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Digital screen culture to the test: a large scale study on young film audiences in Flanders. University of Antwerp

Philippe Meers
Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)
This research project focuses upon young people's engagement with digital screen culture in Flanders. Although the audience, and young people in particular, is often explicitly (or implicitly) present in discourses of the film industry and policy makers, large scale up-to-date surveys of audiences are lacking. Therefore, we propose a study on young film audiences, as a major shift in media and film culture has become manifest: young people are ...

Culture of spectacle. An interdisciplinary platform for historical research into film, theatre, dans and music performances. University of Antwerp

Kurt Vanhoutte
Research Centre for Visual Poetics
An interdisciplinary platform for historical research on film, theatre, dance and musical performance.Cultures of Spectacles is an international interdisciplinary research community of scholars working on a diversity of spectacles. Our research is generally historic and focusses on the era from the beginning of the belle époque (appr. 1870) to the definitive breakthrough of television. Before performances or spectacles moved to the living room ...

Spectatorship as a Political Act. Re-Assessing the Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere University of Antwerp

Arthur Cools
Center for European Philosophy
The existence of a public sphere in which citizens encounter each other and enter into a debate on public and political matters has been a central concern of democratic theory. Since the 1990s, various authors have observed that the internet provides such a 'digital public sphere'. This observation has triggered a debate on the political implications of the digital transformation of the public sphere between so-called cyberoptimists and ...

Screening the Benelux: A comparative research project on film policy and (trans)national identity in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg University of Antwerp

Philippe Meers
Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)
Located at the heart of Western Europe and together serving as the direct predecessor of the European Union, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (the Benelux) are closely connected historically, politically and culturally. Nevertheless, they differ greatly in terms of national identity, making the countries particularly interesting to compare. This research project aims to make such a comparison by examining the role of the media in the ...

Mediating Cultural Encounters Through European Screens (MeCETES) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Caroline Pauwels
Communication Sciences
In modern societies, cultural encounters are to a large degree mediated encounters. The MeCETES project is founded on the premise that our experience of other Europeans is heavily mediated through film and television.

Since 1992, the role of culture and the creative industries within Europe has gained in importance, and the EU has developed increasingly comprehensive cultural and media policies as part of the European project. Yet ...

Researching the new urban experience: a Transnational Multi- Method Study of the Intersections between Direct and Mediated Visual Enactments in Cosmopolitan Contexts. University of Antwerp

Luc Pauwels
Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)
This research project aims to produce an in-depth, multilayered analysis of the contemporary urban experience addressed in particular from the point of view of the cultural changes that have been made possible through the greater involvement contemporary cities have with mediatized flows of information and communication. More concretely this project will seek to produce a better understanding of the ways in which multiple intersections between ...

Cinema Located. A study on place, space and social experience of cinema in Ghent (1982-2012) Ghent University

Daniël Biltereyst
Department of Communication Sciences

The multiplex celebrated its 30th anniversary, yet very little empirical research has been done on the place, space and experience of cinema culture since its emergence (Hanson, 2007; Klinger, 2006; Acland, 2003). The workings of Hollywood, cross-cultural reception and the Americanisation of the cinema culture in non-American domains have been subject to many critiques (Krämer, 2011; Trumpbour, 2002; Vasey, 1997; Thompson, 1985; Guback, ...

Digging deep into the arsenal of calcium-dependent antibiotics through highly targeted genotype-based selection KU Leuven

Jan Michiels
Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), Soft Matter and Biophysics

There is a pressing need for novel antibiotics in face of increasing
drug resistance. Most antibiotics in clinical use are derived from
natural products. It is generally accepted that there is still an
enormous untapped potential left, especially in soil. However, many
promising strains remain out of reach of functional exploration
because of their low abundance, compounded by limited culturability
under standard ...