# Pieter Maeseele

ECREA-2022 The 9th European Communication Conference (19-22 October, Aarhus, Denmark)

• Presentation: "A tool for trade or trust? A study on online news startups and community building" (with Maud Peeters)​
• Presentation: "Convergent media storms. Unravelling the role of mainstream, alternative and social media in the mediated construction of a political scandal" (with Priscilla Hau & Steve Paulussen)

ICA-2022 The International Communication Association Conference (26-30 May, Paris & online)

• Pre-conference: "Critique, post-Critique and the Present Conjuncture" (with Sean Phelan & Simon Dawes)
  
• Presentation: "The 'humoralist' as journalistic jammer: Zondag met Lubach and the discursive construction of investigative comedy" (with Jonas Nicolaï)
  
• Presentation: "Media Diversity and Pluralism. Flemish News Startups and The Case of the Yellow Vests Movement" (with Maud Peeters)
• Presentation: "The discursive construction of a news event. How journalists and their sources (de-)legitimize protest against an asylum center in Belgium" (with Priscilla Hau & Steve Paulussen)​
  

PSA-2022 Political Studies Association conference (10-13 April, York)

• Presentation: "Comedy, critique, and context: Questioning the cultural politics of resistance in Dutch news satire show Zondag met Lubach" (with Jonas Nicolaï)
  

Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap (10-11 February, Brussels & online)

• Session Chair: “Far right, populism and democracy"
  
• Presentation: "Creating media hypes in the hybrid media system. The convergence of mainstream, alternative and social media storms in the El Kaouakibi affair" (with Priscilla Hau & Steve Paulussen)​
  

Future of Journalism 2021 Conference (23-24 September, Cardiff)

• Presentation: "Catchier than Covid: Television news satire’s coverage on the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands" (with Jonas Nicolaï)
  
• Presentation: "The expanding no man’s land between news and commentary: threat or gift for democratic debate? An investigation of Flemish online news startups’ journalistic style and form" (with Maud Peeters)

The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts workshop: The language of debate and communication about climate change (21-22 September, Brussels)

• Keynote: "From Climate Change to a Climate for Change" (with Yves Pepermans)
  

ECREA-2021 European Communication Research and Education Association Conference (6-9 September, Online)

• Presentation: "Media regulation under a democratic transition: Between volatilityand implementation" (with Jiyan Faris)
  
• Presentation: "Talk show pardons and political satire: Zondag met Lubach, metajournalistic discourse and reflective journalism" (with Jonas Nicolaï)
• Presentation: "Who defines the debate on asylum support? A Belgian case study on the discursive interventions of journalists and social actors via mainstream and alternative media" (with Priscilla Hau & Steve Paulussen)​
  
• Presentation: "Mapping the field of Flemish digital news start-ups: a content diversity analysis" (with Maud Peeters)
  
• Presentation: "The need for critical approaches in Environmental Communication – to give perspective and to guide practice" (with Joana Diaz-Pont, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, Annika Egan Sjölander, and Maitreyee Mishra)
  

IAMCR-2021 International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference (11-12 July, Nairobi & online)

• Presentation: "Which Nature and What Culture? Thinking Critically about Environmental Communication" (with Joana Diaz-Pont, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, Annika Egan Sjölander, and Maitreyee Mishra)
• Presentation: "How does Political Communication conceptualize (and not conceptualize) 'the political'?" (with Sean Phelan)
• Presentation: "Jokers, jesters, or journalists? A comparative analysis of televisionnews satire in the Netherlands and Flanders" (with Jonas Nicolaï)
• Presentation: "‘Enriching or polarizing the debate? A study of online news startups and their contribution to media diversity and pluralism" (with Maud Peeters)
  

COCE-2021 Conference on Communication and Environment (21-24 June, Online)

• "Critical Environmental Communication in a Digital World: Local Observations and Global Implications" (with Joana Diaz-Pont, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, Annika Egan Sjölander, and Maitreyee Mishra)
  

​ICA-2021 The International Communication Association Conference (27-31 May, Online)

• Presentation: "Media Diversity and Pluralism. Flemish News Startups and The Case of the Yellow Vests Movement" (with Maud Peeters)
  

PSA-2021 Political Studies Association Conference (Belfast, 29-31 March)

• Presentation: "Critiquing 'MSM' on Twitter" (with Sean Phelan)
  

Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap (4-5 February 2021, Online)

• Presentation: "Talk show pardons as journalistic periphery: investigating the metajournalistic discourse surrounding Dutch news satire show Zondag met Lubach" (with Jonas Nicolaï)
• Presentation: "The contribution of the online news startup space to media diversity and pluralism: the case of the yellow vests movement" (with Maud Peeters)
• Presentation: "The discursive construction of a news event. A Belgian case study on the role of journalists and their sources as co-definers of the mediated public debate on asylum support " (with Priscilla Hau & Steve Paulussen)​