I am an Associate Professor in Media and Journalism Studies at the department of Communication Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. I teach Journalism Studies, with a focus on digital and disruptive technologies. I do so mainly in the European Master in Communication Science - Media and Journalism in Europe.I also act as Unit Lead and Staff Member of the academic research group SMIT (Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunications), which is part of IMEC and where I head the unit on Journalism, Trust and Participation. I work on and supervise various projects related to news and journalism. Mainly, I like to focus on interactive -participatory - productive - distributed use of news media.My methodological expertise lies in qualitative user research, especially semi-experimental digital ethnography, with links to Living Labs, Proxy Technology Assessment and data gathering methods like in-depth/diary/expert/laddering interviews and focus groups. Expertise: Online news use, Evolutions in News Media, New Media Literacies, Audience Studies - Qualitative User Research, Ethnographic Research, Living Labs, Proxy Technology Assessment.