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Project leader & main applicant
Prof. Maria Grever

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On this page, we will keep you informed about the results from the REI project 'War! Popular Culture and European Heritage of Major Armed Conflicts'.

Pilot…

This research project examines how the heritage of modern war history is represented and appropriated in contemporary popular culture, and which modifications…

Remaking media rituals

This project is based on the PhD proposal Living in a Mediatized Society: an Ethnography of Media Rituals and Everyday Life, funded by…

Adolescents spend a significant part of their day online, whether playing games, accessing and uploading content, or communicating with their friends (Jansz et…

How new media facilitate civic engagement

This PhD project aims to investigate how citizens use different forms of new media as a political tool. The project…

Representations and perceptions of mediated distant suffering

Most of today’s humanitarian catastrophes are taking place in countries of the so-called Global…

Recent publications and presentations

Pieter van den Heede, Jeroen Jansz and Kees Ribbens (2017), “Replaying today’s wars?”, Journal of Politics, Culture and…

An empirical inquiry into empathic and reflective responses to literary narratives

This PhD-project addresses the reasons for and the effects of reading about…

Chile is a society of contradictions. One of the most stable democracies and successful economies in Latin America, it is also an increasingly depoliticized and…