Dr Bart Cammaerts
Biography
After obtaining his MA-degree in political sciences at the Free University of Brussels in 1996 Bart Cammaerts worked as a spokesperson and as advisor on information society issues for Elio Di Rupo, the then Belgian vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Economic affairs and Telecommunication. After that he joined SMIT as a doctoral researcher and was involved in an inter-university project addressing the impact of the information society on social policies and the changing role of the state. In 2002 he obtained a PhD in social sciences with a thesis bearing the title: 'Social Policy and the Information Society: on the changing role of the state, social exclusion and the divide between words and deeds'. This was followed by post-doctoral research within the EMTEL2-network, financed by the 5th framework program of the EU Commission. He analysed the impact of the Internet on the transnationalisation of civil society actors, on direct action and on interactive civic engagement. After that he obtained a Marie Curie research-fellowship, based at the Media and Communication Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he researched the participatory claims and practices of international organisations, involving civil society actors in their decision-making processes and the use of the Internet to facilitate this. Bart Cammaerts is now lecturer in the Media and Communications Department of the LSE. His current research interests include multi-stakeholder policy processes; media strategies of activists; alternative/community media and the emergence of new tools such as blogs. He also chairs the Communication and Democracy Section of the European Communication and Research Association - ECREA and is deputy-chair of the CTP-section and member of the Global Media Working-group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR. Besides academia, Bart Cammaerts is also active within the community radio movement and as a musician and dj.
Research interests
On a more general level, he has been addressing theoretical notions of (participatory) democracy, globalisation/transnationalisation, participation, access, (self-)representation, public sphere, power, social change and counter-hegemonic strategies of resistance. Within these areas media and communication is considered to have different meanings, as a symbolic arena for the (re-)production of meaning, as a citizenship right, as a political actor, or as a tool for empowerment and activism but also as a tool of propaganda and the dissemination of discourses of hatred. With regard to methodologies he has combined quantitative methods, such as surveys, with qualitative methods, such as interviews and critical discourse analysis.
Regarding future research he is interested in working further on the issue of multi-stakeholder processes, its relation to democratic theory and the role of media and communication in such processes. This also taps into another one of his interests, namely e-democracy. He is also fascinated by current debates on public spheres or spaces and how new, as well as old, alternative as well as mainstream media, impacts on that. In addition, his interests in research also include studies of: alternative media - new as well as more traditional; and alternative forms of activism or expression such as cultural jamming and blogging.
In this regard, a current theme relates to overcoming rigid dichotomies such as alternative/mainstream, new/old media, public/private and consider the interactions between both ends of the dichotomy. While these dichotomies have a role to play in structuring our way of thinking about the social and the political, reality is often much more messier.
Recent Publications:
Books
Garcia-Blanco, I., Van Bauwel, S. and Cammaerts, B. (eds.) (2009) Media Agoras: : Democracy, Diversity and Communication, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publisher, in press.
Cammaerts, B. (2008) Mind the Gap: Internet-Mediated Practices Beyond the Nation State, Manchester: Manchester University Press, in press.
Carpentier, N., Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P., Nordenstreng, K., Hartmann, M., Vihalemm, P., Cammaerts, B., Nieminen, H. andOlsson, T. (eds.) (2008) Democracy, Journalism and Technology: New Developments in an Enlarged Europe. The intellectual work of the 2008 European media and communication doctoral summer school. Tartu: University of Tartu Press, p. 430. (See also URL: http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/
Bailey, O., Cammaerts, B. and Carpentier, N. (2007) Understanding Alternative Media, Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Carpentier, N., Pruulman-Vengerfeldt, P., Nordenstreng, K., Hartmann, M., Vihalemm, P., Cammaerts, B. and Nieminen, H. (Eds.) (2007) Media technologies and democracy in an enlarged Europe, Tartu: Tartu University Press, see URL: http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/reco_book3.pdf
Cammaerts, B. and Carpentier, N. (Eds.) (2007) Reclaiming the Media: Communication Rights and Democratic Media Roles. Bristol: Intellect. See URL http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/ppbooks.php?isbn=9781841501635
Carpentier, N., Pruulman-Vengerfeldt, P., Nordenstreng, K., Hartmann, M. and Cammaerts, B. (Eds.) (2006) Researching Media, Democracy and Participation, Tartu: Tartu University Press, see URL: http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/reco_book1.pdf
Cammaerts, B., Van Audenhove, L., Nulens, G. and Pauwels, C. (Eds.), (2003) Beyond the Digital Divide: reducing exclusion and fostering inclusion, Brussel: VUBpress.
Book Chapters
Carpentier, N., De Brabander, L. and Cammaerts, B. (2009) Citizen journalism and the North Belgian peace march, in S. Allan and E. Thorsen (eds) Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang, in press.
Cammaerts, B. (2008) Civil Society Participation in Multi-Stakeholder Processes: in between realism and utopia, in: L. Stein, C. Rodriquez and D. Kidd, (eds.) Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere – Volume 2, Cresshill NJ: HamptonPress, in press
Cammaerts, B. (2007) Political Jamming, in M. Albrow, H. Anheier, M. Glasius, M. E. Price, and M. Kaldor (eds.) Global Civil Society Yearbook 2007/8, London: Sage, p. 214-5.
Cammaerts, B. (2007) 'Media and communication strategies of glocalised activists: beyond media-centric thinking', in B. Cammaerts and N. Carpentier (Eds.) Reclaiming the Media: communication rights and expanding democratic media roles, Bristol: Intellect, pp. 265-88.
Hartmann, M., Carpentier, N. and Cammaerts, B. (2007) 'Learning about Democracy: Familyship and negotiated ICT users' practices', in P. Dahlgren (Ed.) Young Citizens and New Media: Learning for Democratic Participation. London: Routledge, pp. 167-186
Cammaerts, B. and Carpentier, N. (2005) The Unbearable Lightness of Full Participation in a Global Context: WSIS and Civil Society Participation, in J. Servaes and N. Carpentier (Eds.) Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Beyond WSIS. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 17-49.
Cammaerts, B. (2005) ICT-Usage among Transnational Social Movements in the Networked Society - to organise, to mobilise and to debate, in Silverstone, R. (Ed.) 'Media, Technology and Everyday Life in Europe: From Information to Communication', Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 53-72.
Journal Articles
Cammaerts, B. (forthcoming) Community Radio in the West: A legacy of struggle for survival in a state and capitalist controlled media environment, International Communication Gazette.
Cammaerts, B. (2008) Critiques on the Participatory Potentials of Web 2.0, Communication, Culture & Critique. 1(3): 358??76.
Cammaerts, B. (2007) Jamming the Political: Beyond Counter-hegemonic Practices, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 21(1): 67-86.
Carpentier, N. and Cammaerts, B. (2006) Hegemony, Democracy, Agonism and Journalism : An interview with Chantal Mouffe, Journalism Studies 7(6): 964-75.
Cammaerts, B. (2006) 'The eConvention on the Future of Europe: Assessing the participation of civil society and the use of ICTs in European decision-making processes', Journal for European Integration, 28(3): 225-45.
Padovani, C. and Cammaerts, B. (2006) Il World Summit on the Information Society: esercizi di e-governance fra "spazi di luogo" e "spazi di flusso", Comunicazione Politica 7(1): 113-32.
Cammaerts, B. and Van Audenhove, L. (2005) Online Political Debate, Unbounded Citizenship and the Problematic Nature of a Transnational Public Sphere, Political Communication 22(2): 179-196.
Cammaerts, B. (2005) Through the Looking Glass: Civil Society participation in the WSIS and the dynamics between online/offline interaction, Communications & Strategies, Special Issue - WSIS Tunis: 151-74.
Contact details
Dr. Bart Cammaerts
Room S119b
Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7955 6649
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7955 7248
Email: b.cammaerts@lse.ac.uk
Link to Bart Cammaerts CV
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