Projects
(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 ...
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 ...
How politics becomes news and news becomes politics. A comparative study among political journalists and politicians in Switzerland and the Netherlands. University of Antwerp
News4You(th): The news consumption routes and willingness to pay for news among 18-26-year-old Flemish youths AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Copyright and news media: the impact of copyright on free and independent (online) news media Ghent University
The central research objective is to investigate what the impact is of copyright on the freedom and independence of online news media. The research centers on two different types of countries: first, European continental countries with a tradition of "authors' rights" (Belgium and Germany); and second, countries with a tradition of "copyrights" (the UK and the US).
The public sphere in times of marketing and digitization: a multimethodical, longitudinal study of the use of news sources in Belgium. Case study: international news. Ghent University
The central research question is wheter, how and how far the marketing and digitization of media culture influence the newsselection process in journalism, and wheter this leads to expansion of impoverishment of the public sphere. We demonstrate the underlying mechanisms of the newsproduction process that determinate which actors are prominently present in the media and influence the public agenda.