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Cédric Courtois

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ID253156
NAMECédric Courtois
GIVEN NAMESCédric
FAMILY NAMECourtois
SIGNATURECOURTOIS C
AFFILIATIONSGhent University
ORCID0000-0003-3516-135X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS145
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7
  • “He too rose to his feet, feeling vulnerable squatting on the floor”: Poetics and Politics of Vulnerability in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise (1994)

    Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Études anglaises•2026

    Cet article explore la vulnérabilité comme thème structurant, principe poétique et enjeu politique dans Paradise d’Abdulrazak Gurnah. Si la critique a souligné la fragilité de Yusuf et d’autres personnages, la vulnérabilité elle-même n’a que rarement été considérée comme un axe central d’analyse. En mobilisant le concept de « précarité » théorisé par Judith Butler et l’idée selon laquelle la littérature « accueille et performe la vulnérabilité »,…

  • “I have wanted nothing but to be seen”: In/visibility and Power Dynamics in Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s Lost Ark Dreaming (2024)

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•E-rea•2025

    In Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s post-apocalyptic speculative novella Lost Ark Dreaming (2024), power dynamics and the notion of in/visibility take centre stage. One could argue that Okungbowa contributes to the development of counter-narratives that challenge deeply-rooted norms mainly related to social class. Finally, I investigate the way the novella makes the reader see otherwise by bringing to the fore a “poetics of attention” as well as a decolon…

  • “[C]losure is something I may never obtain”: (In)consolation in Yewande Omotoso’s An Unusual Grief (2022) and Onyi Nwabineli’s Someday, Maybe (2022)

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•E-rea•2024

    Both Yewande Omotoso’s An Unusual Grief (2022) and Onyi Nwabineli’s Someday, Maybe (2022) address the shattering effects of grief after the sudden and tragic loss of a loved one to suicide. They tackle “the ugliness” and “the untidiness” of grief and question the possibility of finding any consolation in this context. First, I analyse the stakes behind both diasporic writers’ exploration of the shattering “desolation” that grief represents, by de…

  • Caring about Plant Subjectivities and Life-Worlds in Niyi Osundare’s Green: Sighs of Our Ailing Planet (2021), Ben Okri’s Every Leaf a Hallelujah (2021) and Tiger Work: Stories, Essays and Poems About…

    Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Green Letters•2024

    In the three literary works under study in this paper, one aims to analyse plant subjectivities and life-worlds in order to expose what is called the ‘tormenting of the planet’ in an ecocidal, ‘Necropolitic[al]’ context of Capitalist extractivism. We will see that Okri and Osundare share the same goal, that of decolonising the anthropocentric and western-centric Kantian dualism Nature vs. Culture. Finally, we will show how these (pedagogical and …

  • Politics and poetics of (de)colonization in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift (2019)

    Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Journal of Postcolonial Writing•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 10

  • Differences in universal health coverage and governments' Covid-19 communication: A global comparative analysis

    Open Access•Franzisca Weder, Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Communication•2022

    The incorporation of widespread, high-quality prevention campaigns and health communication is an integral part of universally accessible healthcare systems. Importantly, in the context of COVID-19, effective public health communication has proven a key mitigating factor. Considering the global differences in countries' universal health coverage, the scope of this study is to formally compare how governments around the globe communicated at the o…

  • « Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori » à la Fondation Cartier: Compte-rendu

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Miranda•2022

    Compte-rendu de l’exposition « Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori » à la Fondation Cartier, du 3 juillet 2022 au 6 novembre 2022

  • Online and offline social support deterioration: The effect of financial stress exposure on depressive symptoms

    Jonas De Meulenaere, K Ponnet et al.•ARTICLE•Behaviour and Information…•2022

    Social support is a prominent factor in mental health etiology. According to the social support deterioration model, exposure to chronic stressors may over time erode people's social support, thereby contributing to increases in mental health issues. Although there is mounting evidence indicating the beneficial consequences of online social support, the extent to which social support deterioration takes place in an online context is to date not i…

  • Adapting the Selective Exposure Perspective to Algorithmically Governed Platforms: The Case of Google Search

    Open Access•Laura Slechten, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•Communication Research•2022

    Experimental research on selective exposure on online platforms is generally limited by a narrow focus on specific parts of the information selection process, rather than integrating the entire sequence of user-platform interactions. The current study, focusing on online search, incorporates the entire process that stretches from formulating an initial query to finally satisfying an information need. As such, it comprehensively covers how both us…

  • Visibilizing “Those Who Have No Part”: LGBTQIA+ Representation in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction in English

    Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Études anglaises•2022

    Dans cet article, je propose d’analyser la manière dont plusieurs romans nigérians contemporains écrits en anglais proposent une réflexion autour des questions et des droits des personnes LGBTQIA+, et d’examiner la politique de la littérature qu’ils mettent en place afin de donner aux « sans-part » (les personnages LGBTQIA+) une plus grande visibilité dans une société hétéronormative et homophobe. Les concepts développés par Jacques Rancière (« l…

  • Exploring the User Base of Online Neighborhood Networks: Determinants of Online Neighborhood Network Membership and Uses

    Jonas De Meulenaere, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Urban Technology•2022

    This paper aims to determine the prevalence of the use of online neighborhood networks (ONNs) and explores which socio-demographic, socioeconomic status (SES), social integration, and media use determinants predict ONN membership and uses. Drawing on a stratified random sample (Ghent, Belgium), we found that over a third of the population are ONN members and that membership was mainly predicted by socio-demographic characteristics. Also, in contr…

  • Computer Vision and Internet Meme Genealogy: An Evaluation of Image Feature Matching as a Technique for Pattern Detection

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois, Thomas Frissen•ARTICLE•Communication Methods and Measures•2022•References: 18

    Internet memes are a fundamental aspect of digital culture. Despite being individual expressions, they vastly transcend the individual level as windows into and vehicles for wide-stretching social, cultural, and political narratives. Empirical research into meme culture is thriving, yet particularly compartmentalized. In the humanities and social sciences, most efforts involve in-depth linguistic and visual analyses of mostly handpicked examples …

  • “Into the mutation”: Osahon Ize-Iyamu’s “More Sea than Tar” (2019) as Climate Fiction

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Commonwealth Essays and Studies•2021

    In this paper, Nigerian author Osahon Ize-Iyamu’s 2019 short story “More Sea than Tar” is used as a template for “Climate Fiction.” This ecodystopian short story is read within the broader category of speculative fiction and is part of an emerging stream of dystopian fiction from Nigeria and Africa more generally. I first analyse the poetics and politics of the “African Anthropocene” through a close reading of the text and through references to o…

  • « She was a remarkable woman »: L’héritage afro-féministe d’Efuru (1966) de Flora Nwapa dans Purple Hibiscus (2003) de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie et Sky-High Flames (2005) d’Unoma Azuah

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Études littéraires africaines•2021

    Purple Hibiscus (2003) et Sky-High Flames (2005), premiers romans appartenant au genre du Bildungsroman des écrivaines nigérianes- igbo de la troisième génération Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie et Unoma Azuah, entrent en résonance avec Efuru (1966) de l’autrice nigériane- igbo Flora Nwapa. En ce début de xxi e siècle, cette dernière demeure une figure littéraire tutélaire pour les écrivaines contemporaines qui s’y réfèrent plus ou moins implicitement. …

  • Thèses soutenues

    Open Access•Delphine Abadie, Émeline Baudet et al.•ARTICLE•Études littéraires africaines•2021

  • The development and psychometric testing of the expressive and instrumental Online Neighborhood Network Uses Scale (Onnus)

    Open Access•Jonas De Meulenaere, Bastiaan Baccarne et al.•ARTICLE•Cyberpsychology Journal of…•2021

    The current study presents an instrument to measure online neighborhood network (ONN) uses from a social capital perspective. Prior studies have provided tentative evidence that ONNs, developed on social media platforms, can be a means for residents to develop social capital. However, to investigate this claim, a quantitative measurement instrument tailored to group- instead of ego-centered networks, is necessary yet currently lacking. A multi-ph…

  • Disentangling social support mobilization via online neighborhood networks

    Open Access•Jonas De Meulenaere, Bastiaan Baccarne et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Psychology•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 83

    This paper proposes and tests a theoretical model to investigate the mechanism underpinning local social support exchange via online neighborhood networks (ONNs). We drew on community psychology, social support, and social media literature and used a survey conducted in the Dutch‐speaking part of Belgium among 561 ONN users ( n females = 409; 72.9%) between 18 and 82 years old ( M age = 43.73; SD age = 15.37). We found that engaging in online nei…

  • Bottom-Up Hyperlocal Media in Belgium

    Jonas De Meulenaere, Cédric Courtois et al.•CHAPTER•Routledge Companion to Local…•2020

    Hyperlocal media are typically considered as organized entities, deliberately set up with a journalistic purpose. However, recently we have seen the emergence of bottom-up, unstructured, loosely organized and little monitored Facebook groups that bring together residents and information concerning a specific locality. In these groups, people share information and news related to the neighborhood, announce and promote events, or report neighborhoo…

  • “With the Exception of [Ali] Banana: ” Second World War Bildung in the Burmese Jungle in Biyi Bandele’s Burma Boy (2007)

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Commonwealth Essays and Studies•2020

    Biyi Bandele’s Burma Boy (2007) is exceptional in various ways. The novel deals with the Burma campaign, a series of battles fought in the former British colony of Burma during the Second World War. Bandele’s novel is therefore exceptional in the context of the Nigerian war novel, which has mostly addressed the Nigerian Civil War (1967‐70). This exceptionality is also found in the fact that Bandele rewrites the Eurocentric narrative of WWII and g…

  • Les écrivain·e·s nigérian·e·s de la troisième génération et la construction identitaire (Bildung): Panorama du roman nigérian depuis les années 2000

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Études littéraires africaines•2020

    Depuis le début des années 2000, et l’émergence des écrivain·e·s « de la troisième génération », le Bildungsroman , genre littéraire né en Europe, est constamment réécrit au Nigéria. Des auteurs et autrices aussi prestigieux que Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ou encore Chris Abani se sont confrontés à la réécriture d’un genre qui narre le développement de « l’innocence à l’expérience », qui permet de mettre en lumière l’odyssée du moi et la constructio…

  • Cracking the Tinder Code: An Experience Sampling Approach to the Dynamics and Impact of Platform Governing Algorithms

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois, Elisabeth Timmermans•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 8

    This article conceptualizes algorithmically-governed platforms as the outcomes of a structuration process involving three types of actors: platform owners/developers, platform users, and machine learning algorithms. This threefold conceptualization informs media effects research, which still struggles to incorporate algorithmic influence. It invokes insights into algorithmic governance from platform studies and (critical) studies in the political…

  • From swiping to casual sex and/or committed relationships: Exploring the experiences of Tinder users

    Elisabeth Timmermans, Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2018•Cited by: 17•References: 52

    To better understand if and how the mechanics of the process Tinder imposes on its users (i.e., swiping, matching, and starting conversations) influences the resulting sexual or romantic interactions, we collected data from 1038 Belgian Tinder users. Our findings show that a user's swiping quantity does not guarantee a higher number of Tinder matches, women have generally more matches than men and men usually have to start a conversation on Tinde…

  • What’s APPening to news? A mixed-method audience-centred study on mobile news consumption

    Open Access•Kristin Van Damme, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•Mobile Media & Communication•2015•Cited by: 6•References: 14

    News is increasingly being consumed on a multitude of media devices, including mobile devices. In recent years, mobile news consumption has permeated individuals’ news consumption repertoires. The main purpose of this study is twofold: (a) gain insight in how mobile news outlets infiltrated the broader news media repertoires of mobile device owners and (b) understand in what circumstances mobile news is consumed within these news media repertoire…

  • How to be a gamer! Exploring personal and social indicators of gamer identity

    Open Access•Frederik De Grove, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2015•Cited by: 14•References: 12

    Over the past decades, digital games have continued to extend their audience as they moved into the cultural mainstream. Despite this fact, however, only a portion of those who play games consider themselves a gamer. Drawing on insights from social identity theory, this study explores the factors that contribute to why people attribute a gamer identity to self or others. It does so by considering 2 sites of identity construction: the social conte…

  • Internet Skills, Sources of Support, and Benefiting From Internet Use

    Alexander J A M Van Deursen, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2014

    This study added communication Internet skills to an existing skill framework of operational, formal, information, and strategic skills. The study investigated how people deal with inadequate skill levels by identifying support sources. Furthermore, we investigated which of the Internet skills actually matter for attaining beneficial Internet outcomes and whether support sources employed moderate these effects. Results of a large-scale survey rev…

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  • When News is Everywhere: Understanding participation, cross-mediality and mobility in journalism from a radical user perspective

    Ike Picone, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2014•Cited by: 27•References: 18

    This article contends that not only journalism but also journalism studies can benefit from a stronger commitment to the public. While the bodies of literature on “popular journalism”, “public journalism” and “citizen/participatory journalism” have, in different contexts and from different angles, made a strong case in favour of a public-oriented approach to journalism, it is remarkable how few of the empirical studies on journalism are based on …

  • With a little help from my friends: An analysis of the role of social support in digital inequalities

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois, Pieter Verdegem•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2014•Cited by: 21•References: 14

    This article reports an empirical study on the composition and socio-economic background of social support networks and their moderating role in explaining digital inequalities. It conceptually draws upon and empirically reaffirms Van Dijk’s multiple access model, acknowledging motivational, material, skill and usage divides, while focussing on the under-researched issue of social support as indispensible source of social learning. Besides a smal…

  • From swiping to casual sex and/or committed relationships: Exploring the experiences of Tinder users

    Elisabeth Timmermans, Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2018•Cited by: 17•References: 52

    To better understand if and how the mechanics of the process Tinder imposes on its users (i.e., swiping, matching, and starting conversations) influences the resulting sexual or romantic interactions, we collected data from 1038 Belgian Tinder users. Our findings show that a user's swiping quantity does not guarantee a higher number of Tinder matches, women have generally more matches than men and men usually have to start a conversation on Tinde…

  • Cracking the Tinder Code: An Experience Sampling Approach to the Dynamics and Impact of Platform Governing Algorithms

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois, Elisabeth Timmermans•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 8

    This article conceptualizes algorithmically-governed platforms as the outcomes of a structuration process involving three types of actors: platform owners/developers, platform users, and machine learning algorithms. This threefold conceptualization informs media effects research, which still struggles to incorporate algorithmic influence. It invokes insights into algorithmic governance from platform studies and (critical) studies in the political…

  • How to be a gamer! Exploring personal and social indicators of gamer identity

    Open Access•Frederik De Grove, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2015•Cited by: 14•References: 12

    Over the past decades, digital games have continued to extend their audience as they moved into the cultural mainstream. Despite this fact, however, only a portion of those who play games consider themselves a gamer. Drawing on insights from social identity theory, this study explores the factors that contribute to why people attribute a gamer identity to self or others. It does so by considering 2 sites of identity construction: the social conte…

  • The Triple Articulation of Media Technologies in Audiovisual Media Consumption

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois, Pieter Verdegem et al.•ARTICLE•Television & New Media•2012•Cited by: 14•References: 1

    This article departs from the concept of “double articulation” within domestication theory, which views media as both objects and texts. Unfortunately, its empirical application has been problematic because researchers tend to concentrate on the contextual, losing sight of specific meanings of objects and texts. Therefore, we subscribe to the concept of “triple articulation,” viewing the immediate sociospatial context of consumption as a specific…

  • The changing dynamics of television consumption in the multimedia living room

    Open Access•Evelien D’heer, Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Convergence The International…•2014•Cited by: 12•References: 10

    This increasingly saturated media environment potentially alters how viewers engage with televisual media and with each other. In this respect, we address how mobile devices, such as tablets, have entered our living rooms and alter TV’s social uses and practices. By means of in-depth interviews, we revisit the enquiry of the audience in the living room context, with specific attention to Lull’s typology of social uses. The study shows the use of …

  • What’s APPening to news? A mixed-method audience-centred study on mobile news consumption

    Open Access•Kristin Van Damme, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•Mobile Media & Communication•2015•Cited by: 6•References: 14

    News is increasingly being consumed on a multitude of media devices, including mobile devices. In recent years, mobile news consumption has permeated individuals’ news consumption repertoires. The main purpose of this study is twofold: (a) gain insight in how mobile news outlets infiltrated the broader news media repertoires of mobile device owners and (b) understand in what circumstances mobile news is consumed within these news media repertoire…

  • The triple articulation of media technologies in teenage media consumption

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois, Peter Mechant et al.•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2011•Cited by: 5•References: 10

    This study explores the meaning of teenagers’ media consumption in terms of identity formation and autonomy attainment. In domestication theory, media consumption is conceptualized as the interplay of both media object and content. However, in practical applications, the notion of object has usually been snowed under by contextual descriptions. In response, this article draws upon the concept of a triple articulation that, next to media text, sep…

  • Disentangling social support mobilization via online neighborhood networks

    Open Access•Jonas De Meulenaere, Bastiaan Baccarne et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Psychology•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 83

    This paper proposes and tests a theoretical model to investigate the mechanism underpinning local social support exchange via online neighborhood networks (ONNs). We drew on community psychology, social support, and social media literature and used a survey conducted in the Dutch‐speaking part of Belgium among 561 ONN users ( n females = 409; 72.9%) between 18 and 82 years old ( M age = 43.73; SD age = 15.37). We found that engaging in online nei…

  • The spatial and social contexts of television-viewing adolescents

    Open Access•Fien Adriaens, Elke Van Damme et al.•ARTICLE•Poetics•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 18

  • Gratifications and Seeding Behavior of Online Adolescents

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois, Peter Mechant et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2009•Cited by: 4•References: 9

    Several studies indicate that only a small minority of Web 2.0 users actively participates, while the minority do not contribute at all. This article investigates whether a similar division applies for adolescents ' Internet behavior. Using Szuprowicz' (1995) typology of interactivity, we distinguish different types of user-generated content (UGC): media, narrative, and metadata UGC. Our results show a 20%-80% division between high-and low-freque…

  • Politics and poetics of (de)colonization in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift (2019)

    Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Journal of Postcolonial Writing•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 10

  • Gratifications and Seeding Behavior of Online Adolescents

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois, Peter Mechant et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2009•Cited by: 4•References: 9

    Several studies indicate that only a small minority of Web 2.0 users actively participates, while the minority do not contribute at all. This article investigates whether a similar division applies for adolescents ' Internet behavior. Using Szuprowicz' (1995) typology of interactivity, we distinguish different types of user-generated content (UGC): media, narrative, and metadata UGC. Our results show a 20%-80% division between high-and low-freque…

  • The triple articulation of media technologies in teenage media consumption

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois, Peter Mechant et al.•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2011•Cited by: 5•References: 10

    This study explores the meaning of teenagers’ media consumption in terms of identity formation and autonomy attainment. In domestication theory, media consumption is conceptualized as the interplay of both media object and content. However, in practical applications, the notion of object has usually been snowed under by contextual descriptions. In response, this article draws upon the concept of a triple articulation that, next to media text, sep…

  • The spatial and social contexts of television-viewing adolescents

    Open Access•Fien Adriaens, Elke Van Damme et al.•ARTICLE•Poetics•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 18

  • Player Identification in Online Games: Validation of a Scale for Measuring Identification in MMOGs

    Jan Van Looy, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•Media Psychology•2012

    This article proposes a scale for measuring player identification in massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). Three dimensions have been derived from the literature, avatar identification, group identification, and game identification, whereby avatar identification is a second-order factor consisting of similarity identification, wishful identification, and embodied presence. Based on the results of a cross-sectional survey of 544 World of War…

  • Technological convergence in audio-visual technologies

    Cédric Courtois, Evelien D’heer et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Digital…•2012•References: 1

    This article presents the results of a large-scale survey on viewing practices. Data from over 10,000 cases are used to explore the adoption-use diffusion gap and the correlation structures in the frequency of use of multiple channels (e.g. linear television, download, video-on-demand) on multiple devices. The results show that, although a lot of devices capable of audio-visual playback have been adopted, few of them are used to consume televisio…

  • The Triple Articulation of Media Technologies in Audiovisual Media Consumption

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois, Pieter Verdegem et al.•ARTICLE•Television & New Media•2012•Cited by: 14•References: 1

    This article departs from the concept of “double articulation” within domestication theory, which views media as both objects and texts. Unfortunately, its empirical application has been problematic because researchers tend to concentrate on the contextual, losing sight of specific meanings of objects and texts. Therefore, we subscribe to the concept of “triple articulation,” viewing the immediate sociospatial context of consumption as a specific…

  • Internet Skills, Sources of Support, and Benefiting From Internet Use

    Alexander J A M Van Deursen, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2014

    This study added communication Internet skills to an existing skill framework of operational, formal, information, and strategic skills. The study investigated how people deal with inadequate skill levels by identifying support sources. Furthermore, we investigated which of the Internet skills actually matter for attaining beneficial Internet outcomes and whether support sources employed moderate these effects. Results of a large-scale survey rev…

  • With a little help from my friends: An analysis of the role of social support in digital inequalities

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois, Pieter Verdegem•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2014•Cited by: 21•References: 14

    This article reports an empirical study on the composition and socio-economic background of social support networks and their moderating role in explaining digital inequalities. It conceptually draws upon and empirically reaffirms Van Dijk’s multiple access model, acknowledging motivational, material, skill and usage divides, while focussing on the under-researched issue of social support as indispensible source of social learning. Besides a smal…

  • The changing dynamics of television consumption in the multimedia living room

    Open Access•Evelien D’heer, Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Convergence The International…•2014•Cited by: 12•References: 10

    This increasingly saturated media environment potentially alters how viewers engage with televisual media and with each other. In this respect, we address how mobile devices, such as tablets, have entered our living rooms and alter TV’s social uses and practices. By means of in-depth interviews, we revisit the enquiry of the audience in the living room context, with specific attention to Lull’s typology of social uses. The study shows the use of …

  • When News is Everywhere: Understanding participation, cross-mediality and mobility in journalism from a radical user perspective

    Ike Picone, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2014•Cited by: 27•References: 18

    This article contends that not only journalism but also journalism studies can benefit from a stronger commitment to the public. While the bodies of literature on “popular journalism”, “public journalism” and “citizen/participatory journalism” have, in different contexts and from different angles, made a strong case in favour of a public-oriented approach to journalism, it is remarkable how few of the empirical studies on journalism are based on …

  • The role of socio-spatial context in the habit-goal interface of audiovisual media consumption

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois, Frederik De Grove et al.•ARTICLE•Poetics•2014•References: 29

  • What’s APPening to news? A mixed-method audience-centred study on mobile news consumption

    Open Access•Kristin Van Damme, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•Mobile Media & Communication•2015•Cited by: 6•References: 14

    News is increasingly being consumed on a multitude of media devices, including mobile devices. In recent years, mobile news consumption has permeated individuals’ news consumption repertoires. The main purpose of this study is twofold: (a) gain insight in how mobile news outlets infiltrated the broader news media repertoires of mobile device owners and (b) understand in what circumstances mobile news is consumed within these news media repertoire…

  • How to be a gamer! Exploring personal and social indicators of gamer identity

    Open Access•Frederik De Grove, Cédric Courtois et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2015•Cited by: 14•References: 12

    Over the past decades, digital games have continued to extend their audience as they moved into the cultural mainstream. Despite this fact, however, only a portion of those who play games consider themselves a gamer. Drawing on insights from social identity theory, this study explores the factors that contribute to why people attribute a gamer identity to self or others. It does so by considering 2 sites of identity construction: the social conte…

  • Cracking the Tinder Code: An Experience Sampling Approach to the Dynamics and Impact of Platform Governing Algorithms

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois, Elisabeth Timmermans•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer-Mediated…•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 8

    This article conceptualizes algorithmically-governed platforms as the outcomes of a structuration process involving three types of actors: platform owners/developers, platform users, and machine learning algorithms. This threefold conceptualization informs media effects research, which still struggles to incorporate algorithmic influence. It invokes insights into algorithmic governance from platform studies and (critical) studies in the political…

  • From swiping to casual sex and/or committed relationships: Exploring the experiences of Tinder users

    Elisabeth Timmermans, Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2018•Cited by: 17•References: 52

    To better understand if and how the mechanics of the process Tinder imposes on its users (i.e., swiping, matching, and starting conversations) influences the resulting sexual or romantic interactions, we collected data from 1038 Belgian Tinder users. Our findings show that a user's swiping quantity does not guarantee a higher number of Tinder matches, women have generally more matches than men and men usually have to start a conversation on Tinde…

  • Bottom-Up Hyperlocal Media in Belgium

    Jonas De Meulenaere, Cédric Courtois et al.•CHAPTER•Routledge Companion to Local…•2020

    Hyperlocal media are typically considered as organized entities, deliberately set up with a journalistic purpose. However, recently we have seen the emergence of bottom-up, unstructured, loosely organized and little monitored Facebook groups that bring together residents and information concerning a specific locality. In these groups, people share information and news related to the neighborhood, announce and promote events, or report neighborhoo…

  • “With the Exception of [Ali] Banana: ” Second World War Bildung in the Burmese Jungle in Biyi Bandele’s Burma Boy (2007)

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Commonwealth Essays and Studies•2020

    Biyi Bandele’s Burma Boy (2007) is exceptional in various ways. The novel deals with the Burma campaign, a series of battles fought in the former British colony of Burma during the Second World War. Bandele’s novel is therefore exceptional in the context of the Nigerian war novel, which has mostly addressed the Nigerian Civil War (1967‐70). This exceptionality is also found in the fact that Bandele rewrites the Eurocentric narrative of WWII and g…

  • Les écrivain·e·s nigérian·e·s de la troisième génération et la construction identitaire (Bildung): Panorama du roman nigérian depuis les années 2000

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Études littéraires africaines•2020

    Depuis le début des années 2000, et l’émergence des écrivain·e·s « de la troisième génération », le Bildungsroman , genre littéraire né en Europe, est constamment réécrit au Nigéria. Des auteurs et autrices aussi prestigieux que Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ou encore Chris Abani se sont confrontés à la réécriture d’un genre qui narre le développement de « l’innocence à l’expérience », qui permet de mettre en lumière l’odyssée du moi et la constructio…

  • “Into the mutation”: Osahon Ize-Iyamu’s “More Sea than Tar” (2019) as Climate Fiction

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Commonwealth Essays and Studies•2021

    In this paper, Nigerian author Osahon Ize-Iyamu’s 2019 short story “More Sea than Tar” is used as a template for “Climate Fiction.” This ecodystopian short story is read within the broader category of speculative fiction and is part of an emerging stream of dystopian fiction from Nigeria and Africa more generally. I first analyse the poetics and politics of the “African Anthropocene” through a close reading of the text and through references to o…

  • « She was a remarkable woman »: L’héritage afro-féministe d’Efuru (1966) de Flora Nwapa dans Purple Hibiscus (2003) de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie et Sky-High Flames (2005) d’Unoma Azuah

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Études littéraires africaines•2021

    Purple Hibiscus (2003) et Sky-High Flames (2005), premiers romans appartenant au genre du Bildungsroman des écrivaines nigérianes- igbo de la troisième génération Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie et Unoma Azuah, entrent en résonance avec Efuru (1966) de l’autrice nigériane- igbo Flora Nwapa. En ce début de xxi e siècle, cette dernière demeure une figure littéraire tutélaire pour les écrivaines contemporaines qui s’y réfèrent plus ou moins implicitement. …

  • Thèses soutenues

    Open Access•Delphine Abadie, Émeline Baudet et al.•ARTICLE•Études littéraires africaines•2021

  • The development and psychometric testing of the expressive and instrumental Online Neighborhood Network Uses Scale (Onnus)

    Open Access•Jonas De Meulenaere, Bastiaan Baccarne et al.•ARTICLE•Cyberpsychology Journal of…•2021

    The current study presents an instrument to measure online neighborhood network (ONN) uses from a social capital perspective. Prior studies have provided tentative evidence that ONNs, developed on social media platforms, can be a means for residents to develop social capital. However, to investigate this claim, a quantitative measurement instrument tailored to group- instead of ego-centered networks, is necessary yet currently lacking. A multi-ph…

  • Disentangling social support mobilization via online neighborhood networks

    Open Access•Jonas De Meulenaere, Bastiaan Baccarne et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community Psychology•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 83

    This paper proposes and tests a theoretical model to investigate the mechanism underpinning local social support exchange via online neighborhood networks (ONNs). We drew on community psychology, social support, and social media literature and used a survey conducted in the Dutch‐speaking part of Belgium among 561 ONN users ( n females = 409; 72.9%) between 18 and 82 years old ( M age = 43.73; SD age = 15.37). We found that engaging in online nei…

  • Differences in universal health coverage and governments' Covid-19 communication: A global comparative analysis

    Open Access•Franzisca Weder, Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Communication•2022

    The incorporation of widespread, high-quality prevention campaigns and health communication is an integral part of universally accessible healthcare systems. Importantly, in the context of COVID-19, effective public health communication has proven a key mitigating factor. Considering the global differences in countries' universal health coverage, the scope of this study is to formally compare how governments around the globe communicated at the o…

  • « Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori » à la Fondation Cartier: Compte-rendu

    Open Access•Cédric Courtois•ARTICLE•Miranda•2022

    Compte-rendu de l’exposition « Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori » à la Fondation Cartier, du 3 juillet 2022 au 6 novembre 2022

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