Tom Willaert

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digital humanities

digital methods

media studies

information science

Postgraduate studies in Big Data and Analytics, postgraduate degree, KU Leuven

Literature, PhD, KU Leuven

Lecturer in Linked Data Scholarship (Advanced Master of Digital Humanities), KU Leuven

2018 → 2019

Lecturer in Data Processing for the Humanities (KU Leuven Faculty of Arts, BA)

2018 → 2019

Researcher and staff officer Digital Humanities (Faculty of Arts), KU Leuven

2018 → 2019

Digital scholarship in the humanities staff officer (KU Leuven Libraries), KU Leuven

2017 → 2019

PhD Researcher

2012 → 2016

A Fringe Mainstreamed, or Tracing Antagonistic Slang between 4chan and Breitbart before and after Trump
Peeters, S., Willaert, T., Tuters, M., Beuls, K., Van Eecke, P. & Van Soest, J., 2022, (Accepted/In press) How Misinformation Propagates on Social Media. Mainstreaming the Fringe. Rogers, R. (ed.). Amsterdam University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
From Infodemic to Information War (EDMO BELUX Investigative report): A contextualization of current narrative trends and evolutions in Dutch-language disinformation communities
Willaert, T. & Sessa, M. G., 29 Apr 2022
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › Research

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From the infodemic to the info war: investigating narrative evolution online
Sessa, M. G. & Willaert, T., 28 Apr 2022, (Unpublished).
Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Unpublished paper
Telegram and digital methods: Mapping networked conspiracy theories through platform affordances
Peeters, S. & Willaert, T., 16 Mar 2022, In : M/C. 25, 1, 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
The rise of “gaslighting”: Debates about disinformation on Twitter and 4chan, and the possibility of a ‘good echo chamber’
Shane, T., Willaert, T. & Tuters, M., Mar 2022, In : Popular Communication. 2022, p. 1-15 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

FWO travel grant for long research stay abroad
Tom Willaert (Recipient), 23 Apr 2020
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
FWO travel grant for long research stay abroad
Tom Willaert (Recipient), 11 Feb 2022
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
LIBER innovation award
Tom Willaert (Recipient), 18 Jul 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Hybrid Hermeneutics
Tom Willaert (Speaker), Armin Pournaki (Speaker)
4 Feb 2022
Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar

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From the 'infodemic' to the 'information war': Networks and Narratives on Telegram
Tom Willaert (Speaker)
4 May 2022
Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
DH Benelux 2021 (Event)
Tom Willaert (Reviewer)
2 Jun 2021 → 4 Jun 2021
Activity: Membership › Membership of peer-review panel or committee
Digital Methods Summer School 2021
Tom Willaert (Chair)
4 Jul 2021 → 21 Jul 2021
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar
Monitoring Digital Media and Disinformation
Tom Willaert (Speaker)
8 Oct 2021
Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar

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