PERITIA – Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action – is een Europees project (Horizon 2020)  dat onderzoek doet naar de condities waaronder mensen experts vertrouwen bij het vormgeven van publiek beleid. Het UU-deel van dit onderzoek richt zich op vertrouwen in expertise in een sterk veranderend media en informatie landschap.

• prof. dr. José van Dijck

The project aims to investigate the relation between migration and digital technologies, in particular the way in which the ‘connected migrant’ contributes to new forms of European integration and cosmopolitan citizenship. The project explores digital diasporas in relation to issues of gender, ethnicity and affective belonging, focusing on how new technologies enhance new forms of connectivity between the homeland and destination countries, bus also across diasporas. The project pioneers a new interdisciplinary method that combines media studies, postcolonial theories, digital humanities and gender studies, drawing from the humanities and social science.

It proposes a comparative approach, based on qualitative digital methods, that focuses on Somali, Romanian and Turkish women migrants who have settled in some of Europe’s main cities (London – PhD1, Amsterdam – PhD2 and Rome – PhD3) and the way in which they keep digitally and emotionally connected to their homeland cities (Mogadishu, Bucharest, Istanbul – Postdoc). The project will chart how different forms of migration (labour, postcolonial and postsocialist) impact on the new European order at the local and transnational levels. more info: www.digitaleurope.nl

• dr. Laura Candidatu
• prof. dr. Sandra Ponzanesi