This year's edition of IAMCR focused on the theme "Inhabiting the planet: Challenges for media, communication, and beyond". Multiple ECHO members were invited to present their research to an international audience of researchers in the field. Our PhD fellows presented a variety of inspiring topics, including:
| Presentation | Author | Collaborations and co-authors |
|---|---|---|
| "I eat transphobes for breakfast": political postcolonial language appropriation & abrogation by Pakistani transgender activists on Instagram | Fatima Zahid Ali | prof. dr. Kevin Smets (VUB, ECHO) |
| When politicians do journalism: a genre-based perspective on pseudo-journalistic political communication | Maximilian Grönegräs | prof. dr. Benjamin De Cleen (VUB, ECHO) and prof. dr. Yazan Badran (VUB, ECHO, SMIT) |
| Are studies about ethnic stereotypes biased? a survey of Europeans'media diets and perceptions of Chinese people presented | Yuejue Zhang | prof. dr. Pascal Verhoest (VUB, ECHO) & prof. dr. Leen d'Haenens (KUL, IMS) |
| Refugee hybrid-fiction: rhetorical, generic, and intermedial hybridity as strategies of resistance | Giacomo Toffano | prof. dr. Kevin Smets (VUB, ECHO) |
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