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Sometimes fake news is more real than real news. A study of television news satire as an alternative form of journalism and a resource of public engagement. University of Antwerp

Pieter Maeseele
Media, policy and culture
In the current journalistic context, in which traditional conceptions of journalism are faltering, there is a strong need for research into alternative conceptions of journalism and news, which assesses the democratic potential of these new practices. This proposal provides a direct contribution in this respect by offering a comprehensive examination of satirical news in the Netherlands and Flanders, crossing disciplinary boundaries and ...

Stakeholders marketing for online news media. A multi-method research into stakeholder marketing as a strategic framework for news media to build a sustainable business model with its key stakeholders (advertisers and readers). University of Antwerp

Karolien Poels
Media, policy and culture, Media, ICT and interpersonal relations in Organisations and Society (MIOS)
The digitalisation of news has put the news ecosystem under pressure. External stakeholders (e.g. readers, advertisers) are redefining their relationship with the news medium, destabilizing the dominant revenue model. Readers are no longer willing to pay for news and advertisers are turning to other digital players (Facebook and Google) to spend their ad dollars. These changes create tensions and many news media consider scale as the only way to ...

Reconstructing the news story: gatekeeping, news values and framing in an era of journalist change KU Leuven

Baldwin Van Gorp
Institute for Media Studies

Framing has become one of the most popular concepts in the study of news coverage. However, the process of frame-building (Scheufele, 1999), i.e. what factors influence how the news is being framed, has been treated shabbily for a long time (Borah, 2011). Among frame-building studies, the role of journalists and newsrooms remains rather unexplored. This study attempts to bridge the framing tradition with the field of news production. ...

How politics becomes news and news becomes politics. A comparative study among political journalists and politicians in Switzerland and the Netherlands. University of Antwerp

Peter Van Aelst
Media, Movements and Politics (M2P)
News media are a central player in contemporary western democracies. Yet their political influence is poorly understood and the ways politics and media interact require deeper investigation. This studies deals with the reciprocal relationship between political journalists and politicians in Switzerland and 4 the Netherlands based on an actor-centered approach. Our main goal is to identify factors which make it more likely that political messages ...

Copyright and news media: the impact of copyright on free and independent (online) news media Ghent University

Dirk Voorhoof
Department of Communication Sciences

The central research objective is to investigate what the impact is of copyright on the freedom and independence of online news media. The research centers on two different types of countries: first, European continental countries with a tradition of "authors' rights" (Belgium and Germany); and second, countries with a tradition of "copyrights" (the UK and the US).

The public sphere in times of marketing and digitization: a multimethodical, longitudinal study of the use of news sources in Belgium. Case study: international news. Ghent University

Karin Van De Wal
Department of Communication Sciences

The central research question is wheter, how and how far the marketing and digitization of media culture influence the newsselection process in journalism, and wheter this leads to expansion of impoverishment of the public sphere. We demonstrate the underlying mechanisms of the newsproduction process that determinate which actors are prominently present in the media and influence the public agenda.

The quest for young eyes. Attention to news among young people in the Low Countries KU Leuven

Hans - J.W.J. Beentjes, Leen d'Haenens
Institute for Media Studies

This dissertation started off with the observation that attention for news among young people decreases. More precisely, previous survey studies outlined a triple shift in the current young generation’s use of news: from more to less news, from offline to online news, and from professional to non-professional news sources. Underlying these three trends, was the finding that news does not constitute a substantial part of the daily routines of ...

News diversity: a Longitudinal and Comparative Perspective KU Leuven

Leen d'Haenens
Institute for Media Studies

You are holding a manuscript that has been written within the Steunpunt Media (2012-2016), a policy instrument and knowledge centre that was set up to monitor the pluriformity of the Flemish news media landscape, initiated by the former Flemish Minister of Media Ingrid Lieten. The starting point of our research is the notion that content diversity, by itself, ought to be protected within a democratic society (Lieten, 2011; Napoli, ...

From online to social news: the remediation and reframing of news on Facebook en Twitter. KU Leuven

Michaël Opgenhaffen
Institute for Media Studies
This project investigates the selection, remediation and reframing of news presented on social media news accounts. It can be argued that the news presented on the Facebook and Twitter page of a mainstream news medium often differs from the news presented on the online news site of that same news medium. In a time where social media have become an important news source for youngsters and adults, it is relevant to investigate what kind of news is ...

Tracing the translation of news in community radio in South Africa: An actor-network approach KU Leuven

Luc van Doorslaer
Translation and Intercultural Transfer, Antwerp Campus

Tracing the translation of community radio news in South Africa: An actor-network approach

In South Africa, community radio is a powerful medium of communication for distributing news and information to particular radio audiences in specific languages. Radio is an interactive platform through which remote communities are able to communicate about issues that affect their daily lives. The community radio audience has the ...