Visiting Period: 24 July – 31 July 2024
Pierre Fastrez is a Senior Research Associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research and a Professor in Information and Communication at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). His initial research interests focused on the influence of information and communication technology on the cognitive activities they support. For the last fifteen years, he has undertaken and directed research projects on media literacy that combine an experimental and evaluative approach involving the development of assessment tools based on performance tests, and a qualitative and interpretive approach dedicated to the inference of media competences based on the analysis of media practices. He directs the peer-reviewed research journal Recherches en Communication. He is a member of the Higher Council for Media Education in French-speaking Belgium.