Projects
Adolescents’ processing of and response to incidentally encountered social media content – Differentiating between polarizing and depolarizing incidental social media exposure effects KU Leuven
Social media platforms have been argued to facilitate polarization processes, as they allow people to cocoon themselves with like-minded messages, thereby creating echo chambers in which exposure to attitude-incongruent information is minimal and existing attitudes tend to be reinforced. At the same time, however, the abundance of news and user-generated content on social media makes it increasingly likely that individuals incidentally ...
(Semi-)automatic content aggregation. KU Leuven
Rethinking the scope of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive in light of the complex and dynamic audiovisual media environment: an influencer perspective KU Leuven
The research starts from the observation that in the light of ongoing developments in technology and the social-side effects resulting therefrom the traditional image of the passive media consumer, in front of a television, is being challenged by the 'prosumer', who consumes, creates and shares audiovisual content online: people across all ages, skills and backgrounds are able to participate in all sorts of online applications such as social ...
Games at school KU Leuven
User modeling for personalized Ad retrieval KU Leuven
The era of Social Media-as we know it today-started around the early 2000s. Social media enable a form of virtual content sharing that is fundamentally different than before. Social media content is no longer created and published by specific individuals, but instead is continuously modified by all users in a collaborative fashion. Nowadays, users around the world are taking advantage of social media as one of their key components of ...
Historical revisionism, revision history and alternative online media eco-systems in Japan—a socio-political analysis of nationalist contestation and political propaganda in the digital age KU Leuven
Social media has over the past decade seen an undeniable increase in politicization and subsequent association with populist right-wing political actors. As a result, specialized jargon such as 'alt-right', 'fachosphère' or the Japanese 'Netto-Uyoku' (lit. 'Net-Right')—referring to a phenomenon of Internet-facilitated neo-nationalism—have in their respective languages entered the mainstream discourse. In the case of Japan, one pillar of ...
Representations of Migration in a Transforming Europe: The Polarising Power of Migration as a Political Tool in Online Media and Political Discourses – What can we learn from the 2015 and 2022 refugee crises? KU Leuven
The effect of brand placement disclosure on the responses to brand placement by adults and children University of Antwerp
Transfer Learning for Automatic Emotion Detection in Dutch Texts. Ghent University
While automatic emotion detection in text is still in its infancy, machine learning techniques are currently considered as a state-of-the-art methodology to identify emotional states in text. These systems, however, rely on large quantities of annotated data from which prediction models are derived, so progress is mainly made for majority languages such as English. As the system’s performance is dependent on the kind of data it is trained on ...