Astrid Van den Bossche
Biographic Data
| ID | 5038457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Astrid Van den Bossche |
| GIVEN NAMES | Astrid Van den |
| FAMILY NAME | Bossche |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DEN BOSSCHE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0790-6799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rankings are all bullsh*t anyway, why not do my own?’
Rankings are a well-established genre for evaluating diverse phenomena, yet culturally resonant critiques of them are relatively rare. This paper examines how student vloggers on YouTube challenge and reinterpret university rankings through ‘tier list’ and ‘reaction’ videos, thereby shifting genre expectations. Through a move analysis of 30 such videos, we identify 3 rhetorical actions – making sense of ranking, audience interpellation and subver…
Born exhibitionists
In post-WWII United States, Maidenform's "I dreamed I went shopping in my Maidenform bra" campaign (1949-1969) was seen as a prime example of the psychoanalytical sell: the ads seemed to tap into the repressed psyche of the 1950s housewife, directly pulling the levers of deep-seated sexual desires. This remarkable account has carried over into more recent analyses with little interrogation as to its soundness, and non-Freudian variants have equal…
From newspaper supplement to data company
From newspaper supplement to data company
Rankings are all bullsh*t anyway, why not do my own?’
Rankings are a well-established genre for evaluating diverse phenomena, yet culturally resonant critiques of them are relatively rare. This paper examines how student vloggers on YouTube challenge and reinterpret university rankings through ‘tier list’ and ‘reaction’ videos, thereby shifting genre expectations. Through a move analysis of 30 such videos, we identify 3 rhetorical actions – making sense of ranking, audience interpellation and subver…
Born exhibitionists
In post-WWII United States, Maidenform's "I dreamed I went shopping in my Maidenform bra" campaign (1949-1969) was seen as a prime example of the psychoanalytical sell: the ads seemed to tap into the repressed psyche of the 1950s housewife, directly pulling the levers of deep-seated sexual desires. This remarkable account has carried over into more recent analyses with little interrogation as to its soundness, and non-Freudian variants have equal…
Sociology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (1 works) · Crowdsourcing (1 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (1 works) · Gender Studies in Language (1 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (1 works)