Projects
Can social media literacy contribute to adolescents' mental well-being? Developing a conceptual framework for the socialization of social media literacy and its role in mitigating adversarial social media effects KU Leuven
The current society increasingly highlights the importance for adolescents to use social media in a media literate way. That is because of widespread public concerns on adolescents’ avid use of social media platforms. Social media are also often considered harmful for adolescents’ well-being, even though research investigating this has largely produced inconsistent results. Yet, scholars and policy makers alike have put social media literacy ...
IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF HEALTH LITERACY TRAINING PROGRAM FOR NURSES. A HEALTH LITERACY INTERVENTION STUDY KU Leuven
Introduction : Health literacy is the knowledge, motivation and competence to obtain, comprehend, evaluate and make use of health information and services in ways that promote and maintain good health. Health literacy practices are an important component of effective patient-health-professional communication . However, the literacy level of health information, both in print and spoken, being received by and communicated to health consumers by ...
Newcomers’ literacy trajectories: mapping and monitoring literacy learning practices, processes and strategies in formal, non-formal and informal spheres. KU Leuven
This doctoral research forms the basis of a broader research project (C2 - Unlocking newcomers’ literacy development: learning for life in formal, non-formal and informal spheres) that focuses on migrant newcomers’ language and literacy development in their new host environment. It explores how they expand their literacy competencies in different situated socialization processes and ecologies, and tries to gain insight into how newcomers’ ...
Flemish Knowledge Centre on Media Literacy - Spearhead Project: Toolkit Media Literacy; methodologies and best practices. KU Leuven
Legal literacy of teachers: examining the legal problems in educational practice, the legal literacy of teachers and the role of the initial teacher training program KU Leuven
This project investigates the role of the teacher in preparing teachers for the legal aspects of their profession, given the increasing degree of legalization of the educational and teaching practice. On the basis of a questionnaire and in-depth interviews it will examine the legal literacy of teachers to determine what knowledge vacuum should be remedied from the teacher.
Examining the Role of Advertising Literacy in How Young Children Cope with Online Data Collection Practices and Targeted Advertising Ghent University
This research project will use experimental research to investigate how children (7-12 years) cope with online data collection and the influence this has on the effectiveness of targeted advertising. In particular, the role of children’s knowledge and understanding of this advertising technique (cognitive advertising literacy) and perceived fairness (by means of a cost-benefit analysis) in this process will be examined.
"You must pardon me that which I did not write well". Orality and literacy in eighteenth-century Southern Dutch Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Low literacy among newcomers in the reception of asylum seekers. KU Leuven
Identify the proportion of low-literate people in Belgian asylum centers, the nature and degree of that low-literacy, and the problems and obstacles experienced by low-literate asylum seekers during their stay in the asylum center and in their further integration process.
Evaluation of literature by professional and layperson critics: A digital and literary sociological analysis of evaluative talk of literature through the prism of literary prizes (2007-2017) Ghent University
Recently, the manager of a Dutch publishing consortium manager stated that literary quality should
be measured and predicted by means of algorithms and big data-based audience research, rather
than by experts. His claim drew ire and caused the exodus of many of established authors; at the
same time, the statement is indicative of a broader societal trend in which the knowledge of
professional 'pundits' is rivalled and ...