Werkboek Inhoudsanalyse is een praktische handleiding om te leren hoe je op een betrouwbare en verantwoordelijke manier kunt analyseren hoe mensen met elkaar communiceren. Dit boek richt zich op het ontwerpen en uitvoeren van studies die gebruik maken van kwantitatieve inhoudsanalyse als onderzoeksmethode. Deze eerste editie is ontwikkeld in het kader van de opleiding Communicatie- en Informatiewetenschappen (CIW) van Tilburg University. Binnen één semester voeren schrijven studenten een on...

The book of Malachi is seldom referenced in Christian devotion or worship, with a rare

exception being its use as an offering appeal during public worship. But is there more to

Malachi than an offering appeal? Furthermore, what is the purpose of the strong curse at the

end of the text that leads many Jewish people to this day to avoid ending the reading of the

book with its last verse?

In “Blessing and Cursing in Malachi: A Reader-Oriented Approach,” the text of Malachi is

explored to unc...

This study identifies the questions that occur in Luke 1:5–2:52, and then discusses their function in the communication between the text-internal author and the text-internal reader. It does so by applying the Communication-Oriented Method for the first time to this text-unit. It concludes that these questions function at the level of the characters as a communication ‘motor’, with the objective of prolonging the communication between the characters. At the level of the text-internal au...

“The Descartes Lectures” is a biennial event at Tilburg University that invites a distinguished philosopher to deliver a series of three lectures, each followed by commentaries from other experts in the field. In 2022, Tilburg University had the honor of hosting Cheshire Calhoun for a series of talks on the important philosophical question of what it means to be a responsible person. The commentators for the lectures were Gunnar Björnsson, Jules Holroyd, and Heidi Maibom. This book is a ...

Classically, regulation targets human behavior. In an era of Big Data, artificial intelligence, and robotics which shape and sometimes even replace human behavior, however, the classic regulatory paradigm is challenged in fundamental ways. This research program aims to map, understand, and – to the extent possible – help shape the shift from a human-centric regulatory paradigm to a data-centric regulatory paradigm. This project recognizes the importance of human behavior and human decisio...

Over the past decade, the proposal for a Universal and Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) has become a serious alternative in policy-making circles. UBI promises replace the complex welfare bureaucracy with a single benefit – abandoning targets (such as the unemployed) and activation instruments (such as job-search requirements). This disarmingly simple idea has inspired policy experiments in many countries, the Netherlands among them. I show how UBI became a credible policy alternative in th...