Catherine Bouko is Associate Professor of Communication and French at Ghent University (Belgium). Her main research is on political communication, extremism and citizenship on social media, with a special focus on image-based communication. In 2024, she published the open-access book Visual Citizenship. Communicating political opinions and emotions on social media (Routledge).
Her second area of research is intercultural media communication, particularly between Flanders and French-speaking Belgium. She has conducted investigations into how TV reporters at the French- and Dutch-speaking public television networks navigate and manage each other’s languages when preparing and producing news reports. Her work in this field sheds light on the intricate dynamics of language use in media production across linguistic divides.
Her methods of research include (multimodal) discourse analysis, quantitative content analysis, and semiotics.
Personal website: www.catherinebouko.be