Publications

Narratives on ageing are deeply entangled with discourses on happiness. This article draws on Sara AhmedU+2019s critique on the disciplinary dynamics of the promise of happiness to explore how happiness scripts make certain U+2018happy objectsU+2019 such as beauty aspirations, sexual desires, and life choices seen as U+2018rightU+2019 for older women and others as U+2018wrongU+2019. My aim is to contribute to new feminist theorisations of ...

During the past two decades or so, the emergence and ever-accelerating development of digital media have sparked scholarly interest, debates, and complex challenges across many disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. Within this diverse scholarship, the research on digitality, gender, sexuality, and embodiment has contributed substantially to many academic fields, such as media studies, sociology, religion, philosophy, and ...

Gender, sexuality and embodiment in digital spheres have been increasingly studied from various critical perspectives: From research highlighting the articulation of intimacies, desires, and sexualities in and through digital spaces to theoretical explorations of materiality in the digital realm. With such a high level of (inter)disciplinarity, theories, methods, and analyses of gender, sexuality, and embodiment in relation to digital spheres ...

This article presents a single case study investigating the role of change communication in the early stages of change implementation at a European government agency. It adopts a multimethod approach, relying on quantitative methods and adding qualitative components to clarify core assumptions. The quantitative part of the research relies on a survey of 718 staff members, based on existing instrumentsU+2014the ICA audit, the Organizational ...

Hoe is het gesteld met het gender(on)evenwicht in het nieuws wereldwijd? Dat is het perspectief van het Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), een vijfjaarlijks onderzoek naar de representatie van vrouwen en mannen in nieuwsmedia. De zesde studie werd in 2020 gelanceerd en mobiliseerde teams van wetenschappers, journalisten en activisten in 116 landen. In België werkten onderzoekers van de Universiteit Gent, de Université Libre de Bruxelles en ...

Since the new millennium, there has been a remarkable increase in audio-visual adaptations of superhero comic books (Garcia-Escriva, 2018). Whereas these adaptations used to include predominantly male superheroes, they have started to feature more female superheroes (Curtis & Cardo, 2018). An increase, however, does not imply diverse and rounded representations, since women in superhero movies tend to be depicted in stereotypical and ...

In using rhetorical figures in speeches, politicians consciously act upon reality and shift the perspectives of their audience towards their own world views (Martin, 2013). Analysts often build on the presence of these rhetorical figures to reconstruct the political strategy, which necessarily assumes the political sender was strategic in his or her choices (Strömback & Esser, 2017). However, as rhetoric is also part of a long cultural ...

Since the rediscovery of rhetoric in the fields of political science (Finlayson, 2004), political communication (Beasley, 2012) and political marketing (Brown et al., 2018), scholars have increasingly recognized the importance of rhetoric in political speech (Finlayson & Martin, 2008) and other types of political communication (Martin, 2014). In most of these studies rhetorical analyses, i.e. the study of rhetorical means in communication, ...