Code
3F000208
Duration
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Communication sciences
- Journalism and professional writing
- Media studies
- Other media and communications
Keywords
audience research
identity construction
television fiction and visual ethnography
migrant youngsters
Project description
The purpose of this research is to elaborate on the meaning of popular fictional televisionprogrammes for migrant youngsters. We will study this by means of qualitative audience-and reception research. More specifically, we will study the impact of popular fiction contents on the identity construction of migrant teenagers. To do this, we will use a recently developed method visual ethnography.