Communicatie- & Informatiewetenschappen

Ben je geïnteresseerd in de techniek achter smartphones, computers en het internet? Maar vind je het ook leuk om meer te weten over de communicatieve aspecten van die media? Dan is dit jouw studie.
Organisaties communiceren met hun klanten via verschillende digitale kanalen zoals email, social media en apps. Binnen de track Computercommunicatie bestudeer je de eigenschappen en mogelijkheden van deze kanalen en de daarvoor relevante technologieën en producten.
De track gaat in op de interactie van de mens met de computer, tussen mensen onderling en tussen mensen en organisaties via de computer. Daarnaast maakt het je vertrouwd met theorieën en methoden om deze interactie te analyseren en te evalueren.
Je bestudeert boodschappen die via verschillende digitale kanalen worden verstuurd en je ontdekt wat voor communicatieproblemen er kunnen ontstaan en hoe deze opgelost kunnen worden. Voorts doe je onderzoek naar de gebruikservaring en -vriendelijkheid van websites en interfaces om inzicht te krijgen in de manieren waarop interactie tussen mens en computer soepeler kan verlopen.

Je bestudeert communicatie en interactie vanuit verschillende invalshoeken. Door je vakkenkeuze kun je het accent leggen op technologie of communicatie.
Alle vakken worden in het Engels gegeven. Moet je een premaster volgen dan zijn er een paar vakken Nederlandstalig.

Do you want to be at the forefront of the digital turn in the humanities? The current information revolution opens up exciting perspectives for research and its applications in society.This Master's track equips you to look at culture, language, history or philosophy through the lens of digital methods.We are witnessing many exciting new trends in information technology. The vast amount of digital data that is available nowadays opens up new research questions and opportunities for real life applications. This Digital Humanities track offers a systematic way to incorporate information technology in humanities research.It trains students with a humanities background for the growing number of research and other job opportunities that require processing of digital information. It reflects on the underlying theory and the impacts on our culture and society. It offers courses for collecting, analyzing and visualizing humanities data. Finally, you will be skilled to work with professional databases, programming scripts, and statistical tools.Students who graduated successfully from this programme were able to integrate a humanities perspective with computational methods. For instance, the thesis “Tracing Joyce’s notes for Ulysses” (2017) employed automation strategies for the digital representation and for source-tracing of Joyce’s notebooks. Another example is the thesis “Visualiz

Are you fascinated by artificial intelligence and language technology? In this study you learn how to develop and assess smart applications such as conversational agents, automatic translation systems, and intelligent search engines.
As an MSc student of Information Science, you learn how to analyze unstructured data (such as text) automatically, and find out which machine learning techniques can be used to solve problems in information science. You also take part in shared tasks (working with a group on a challenging problem in language technology), and apply methods from artificial intelligence to real-world applications such as machine translation for low-resource languages, the semantic web, hate-speech detection, and smart user interfaces.

The Master's track builds on the knowledge, insights and skills that you have acquired in your Bachelor's degree. You will learn to carry out research independently and improve your programming, analytical and presentation skills.

This track is a specialization of the Master's degree programme in Communication and Information Sciences. All courses are taught in English.