L Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 14587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5094-3531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Supporting Medication Adherence in Parkinson's Through Education: A Scoping Review of Interventions
Contested Ownership, Negative Tone: How Issue Ownership Competition Fuels Online Negativity in Belgium
To gain support, political actors must be visible on issues where they are seen as credible and advance these issues on the agenda. Direct online communication and negative messaging can amplify this by gaining traction on social media. While prior research assumes parties attack competitors on issues they ‘own’, we test that assumption in a highly fragmented multi-party system where ownership is fiercely contested. Here, attacks may aim to compe…
Unmasking the Mechanism: How News Media Consumption Drives Conspiracy Beliefs
This study examines how different media types—social, alternative, and mainstream—indirectly influence CT beliefs through populist attitudes and misperceptions on divisive issues. We propose that news exposure impacts these factors, thereby affecting CT beliefs. Using a path analysis on a Belgian survey ( n = 2378), we find that populist attitudes and misperceptions mediate the relationship between news consumption and CT beliefs. Alternative and…
Voting Advice Application Use Increases Party Position Knowledge: An Experimental Study Among Belgian Youngsters
Political knowledge is vital for democratic citizenship, yet many voters struggle to correctly identify party positions. This article investigates whether voting advice applications (VAAs) can increase party position knowledge (PPK) among young voters. We present results from a large-scale experiment in Flanders (Belgium) using two real-world VAAs: De Stemtest, a generic VAA targeting the general electorate, and De Jongerenstemtest, a youth-orien…
Vote advice applications increase young users’ ideological knowledge
Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) help voters make informed choices by aligning their policy preferences with party positions. This study examines whether VAA exposure enhances young citizens’ ideological knowledge – understanding political dimensions and party positions. A randomized experiment ( n = 2308) in Belgium (Flanders) tested whether VAA exposure improved young voters’ ability to place a fictional party on the left-right axis. We replic…
Conflicting perceptions: Misalignment between citizens’ and politicians’ evaluations of political conflict
This study examines how citizens and politicians evaluate different types of political conflict. Conflicts can be substantive in nature, involving disagreements over policy measures or clashes over core ideological values, or less substantive, concerning strategic relationships between parties. While conflict is inherent to politics, we know little about how different types of conflict are perceived by the public and how this differs from the per…
To rule or not to rule? An experimental study of the electoral ramifications of claims to (not) rule with radical right populist parties
In a between-subjects experiment ( n = 3270) conducted in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), we examine the electoral ramifications of claims by a right-wing mainstream party on their willingness to rule or not with RWPPs (radical right populist parties). Participants were exposed to a social media post by the largest right-wing party (New Flemish Alliance, N-VA) in which it either accepts or rejects ruling with the main RWPP in Fland…
The angry voter? The role of emotions in voting for the radical left and right at the 2019 Belgian elections
This study examines the role of negative (anger, fear) and positive emotions in addition to political attitudes (political trust, populist attitudes, external political efficacy) as key determinants of voting behaviour. We rely on the RepResent voter survey conducted in 2019 in Belgium ( n = 3236) allowing us to assess the relationship between emotions, political attitudes, and the vote for radical right (VB, PP) and radical left parties (PTB-PVD…
How Do Mainstream Parties Justify Their (Un)willingness to Rule with Populist Parties? Evidence from Twitter Data
Parties usually argue in favour or against a government coalition based on party considerations in terms of projected policy implementation, power in office and vote maximization – that is, the ‘policy, office, votes’ triad. So far, however, it remains unclear which claims mainstream parties invoke to motivate their choice to rule or not rule with populist parties. Adopting the ‘policy, voter, office’ triad, this article examines mainstream parti…
Implementation of experts by experience in hospitals: No one-size-fits-all solution but an experience-based co-design (EBCD)
Experts by experience are defined by as long-term service users that have experience with a particular disease of disability. Through that experience, they have gained vast knowledge about it and about the health care services they use. Additionally, they possess the appropriate competencies (i.e. skills and attitude) to bring their knowledge into action. In that regard, we can identify experts by experience as valuable co-producers of care. The …
Gatekeeping, News Values and Selection: Factors Determining the Newsworthiness of Hate Crimes
This study addresses the question what makes hate crime incidents newsworthy and which factors are conducive to such incidents being reported on. Relying on news value theory, we identify criteria (cultural proximity, conflict) that explain why some hate crimes make the news and why others do not. We use a dataset of police-registered hate crimes in the Netherlands in 2017 ( N = 3379). This is the entire population of hate crimes that the police …
Who’s Afraid of Terror News? The Interplay between News Consumption Patterns, Personal Experiences and Fear of Terrorism
A positive correlation between exposure to terrorism news reports and fear of terrorism has been documented, but less is known about factors moderating this relationship. Our focus is mostly on identifying relevant moderators. We argue that individuals’ habitual patterns in news consumption (frequency, type of outlet, genre) and personal experiences (prior victimization, living in a diverse neighborhood, residing in an urban area) are relevant in…
Current Officers and Members of Standing Committees
The Battle of Frame Building: The Reciprocal Relationship between Journalists and Frame Sponsors
The idea that journalists make use of framing is widespread. However, systematic studies of the role of frame sponsors—that is, nonmedia actors who advocate a certain frame package—in influencing the patterns in frame package use by journalists are limited. Which characteristics make frame sponsors successful in frame building, and why? In this study, we propose a new way of understanding the relationship between journalists and frame sponsors, b…
Prosecuted, yet popular? Hate speech prosecution of anti-immigration politicians in the news and electoral support
Back to Reality: The Complex Relationship Between Patterns in Immigration News Coverage and Real-World Developments in Dutch and Flemish Newspapers (1999–2015)
Although prior studies investigating immigration news typically documented a dominant focus on negativity and threats, only limited empirical research is available, which scrutinizes the way real-world developments affect these patterns in immigration news. This study aims to fill this void. First, we report results of a large-scale and longitudinal content analysis (N = 4,340,757) of trends in immigration news coverage in two Western European ca…
Television and anti-immigrant sentiments: The mediating role of fear of crime and perceived ethnic diversity
Previous research has established a correlation between fear of crime and anti-immigrant sentiments. In this paper, we explore the role of television in explaining individual differences in fear of crime, perceived ethnic diversity and anti-immigrant sentiments. We use the ‘Social Cohesion Indicators in Flanders’ data, a representative survey in the Flemish region of Belgium, combined with real-life indicators of ethnic diversity and crime at the…
Television News Content of Minority Groups as an Intergroup Context Indicator of Differences Between Target-Specific Prejudices
Although research has shown that different types of prejudice are highly correlated, the existence of prejudice hierarchies indicates that individuals differentiate between target groups. Here we examine the relationship between television news coverage and differences in attitudes toward minority groups. We rely on intergroup threat theory, tone, and framing theories to formulate our hypotheses and conduct a multimethod study: All prime-time tel…
Enduring Gender Bias in Reporting on Political Elite Positions: Media Coverage of Female MPs in Belgian News Broadcasts (2003–2011)
In Belgium, like in numerous other democracies, the representation of women in parliament has risen sharply in recent decades, partly because of gender quota legislation. This rapid evolution implies that traditional notions on the presence of gender bias in media reporting need to be re-assessed. Relying on data from more than six thousand full newscasts, we examine the allotted speaking time to members of parliament (MPs) from 2003 until 2011 i…
The Occupational Roles of Women and Ethnic Minorities on Primetime Television in Belgium: An Analysis of Occupational Status Measurements
In this study, we investigate differences in occupational status between women and men, and between ethnic minority and majority members, by means of a content analysis of Belgian prime-time television in 2013. We evaluate the accuracy of these television portrayals using interreality comparison strategies. Results indicate that although in television content women obtain higher average scores for occupational status than men, this is mainly due …
More Than Work Integration Strategy for the Delimitation of a Population of Social Economy Actors for a Monitor of the Social Economy in Flanders
In this paper, we aim to develop a conceptualization and delimitation of social enterprises in Flanders, which will be the starting point for a monitor of the social economy in Flanders. We aim for this monitor to represent reality, that is to be in line with the international academic research while also being informed by policy visions and validated by representatives in the field. To achieve this, we studied academic literature and definitions…
Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century
Matthew Solomon's well-researched history of magic and silent film is the second of two important books on this topic. The first, Erik Barnouw's The Magician and the Cinema (1981), provides what is still the standard account of the trick film, an important early genre. While there are many variants, trick films famously employ splicing and substitution to create spectacular and sometimes-humorous transformations: women instantaneously turn into b…
The slow pace of institutional change in the Italian food system
Recent surveys show that Italians have little trust in the food they eat. This seems at odds with the world-wide popularity of Italian food, and the very prominent role that the agro-food sector has in the national economy and culture. This paper aims to explain this apparent contradiction by examining recent political and economic changes in the food sector. From the analysis it emerges that, facing institutional crises and food scandals, Italia…
The B film and the problem of cultural distinction
The B film and the problem of cultural distinction Get access Lea Jacobs Lea Jacobs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 33, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/33.1.1 Published: 01 March 1992
Neogene palaeontology and geochronology of the Baringo Basin, Kenya
Neogene palaeontology and geochronology of the Baringo Basin, Kenya
Back to Reality: The Complex Relationship Between Patterns in Immigration News Coverage and Real-World Developments in Dutch and Flemish Newspapers (1999–2015)
Although prior studies investigating immigration news typically documented a dominant focus on negativity and threats, only limited empirical research is available, which scrutinizes the way real-world developments affect these patterns in immigration news. This study aims to fill this void. First, we report results of a large-scale and longitudinal content analysis (N = 4,340,757) of trends in immigration news coverage in two Western European ca…
Television News Content of Minority Groups as an Intergroup Context Indicator of Differences Between Target-Specific Prejudices
Although research has shown that different types of prejudice are highly correlated, the existence of prejudice hierarchies indicates that individuals differentiate between target groups. Here we examine the relationship between television news coverage and differences in attitudes toward minority groups. We rely on intergroup threat theory, tone, and framing theories to formulate our hypotheses and conduct a multimethod study: All prime-time tel…
Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century
Matthew Solomon's well-researched history of magic and silent film is the second of two important books on this topic. The first, Erik Barnouw's The Magician and the Cinema (1981), provides what is still the standard account of the trick film, an important early genre. While there are many variants, trick films famously employ splicing and substitution to create spectacular and sometimes-humorous transformations: women instantaneously turn into b…
The angry voter? The role of emotions in voting for the radical left and right at the 2019 Belgian elections
This study examines the role of negative (anger, fear) and positive emotions in addition to political attitudes (political trust, populist attitudes, external political efficacy) as key determinants of voting behaviour. We rely on the RepResent voter survey conducted in 2019 in Belgium ( n = 3236) allowing us to assess the relationship between emotions, political attitudes, and the vote for radical right (VB, PP) and radical left parties (PTB-PVD…
Television and anti-immigrant sentiments: The mediating role of fear of crime and perceived ethnic diversity
Previous research has established a correlation between fear of crime and anti-immigrant sentiments. In this paper, we explore the role of television in explaining individual differences in fear of crime, perceived ethnic diversity and anti-immigrant sentiments. We use the ‘Social Cohesion Indicators in Flanders’ data, a representative survey in the Flemish region of Belgium, combined with real-life indicators of ethnic diversity and crime at the…
Enduring Gender Bias in Reporting on Political Elite Positions: Media Coverage of Female MPs in Belgian News Broadcasts (2003–2011)
In Belgium, like in numerous other democracies, the representation of women in parliament has risen sharply in recent decades, partly because of gender quota legislation. This rapid evolution implies that traditional notions on the presence of gender bias in media reporting need to be re-assessed. Relying on data from more than six thousand full newscasts, we examine the allotted speaking time to members of parliament (MPs) from 2003 until 2011 i…
Prosecuted, yet popular? Hate speech prosecution of anti-immigration politicians in the news and electoral support
How Do Mainstream Parties Justify Their (Un)willingness to Rule with Populist Parties? Evidence from Twitter Data
Parties usually argue in favour or against a government coalition based on party considerations in terms of projected policy implementation, power in office and vote maximization – that is, the ‘policy, office, votes’ triad. So far, however, it remains unclear which claims mainstream parties invoke to motivate their choice to rule or not rule with populist parties. Adopting the ‘policy, voter, office’ triad, this article examines mainstream parti…
The Battle of Frame Building: The Reciprocal Relationship between Journalists and Frame Sponsors
The idea that journalists make use of framing is widespread. However, systematic studies of the role of frame sponsors—that is, nonmedia actors who advocate a certain frame package—in influencing the patterns in frame package use by journalists are limited. Which characteristics make frame sponsors successful in frame building, and why? In this study, we propose a new way of understanding the relationship between journalists and frame sponsors, b…
Gatekeeping, News Values and Selection: Factors Determining the Newsworthiness of Hate Crimes
This study addresses the question what makes hate crime incidents newsworthy and which factors are conducive to such incidents being reported on. Relying on news value theory, we identify criteria (cultural proximity, conflict) that explain why some hate crimes make the news and why others do not. We use a dataset of police-registered hate crimes in the Netherlands in 2017 ( N = 3379). This is the entire population of hate crimes that the police …
The Occupational Roles of Women and Ethnic Minorities on Primetime Television in Belgium: An Analysis of Occupational Status Measurements
In this study, we investigate differences in occupational status between women and men, and between ethnic minority and majority members, by means of a content analysis of Belgian prime-time television in 2013. We evaluate the accuracy of these television portrayals using interreality comparison strategies. Results indicate that although in television content women obtain higher average scores for occupational status than men, this is mainly due …
To rule or not to rule? An experimental study of the electoral ramifications of claims to (not) rule with radical right populist parties
In a between-subjects experiment ( n = 3270) conducted in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), we examine the electoral ramifications of claims by a right-wing mainstream party on their willingness to rule or not with RWPPs (radical right populist parties). Participants were exposed to a social media post by the largest right-wing party (New Flemish Alliance, N-VA) in which it either accepts or rejects ruling with the main RWPP in Fland…
More Than Work Integration Strategy for the Delimitation of a Population of Social Economy Actors for a Monitor of the Social Economy in Flanders
In this paper, we aim to develop a conceptualization and delimitation of social enterprises in Flanders, which will be the starting point for a monitor of the social economy in Flanders. We aim for this monitor to represent reality, that is to be in line with the international academic research while also being informed by policy visions and validated by representatives in the field. To achieve this, we studied academic literature and definitions…
The slow pace of institutional change in the Italian food system
Recent surveys show that Italians have little trust in the food they eat. This seems at odds with the world-wide popularity of Italian food, and the very prominent role that the agro-food sector has in the national economy and culture. This paper aims to explain this apparent contradiction by examining recent political and economic changes in the food sector. From the analysis it emerges that, facing institutional crises and food scandals, Italia…
The Old Babylonian Merchant: His Business and His Social Position
Neogene palaeontology and geochronology of the Baringo Basin, Kenya
The B film and the problem of cultural distinction
The B film and the problem of cultural distinction Get access Lea Jacobs Lea Jacobs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 33, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/33.1.1 Published: 01 March 1992
The slow pace of institutional change in the Italian food system
Recent surveys show that Italians have little trust in the food they eat. This seems at odds with the world-wide popularity of Italian food, and the very prominent role that the agro-food sector has in the national economy and culture. This paper aims to explain this apparent contradiction by examining recent political and economic changes in the food sector. From the analysis it emerges that, facing institutional crises and food scandals, Italia…
Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century
Matthew Solomon's well-researched history of magic and silent film is the second of two important books on this topic. The first, Erik Barnouw's The Magician and the Cinema (1981), provides what is still the standard account of the trick film, an important early genre. While there are many variants, trick films famously employ splicing and substitution to create spectacular and sometimes-humorous transformations: women instantaneously turn into b…
Enduring Gender Bias in Reporting on Political Elite Positions: Media Coverage of Female MPs in Belgian News Broadcasts (2003–2011)
In Belgium, like in numerous other democracies, the representation of women in parliament has risen sharply in recent decades, partly because of gender quota legislation. This rapid evolution implies that traditional notions on the presence of gender bias in media reporting need to be re-assessed. Relying on data from more than six thousand full newscasts, we examine the allotted speaking time to members of parliament (MPs) from 2003 until 2011 i…
The Occupational Roles of Women and Ethnic Minorities on Primetime Television in Belgium: An Analysis of Occupational Status Measurements
In this study, we investigate differences in occupational status between women and men, and between ethnic minority and majority members, by means of a content analysis of Belgian prime-time television in 2013. We evaluate the accuracy of these television portrayals using interreality comparison strategies. Results indicate that although in television content women obtain higher average scores for occupational status than men, this is mainly due …
More Than Work Integration Strategy for the Delimitation of a Population of Social Economy Actors for a Monitor of the Social Economy in Flanders
In this paper, we aim to develop a conceptualization and delimitation of social enterprises in Flanders, which will be the starting point for a monitor of the social economy in Flanders. We aim for this monitor to represent reality, that is to be in line with the international academic research while also being informed by policy visions and validated by representatives in the field. To achieve this, we studied academic literature and definitions…
Television News Content of Minority Groups as an Intergroup Context Indicator of Differences Between Target-Specific Prejudices
Although research has shown that different types of prejudice are highly correlated, the existence of prejudice hierarchies indicates that individuals differentiate between target groups. Here we examine the relationship between television news coverage and differences in attitudes toward minority groups. We rely on intergroup threat theory, tone, and framing theories to formulate our hypotheses and conduct a multimethod study: All prime-time tel…
Television and anti-immigrant sentiments: The mediating role of fear of crime and perceived ethnic diversity
Previous research has established a correlation between fear of crime and anti-immigrant sentiments. In this paper, we explore the role of television in explaining individual differences in fear of crime, perceived ethnic diversity and anti-immigrant sentiments. We use the ‘Social Cohesion Indicators in Flanders’ data, a representative survey in the Flemish region of Belgium, combined with real-life indicators of ethnic diversity and crime at the…
Back to Reality: The Complex Relationship Between Patterns in Immigration News Coverage and Real-World Developments in Dutch and Flemish Newspapers (1999–2015)
Although prior studies investigating immigration news typically documented a dominant focus on negativity and threats, only limited empirical research is available, which scrutinizes the way real-world developments affect these patterns in immigration news. This study aims to fill this void. First, we report results of a large-scale and longitudinal content analysis (N = 4,340,757) of trends in immigration news coverage in two Western European ca…
The Battle of Frame Building: The Reciprocal Relationship between Journalists and Frame Sponsors
The idea that journalists make use of framing is widespread. However, systematic studies of the role of frame sponsors—that is, nonmedia actors who advocate a certain frame package—in influencing the patterns in frame package use by journalists are limited. Which characteristics make frame sponsors successful in frame building, and why? In this study, we propose a new way of understanding the relationship between journalists and frame sponsors, b…
Prosecuted, yet popular? Hate speech prosecution of anti-immigration politicians in the news and electoral support
Current Officers and Members of Standing Committees
Who’s Afraid of Terror News? The Interplay between News Consumption Patterns, Personal Experiences and Fear of Terrorism
A positive correlation between exposure to terrorism news reports and fear of terrorism has been documented, but less is known about factors moderating this relationship. Our focus is mostly on identifying relevant moderators. We argue that individuals’ habitual patterns in news consumption (frequency, type of outlet, genre) and personal experiences (prior victimization, living in a diverse neighborhood, residing in an urban area) are relevant in…
Implementation of experts by experience in hospitals: No one-size-fits-all solution but an experience-based co-design (EBCD)
Experts by experience are defined by as long-term service users that have experience with a particular disease of disability. Through that experience, they have gained vast knowledge about it and about the health care services they use. Additionally, they possess the appropriate competencies (i.e. skills and attitude) to bring their knowledge into action. In that regard, we can identify experts by experience as valuable co-producers of care. The …
Gatekeeping, News Values and Selection: Factors Determining the Newsworthiness of Hate Crimes
This study addresses the question what makes hate crime incidents newsworthy and which factors are conducive to such incidents being reported on. Relying on news value theory, we identify criteria (cultural proximity, conflict) that explain why some hate crimes make the news and why others do not. We use a dataset of police-registered hate crimes in the Netherlands in 2017 ( N = 3379). This is the entire population of hate crimes that the police …
How Do Mainstream Parties Justify Their (Un)willingness to Rule with Populist Parties? Evidence from Twitter Data
Parties usually argue in favour or against a government coalition based on party considerations in terms of projected policy implementation, power in office and vote maximization – that is, the ‘policy, office, votes’ triad. So far, however, it remains unclear which claims mainstream parties invoke to motivate their choice to rule or not rule with populist parties. Adopting the ‘policy, voter, office’ triad, this article examines mainstream parti…
To rule or not to rule? An experimental study of the electoral ramifications of claims to (not) rule with radical right populist parties
In a between-subjects experiment ( n = 3270) conducted in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), we examine the electoral ramifications of claims by a right-wing mainstream party on their willingness to rule or not with RWPPs (radical right populist parties). Participants were exposed to a social media post by the largest right-wing party (New Flemish Alliance, N-VA) in which it either accepts or rejects ruling with the main RWPP in Fland…
The angry voter? The role of emotions in voting for the radical left and right at the 2019 Belgian elections
This study examines the role of negative (anger, fear) and positive emotions in addition to political attitudes (political trust, populist attitudes, external political efficacy) as key determinants of voting behaviour. We rely on the RepResent voter survey conducted in 2019 in Belgium ( n = 3236) allowing us to assess the relationship between emotions, political attitudes, and the vote for radical right (VB, PP) and radical left parties (PTB-PVD…
Supporting Medication Adherence in Parkinson's Through Education: A Scoping Review of Interventions
Contested Ownership, Negative Tone: How Issue Ownership Competition Fuels Online Negativity in Belgium
To gain support, political actors must be visible on issues where they are seen as credible and advance these issues on the agenda. Direct online communication and negative messaging can amplify this by gaining traction on social media. While prior research assumes parties attack competitors on issues they ‘own’, we test that assumption in a highly fragmented multi-party system where ownership is fiercely contested. Here, attacks may aim to compe…
Unmasking the Mechanism: How News Media Consumption Drives Conspiracy Beliefs
This study examines how different media types—social, alternative, and mainstream—indirectly influence CT beliefs through populist attitudes and misperceptions on divisive issues. We propose that news exposure impacts these factors, thereby affecting CT beliefs. Using a path analysis on a Belgian survey ( n = 2378), we find that populist attitudes and misperceptions mediate the relationship between news consumption and CT beliefs. Alternative and…
Voting Advice Application Use Increases Party Position Knowledge: An Experimental Study Among Belgian Youngsters
Political knowledge is vital for democratic citizenship, yet many voters struggle to correctly identify party positions. This article investigates whether voting advice applications (VAAs) can increase party position knowledge (PPK) among young voters. We present results from a large-scale experiment in Flanders (Belgium) using two real-world VAAs: De Stemtest, a generic VAA targeting the general electorate, and De Jongerenstemtest, a youth-orien…
Vote advice applications increase young users’ ideological knowledge
Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) help voters make informed choices by aligning their policy preferences with party positions. This study examines whether VAA exposure enhances young citizens’ ideological knowledge – understanding political dimensions and party positions. A randomized experiment ( n = 2308) in Belgium (Flanders) tested whether VAA exposure improved young voters’ ability to place a fictional party on the left-right axis. We replic…
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