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Following the war in Syria, numerous debates regarding displaced people have placed immigration in the political and media spotlight. A wide range of factors have contributed to creating these discursive events in the media as well as the representations that circulate in society about migration. Words defining people on the move (e.g. refugee, migrant, immigrant, asylum-seeker, illegal, displaced person, etc.) are not fixed in time, their meaning and reference evolve according to events and social representations, contributing to constructing both the public issue and the image of the social actors involved.The aim of this research was to document, through a lexical discourse analysis (implemented through a combination of Discursive Semantics with Corpus Linguistics), the lexical repertoire of denominations used to name people on the move and the evolution of the meaning of these terms in the Belgian national media in French and Dutch. The main research question was the following: How does the repertoire of denominations to name people on the move unfold in the Belgian media during the 2015-2017 migratory crisis?To answer this research question, an exhaustive corpus composed of press articles and evening news items was collected in Belgium’s French- and Dutch-speaking communities. For each community and each type of medium (press and TV), the media of record and the popular one with the largest audience were analysed. The corpus contains 13,391 articles and 3490 news broadcasts representing 7,637,986 words in total. The corpus spans from March 2015 to July 2017. This research concludes with four main results. First, there is great lexical creativity as more than 260 denominations were found in both the Francophone and Flemish corpus, from those most fixed in language to those less fixed and temporary. This lexical productivity can be explained by the need of politicians and journalists to describe new categories or specific cases. It also shows the permeability of, Doctorat en Information et communication, info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

L’objectif de cette recherche est d’analyser les pratiques des acteurs qui participent à laproduction de nouvelles locales dans l’écosystème médiatique bruxellois afin de questionner leconcept de « journalisme participatif ». Pour ce faire, l’étude adopte un regard original sur lesprocessus de production de nouvelles sur internet considérant ceux-ci non comme le résultatd’une pratique professionnelle, mais bien d’une pratique sociale qui inclut non seulement lesjournalistes professionnels, mais aussi des blogueurs, politiciens, activistes, lanceurs d’alerte,ou citoyens. Après avoir fourni un panorama des différents producteurs de nouvellesrépertoriés, la théorie de l’acteur-réseau (ANT) et le modèle ADD (accès-dialogue délibération)sont utilisés pour analyser deux cas particuliers (deux controverses) afin d’appréhendercomment la configuration du réseau formé par les acteurs interagissant au cours du tempsgénère certains types de pratiques participatives. La partie empirique de la thèse comprend doncde la veille en ligne afin de détecter les sites proposant des nouvelles sur Bruxelles en ligne(N=295), la détection de controverses (N=2) au moyen des contenus produits par cesproducteurs et l’analyse de celles-ci via une analyse de nouvelles produites (N=388), desentretiens semi-directifs (N=23), de l’observation en ligne et une approche ethnographique avecde l’observation participante pour un des cas. De cette façon, la thèse a pour but d’enrichir lesdébats en sociologie du journalisme de trois façons :(1) en adoptant une approcheécosystémique peu usitée dans la discipline, (2) en reproblématisant les concepts de« participation » et de « journalisme participatif », et (3) en fournissant des données empiriquessur le contexte local bruxellois, jusqu’ici peu exploré.La catégorisation des sites produisant des nouvelles en ligne basée sur des similitudes formellesa permis d’établir trois types de producteurs distincts :les producteurs épisodiques, lesproducteurs thématiques, Doctorat en Information et communication, info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

In democracies, one of Public Service Media’s (PSM) main roles is to inform the public. In a digital news ecosystem, where commercial, citizen, and alternative news sources have multiplied, questions about the ability and need for PSM to fulfil this role are increasingly being raised. While the role of PSM can and should be scrutinized, a too-narrow a focus on an informed citizenry may obfuscate aspects, other than audience reach and objectivity, that are key to this information role, such as trust. Against this background, this article studies whether and to what extent citizens still trust the news and information services of their public broadcaster, asking if that trust is still high, whether there is a difference between groups in the population, and if trust is in line with reach. Based on a representative survey of news users in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking community of Belgium, the article studies the reach and trust scores of the brands of VRT, Flanders’ PSM, and compares them to those of its main competitors, with a specific focus on differences in terms of age, education levels, and political orientation. The results suggest that VRT struggles more than the main commercial players to reach young people and the lower-educated, but still leads when it comes to trust. The data show the continued importance of widening our assessment of PSM beyond market-focused indicators of reach.

This chapter focuses on the inception phase of a policydriven creative cluster in Brussels called mediapark.brussels. This 10-year urban and property development project around the existing site of the public broadcasting companies VRT and RTBF must result in an attractive urban area for media companies, professionals, communities and entrepreneurs to live and work in. To this end, different regional and local authorities as well as public administrations and organisations are contributing to this project. The chapter outlines the current policy framework in which the mediapark.brussels is being developed. The insights gained through the case study show the issues a government-led cluster initiative can be confronted with, especially in a multi-level governance model. Belgium, with is federal structure made up of (language-based) communities and (territorial) regions, forms an interesting context to study the interplay between various policy levels, considering that the media are a competence of the Communities and not of the Government of the Brussels Capital Region which initiated mediapark.brussels. The resulting tensions that emerge in the development of the project are discussed: a tension between urban and cultural development, between local and international perspectives, and between a wide-spectrum and a specialised media cluster. The findings will be of specific interest to policy researchers of and policy officers in public administrations in complex, multi-level governance contexts.

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