International and Intercultural Communication: Representative

Dear all, my name is Stijn Joye and I am currently working as a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Communication Studies at Ghent University (Belgium). I have been working within the broad field of international communication and journalism with a focus on international and foreign news, alternative news agencies and media coverage of global suffering from a multidisciplinary perspective. The latter is also the subject of my PhD which I hope to finalise in the next year. I have been participating in ECREA (conferences and Summer School) as well as in IAMCR and ICA.

Regarding the task of the section representative, I believe that communication, bottom-up as well as top-down, is the key to a successful linking up of young scholars to the activities and interests of the International and Intercultural Communication Section. As such, I would like to play the role of a ‘human information hub’: gathering and distributing relevant information from and to young scholars and section members. So I cordially invite you to get involved and please feel free to contact me with questions, suggestions or any news related to the section:

Stijn Joye
Stijn.Joye@UGent.be
0032- (0)9-264 6892
Ghent University, Belgium