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Researcher
Sander De Ridder
- Research Expertise (University of Antwerp):I am currently working as an assistant professor in the field of Media Studies at the University of Antwerp. I’m trained in Film and Television Studies with a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Ghent University. I held positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow of the FWO, as a lecturer at Ghent University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and as visiting research fellow at The London School of Economics and Political Science and at the University of Amsterdam. My research investigates the role of media and digital culture in society with a focus on digital intimacy, identity, and communication. I worked on digital youth cultures, social media, datafication, intimacies, and sexualities. I’m currently focusing on topics such as digital reputation, people’s trust in digital media platforms, loneliness and digital media. I have an interest in critical and cultural theory, how socio-technical relations and the political-economic functioning of digital media are changing society. I’m drawing on, among others, textual, visual, and participatory research methods. I published my work in leading journals such New Media and Society, Social Media+Society, and Television and New Media. I’m co-editor of (together with Lisa Parks and Julia Velkova) of Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations, soon to be published by the University of Illinois Press (May 2023). At UAntwerp, I’m a member of the Antwerp Media in Society Centre (AMSoC), and I’m teaching subjects such as Media, Power and Society, Methods in Communication Research and Digital Media Futures. In addition, I am a supervisor of master dissertations and doctorates, and I co-teach the master seminar in media studies. I was vice-chair (2016-2017) and chair (2017-2021) of the Digital Culture and Communication division of ECREA (the European Communication Research and Education Association). I’m an affiliated researcher at the Global Media Technologies & Cultures Lab (University of California at Santa Barbara, US).
- Keywords (University of Antwerp):DIGITAL MEDIA, MEDIA STUDIES, Language and literature (incl. information, documentation, library and archive sciences)
- Keywords (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):Political and social sciences, Economics and applied economics, Language and literature (incl. information, documentation, library and archive sciences)
- Keywords (Ghent University):Digital Media Culture, Audience studies, Media and sexuality
- Disciplines (University of Antwerp):Media and communication theory, Political economy of communication, Visual communication, Cultural media, Digital media, Media audience research, Media discourse reception, Media education, Media sociology
- Disciplines (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Engineering and technology, Natural sciences
- Disciplines (Ghent University):Digital media, Cultural media
- Research techniques (University of Antwerp):Qualitative audience studies, digital ethnography, textual analysis
- Users of research expertise (University of Antwerp):Digital media and technology, society and culture. Qualitative audience research, digital ethnography and textual analysis.
- See also: Sander De Ridder (Ghent University)
- See also: Sander De Ridder (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)