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Stimulating film and media in Palestine. The enhancement of the media studies bachelor and the development of a film making minor at the Media Department of the Al Quds University. University of Antwerp

Philippe Meers
Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)
There is a clear need for a high level specialized media and film education in Palestine. Currently many of the film makers in Palestine had their training abroad. In the very sensitive political situation it is important that Palestinians produce their own documentaries and fiction, creating their own voice and representation.The main objectives of the project are twofold and complementary:1. The enhancement of the existing programmes in ...

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

Laura Vandenbosch
Leuven School for Mass Communication Research

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 ...

(Mis-)Informed by Social Media Influencers? Benefits and Risks of Following Political Social Media Influencers and the Moderating Role of Media Literacy KU Leuven

Desiree Schmuck
Leuven School for Mass Communication Research

Social media influencers who were initially known for marketing and advertising increasingly use their popularity on platforms like TikTok, Instagram or Snapchat to communicate their opinions on political and societal topics to a large network of followers. This increasing political engagement of social media influencers can be seen in a positive light as it may raise political interest and participation among young people who are often not ...

The Child Effect in Media Use: Investigating Family Dynamics Concerning Media Behavior in Parent-Child Dyads. KU Leuven

Steven Eggermont, Jan Van den Bulck
Leuven School for Mass Communication Research

Most studies on the uses and effects of media and communication by parents and children have focused on how parents influence and guide the media use of their children. Much less is known about how children influence and guide the media use of their parents. Yet children are often the driving force behind the introduction of new media and new media contents within families. In 2005, Van den Bulck and Van den Bergh published a review in the ...

SRP-Onderzoekszwaartepunt: Strategic Research Programme on media economics: Algorithm-Driven Media industries and how they reshape value in small markets Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Pieter Ballon
Communication Sciences
In the context of on-demand distribution and consumption of media content, online delivery platforms rely on a relatively new component in media industries: algorithms. In practice, algorithms facilitate the online curation of large on-demand catalogues (e.g., for streaming services such as Netflix or video-sharing platforms such as YouTube), and, by analysing user data, they offer personalised recommendations for content (e.g., news ...

When and how do (social) media contribute to late adolescents’ professional choice trajectory? Development of the MAP model as a conceptual framework to identify the role of (social) media in professional choices. KU Leuven

Laura Vandenbosch
Leuven School for Mass Communication Research

The current PhD focuses on job portrayals in TV series and on social, and the effects of such portrayals on late adolescents. More precisely, the first aim was to explore adolescents’ own experiences with career-related portrayals in TV series and social media and how such experiences differ according to both media outlets. Via a qualitative focus group study, adolescents’ reception of career-related messages, the cultivation of important ...

The Marketplace of ideas: Less owners, less ideas? An interdisciplinary study on the impact of media ownership concentration on media content, outlet and production diversity using a longitudinal and cross-national perspective. University of Antwerp

Economics, Media, Movements and Politics (M2P), Antwerp Media in Society Centre (AMSoC)
Combining insights from communication studies, political science and economics, the project aims to understand the characteristics of the current media concentration (and resulting media conglomerates) and its impact on content diversity in historical and cross-country comparative perspective to answer the question if concentration of media ownership limits the plurality of issues, actors, viewpoints and discourses in the media, undermining ...

Is the tail wagging the dog? Comparative study on the influence of social media on traditional media coverage of political events (TAILWAGSDOG). University of Antwerp

Peter Van Aelst
Media, Movements and Politics (M2P)
In a democracy, citizens need information about politics. Traditionally, the mainstream media have been considered the key actors in providing this informational backbone of democracy. Past scholarship has consistently shown that when political events occur, news outlets convey and interpret the information for citizens, not the other way around. Yet to what extent is it possible to maintain this classic insight in the digital era? Citizens can ...