Projects
"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
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 ...
Restoring a Tangible Past. Antiquarian Mentalities and the Search for a New Political Culture in the Habsburg Low Countries (1570-1648). University of Antwerp
The survival chances of new political parties Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Politicians as opinion leaders. How politicians' news sharing influences media trust and polarization. University of Antwerp
The Voice of the People. Displays of Public Opinion in the News and Their Influence on Audiences. University of Antwerp
Satire across borders: production, content, and audiences of pan-Arab news satire Vrije Universiteit Brussel
diffused in many countries and contexts. This project aims to deepen,
and expand, the burgeoning scholarship on news satire by looking at
the transnational processes that underlie the production, content and
consumption of pan-Arab news satire. The inherently transnational
nature of pan-Arab news satire in its production and
consumption—as it ...