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From Food Media to Food Literacy: Investigating the potential of using food media to increase food literacy among young adults (18-25). University of Antwerp

Media, ICT and interpersonal relations in Organisations and Society (MIOS)

People consume food via various media to such a degree that some even talk about "food porn". This project aims to investigate if this form of entertainment can be(come) a tool to educate young adults (18-25) from different SES backgrounds about food literacy. We start with an exploration of the food literacy barriers Flemish young adults experience. In this exploratory phase we will also monitor which food media they watch most often and find ...

Constructing the moral and political (ir)responsibilities towards Syrian and Afghan refugees. A sociological discourse analysis on how Belgian media, the public, civil society and policy have responded to refugee demands. University of Antwerp

Gert Verschraegen

Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

This research project examines the social construction of moral and political responsibilities towards refugees. It thereby focusses on how different social actors, such as refugee organisations, policy makers and the media, compete with one another in defining and evaluating the claims of refugees.

Sexualisation in and by children's media. The content, use, and impact of sexualizing messages among 10- to 12-year olds. KU Leuven

Steven Eggermont

Leuven School for Mass Communication Research

The applicants propose to fill a critical gap of scholarly knowledge on the concept of sexualisation of children. This concept refers to a process in which young people are drawn in and socialized by a culture that attaches great importance to physical appearance, heterosexual attraction, and romantic and sexual success. Contemporary media are believed to play a central role in this process. However, studies to date have not ...

Language Norms and Accommodation in Computer Mediated Discourse The Case of Berber Diaspora Websites Ghent University

Michael Meeuwis

Department of Languages and Cultures, Department of African languages and cultures

This study investigates one of the central claims of recent social theory, namely that U+2018traditionalU+2019 collective identities, based on social class hierarchy and sustained by local and national institutions, are being substituted by more dynamic and transnational group identities, which are strongly supported by electronic media. The following related research questions are addressed:

1. How are language norms created ...

The Media-Tourist: 'Mediation', Image-Making, and Enchantment in Tourists' Experiences of Antwerp, Naples and Helsinki. University of Antwerp

Paolo S H Favero

Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)

The present project aims to offer an ethnography-based analysis of the dialectic between ICT "mediated" ("virtual") and "unmediated" (direct, bodily, "real") experiences of the urban space in the context of tourist practices. Research will be conducted in Antwerp, Naples and Helsinki hence offering an innovative transnational European perspective on the subject.

iCANDID: Improving Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Discourse Analysis with Data Mining Tools KU Leuven

Leen d'Haenens

Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven, Leuven School for Mass Communication Research, Institute for Media Studies, Centre for Political Research, Institute for Human Rights, Research Unit KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP)

Invigorated by digitisation, information flows in society have been fundamentally altered. Not only does content travel faster than ever before, but it comes at us in evergrowing
volumes through many formats and platforms. In a digitised world, researchers may stand out if they can retrieve and analyse complete and accurate dataset. iCANDID, our proposed infrastructure, will provide innovative and integrated access to various types of ...

Rethinking the federal paradox. Sub state nationalist discourse of political parties in electoral manifestoes and television debates of four federal countries (1968-2010). University of Antwerp

Stefaan Walgrave

Media, Movements and Politics (M2P)

The literature on federalism has been dealing with an unresolved paradox for many years. On the one hand, by granting autonomy to sub state collectivities, federalism is said to temper demands of sub-state nationalist parties. On the other hand, by institutionalizing sub state identities, federalism is said to provide tools that reinforce autonomist or separatist demands. Important to resolve this paradox is that federal systems can differ ...

A discourse-theoretical analysis of international communication policies and projects and a multi-facetted analysis of the Information and Comminication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) discourse. Ghent University

Daniël Biltereyst

Department of Communication Sciences

First, a discourse-theoretical approach will be developed which will be applied to international communication polices and projects. Second, ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) projects, events and policy initiatives will be tied together in a theoretical framework uniting discourse theory and political theory.

Trojan Horse Discourse: The Use and Abuse of Contemporary Constitutional Discourse for Fundamental Rights Protection. University of Antwerp

Patricia Popelier

Communication for Academic and Professional purposes (C-APP), Government and Law

Europe is confronted with a rise of autocratic regimes and tendencies. In this context, academic research and media have reported on Member States relying on current concepts of European constitutional law that structure the interaction and dialogue between the domestic and European legal order for the pu ose of reinforcing its own policy to the detriment of fundamental rights protection. Such concepts often established to reconcile European and ...

What are we buying into?: A holistic empirical analysis of the production, circulation and reception of discourses on ethical consumption, with a focus on de-politicisation. University of Antwerp

Pieter Maeseele

Media, policy and culture

Supplanting the current analyses of ethical consumption within society, the aim of this research proposal is to study ethical consumption in Flanders as a struggle between different discourses on ethical consumption, by focussing on the concept of de-politicisation. Merging the stringent empirical approach of the case studies with the critical aim of the theoretical analyses, we put forward ethical consumption as a concept which is above all ...

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