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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm organising an international workshop on 'Truth in Democracy across Media Revolutions, 1850-2000' in Maastricht on 27-28 May 2027. Could you please spread the attached Call for Presentations to anyone you think might be interested? Many thanks! @maastrichtu.bsky.social

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interview about our research on Disinformation & Democracy: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/histori... The original Dutch interview is available here: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/nieuws/pr...

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My new article on ‘Technological alienation and how networked digitality constitutes a map for understanding the complexity of individual and collective consciousness’ in AI & SOCIETY Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Our new book on Transnational Journalism History, in which I contributed a chapter on ‘Parliamentary Reporting’ www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My essay on Europe in English: www.freiheitmachtpolitik.de/en/essays/eu... and in German: www.freiheitmachtpolitik.de/essays/europ...

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I presented at a Film & Talk this week (sold out!). If you want to learn more about propaganda, check out this documentary...

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

My new podcast interview on the history of media & politics on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast series: newbooksnetwork.com/politicians-... (also available on Spotify etc.) A big thank you to Miranda Melcher for having me on the show!

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Mijn essay over Europa in De Standaard vandaag: archive.is/wt3lg

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

My podcast interview on 'Publicity Politicians, Public Opinion, and the Birth of Media Politics' on the SOCIAL MEDIA & POLITICS podcast: socialmediaandpolitics.org/media-histor... Also on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4jyl... Many thanks to Michael Bossetta for hosting me on the show!

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Vacancies: Post-doc in Disinformation & European Democracy: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Ass. Prof European Political History since 1900: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Ass. Prof Political and Social Philosophy: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566...

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

Post-doctoral researcher in Disinformation and European Democracy (4-year)

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

My new book is now out in print: POLITICIANS AND MASS MEDIA IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE Examines how an expanding mass media created a new type of politician and system of transnational media politics between 1890 and World War I. www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

A short blog article about my research: DEMOCRACY EXPANDED OR ERODED? ‘Publicity Politicians’ and the Transnational Media Politics of Empire cambridgeblog.org/2025/10/demo...

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

My new article on political broadcasting, available on onlinelibrary.wiley.com/.../10.1111/...

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

‘The Communication of Fame’, a chapter I wrote for our new book A Cultural History of Fame in the Age of Revolution, edited by Eva Giloi: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-... If anyone would like a digital copy, let me know 😊

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Betto van Waarden @bettovanwaarden.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

my new book on Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire: www.cambridge.org/core/books/p... #history #politicalhistory #mediahistory #twitterstorians

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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Bsky friends! With colleagues I run the WOinActie Limburg bsky page. We are striking today to protest devastating cuts to higher ed totalling over 1 billion euro. It's part of the global onslaught on higher ed. Help us out; give the page a follow and repost to spread awareness. In solidarity! 🟥

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Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Disinformation isn’t new—it’s just evolved🏛️📜 Democracy was never about ‘pure truth’ but about competing worldviews. The real battle? Who controls the narrative📰⚖️ Read the interview with Betto van Waarden about the relationship between #democracy and #disinformation 👉 tinyurl.com/2wv3wvaz

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