Projects
South-African screen cultures between convergence and globalisation. A multivlevel research project on media industries and audiences. University of Antwerp
Media Councils in the Digital Age 4 Ghent University
The project will highlight the important role that press and media councils play in times of decreasing trust towards journalists and media outlets combined with increasing disinformation on online platforms. Press and media councils are key self-regulatory institutions developed before the digital revolution. Therefore, last decades they have witnessed the need to adapt their practices and ethical codes to better adapt to a constantly ...
European network for the promotion of digital literacy and diversity in the media Ghent University
1. Identify and disseminate the products and practices of past and ongoing eLearning projects in the field of e-inclusion and intercultural values.
2. Evaluate, disseminate, and promote the use of on-line and blended learning tools created by XenoCLIPse and other projects in the eLearning programme:
a. On-line course in blended learning setting on media production.
b. On-line address book/directory for the access of ...
Malleability in mediated ideals: A paradigm to understand effects of contemporary media in adolescents' well-being (MIMIc). KU Leuven
MIMIc will develop and establish a new theoretical perspective that will fundamentally redirect the current research on idealised representations of life in mass and social media and their effects on (adolescent) audiences. MIMIc combines insights from cultural sociology, media theory, and developmental psychology to define the effects of ‘malleable ideals’ in media. Malleable ideals are idealised representations of different achievements and ...
A critical discourse analytic-approach to public and media discourses on genetically modified crops and food in Asia. University of Antwerp
European Media Platforms: assessing positive and negative externalities for European culture Ghent University
While media platforms can play a role in enhancing a European identity, the European dimension has rarely dominated in media history. Most web platforms are owned by American companies, and movie market shares are divided among national productions and importations from the United States and other influential countries. The EU-funded EUMEPLAT project will conduct a multidisciplinary analysis to shed light on whether new platforms (YouTube, ...
Independent Regulatory bodies in the Audiovisual Media Sector. KU Leuven
Critical Archives of Ordinariness: Vernacular Moving Image Practices and Migrant Identity in Polish Chicago KU Leuven
This project explores home movies and related oral histories of Polish Chicago before the digital era (1960s–2000s) to challenge and broaden our understanding of evolving migrant and diaspora identities. Following critical archive studies’ call to empower communities underrepresented in historiography by developing and interrogating archival collections, the project juxtaposes home movies – “ordinary” motion pictures created for family and ...
Meaningful Integration of Data, Analytics and Services KU Leuven
The MIDAS consortium is a partnership involving health authorities in five EU countries and the U.S. and technical big data experts from research institutions, MNCs and SMEs. Managing big data for ‘health in all’ is a monumental challenge for policy makers. MIDAS is addressing this challenge by developing and delivering an integrated solution which will liberate knowledge from data silos and unify heterogeneous big data sources to provide ...