(23rd September 2021) The echo member, Yazan Badran, publicly defended his PhD dissertation, “Emerging Media Organisations. Voice, agency and precarity in post-2011 Syrian and Tunisian mediaspheres” (you can read the abstract here). The PhD was supervised by Prof. dr. Kevin Smets (Echo, VUB) and Prof. dr. Jan Loisen (imec-SMIT, VUB). The jury was composed of:
- Prof. dr. Joke Bauwens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Chair)
- Prof. dr. Dina Matar, SOAS University of London
- Prof. dr. Carola Richter, Freie Universität Berlin
- Prof. dr. Ike Picone, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Prof. dr. Leo Van Audenhove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Congratulations Dr. Yazan Badran!