I presented at a Film & Talk this week (sold out!). If you want to learn more about propaganda, check out this documentary...
09.02.2026 08:49 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@bettovanwaarden.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History @ Maastricht University | transnational history of politics & mass media | time and politics | disinformation and democracy
I presented at a Film & Talk this week (sold out!). If you want to learn more about propaganda, check out this documentary...
09.02.2026 08:49 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0My 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!
Mijn essay over Europa in De Standaard vandaag: archive.is/wt3lg
10.01.2026 10:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My 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!
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...
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...
A short blog article about my research:
DEMOCRACY EXPANDED OR ERODED? βPublicity Politiciansβ and the Transnational Media Politics of Empire
cambridgeblog.org/2025/10/demo...
My new article on political broadcasting, available on onlinelibrary.wiley.com/.../10.1111/...
24.09.2025 07:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0discount code for my new book
18.06.2025 10:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βThe Communication of Fameβ, 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 π
my new book on Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire: www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
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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! π₯
Vandaag staakt Maastricht! Aujourdhui, Maastricht en grève! Heute streikt Maastricht! Today Maastricht is on strike!
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#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs
www.fnv.nl/nieuwsberich...
Disinformation isnβt newβitβs just evolvedποΈπ Democracy was never about βpure truthβ but about competing worldviews. The real battle? Who controls the narrativeπ°βοΈ
Read the interview with Betto van Waarden about the relationship between #democracy and #disinformation π tinyurl.com/2wv3wvaz