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Perceptions as drivers of residential mobility: A resonance analysis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Studies that analyse people's perceptions of their living environment as an explanatory factor for residential mobility are scarce at best. The study presented in this article addresses this deficit by investigating how people's perceptions of cities as living environments influence their relocation behaviour within metropolitan areas. After gathering information on relocation behaviour from 1,056 survey respondents in the Brussels Capital ...
Belgian newspaper coverage on Brussels as a place to live Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels’ overwhelmingly negative depiction in the press is a frequently mentioned but little researched factor in explaining its lack of appeal as a place to live. This study examines how city life is framed in Belgian newspapers as well as how said frames resonate with broader cultural schemes that influence public perceptions. Using multiple correspondence analysis, we found that the press by and large groups concepts into two ...
Public acceptance of recycled water Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The looming threat posed by climate change-fueled droughts has triggered a slew of projects concernedwith the reuse of treated wastewater for agricultural purposes. Across the globe, there is also a growing interest in the direct consumption of treated wastewater. Whilst the requisite technology is well established and safety can be
guaranteed, the instigators of these projects still anticipate consumer resistance. However, there are ...
guaranteed, the instigators of these projects still anticipate consumer resistance. However, there are ...
Fragmentation, homogenisation or segmentation? Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
A weeklong diary study (N = 460) into the exposure to news of Belgian (Flemish) adult media users (aged 25–45) shows that their information consumption is currently relatively diverse. An explanation for the observed diversity is that news consumers in Dutch-speaking Belgium have a wide array of internally balanced news titles and channels at their disposal, which they also actively consult. In addition, the study demonstrates that news ...
What do people learn from following the news? Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
One of the main functions of news media in democracies is informing the citizenry on day-to-day affairs. However, the way in which citizens gather news has changed as nowadays people have more opportunities than ever before to adapt their media consumption based on their preferences. One of the major game changers was the introduction of social media. This raises the question to what extent traditional media still contribute to people’s ...
Seventeenth-Century Pamphlets as Constituents of a Public Communications Space Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
A public sphere in which people can freely discuss worldly affairs is arguably anessential building block of deliberative democracies. As a theoretical and historicalconcept, however, the public sphere concept is far from unequivocal. This articlereviews Habermasian public sphere theory and particularly his failure, according tocritics, to establish the ‘bourgeois public sphere’ as an historical category. It providesa more realistic historical ...