Betto van Waarden
@bettovanwaarden.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History @ Maastricht University | transnational history of politics & mass media | time and politics | disinformation and democracy
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...
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...
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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...
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? ‘Publicity Politicians’ and the Transnational Media Politics of Empire
cambridgeblog.org/2025/10/demo...
DEMOCRACY EXPANDED OR ERODED? ‘Publicity Politicians’ and the Transnational Media Politics of Empire
cambridgeblog.org/2025/10/demo...
October 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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...
DEMOCRACY EXPANDED OR ERODED? ‘Publicity Politicians’ 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/...
September 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
My new article on political broadcasting, available on onlinelibrary.wiley.com/.../10.1111/...
discount code for my new book
June 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
discount code for my new book
‘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 😊
If anyone would like a digital copy, let me know 😊
June 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
‘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 😊
If anyone would like a digital copy, let me know 😊
my new book on Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire: www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
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June 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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! 🟥
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! 🟥
🟥 Dutch universities are presenting their self-regulation plan for internationalization today - a thoughtful alternative to the government's damaging TAO framework. 🟥
Universities present self-regulation plan for international student enrolment
www.maastrichtuniversity.nl
April 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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! 🟥
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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Vandaag staakt Maastricht! Aujourdhui, Maastricht en grève! Heute streikt Maastricht! Today Maastricht is on strike!
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#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs
www.fnv.nl/nieuwsberich...
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#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs
www.fnv.nl/nieuwsberich...
Woensdag duizenden stakers naar Maastricht voor protest tegen onderwijsbezuinigingen
Woensdag ligt het hoger onderwijs in Maastricht plat. Duizenden docenten, onderzoekers, studenten en werknemers van het hoger onderwijs staken tegen de heilloze onderwijsbezuinigingen van het kabinet....
www.fnv.nl
April 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Vandaag staakt Maastricht! Aujourdhui, Maastricht en grève! Heute streikt Maastricht! Today Maastricht is on strike!
✊
#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs
www.fnv.nl/nieuwsberich...
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#KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs
www.fnv.nl/nieuwsberich...
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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
Read the interview with Betto van Waarden about the relationship between #democracy and #disinformation 👉 tinyurl.com/2wv3wvaz
March 31, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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
Read the interview with Betto van Waarden about the relationship between #democracy and #disinformation 👉 tinyurl.com/2wv3wvaz