Iris Beau Segers
Academic interests
Social media, right-wing politics, ICTs, participatory democracy, international development, women’s rights activism, social movements, feminist media studies
Background
Iris Segers is a Dutch academic who holds a BSc in International Communication in Media and an MSc in Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts, both acquired at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL). She has also followed various courses at Cardiff University (UK) and Linköping University (SE), and has previously worked as a freelance journalist for several publications.
Awards
Awarded a conference fee waiver at the 2016 ICA conference in Fukuoka, as one of the best student papers presented at the Feminist Scholarship Division.
Positions held
2015-2016 – Lecturer International Bachelor in Communication and Media – Erasmus University Rotterdam
Publications
- Segers, Iris Beau (2019). New neighbours or a security threat? The role of local stories in anti-asylum seeker centre mobilization in the Netherlands. International Communication Gazette. ISSN 1748-0485. . doi: 10.1177/1748048519883514