Stephanie D'haeseleer
Junior researcher at the research group for Media, Innovation and Communication Technologies, Department of Communication Sciences, Ghent University.
Fake news
disinformation
news consumption
Stephanie is a junior researcher at the research group for Media, Innovation and Communication Technologies at Ghent University. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Sciences (Ghent University) and a Master’s degree Journalism (Ghent University). Her master thesis investigated ‘Fact or fake? A quantitative online survey of trust in online news among Flemish young adults’. In her master year, she also did an internship at TV Oost as video journalist and learned in depth all aspects of (local) video journalism.
In the summer of 2021, she was as job student part of CJS (Center for Journalism Studies) and did shortly a content discourse analysis about Journalistic Role Performance (Department of Communication Sciences). In October 2022, she started working as a junior researcher at imec-mict-UGent. On the one hand, she will work on projects about disinformation in collaboration with Apache and ID-Lab. On the other hand, she will be involved in projects for Kenniscentrum Media under supervision of Prof. dr. Tom Evens and Prof. dr. De Marez.