Valériane MistiaenUniversité Libre de Bruxelles | ULB · Research Centre of Information and Communication (ReSIC)
Valériane Mistiaen
master of multilingual communication
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I am a PhD candidate in Information and Communication at ULB-Université libre de Bruxelles and in Communication and Media Studies at VUB-Vrije Universiteit Brussel. I was a researcher involved in the IM2MEDIATE project (funded by Belspo) studying the representation of migrants in Belgian and Swedish media. My research focuses on the denomination of people on the move in Belgian French-speaking and Dutch-speaking media since the beginning of the so-called refugee crisis in April 2015.
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Role perceptions of journalists are no global monolithic professional features, but, as has been demonstrated by previous research, cultural differences between journalists operating in different countries are pronounced. These journalistic role perceptions form the central focal point of this study while zooming in on a highly debated news topic t...
The invasion of Ukraine triggered an unprecedented reaction of solidarity from European governments. This article aims at studying the discursive moment of the war in Ukraine, with a focus on the debate that compared the reception of Ukrainians in the present day and of other refugees in 2015. The goal is twofold: first, to objectify the initial in...
This article focuses on denominations that are used to name people on the move in Belgian media discourse, but that are not specifically related to migration. It specifically studies the nominal syntagms formed with the noun people ( people on the run, people in need) and words of kinship ( mother, brother). A Discursive Semantics analysis implemen...
In this chapter, we aim to analyze how four Belgian newspapers represented the so-called "refugee crisis" of 2015-2017, and the extent to which coverage in the Dutch-and French-speaking media diverged. Our main hypothesis is that the coverage was not significantly different, but the Flemish and Francophone newspapers did contextualize events relate...
This discourse analysis examines the production, use, and circulation of denominations constructed on the basis of the NS the crisis to designate the migration phenomenon in Belgium. Through their usage by the various actors involved in migration, denominations turn into objects of conflict in discourse. This discursive tension reveals the roles ea...
La présente analyse de discours s’interroge sur la production, l’usage et la circulation des dénominations construites sur base du syntagme nominal la crise pour désigner le phénomène migratoire en Belgique. Utilisées par les différents acteurs de la migration, celles-ci deviennent des objets de lutte en discours, donnant à voir le rôle de chaque a...
The "Don't come/Go back home" continuum: the use of storytelling in Migration Information Campaigns Campaigns to encourage return or deter migration have become a priority for European governments, revealing a new way of managing migration flows to Europe. If scholars from social sciences have investigated these campaigns, no study in the field of...
The aim of this article is to study the different denominations used to name people on the move in the Belgian French-and Dutch-speaking press. The so-called "refugee crisis" has received huge media attention in Europe. In Belgium, media landscape is divided amongst Dutch-, French-and much smaller German-speaking communities, all of which harbour d...
De nombreuses analyses sur les migrations étudient le contenu des médias européens (Berry et al., 2016) ou belges (De Cock et al., 2019). D'autres étudient le discours médiatique (Van Dijk 2006) ou le type de cadrage que les médias utilisent (Van Gorp, 2005). Cependant, les analyses lexico-discursives (Gabrielatos & Baker, 2008) et dénominationnell...
!e migrant crisis has received huge media coverage and has been the subject of
many social controversies, among which the one sparked by Al Jazeera regarding
the words migrant and refugee during the summer 2015. !is study addresses the
question of whether the lexical debate that followed had a permanent impact in
journalistic writing patterns, by a...
The media plays an important role in mental representations as it constitutes the main source of knowledge about many issues, contributing to the “common sense” understanding of the world (e.g., d’Haenens & Mattelart, 2011: 237). It affects the way in which the local population will act and react. As is demonstrated in this book, this is even truer...
This article focuses on the complex communication constructed between
the Belgian Federal Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (Fedasil)
and asylum seekers: what do they say to asylum seekers? Why and how? Beyond the
message, it is the relation of communication (Wolton, 2018) between reception
authorities and asylum seekers that is explored t...
La « crise des migrants », massivement traitée par les médias, se trouve au centre de nombreuses controverses sociales, parmi lesquelles le débat initié par la chaîne Al Jazeera à propos de l'usage des termes migrant et réfugié durant l'été 2015. En prenant comme exemple les termes utilisés pour nommer les personnes en déplacement, cette recherche...
Cet article propose d’étudier la relation de communication qui se construit entre l’Agence fédérale belge pour l’accueil des demandeurs d’asile et le demandeur d’asile durant la phase d’accueil. L’analyse rend compte de la complexité d’une communication qui s’établit à différents niveaux et dans des formes variées. Elle s’inscrit dans une approche...
Dit artikel bestudeert de verschillen tussen de Belgische en Zweedse berichtgeving over vluchtelingen tijdens de zomer 2015, een moment waarop de migratie van vluchtelingen naar Europa piekte. We bekeken of vluchtelingen positief dan wel negatief in het nieuws kwamen. Daarnaast onderzochten we in welke mate vluchtelingen als groep dan wel als indiv...
This comparative content analysis of Belgian and Swedish newspaper coverage of the ‘refugee situation’ in 2015 (N=898) revolves around responsibility indicators, news actor characteristics, and thematic emphasis. As they are a potential influential factor in the public-opinion formation process, the studying of media portrayals is an essential firs...
