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 info09/10/2025 - 09:00 - 10/12/2025 - 16:00Valériane Mistiaen contributes to the 'ULB s'expose 2025' exhibition
Valériane Mistiaen joins the collective exhibition featuring members and alumni of the ULB. Her project Utopie(s) en transit is part of the exhibition.
Practical info16/09/2025 - 09:00 - 18/09/2025 - 16:00Irene Gutiérrez and Valériane Mistiaen won best paper awards at the ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media Conference
Irene Gutiérrez and Valériane Mistiaen won best paper awards (categories 'emerging scholar' and 'PhD holder') at the ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media - International and Intercultural Communication Sections Conference "Beyond Borders: Creative Methods and Reflexive Approaches to Migration, Media, and Intercultural Dialogue" at Tallinn University.
