Biography
Bernadette Kester (1959) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media & Communication at Erasmus University. Her teaching and research activities lie in the fields of journalism studies, media and representation, and film history. Her current research examines the representation of foreign news in Dutch and European media and the position and role of foreign correspondents.
Bernadette Kester holds an MA degree in History and received her PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1998. Her dissertation concerned the representation of World War I in German movies during the Weimar period. After her doctorate, she has lectured at various institutions,including the Amsterdam International School for Humanities and Social Sciences and the Media and Culture Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam. From 2000 to 2004, she worked as a research fellow for the Dutch Royal Institute for Military History. In 2004, she joined the Media Department in Rotterdam.
Bernadette Kester is a former board member of the Dutch Association for Audiovisual History (GBG) and she presently serves on the editorial board of Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis, the Dutch Journal for Media History.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- kester@eshcc.eur.nl
- Room
- M8-11
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Bernadette Kester & R Van der Hoeven (2020) - Demythologizing war journalism: Motivation and role perception of Dutch war journalists - Media, War & Conflict, 1-17 - doi: 10.1177/1750635220917411
- Bernadette Kester & MAE Prenger (2020) - The Turncoat Phenomenon: Role Conceptions of PR Practitioners Who Used To Be Journalists - Journalism Practice, 15 (3), 420-437 - doi: 10.1080/17512786.2020.1727354
- Bernadette Kester & N Ruigrok (2019) - Studenten Journalistiek in Nederland: profiel, motieven en rolpercepties - Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap (print), 47 (1), 45-61 - [link]
- M van den Broek & Bernadette Kester (2018) - Voor correspondenten is hun journalistieke werk a way of life: "Je staat atlijd aan" - De Nieuwe Reporter - [link]
- Bernadette Kester, Isabel Awad Cherit & N Ruigrok (2017) - Dutch Journalism Students: shifting motivation, role perceptions and preferences
- Bernadette Kester & Isabel Awad Cherit (2016) - Dutch journalism students in a changing media and educational environment
- Isabel Awad Cherit, L Hermans, N Drok & Bernadette Kester (2015) - Journalistic values across generations: Comparing practitioners and journalism students in the Netherlands
- Bernadette Kester & Isabel Awad Cherit (2015) - Dutch journalism students looking at (their future in) journalism
- Bernadette Kester & Martijn Kleppe (2015) - Persfotografie. Acceptatie, professionalisering en innovatie
- Bernadette Kester & M Goudswaard (2014) - Foreign correspondents in The Netherlands. Everything that would be of interest for our readers
Journalistiek en Media
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM4400
Media and Representation
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM4401
International Journalism
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-3
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM2043
Master Class
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM4500
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM5000
Internship
- Level
- BA-2
- Year Level
- BA-2
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM3041
