Projects
Navigating identities in political news: An intersectional understanding of gendering in news coverage on women politicians Ghent University
This project studies gendered patterns in Flemish news coverage about women politicians, using an intersectional perspective. It focuses on (1) gendering in news output by means of a quantitative
content analysis, (2) women politicians’ experiences with intersecting power structures within political journalism (in-depth interviews) and (3) the ways journalists negotiate identity in the production of
news coverage (in-depth ...
How political news affects and is affected by citizens in the social media age. Theoretical challenges and empirical opportunities University of Antwerp
Does the journalist matter? A multi-method study on the influence of journalists' political gender stereotypes on the representations of male and female politicians in the news Ghent University
This project contributes to the literature by shedding light on the impact of political gender stereotypes among journalists on the representation of female politicians in Flemish news media, from an intersectional perspective. To do so, the project puts forward a multi-method research design combining quantitative content analysis, reconstruction interviews and a between-subjects survey experiment.
Reading between the Numbers: The Use of Numerical Evidence in Political News and its Impact on the Public. University of Antwerp
"Reading between the Numbers: The Use of Numerical Evidence in Political News and its Impact on the Public". University of Antwerp
New ideas, new identities? The constitutional foundations and the development of the political offence in Belgium (1831-2010). KU Leuven
Does diverse news lead to a diverse audience? The influence of news content diversity on people's opinions, issue perceptions, and news item evaluation. University of Antwerp
New Propaganda as a Totalizing Political Imposture KU Leuven
The advent of what has been recently called ‘new authoritarianism’ confronted researchers with a novel political phenomenon that combines contemporary democracy with traits of traditional totalitarianism. An important feature of new authoritarianism is its distinctively contemporary use of propaganda. Although this new propaganda has been extensively examined within the context of post-truth politics, the prevailing model of falsehood and ...
“Political Assassination in the Late Roman Empire” - Towards a new approach to studying state power and weakness in Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean Ghent University
Modern scholarship has examined political violence in the Late Roman Empire (late fourth to early sixth centuries CE) mainly as the result of mass migration processes, or as the self-evident outcome of imperial disintegration in the western Mediterranean and its hinterland. Instead, my project investigates this era’s increase in murder (in sharp contrast to the late third and fourth centuries) in both western and eastern spheres of the Late ...