Iris Beau Segers

Academic interests
Social media, right-wing politics, immigration, participatory democracy, international development, women’s rights activism, social movements
Background
Iris Segers is a Dutch PhD candidate 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.
Her PhD project focuses on anti-asylum seeker centre protests in the Netherlands. In her study, she incorporates ethnographic fieldwork, social media data and mainstream media data into one holistic ethnographic discourse analysis of anti-asylum seeker centre protests in the city of Rotterdam.
Within the Department of Media and Communication, she is a member of the POLKOM group. She is also an affiliate PhD candidate at the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo.
Teaching
- MEVIT4800 - Methods in media studies: qualitative and quantitative data and analysis
- MEVIT4323 - Immigration debates in the Nordic public sphere
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, 2017, 2020 – Lecturer International BSc in Communication and Media – Erasmus University Rotterdam
Publikasjoner
- Segers, Iris Beau (2020). The “Brick and Mortar” of Mobilization? Storytelling and Materiality in Anti-Asylum Seeker Center Protests in the Netherlands. Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest. ISSN 2572-7184. 8(2), s 53- 73 . doi: 10.3167/cont.2020.080204
- 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 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.