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  1. Media, glasnost , and the Khudoni dam: A critical discourse analysis of Georgian Communist Party newspapers (1979–1990)

    Article • The Communication Review, June 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  2. The role of paid, earned and owned media in political communication: the case of the Flemish populist radical right party Vlaams Belang

    Article • Acta Politica, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  3. Satire Between the Lines: Negotiating Genre Hybridity in the Satirical Newsroom of De Ideale Wereld

    Article • Journalism Practice, November 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  4. The Construction of a Hybrid Media Storm: A Belgian Case Study

    Article • Journalism Practice, October 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  5. Stand-up in the age of outrage

    Article • European Journal of Humour Research, April 2024, Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  6. From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice

    Article • Digital Journalism, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  7. A Field of Their Own. Examining Alternative Media’s Balancing Act Between Independence, Community and Survival

    Article • Journalism Practice, April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  8. Media Capture and Journalism as Emotional Labor: How Do Media Professionals Manage Bureaucratic Violence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq?

    Article • Journalism Studies, March 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  9. Ideological crystallization: rethinking the alternative-mainstream binary in times of populist politics

    Article • Journalism, March 2023, SAGE Publications

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  10. The Interpretive Interface: Where Journalistic and Pluralistic Discourses (Don’t) Meet

    Article • Digital Journalism, February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  11. Where is ‘the political’ in the journal Political Communication? On the hegemonic articulation of a disciplinary identity

    Article • Annals of the International Communication Association, February 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  12. The “Humoralist” as Journalistic Jammer: Zondag met Lubach and the Discursive Construction of Investigative Comedy

    Article • Journalism Studies, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mark Boukes, Dr Pieter Maeseele

  13. Beyond responsibility? Fair trade and citizenship

    Article • Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, April 2022, Intellect

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  14. Twitter as a right-wing populist’s playground: The algorithmic populism of Dutch political party ‘Forum voor Democratie’ and leader Thierry Baudet during their political rise

    Article • Discourse Context & Media, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  15. Introduction: JOACM Special Issue ‘Community and Activist Media: Resistance and Resurgence’

    Article • Journal of Alternative & Community Media, April 2021, Intellect

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  16. Fairness and/or Sustainability?

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  17. Comunicação ambiental: explorando múltiplas interfaces

    Article • Reciis, June 2020, Instituto de Comunicacao e Informacao Cientifica e Tecnologica em Saude

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  18. Indymedia in Belgium: the delicate balance between media activism and political activism

    Article • Media Culture & Society, May 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  19. Belgium

    Article • January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  20. Environmental Communication in the Intertwining of the Local and the Digital

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  21. Social News Sites

    Article • January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  22. The Local and the Digital in Environmental Communication

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  23. News from the pit: Journalistic performativity and discourse on Belgian internment policy

    Article • Discourse Context & Media, March 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  24. Manufacturing Consent: Rereading News on Four Climate Summits (2000-2012)

    Article • Science Communication, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Yves Pepermans, Dr Pieter Maeseele

  25. Nothing on the news but the establishment blues? Toward a framework of depoliticization and agonistic media pluralism

    Article • Journalism, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  26. Climate Change Communication in Belgium

    Article • September 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  27. Climate Change Journalism: From Agony to Agonistic Debate

    Article • Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, April 2017, Universidade Federal do Parana

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  28. Communication Practices and Political Engagement with Climate Change: A Research Agenda

    Article • Environmental Communication, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  29. Three twenty-first-century disaster films, the ideology of science and the future of democratic debate

    Article • Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, October 2016, Intellect

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  30. The politicization of climate change: problem or solution?

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, May 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Yves Pepermans, Dr Pieter Maeseele

  31. Professional journalistic routines and the protest paradigm: The Big Potato Swap in traditional and alternative media

    Article • Journalism, March 2016, SAGE Publications

    Steve Paulussen, Dr Pieter Maeseele

  32. The forgotten actor in media ownership debates: Audiences and their knowledge of media ownership in Flanders

    Article • Communications, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr Pieter Maeseele, Dr hilde Van den Bulck, Koen Panis

  33. Book Review

    Article • Communications, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  34. In objectivity we trust? Pluralism, consensus, and ideology in journalism studies

    Article • Journalism, December 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  35. In Flanders Fields: De/politicization and Democratic Debate on a GM Potato Field Trial Controversy in News Media

    Article • Environmental Communication, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Steve Paulussen, Dr Pieter Maeseele

  36. Media, pluralism and democracy: what’s in a name?

    Article • Media Culture & Society, June 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  37. The Risk Conflicts Perspective

    Article • Bulletin of Science Technology & Society, February 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  38. Democratic Debate and Mediated Discourses on Climate Change: From Consensus to De/politicization

    Article • Environmental Communication, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  39. Book Review

    Article • Communications, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  40. Risk conflicts, critical discourse analysis and media discourses on GM crops and food

    Article • Journalism, December 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  41. Communication, media and genetically modified food: A politicized reading

    Article • Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, October 2013, Intellect

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  42. Bio-objects’ political capacity: a research agenda

    Article • Croatian Medical Journal, April 2013, Croatian Medical Journal

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  43. Book Review: Media & Environment: Conflict, Politics and the News

    Article • Media War & Conflict, December 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  44. Audience motivations to donate: The case of the Catalan telethon La Marató de TV3

    Article • Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, March 2012, Intellect

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  45. On Neo-luddites led by Ayatollahs: The Frame Matrix of the GM Food Debate in Northern Belgium

    Article • Environmental Communication, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  46. Biotechnology and the Popular Press in Northern Belgium

    Article • Science Communication, March 2008, SAGE Publications

    Dr Pieter Maeseele

  47. Ethics in the Societal Debate on Genetically Modified Organisms: A (Re)Quest for Sense and Sensibility

    Article • Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, August 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Pieter Maeseele