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Overview

Bart Cammaerts is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their scholarly work primarily spans the Social Sciences with a focused engagement in Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, and Literature and Literary Theory as subfields.

Their recent publications include detailed studies on political discourse, social movements, and media. Notable papers are:

  • The abnormalisation of social justice: The 'anti-woke culture war' discourse in the UK (2022, Discourse & Society)
  • THE NEW-NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: ARE SOCIAL MEDIA CHANGING THE ONTOLOGY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS?* (2021, Mobilization An International Quarterly)
  • The neo-fascist discourse and its normalisation through mediation (2020, Journal of Multicultural Discourses)
  • The mediated circulation of the United Kingdom's YouthStrike4Climate movement's discourses and actions (2023, European Journal of Cultural Studies)
  • Defending Democracy Against Populist Neo-Fascist Attacks: The Role and Problems of Public Sphere Theory (2024, Javnost - The Public)

The research topics explored by Bart Cammaerts frequently include Social Media and Politics, Crime, Deviance, and Social Control, Gender, Feminism, and Media, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, Critical Theory and Philosophy, Gothic Literature and Media Analysis, and Youth Development and Social Support.

Among the venues where Cammaerts has published are Discourse & Society, Mobilization An International Quarterly, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, and Javnost - The Public.

Collaborative research includes work with co-authors such as Patrick McCurdy and Kaitlin Clarke.

Best Publications

  • Understanding Alternative Media

    Olga Guedes Bailey;Bart Cammaerts;Nico Carpentier

  • Protest logics and the mediation opportunity structure

    Bart Cammaerts

  • Critiques on the participatory potentials of Web 2.0

    Bart Cammaerts

  • Hegemony, democracy, agonism, and journalism. An interview with Chantal Mouffe

    Nico Carpentier;Bart Cammaerts

  • Online Political Debate, Unbounded Citizenship, and the Problematic Nature of a Transnational Public Sphere

    Bart Cammaerts;Leo Van Audenhove

  • Mediation and protest movements

    Bart Cammaerts;Alice Mattoni;Patrick McCurdy

  • The Myth of Youth Apathy Young Europeans’ Critical Attitudes Toward Democratic Life

    Bart Cammaerts;Michael Bruter;Shakuntala Banaji;Sarah Harrison

  • Radical pluralism and free speech in online public spaces The case of North Belgian extreme right discourses

    Bart Cammaerts

  • Reclaiming the Media: Communication Rights and Democratic Media Roles

    Bart Cammaerts;Nico Carpentier

  • Jamming the Political: Beyond Counter-hegemonic Practices

    Bart Cammaerts

  • Social media and activism

    Bart Cammaerts

  • Community Radio in the West: A Legacy of Struggle for Survival in a State and Capitalist Controlled Media Environment

    Bart Cammaerts

  • Information society policy in the developing world: a critical assessment.

    Leo Van Audenhove;Jean-Claude Burgelman;Gert Nulens;Bart Cammaerts

  • ICT-usage among transnational social movements in the networked society - to organise, to mobilise and to debate

    Bart Cammaerts

  • The Mediation of Insurrectionary Symbolic Damage The 2010 U.K. Student Protests

    Bart Cammaerts

  • Youth Participation in Democratic Life: Stories of Hope and Disillusion

    Bart Cammaerts;Michael Bruter;Shakuntala Banaji;Sarah Harrison

  • Media and communication strategies of glocalized activists: beyond media- centric thinking

    Bart Cammaerts

  • The Circulation of Anti-Austerity Protest

    Bart Cammaerts

  • Disruptive sharing in a digital age: rejecting neoliberalism?

    Bart Cammaerts

  • Beyond the digital divide: reducing exclusion, fostering inclusion

    B. Cammaerts;L. van Audenhove;G. Nulens;C. Pauwels

  • The Mainstreaming of Extreme Right-Wing Populism in the Low Countries: What is to be Done?

    Bart Cammaerts

  • Digital platform policy and regulation: toward a radical democratic turn

    Bart Cammaerts;Robin Mansell

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Full Participation in a Global Context: WSIS and Civil Society participation

    Bart Cammaerts;Nico Carpentier

Frequent Co-Authors

John Hills
John Hills London School of Economics and Political Science

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