Prof. dr. Jan Kleinnijenhuis

Office days: Monday - Friday

Information in Dutch

Current lines of research

• News effects
• Economic news and political news, patterns of agenda-building
• Content Analysis, Semantic Network Analysis [verder...]

Current teaching

• Schakelblok Communicatiewetenschap PMC Journalism Studies
• Publieks- en Effectonderzoek, MA Journalism Studies
• News and Reputation II, BA Communication Science
• News Effects, MA Communication Science

Selected publications

• Schultz, F., Kleinnijenhuis, J., Oegema, D., Utz, S., & Atteveldt, W. v. (in press). Strategic Framing in the BP crisis: A semantic network analysis of associative frames, Public Relations Review.
• Kleinnijenhuis, J., & van Hoof, A. M. J. (2009). Media coverage of government policies and satisfaction with information provision and policy results. Politiische Vierteljahresschrift. Sonderheft Politik in der Mediendemokratie (Hrsg. B. Pfetsch & F.Marcinkowski) , 42: 320-344. [PDF]
• Pennings, P.J.M., Keman, J.E & Kleinnijenhuis, J. (2009). Global comparative methods. In: Landman, T. & Robinson, N. (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics, pp. 35-49. London, etc.: Sage. [PDF]
• van Atteveldt, W., Kleinnijenhuis, J. & Ruigrok, N. (2008). Parsing, Semantic Networks, and Political Authority Using Syntactic Analysis to Extract Semantic Relations from Dutch Newspaper Articles. Political Analysis 16(4): 428-446.[PDF]
• van Atteveldt, W., Kleinnijenhuis, J., Ruigrok, N. & Schlobach, S. (2008). Good News or Bad News: conducting sentiment analysis on Dutch texts to distinguish between positive and negative relations. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 5 (1), 73-94.[PDF]
• van Noije, L.L.J., Kleinnijenhuis, J. & Oegema, D. (2008). Loss of parliamentary control: Due to Mediatization and Europeanization: a Longitudinal and Cross-sectional Analysis of Agenda Building in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. British Journal of Political Science 38(3), 455-478. [PDF]
• Kleinnijenhuis, J., de Ridder, J.A. & Rietberg, E.M. (2008). Reasoning in economic discourse: a network approach to the Dutch Press. In K. Krippendorff & M. Bock (Eds.), The Content Analysis Reader (430-442). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
• Kleinnijenhuis, J. (2008). Empirical research in contemporary social sciences relevant to Public Relations: the network approach. In: van Ruler, A.A., Verčič, A.T. & Verčič, D. Public relations metrics: research and evaluation (pp. 60-87). New York: Francis & Taylor.
• Kleinnijenhuis, J. (2008). Negativity. In: W. Donsbach (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Communication,7, 3188-3192.. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Kleinnijenhuis, J. (2008). ‘Public Relations: Media Influence’. In: W. Donsbach (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.. de Ridder, J.A., Kleinnijenhuis, J. & Scholten, O. (2008). Politieke kennis en effecten van nieuws. Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap, 36 (3), 204-224.
• Kleinnijenhuis, J., van Hoof, A. M. J., Oegema, D., & de Ridder, J. A. (2007). A Test of Rivaling Approaches to Explain News Effects: News on issue positions of parties, real-world developments, support and criticism, and success and failure. Journal of Communication, 57(2), 366-384. [PDF]
• Meijer, M. M. & Kleinnijenhuis, J. (2007). News and ads: How negative news may reverse ad effects. Journal of Advertising Research, 47(4), 507-517. [PDF]
• Kleinnijenhuis, J., Scholten, O., van Atteveldt, W. H., van Hoof, A. M. J., Krouwel, A. P., Oegema, D., de Ridder, J.A., Ruigrok, P.C. & Takens, J. (2007). Nederland vijfstromenland: De rol van de media en stemwijzers bij de verkiezingen in 2006. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker.[PDF]
• Kleinnijenhuis, J., van Hoof, A. M. J., & Oegema, D. (2006) Negative news and the sleeper effect of distrust. Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics, 11 (2), 86-104.[PDF]
• Meijer, M.-M., & Kleinnijenhuis, J. (2006). The Effects of Issue News on Corporate Reputation: Applying the Theories of Agenda Setting and Issue Ownership in the Field of Business Communication. Journal of Communication, 56(3), 543-559. [PDF]
• Meijer, M. M. & Kleinnijenhuis, J. (2006) News and corporate reputation: Empirical findings from the Netherlands. Public Relations Review, 32(4), 341-348. [PDF]
• van Hoof, A. M. J., Kleinnijenhuis, J., Oegema, D., & de Ridder, J. A.. (2005) News antecedents of prospective and retrospective voting. In A. Schorr & S. Seltmann (Eds.), Changing Media Markets in Europe and Abroad. New Ways of Handling Information and Entertainment Content (pp. 23-42) Berlin: Pabst Science Publishers.
• Pennings, P. J. M., Keman, J. E., & Kleinnijenhuis, J. (2006, 2nd ed). Doing research in political science. New York / London: Sage.

Other academic activities

• Research Coordinator “Social and Communication Networks” program of The Network Institute [verder...]
• Research Coordinator Department of Communication Science
• Board of “Stichting KiezersOnderzoek Nederland” (SKON)
• Exam Committee Communication Science
• Exam Committee Journalism Studies
• Member of Netherlands School of Communications Research (NESCoR), International
• Communication Association (ICA), Nederlandse Kring voor Wetenschap der Politiek (NKWP).