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CEMESO TEAM MEMBERS
| Katia Segers
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Prof. Dr. Katia Segers took her doctoral degree in 1998 with a research on business sponsorship of the arts in Flanders. She is a lecturer at the department of Media Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, teaching the following courses: 'Introduction to media studies', Sociology of Arts and Culture, 'Political Economy of the Cultural and Creative Industries' and ‘Corporate Communication’. Since 2002 she is director of CEMESO. Her research and publications focus on media and cultural policy matters, (historical aspects of) funding of the arts such as corporate sponsorship and philanthropy, the political economy of the cultural industries and creative economy, and on children, media and culture. She is also the president of the Flemish Regulator for the Media, president of the Flemish Arts Council and member of the Expert Commission on Government Communication of the Flemish Parliament.
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| Joke Bauwens |
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Jo(ke) Bauwens is a senior researcher of
the Centre for Studies on Media & Culture. In 2003 she obtained
a PhD in social sciences on the topic 'television consumption and
citizenship'. As an associated professor at the VUB she currently
teaches a course on media sociology. She has done both qualitative
and quantitative audience research on the meaning and prominence of
television in Western late modern society. Her research interest is
mainly focused on what role the media can play in the realization
of cultural citizenship and democratic participation. In this context
she also collaborated in several projects of news analysis financed
by the Flemish Public Service (VRT). Currently she is doing research
on the democratic potentials of e-culture. At the RITS (School for
Film, Television and Theatre, Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel) she has
taught a course on media and society.
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| Frank
Boddin |
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Frank Boddin Frank Boddin is a researcher working
at the Communication Studies Department of the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel. His research concentrates on the production and organisation
context of documentary television genres on public service broadcasting.
His main research interests are organizational culture and professional
identity - public service broadcasting and new public management -
governmentality and discourse theory - documentary and factual entertainment.
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| Jo Bogaerts |
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Jo Bogaerts studied Germanic philology at the University of Ghent where he graduated on a thesis concerning the birth of the modern western confessional subjectivity and the literary genres that accompany this transformation. In 2008 he followed a master after master programme in Literary Studies where he completed summa cum laude a thesis on a Foucauldian approach to Kafka. Currently, he is a member of the Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (Cemeso) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel where he is working on a PhD which addresses the topic of journalistic identity. More in particular, the study aims at constituting a genealogy of modern journalism centred around three case studies.
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| Shohreh Bolouri |
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Shohreh Bolouri studied Communication Sciences at the Free Universityof Brussels (VUB) graduated in 2007 with a thesis analyzing thediscourse of political text. She is working on a doctoral thesis concerned with ‘media discourses’. She is currently a member of the Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (Cemeso) at the VUB.
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| Nico
Carpentier - Co-director |
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Nico Carpentier (PhD) is an assistant
professor working at the Communication Studies Department of the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB - Free University of Brussels).
He is co-director of the VUB research centre CEMESO and a board
member of the European Communication Research and Education Association
(ECREA – formerly ECCR). His theoretical focus is on discourse
theory, his research interests are situated in the relationship
between media, journalism, politics and culture, especially towards
social domains as war & conflict, ideology, participation and
democracy. His publications include the following books Media and
citizens on the same wavelength. Journalism enhancing civil participation
(2002, in Dutch & French); Media in movement, 22 journalistic
experiments to enhance citizen participation (2004, in Dutch &
French); The ungraspable audience (ed.)(2004, combined Dutch &
English); Towards a Sustainable Information Society. Deconstructing
WSIS (ed.)(2005); Researching media, democracy and participation
(ed.)(2006); Reclaiming the media: communication rights and democratic
media roles (ed.)(2007); Culture, Trauma & Conflict. Cultural
studies perspectives on contemporary war (ed.)(2007); Alternatives
on media content journalism, and regulation. The grassroots discussion
panels at the 2007 ICA Conference (ed.)(2007); Understanding Alternative
media (co-authored with Olga Bailey and Bart Cammaerts) (2007);
Media technologies and democracy in an enlarged Europe (ed.)(2007);
Participation and media production. Critical reflections on content
creation (ed.)(2008); Discourse Theory and Cultural Analysis. Media,
Arts and Literature (ed.)(2008); and Democracy, journalism and technology
(ed)(2008).
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| Lien De Cang |
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Lien De Cang studied Cultural Adult Educational
Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She graduated in
2008 with a thesis on opera-education for primary school children
in Flemish schools. This in cooperation with the Opera house of Brussels,
de Munt. She examined the relation between culture and schools. She
is preparing a doctoral thesis on a history of institutionalisation,
financing and programming of the Brussels Philharmonic Society and
the National Radio Institute and their orchestra's between 1929 and
1960. Her main research interests are public and private support of
the arts, arts and artistic policy.
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| Benjamin
De Cleen |
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Benjamin De Cleen studied Communication Studies at the VUB. He is currently working as a research assistant and preparing a doctoral thesis analyzing the discourse of the Flemish extreme right about
culture from a discourse-theoretical perspective. Benjamin is also the chair of the Young Scholars' Network of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). |
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| Eva
De Smedt |
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Eva De Smedt studied Communication Sciences at the Free University
of Brussels (VUB). She graduated in 2007 with a thesis researching
the evolution of conversational dynamics between journalists and politicians
in the current affairs program 'De Zevende Dag' between 1994 and 2006.
Eva is a teaching assistant and PhD-student within the field of media,
democracy and journalism at the Media & Communication department
of the VUB. In her PhD, she examines the complex interactions between
the journalistic and political field in media talk through a combination
of conversation and discourse analysis. Her research interests include
the mediatisation of the political process, mediatised representations
of politicians, political journalism and the dynamics and interrelations
between journalism and politics.
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| Edgard Eeckman |
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Edgard Eeckman took his bachelor communication management in Ghent in 1979 and started to study for his master Communication Sciences at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in 2007. He graduated in 2009 with a thesis analyzing the influence of premiums on the loyalty of the newspaper reader. He is the communication manager of the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (the university hospital, part of the VUB) and prepares a doctoral thesis on the role of the written media in the construction of the health discourse of the patient.
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| Lieselotte Goessens |
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Lieselotte Goessens studied art sciences and archaeology at the University of Ghent, specializing in musicology. She graduated in 2008 after making a thesis containing a critical study of the mutual influences of literature, musicological studies and contemporary stagings of the opera Don Giovanni (W.A. Mozart). She is now working on a phd concerning the music management and music programming of the Belgian National Broadcasting Institute (N.I.R.) for the period 1930-1960. Her concern is the cultivation of cultural nationalism, contributing to the Flemish emancipation.
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| Joeri Januarius |
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Joeri Januarius obtained a Master's degree in History at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2005 and obtained a Master's in journalism at the Erasmushogeschool in Brussels. His master's thesis analyzed the relationship between the socialist trade union ABVV and the compulsory unemployment insurance in postwar Belgium (1945-1970). As of September 2006, he is a researcher at the History Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He focuses on material culture, everyday life and consumption of workers in postwar Belgium, with a special focus on the use of visual sources for contemporary historiography. Since 2007, he is preparing a Ph.D. on that same topic and as of September 2009, he is also associated with the Communication Department as research assistent.
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| Sarah Karinge |
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Sarah Karinge is working on her PhD the Department of Communication Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, under the guidance of Prof. dr. Nico Carpentier. Her main interest is to establish how communication and information tools can be harnessed to address the power balance in pro-poor interventions in sub-Saharan Africa. Sarah has an MBA from the VUB, a post-graduate bachelors degree in Information Science and a bachelors(Hons) degree in Public Administration from Punjab University.
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| Birgitte
Martens |
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Birgitte Martens graduated in Early Modern History
from the Free University of Brussels (2003) with a thesis researching
shifts in the use of vernacular religious books in the 16th and 17th
century school system in Antwerp. Comparing the 17th century religious
media systems of both the Northern and Southern Netherlands and setting
out the variety of intentions that shape these systems is the aim
of her current researching activity.
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| An
Moons |
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An Moons graduated in 2000 at the department
of Communication Sciences of the Free University of Brussels with
a thesis entitled: 'Shining in the Shade. A sociological research
on the meaning of Belgian designer fashion: the Handsome-case'. The
first three months after her graduation she co-operated in a research
on television news, more specifically a comparative analysis of news
programs on VTM and VRT. Then she studied the Flemish media in Brussels,
focussing on the policy framework, the media structures and media
use. Apart from this, she worked as a freelance journalist for Weekend
Knack. Since October 2001 she works as a teaching assistant within
the field of media and culture at the department of Communication
Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She joined Cemeso
in 2004. Her research interests include amongst others the topic of
cultural industries (in particular fashion and design) and place/city/region
marketing. At this moment she is preparing a PhD concerning the historical
basic conditions, constituting processes and economic and cultural
impact of the Flemish designer fashion industry.
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Nick Resmann |
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Nick Resmann studied at the University of Gent and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He obtained a degree in Media and Communication studies at the VUB in 2007. He also did a postgraduate programme International Politics at the ULB. Since 2008 he is working as a researcher for Cemeso on different projects. He finished research projects on local political communication and on the reception of audience participation and currently he is evaluating the media education project ‘Kranten in de Klas’ for the Flemish government.
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| Martina
Temmerman |
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Dr. Martina Temmerman received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Antwerp in 1994.
In 2000, she was appointed coordinator of the master in journalism at the Erasmushogeschool in Brussels (associated with VUB), where she teaches linguistic discourse analysis and journalistic writing classes.
Until 2008, she was also affiliated to the University of Antwerp (department of Political and Social Sciences & Communication Sciences and department of Applied Economics), where she taught business communication.
Her current research interest goes to the linguistic discourse analysis of journalistic texts and interviews.
She was a board member of the Vlaamse Vereniging voor Zakelijke Communicatie from 2000 to 2006. This association aims at professionalizing business communication in Flanders. |
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| Leen Van Brussel |
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| Leen Van Brussel studied Communication Sciences at the Free University of Brussels. In 2009, she graduated with a thesis about the representation of migrant women in Flemish women’s magazines. Since October 2009, she’s working on a PhD about the media representations of chronically ill people and their dying process. Her PhD is a part of the overall project ‘Visions about end-of-life care’ in association with the End-of-Life Care research group of the VUB. |
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Kristel Vandenbrande |
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Kristel Vandenbrande is lecturer
in Politics & Popular Media, Media & Citizenship and Qualitative
Research Methodologies at the Department of Media & Communication
Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussels. She is a staff member of the
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (Cemeso) at the same university
and also lectures at the Journalism Master Class of the Erasmushogeschool
Brussels. In 2003 she obtained a PhD in social sciences, presenting
an audience research project on newspaper reading, citizenship &
daily life and the significance of popular journalism. Other recent
research activities include qualitative research on newspaper reading
amongst youngsters and newspapers in education (NIE); research on
the 'popular' and 'public service' dimensions of commercial and public
service newscasts; textual and newsroom analysis on EU reporting.
Currently she is doing research on how ICT have changed the task division,
the praxis and the role perception in the newsroom of Flemish newspapers.
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Kristin Van den Buys |
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| Kristin Van den Buys (°1962) is a senior researcher. She studied musicology at Ghent University (1984) and obtained degrees at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp and the Lemmens Institute in Leuven (1989-1991). Between 1990 and 2000 she produced culture programmes for Radio 3, the classical music channel of the Flemish radio at that time. For her PHD (University of Leuven 2004) she studied musical modernism in Belgium during the period between the two World Wars. Kristin Van den Buys published about musical practice in Belgium and Flanders and about the history of broadcasting. She currently is co-ordinator of the research in the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, a department of the Erasmus University College Brussels.
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Nele Van den Cruyce |
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Nele Van den Cruyce studied sociology at the Free University of
Brussels. She graduated in 2006 with a thesis researching feelings of
anxiety among elderly people. In March 2007 she joined CEMESO and she is
currently working on a PhD studying the area of tension between
educationalization and commercialization in the lives of children. Her
main research interests are the sociology of childhood, the health
perception of children and the construction of childhood.
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