Projects
TransMIXR : Ignite the Immersive Media Sector by Enabling New Narrative Visions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
technologies provides a unique window of opportunity for the European Creative and Cultural Sector (CCS) to reimagine digital cocreation,
interaction and engagement possibilities. TransMIXR, a consortium of eight representatives from the CCS and twelve leading
industrial and academic partners, ...
Anti-populist discourse in European politics and media Vrije Universiteit Brussel
ReMed : RESILIENT MEDIA FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE Vrije Universiteit Brussel
DEMOCRACY-01-06: “Media for democracy – democratic media”, and will tackle existing challenges to a healthy relationship between
media and democracy, by taking a bold approach to improve relations between citizens, media and digital technologies. With an
interdisciplinary approach and an innovative ...
Flemish-Dutch collaboration against disinformation, for and by fact checkers, media professionals, scientists and other experts KU Leuven
The vast amount of conspiracy theories and disinformation that coexist alongside genuine information threatens an open, well-functioning and pluralistic information ecosystem that is key to effectively functioning democracies. Most research on fact-checking and disinformation has neglected the Dutch and Belgian setting. Yet the rise of political polarisation, misconceptions about COVID-19 and migrant communities, and declining trust in media ...
DG CNECT: Stars4Media - Exchange of media rising starts to speed up innovation and increase cross-border coverage Vrije Universiteit Brussel
between cooperating media organisations, to accelerate media innovation and crossborder coverage.
We are all Ayotzinapa. The role of Digital Media in the Shaping of Transnational Memories on Disappearance KU Leuven
The project seeks to study the role of digital media in the shaping of transnational memories on disappearance. It investigates a novel case that is in process of shaping: the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in September 2014. The role of the new media in getting citizens’ attention and in marking a “turning point” was crucial to the upsurge of a counter-movement against the Mexican government and qualifies the event as significant for ...
H2020: CSA: ScreenMe-Net: Twinning for Sustainable and Visible Excellence in Screen Media Entrepreneurship Scholarship Vrije Universiteit Brussel
impact of this project,mainly through the institutionalization of a screen media entrepreneurship research hub, the so-called ScreenME-Hub,at TLU.