Projects
Communicating Populism on Social Media: Comparing Facebook Communicative Patterns of Parties and Politicians in Taiwan and Germany KU Leuven
The main research question tackled in this dissertation is as follows: How is populism communicated by political parties and politicians on social media? Drawing from current literature, this research extracts three theoretical drawbacks. First, although most state-of-the-art research on populist communication has conceptually equated populist rhetoric to populist style, this dissertation distinguishes rhetorical and stylistic roles and ...
Its hard to talk, but I would like to communicate. Language and communication in children with Down syndrome. KU Leuven
Food Risk Communication - Perceptions and communication of food risks/benefits across Europe: development of effective communication strategies Ghent University
FoodRisC will characterise key configurations of food risk/benefit relationships and the consequent implications for risk communicators, make recommendations about the unique potential of new social media (e.g. social networks and blogging) and provide a systematic understanding of how consumers deal with food risk/benefit information. The project will identify the barriers to communicating to consumers across Europe and identify key ...
Branding without packaging: how does a brand communicate successfully when partially or completely omitting packaging as a touchpoint? AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Pseudo-journalistic political communication. An analysis of the content, production and reception of the use of journalistic genres in populist radical right party political communication in Germany and Austria Vrije Universiteit Brussel
communication, focusing on Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and
Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ) as populist radical right (PRR)
parties that are key players in the contemporary hybridization of
political communication. Bridging journalism studies and political
communication, it proposes the term pseudo-journalistic political
...
Towards an inclusive Covid - 19 crisis communication policy in Belgium; developing and validating strategies of multilingual and accessible crisis communication. KU Leuven
This interdisciplinary, applied project responds to the current issue of Covid ‐ 19
government communication and the flow of information to groups that are difficult to reach, such as
language minorities, vulnerable groups with low socio-economic status and persons with a
sensory limitation. The project aims to develop a strategy for inclusive Covid ‐ 19
crisis communication, which takes into account the (mult) linguistic ...
Towards an inclusive Covid-19 crisis communication policy in Belgium: the development and validation of strategies for multilingual and media accessible crisis communication University of Antwerp
Communication within care networks with special attention to non-native speakers and persons with communication disabilities HOGENT
Healthcare without communication? The language gap. An interdisciplinary approach to reducing communication barriers in HIV, tuberculosis and diabetes treatment in South Africa KU Leuven
This innovative interdisciplinary project proposes and empirically evaluates strategies to overcome language and cultural barriers to improve adherence to treatment in disease in SA in close collaboration with key local actors, with a focus on rural health care centers; and develops a strategy to implement thise improved communication strategies in curicula for health care professionals and training of professionals in local clinics in order ...