Projects
NewZ Lab: How to Engage Gen Z with News in Flanders? HOWEST
From online to social news: the remediation and reframing of news on Facebook en Twitter. KU Leuven
(De)constructing health news: a transdisciplinary investigation into news media coverage of elderly-related issues. Ghent University
Drawing on a transdisciplinary partnership between communication sciences, sociolinguistics, medical science and sociology, this project investigates the impact of the changing mediascape on the news coverage of health issues with a focus on elderly-related issues. Applying a holistic approach, we look at different stakeholders: the pharmaceutical industry, policy-making bodies, news media, special-interest groups and the general public.
Navigating identities in political news: An intersectional understanding of gendering in news coverage on women politicians Ghent University
This project studies gendered patterns in Flemish news coverage about women politicians, using an intersectional perspective. It focuses on (1) gendering in news output by means of a quantitative
content analysis, (2) women politicians’ experiences with intersecting power structures within political journalism (in-depth interviews) and (3) the ways journalists negotiate identity in the production of
news coverage (in-depth ...
Philosophy of Journalism. Audiences, Avatars and the New of the News KU Leuven
The term "journalism" signifies the monitoring and interpretation of collective experience. Specifically, the journalist identifies and articulates what is significant in the collective’s experience to, and on behalf of, them. With case studies derived from real-life news headlines and the histories of journalism and philosophy, I combine Chaïım Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca’s phenomenology of rhetoric with Margaret’s Gilbert’s theory ...
Sometimes fake news is more real than real news. A study of television news satire as an alternative form of journalism and a resource of public engagement. University of Antwerp
Does diverse news lead to a diverse audience? The influence of news content diversity on people's opinions, issue perceptions, and news item evaluation. University of Antwerp
NEWS DIVING: News Sentiment Diversity, Index construction and Generative models Ghent University
The digitalization of the media sector has disrupted the access to news News articles are now available at a large scale and low cost across many news sources In spite of the increase in news volume, economic agents often only consume news provided by a non-diversified subset of news sources The lack of diversification reveals itself in both the choice of topics covered and the sentiment used in the news articles This may lead to a biased ...