ECHO
MEDIA, CULTURE AND POLITICS
ECHO is devoted to the study of meaning across media, culture and politics, and their intersections. The group is home to an international group of scholars working on how meaning circulates, fluctuates, and resonates in society. Echo's aim is to produce a critical and nuanced understanding of how the reproduction and contestation of meaning contributes to social, cultural and political change and continuity.
Latest Publications
The social resonance of environmental media messages: a connectionist-inspired reception analysis
Pascal Verhoest, Joke Bauwens, Petrus te Braak & Marijke Huysmans This study examines the reasons why certain environmental messages are received negatively by some social groups and not by others.
Pakistani transgender activists on Instagram: The politics of postcolonial language appropriation and abrogation
Fatima Zahid Ali, Kevin Smets and Benjamin De Cleen This study examines marginalized communities in postcolonial states, in particular transgender people, and attempts to understand the tension between globalized or transnational ‘queer’ language and local vernacular ‘Indigenous’ language.
News & Events
- Practical info12/03/2026 - 15:00 - 12/03/2026 - 17:00
PhD Defense of Irene Gutiérrez Torres
Irene has earned her PhD with the successful public defense of her thesis, “Reframing EU's Borderspace: Participatory Filmmaking as Placemaking.”
Practical info11/03/2026 - 18:00 - 11/03/2026 - 20:00Film screening of Les Voyageurs
ECHO organized a film screening of Les Voyageurs (2025) in collaboration with BIRMM and BRISPO. The screening was followed by a Q&A with director David Bingong and filmmaker-researcher Irene Gutiérrez Torres.