Chloé Grangiens

Chloé holds a master’s degree from Audencia SciencesCom (France), where she specialised in media and politics. She conducted a master's thesis on the media coverage of the Rwandan genocide by RTLM radio, using a combination of statistical and semiotic-discursive analyses. After graduation, she was involved as a research assistant on several projects, which all address political communication questions with an international perspective. She collaborated on research conducted within the Network of European Political Communication Scholars (NEPOCS), contributing to a systematic literature review on the impact of political elites’ use of social media on democracy, and to the development of a comprehensive indexing of citizenship norms. On the PODTrust project (T-AP, ANR), Chloé conducted in-depth interviews with French legislators about their use of digital tools and AI, and contributed to the organization of the scientific conference Political Trust: A Challenge for Democracies (CEVIPOF, Sciences Po Paris). Finally, she was involved in the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST Action, led by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) DepolarisingEU – Redressing Radical Polarisation: Strengthening European Civil Spheres facing Illiberal Digital Media.

Chloé’s research initially focused on media representation and content production, analysing media discourse and propaganda in crisis contexts. Her interest then expanded toward political communication, examining the relationship among political trust, digital communication and democracy. Today, she combines questions of media production with media reception and audience engagement, focusing on how public media can address challenges like platformisation and audience fragmentation to fulfil their universal service mission.

At imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Chloé works as a PhD Researcher within the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks RePIM (Redefining Public Interest Media). Her research aims to identify which audiences are being left behind by Public Service Media and to understand how these organisations can better reach and engage these groups.