Media & Social Change

Focusing on issues of power and ideology in society, CIMS members critically investigate the central role of (news) media in reinforcing/contesting power relations and social change within a local and international context. Research projects address issues of distant suffering (representation and reception), public communication of refugee organizations, colonial discourses in contemporary news coverage, and the reception of health information.

Current research projects

• Embracing sociocultural diversity?
• The Belgian Silvering Screen
• Streams of music, identity, and diversity
• Out of the Past
• Displaced people for sale
• The diaspora kino-eye
• Fiction or reality?
• No child's play? 
• Reel Anxiety

Past research projects

• (De)constructing health news 
• Who cares? Audiences and mediated distant suffering
• Alternative news media