s integration theory. This paper is part of a broader PhD research, in which I investigate the possible influence of the use of social media (Facebook) by students. By comparing various studies conducted …

In 2014 heeft de organisatie onderzoek gedaan naar op welke socialmediakanalen de klanten van de organisatie zich bevonden. Uit het onderzoek kwam Facebook als belangrijkste kanaal en de organisatie startte enthousiast met het gebruiken van eigen Facebookpagina’s voor de locaties. Een strategie om via …

Woonpartners Midden-Holland is een middelgrote woningcorporatie in Zuid-Holland die tevredenheid en betrokkenheid van haar huurders hoog in het vaandel heeft staan. Op dit moment is er bij de huurders van Woonpartners Midden-Holland onvoldoende betrokkenheid om zich bezig te houden met huurdersgerelateerde …

This paper relies on knowledge gained from ITRACT (Improving Transport and Accessibility through new Communication Technologies), an Interreg IVB project in the North Sea Region. We will show how digital innovation to promote mobility and accessibility in rural areas is limited by poor data infrastructure …

Over the last few years, the term “smart cities” has gained traction in academic, industry, and policy debates about the deployment of new media technologies in urban settings. It is mostly used to describe and market technologies that make city infrastructures more efficient, and personalize the experience …