Ming Boyer

Ming Boyer is a Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Department of Communication Science, affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. He holds roles as a Research Associate at the Network Institute and the Communication Choices, Content and Consequences (CCCC) group. His research focuses on how citizens' group identities influence political communication selection, processing, and creation. Currently, he leads an NWO Veni grant project investigating communication differences between dominant and marginalized groups.

Prior roles include postdoctoral research in the ERC-funded DeVOTE project (2018–2021), examining global voting meanings and media effects. His PhD (University of Vienna, 2021) explored how political information interacts with group identities and ideologies. He teaches courses in Communication Science, including Bachelor’s Thesis supervision and Social Media Analytics.

Key research areas include motivated reasoning, identity politics, media effects on social perception, and online hate speech dynamics. His work bridges cognitive psychology, political science, and communication studies. Notable projects include analyzing hate speech mitigation strategies and the role of episodic news framing in reducing bias.

• Grants: NWO Veni Grant (2023–), ERC Project DeVOTE (Postdoc 2021)
• Projects: Principal Investigator for the Identity Politics and Inclusive Deliberation project (2024–2027)
• Awards: NWO Veni Grant (2023)