Dr Cedric Courtois
Senior Lecturer in Digital Media
School of Communication and Arts

Book Chapters
Meulenaere, Jonas De, Courtois, Cédric and Ponnet, Koen (2020). Bottom-up hyperlocal media in Belgium: Facebook groups as collaborative neighborhood awareness systems. The Routledge companion to local media and journalism. (pp. 398-407) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Courtois, Cedric, Schroder, Kim Christian and Kobbernagel, Christian (2015). Exploring landscapes of news consumption cross-nationally the use of Q methodology to fuse quantitative and qualitative approaches for increased explanatory power in comparative research. Revitalising Audience Research Innovations in European Audience Research. (pp. 123-142) edited by Frauke Zeller, Cristina Ponte and Brian O'Neill. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Bjur, Jakob, Schrøder, Kim Christian, Hasebrink, Uwe, Courtois, Cédric, Adoni, Hanna and Nossek, Hillel (2013). Cross-media use: Unfolding complexities in contemporary audiencehood. Audience Transformations: Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity. (pp. 15-29) edited by Nico Carpentier, Kim Christian Schrøder and Lawrie Hallett. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203523162
Van Looy, Jan, Courtois, Cédric and De Vocht, Melanie (2013). Self-discrepancy and MMORPGs: testing the moderating effects of avatar identification and pathological gaming in World of Warcraft. Multiplayer: the social aspects of digital gaming. (pp. 234-242) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203627488
Courtois, Cedric and Mechant, Peter (2013). An evaluation of the potential of Web 2.0 APIs for social research. Audience Research Methodologies. (pp. 212-224) edited by Geoffroy Patriarche, Helena Bilandzic, Jakob Linaa Jensen and Jelena Jurišić. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Journal Articles
De Meulenaere, Jonas, Baccarne, Bastiaan, Courtois, Cédric and Ponnet, Koen (2021). The development and psychometric testing of the expressive and instrumental online neighborhood network uses scale (onnus). Cyberpsychology, 15 (3) 13204. doi: 10.5817/CP2021-3-8
Slechten, Laura, Courtois, Cedric, Coenen, Lennert and Zaman, Bieke (2021). Adapting the selective exposure perspective to algorithmically governed platforms: The case of Google search. Communication Research. doi: 10.1177/00936502211012154
De Meulenaere, Jonas, Baccarne, Bastiaan, Courtois, Cédric and Ponnet, Koen (2021). Disentangling social support mobilization via online neighborhood networks. Journal of Community Psychology, 49 (2), 481-498. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22474
De Meulenaere, Jonas, Ponnet, Koen, Courtois, Cedric, Walrave, Michel, Hardyns, Wim and Pauwels, Lieven J. R. (2021). Online and offline social support deterioration: the effect of financial stress exposure on depressive symptoms. Behaviour and Information Technology. doi: 10.1080/0144929x.2021.1877355
Timmermans, Elisabeth and Courtois, Cedric (2018). From swiping to casual sex and/or committed relationships: Exploring the experiences of Tinder users. Information Society, 34 (2), 59-70. doi: 10.1080/01972243.2017.1414093
Courtois, Cedric and Nelissen, Sara (2018). Family television viewing and its alternatives: associations with closeness within and between generations. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 62 (4), 673-691. doi: 10.1080/08838151.2018.1523907
Courtois, Cedric and Timmermans, Elisabeth (2018). Cracking the Tinder code: An experience sampling approach to the dynamics and impact of platform governing algorithms. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 23 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1093/jcmc/zmx001
Courtois, Cedric and Verdegem, Pieter (2016). With a little help from my friends: An analysis of the role of social support in digital inequalities. New Media and Society, 18 (8), 1508-1527. doi: 10.1177/1461444814562162
Van Damme, Kristin, Courtois, Cedric, Verbrugge, Karel and De Marez, Lieven (2015). What's APPening to news? A mixed-method audience-centred study on mobile news consumption. Mobile Media and Communication, 3 (2), 196-213. doi: 10.1177/2050157914557691
Picone, Ike, Courtois, Ceric and Paulussen, Steve (2015). When news is everywhere: Understanding participation, cross-mediality and mobility in journalism from a radical user perspective. Journalism Practice, 9 (1), 35-49. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2014.928464
Courtois, Cedric, De Grove, Frederik and De Marez, Lieven (2014). The role of socio-spatial context in the habit-goal interface of audiovisual media consumption. Poetics, 45, 1-18. doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2014.05.002
Courtois, Cedric, Montrieux, Hannelore, De Grove, Frederik, Raes, Annelies, De Marez, Lieven and Schellens, Tammy (2014). Student acceptance of tablet devices in secondary education: a three-wave longitudinal cross-lagged case study. Computers in Human Behavior, 35, 278-286. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.03.017
van Deursen, Alexander J. A. M., Courtois, Cedric and van Dijk, Jan A. G. M. (2014). Internet skills, sources of support, and benefiting from internet use. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 30 (4), 278-290. doi: 10.1080/10447318.2013.858458
Courtois, Cedric, De Marez, Lieven and Verdegem, Pieter (2014). Composition and role of convergent technological repertoires in audiovisual media consumption. Behaviour and Information Technology, 33 (8), 844-858. doi: 10.1080/0144929x.2013.872189
Courtois, Cedric, Verdegem, Pieter and De Marez, Lieven (2013). The triple articulation of media technologies in audiovisual media consumption. Television and New Media, 14 (5), 421-439. doi: 10.1177/1527476412439106
Courtois, Cedric, Mechant, Peter, Ostyn, Valerie and De Marez, Lieven (2013). Uploaders' definition of the networked public on YouTube and their feedback preferences: a multi-method approach. Behaviour and Information Technology, 32 (6), 612-624. doi: 10.1080/0144929x.2011.586727
D'heer, Evelien, Paulussen, Steve and Courtois, Cédric (2012). Meerdere schermen in de huiskamer: Een onderzoek naar simultaan mediagebruik. Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap, 40 (4), 60-70. doi: 10.5117/2012.040.004.060
Courtois, Cedric, D'heer, Evelien and Schuurman, Dimitri (2012). Technological convergence in audio-visual technologies. International Journal of Digital Television, 3 (2), 187-196. doi: 10.1386/jdtv.3.2.187_1
Courtois, Cedric, All, Anissa and Vanwynsberghe, Hadewijch (2012). Social network profiles as information sources for adolescents' offline relations. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking, 15 (6), 290-295. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2011.0557
Courtois, Cedric, Mechant, Peter and De Marez, Lieven (2012). Communicating creativity on YouTube: What and for whom?. CyberPsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 15 (3), 129-134. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2011.0401
Van Looy, Jan, Courtois, Cedric, De Vocht, Melanie and De Marez, Lieven (2012). Player identification in online games: Validation of a scale for measuring identification in MMOGs. Media Psychology, 15 (2), 197-221. doi: 10.1080/15213269.2012.674917
Courtois, Cédric, Paulussen, Steve, Mechant, Peter and de Marez, Lieven (2011). Het techno-subsysteem van de Vlaamse tiener: Keuzes van jongeren in hun gebruik van communicatietechnologieën. Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap, 39 (3), 17-40. doi: 10.5117/2011.039.003.017
Adriaens, Fien, Van Damme, Elke and Courtois, Cedric (2011). The spatial and social contexts of television-viewing adolescents. Poetics, 39 (3), 205-227. doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2011.03.001
Courtois, Cedric, Mechant, Peter and De Marez, Lieven (2011). Teenage uploaders on YouTube: Networked public expectancies, online feedback preference, and received on-platform feedback. CyberPsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 14 (5), 315-322. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2010.0225
Schuurman, Dimitri, Courtois, Cedric and De Marez, Lieven (2011). New media adoption and usage among Flemish youngsters. Telematics and Informatics, 28 (2), 77-85. doi: 10.1016/j.tele.2010.10.001
De Vocht, Melanie, Van Looy, Jan, Courtois, Cedric and De Marez, Lieven (2011). Social contact in a MMORPG: an exploratory study into the motivations of playing World of Warcraft from a uses & gratifications perspective. Tijdschrift Voor Communicatiewetenschap, 39 (1), 44-63. doi: 10.5117/2011.039.001.044
Courtois, C., Mechant, P., De Marez, L. and Verleye, G. (2009). Gratifications and seeding behavior of online adolescents. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 15 (1), 109-137. doi: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01496.x
Conference Paper
Courtois, Cédric and Van Lier, Julie (2012). Socio-spatial context and the habit-goal interface in audiovisual media consumption: an inter-paradigmatic approach. 10th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video, Berlin, Germany , 4 - 6 July 2012. New York, NY, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2325616.2325621