First ERC Consolidator for social communication and media sciences at the University of Warsaw!
Prof. Magdalena Wojcieszak has received an ERC Consolidator grant (€2 million) for the project NEWSUSE: Incentivizing Citizen Exposure to Quality News Online. In today's world, many people feel anxious about information bubbles or fake news.

The project aims to encourage citizens to obtain balanced information. "Incentivizing Citizen Exposure to Quality News Online: Framework and Tools (NEWSUSE)".

Prof. Wojcieszak has been working with the UW Media Studies Laboratory for more than four years. Together with Prof. Tomasz Gackowski at LBM UW, she has already carried out several large projects - including the ERC Starting Grant at the University of Amsterdam "Europeans Exposed to Dissimilar Views in the Media: Investigating Backfire Effects" (€2.3 million) and "Over-time effects of indirect exposure to misinformation" (Facebook Research Foundation).

The results of these projects include publications in prestigious international journals such as Political Behavior and Nature Human Behaviour. It is worth noting that Prof. Magdalena Wojcieszak is a winner of the RED GIANT program within the Excellence Initiative - University of Research (IDUB) at the University of Warsaw. In the coming months, we will be recruiting research senior stuff for the ERC Consolidator project together with Prof. Wojcieszak - if your area of research is computational social science - go ahead and let us know and join our research teams.