Martina Temmerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martina Temmerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martina |
| FAMILY NAME | Temmerman |
| SIGNATURE | TEMMERMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1482-8488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction to the Journalistic I
This special issue aims to (re)assess the implications of the renewed currency of various expressions of the journalist’s “mediating subjectivity” for journalism as a meaning-making and creative practice; for journalistic truth/storytelling; and for audience engagement. The central theme is explored across 17 contributions that collectively demonstrate conceptual, methodological and geographical diversity, addressing different notions of subjecti…
The ‘Black Pete’ debate in Flemish newspapers
In recent years, a lot of academic attention has been paid to the public discussion on 'Black Pete' (Zwarte Piet) in the Low Countries. Black Pete is a much-debated blackface character which is part of the Saint-Nicholas tradition – a yearly festive event taking place at the beginning of December associated with gifts and celebration. 'Tradition' versus 'racism' seem to be the main arguments in the debate. The current study analyses the debate as…
Introduction
Ethics as the backbone of the professional identity of Belgian journalism interns
This study analyzes the perceptions of professional ethics expressed by Belgian – both Francophone and Flemish – journalism students after their first internships. 13 focus groups including 59 students from 7 universities were organized. These young journalists detailed how ethics play a central role in the development of their professional identity, during their first professional experience. Results show that both Flemish and French-speaking jo…
The engagement Cube
Purpose Community engaged research and learning strategies are considered meaningful methods for universities to demonstrate their critical importance to today’s societies. At the same time, it is stressed that not all approaches are equally beneficial, highlighting the need for well-considered design and delivery. This paper aims to outline a helpful tool in this regard: the engagement CUBE. Design/methodology/approach The engagement CUBE was de…
Hot weather, hot topic. Polarization and sceptical framing in the climate debate on Twitter
Extreme weather events like the heat wave of 2018 reinforce public attention for climate change. Social media platforms facilitate, define and amplify debate about this topic. They give rise to counterpublic spaces through which counterpublics such as climate sceptics get a stage they would not easily get in mainstream media. Previous research suggests that sceptics use these spaces as safe havens, but also as bases for interventions in the hegem…
News Values from an Audience Perspective
Experientiality and evidentiality
This article is written from both a linguistic and a narrative perspective and focuses on the relation between linguistic evidentiality and narrative experientiality in travel stories written by journalists. By narrating their sensory perceptions, journalists recreate their experiences for their readers. Linguistically speaking, they use evidential markers in order to make this recreation possible. In narratology, the term experientiality is used…
What’s (The) News? Reassessing “News Values” as a Concept and Methodology in the Digital Age
This themed issue provides a comprehensive overview of journalism scholarship that variously builds on, develops, and re-examines the conceptual and methodological framework of “news values” research in the digital age. As such, it purports to demonstrate, explore and reflect on its distinctive merits and limitations, both actual and potential, as a distinctive approach to understanding ideas, practices, and experiences of “newsworthiness”, and i…
All climate stories worth telling. Salience and positionality at the intersection of news values and frames
Post-truth and the political
Constructive journalism
Constructive journalism as a (news) philosophy and practice is gaining ground around the globe as both new journalistic ventures and legacy news media variously experiment with so-called ‘constructive’ approaches, and specialized (nonprofit) organizations and training programs have been established. While scholarly interest in the subject has steadily grown accordingly, constructive journalism as a research field in its own right is arguably stil…
Personal Branding on Twitter
Social media are increasingly embedded into everyday communication. This challenges journalism to anticipate the changes that social media trigger in the use and production of (news) media. In this paper, we focus on personal branding on Twitter. Journalists are increasingly encouraged to develop a personal brand on Twitter. This offers them the opportunity to become news and opinion hubs and to increase their “market value”. Erving Goffman’s the…
Hybridity and the news
This paper introduces the Special Issue’s central theme of ‘hybridity and the news’, defining the scope and setting the scene for the multiple issues and debates covered by the individual contributions in this collection. Opposing both relativist positions that discard hybridity as an analytically useless concept, and preconceived notions that construe hybridity as intrinsically negative or positive, it is argued to move beyond binary thinking an…
Absent husbands and whispering voices
This study examines the textual representation of men in two popular Flemish women's magazines, Het Rijk der Vrouw and Libelle. We compare Het Rijk der Vrouw of 1958 with its successor Libelle of 2008 through building on the tradition of critical discourse analysis. Our analysis of the names used to refer to men in the two magazines illustrates how the representation of men has changed during this period. In 2008, men were found in different role…
Elite behaviour and elite communication in a divided society
Consociational democracy theory attributes an important role to the subgroup elites. They have to build the bridges between the subgroups and govern together in a divided and segmented society. This need for an accommodating elite has been criticized — among others — for its unrealistic expectations. A compromising attitude can hardly be expected when the subgroup leaders need to remain acceptable and legitimate among their rank and file. Post-el…
Idolatry versus authenticity
This article investigates the way (catholic) religion and youth are represented in different Flemish newspapers. The case of World Youth Day (WYD) 2005 offers a well-defined corpus, which is very suitable for an analysis of the discourse on religion, youth and media. Based on a linguistic analysis of the corpus, we have been able to describe the representation given to the WYD, of the presence of the pope and of the young participants. It turns o…
Constructive journalism
Constructive journalism as a (news) philosophy and practice is gaining ground around the globe as both new journalistic ventures and legacy news media variously experiment with so-called ‘constructive’ approaches, and specialized (nonprofit) organizations and training programs have been established. While scholarly interest in the subject has steadily grown accordingly, constructive journalism as a research field in its own right is arguably stil…
Hybridity and the news
This paper introduces the Special Issue’s central theme of ‘hybridity and the news’, defining the scope and setting the scene for the multiple issues and debates covered by the individual contributions in this collection. Opposing both relativist positions that discard hybridity as an analytically useless concept, and preconceived notions that construe hybridity as intrinsically negative or positive, it is argued to move beyond binary thinking an…
What’s (The) News? Reassessing “News Values” as a Concept and Methodology in the Digital Age
This themed issue provides a comprehensive overview of journalism scholarship that variously builds on, develops, and re-examines the conceptual and methodological framework of “news values” research in the digital age. As such, it purports to demonstrate, explore and reflect on its distinctive merits and limitations, both actual and potential, as a distinctive approach to understanding ideas, practices, and experiences of “newsworthiness”, and i…
Post-truth and the political
Elite behaviour and elite communication in a divided society
Consociational democracy theory attributes an important role to the subgroup elites. They have to build the bridges between the subgroups and govern together in a divided and segmented society. This need for an accommodating elite has been criticized — among others — for its unrealistic expectations. A compromising attitude can hardly be expected when the subgroup leaders need to remain acceptable and legitimate among their rank and file. Post-el…
Idolatry versus authenticity
This article investigates the way (catholic) religion and youth are represented in different Flemish newspapers. The case of World Youth Day (WYD) 2005 offers a well-defined corpus, which is very suitable for an analysis of the discourse on religion, youth and media. Based on a linguistic analysis of the corpus, we have been able to describe the representation given to the WYD, of the presence of the pope and of the young participants. It turns o…
Absent husbands and whispering voices
This study examines the textual representation of men in two popular Flemish women's magazines, Het Rijk der Vrouw and Libelle. We compare Het Rijk der Vrouw of 1958 with its successor Libelle of 2008 through building on the tradition of critical discourse analysis. Our analysis of the names used to refer to men in the two magazines illustrates how the representation of men has changed during this period. In 2008, men were found in different role…
Idolatry versus authenticity
This article investigates the way (catholic) religion and youth are represented in different Flemish newspapers. The case of World Youth Day (WYD) 2005 offers a well-defined corpus, which is very suitable for an analysis of the discourse on religion, youth and media. Based on a linguistic analysis of the corpus, we have been able to describe the representation given to the WYD, of the presence of the pope and of the young participants. It turns o…
Elite behaviour and elite communication in a divided society
Consociational democracy theory attributes an important role to the subgroup elites. They have to build the bridges between the subgroups and govern together in a divided and segmented society. This need for an accommodating elite has been criticized — among others — for its unrealistic expectations. A compromising attitude can hardly be expected when the subgroup leaders need to remain acceptable and legitimate among their rank and file. Post-el…
Absent husbands and whispering voices
This study examines the textual representation of men in two popular Flemish women's magazines, Het Rijk der Vrouw and Libelle. We compare Het Rijk der Vrouw of 1958 with its successor Libelle of 2008 through building on the tradition of critical discourse analysis. Our analysis of the names used to refer to men in the two magazines illustrates how the representation of men has changed during this period. In 2008, men were found in different role…
Hybridity and the news
This paper introduces the Special Issue’s central theme of ‘hybridity and the news’, defining the scope and setting the scene for the multiple issues and debates covered by the individual contributions in this collection. Opposing both relativist positions that discard hybridity as an analytically useless concept, and preconceived notions that construe hybridity as intrinsically negative or positive, it is argued to move beyond binary thinking an…
Personal Branding on Twitter
Social media are increasingly embedded into everyday communication. This challenges journalism to anticipate the changes that social media trigger in the use and production of (news) media. In this paper, we focus on personal branding on Twitter. Journalists are increasingly encouraged to develop a personal brand on Twitter. This offers them the opportunity to become news and opinion hubs and to increase their “market value”. Erving Goffman’s the…
All climate stories worth telling. Salience and positionality at the intersection of news values and frames
Post-truth and the political
Constructive journalism
Constructive journalism as a (news) philosophy and practice is gaining ground around the globe as both new journalistic ventures and legacy news media variously experiment with so-called ‘constructive’ approaches, and specialized (nonprofit) organizations and training programs have been established. While scholarly interest in the subject has steadily grown accordingly, constructive journalism as a research field in its own right is arguably stil…
News Values from an Audience Perspective
Experientiality and evidentiality
This article is written from both a linguistic and a narrative perspective and focuses on the relation between linguistic evidentiality and narrative experientiality in travel stories written by journalists. By narrating their sensory perceptions, journalists recreate their experiences for their readers. Linguistically speaking, they use evidential markers in order to make this recreation possible. In narratology, the term experientiality is used…
What’s (The) News? Reassessing “News Values” as a Concept and Methodology in the Digital Age
This themed issue provides a comprehensive overview of journalism scholarship that variously builds on, develops, and re-examines the conceptual and methodological framework of “news values” research in the digital age. As such, it purports to demonstrate, explore and reflect on its distinctive merits and limitations, both actual and potential, as a distinctive approach to understanding ideas, practices, and experiences of “newsworthiness”, and i…
The engagement Cube
Purpose Community engaged research and learning strategies are considered meaningful methods for universities to demonstrate their critical importance to today’s societies. At the same time, it is stressed that not all approaches are equally beneficial, highlighting the need for well-considered design and delivery. This paper aims to outline a helpful tool in this regard: the engagement CUBE. Design/methodology/approach The engagement CUBE was de…
Hot weather, hot topic. Polarization and sceptical framing in the climate debate on Twitter
Extreme weather events like the heat wave of 2018 reinforce public attention for climate change. Social media platforms facilitate, define and amplify debate about this topic. They give rise to counterpublic spaces through which counterpublics such as climate sceptics get a stage they would not easily get in mainstream media. Previous research suggests that sceptics use these spaces as safe havens, but also as bases for interventions in the hegem…
Ethics as the backbone of the professional identity of Belgian journalism interns
This study analyzes the perceptions of professional ethics expressed by Belgian – both Francophone and Flemish – journalism students after their first internships. 13 focus groups including 59 students from 7 universities were organized. These young journalists detailed how ethics play a central role in the development of their professional identity, during their first professional experience. Results show that both Flemish and French-speaking jo…
The ‘Black Pete’ debate in Flemish newspapers
In recent years, a lot of academic attention has been paid to the public discussion on 'Black Pete' (Zwarte Piet) in the Low Countries. Black Pete is a much-debated blackface character which is part of the Saint-Nicholas tradition – a yearly festive event taking place at the beginning of December associated with gifts and celebration. 'Tradition' versus 'racism' seem to be the main arguments in the debate. The current study analyses the debate as…
Introduction
Introduction to the Journalistic I
This special issue aims to (re)assess the implications of the renewed currency of various expressions of the journalist’s “mediating subjectivity” for journalism as a meaning-making and creative practice; for journalistic truth/storytelling; and for audience engagement. The central theme is explored across 17 contributions that collectively demonstrate conceptual, methodological and geographical diversity, addressing different notions of subjecti…
Sociology (16 works) · Media studies (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Media Studies and Communication (10 works) · Journalism (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works)