Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images

(Routledge, 2026)

This book offers six critical, interdisciplinary approaches to AI-generated images. It invites the reader to (re-)imagine relationships between artefacts and media, authorship and agency, creativity and commodification, representation and visual style. Across the chapters, the book examines three realities of AI images, from sociotechnical fabrics, through semiotic interfaces, to representations and aesthetics.

Drawing on media studies, philosophy of technology, multimodality studies, critical AI studies, and visual communication studies, the book pursues the following interconnected topics: (1) addressing pataphysical and sociomaterial engagements with AI image making, (2) theorising distributed and probabilistic forms of agency through the concept of vector agency, (3) analysing interfaces and affordances of visual generative AI via multimodal walkthroughs, (4) conceptualising prompting as a cultural practice that reshapes agency, (5) mapping representational patterns and emerging visual genres in AI-generated imagery, and (6) interrogating how visual AI styles are co-produced by machines, users, and generative platform politics. These six critical lenses offer complementary perspectives to understanding the complex ecosystem surrounding AI image production.

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Images et expression citoyenne. Communiquer ses émotions et ses opinions sur les réseaux sociaux 

(De Boeck Supérieur, 2024)

Ce livre plonge au cœur de l'engagement politique visuel sur les réseaux sociaux, en analysant la façon dont les citoyens et citoyennes expriment leurs opinions et leurs émotions à travers des publications basées sur des images.

Il est divisé en trois parties :
• La première pose les bases théoriques du concept de citoyenneté visuelle, en explorant ses dimensions personnelles, créatives et émotionnelles.
• La deuxième offre un cadre méthodologique détaillé, avec des outils concrets pour étudier les posts sur les réseaux sociaux (quels éléments visuels prendre en compte, comment analyser les relations texte-image, comment coder le contenu visuel et identifier les opinions et émotions).
• La troisième présente des résultats quantitatifs et propose une analyse concrète des émotions et opinions exprimées dans les posts, en montrant comment les métaphores politiques y sont souvent centrales.

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Visual Citizenship. Communicating political opinions and emotions on social media

(Routledge, 2024)

This book explores visual political engagement online – how citizens participate in the dynamism of life in society by expressing their opinions and emotions on various issues of democratic life in image-based social media posts, independently of collective actions.

Looking beyond large digital social movements to focus on the everyday, the book provides a well-documented and comprehensive framework of key notions, concrete methods and examples of empirical insights into everyday visual citizenship on social media. It shows how the visual has become ubiquitous in citizens' communication on social media, focusing on how citizens use visual content to express their emotions and opinions on social media platforms when they discuss politics in a large sense.

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Improving Your Counter-Terrorism
Response. A Six-Step Guide to Adhering to the
EU's TCO Regulation

(European commission, 2023)

Authors: Sophia Rothut, Heidi Schulze, Diana Rieger, Catherine Bouko and Brigitte Naderer

This guide deals with the obligations placed on hosting service providers (HSPs) by the European Regulation on Terrorist Content Online (TCO).

It focuses firstly on the minimum requirements HSPs must satisfy to comply with the TCO Regulation. Secondly, it provides tips and practical advice on measures HSPs should adopt to successfully navigate the complexities of regulatory enforcement and to counter terrorist exploitation of their platforms.

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How to raise a bilingual child

(European Commission, 2020)

Authors: Catherine Bouko, Julie Carton, Ute Limacher-Riebold, Mary-Pat O'Malley, and Rita Rosenback

If you are still in any doubt as to whether or not to embark on this journey and need a final nudge, you may want to start with the chapter on myths and benefits, where you'll find a list of valid, research-based reasons why raising a bilingual child is always a valuable choice, and some common myths debunked.

In the first chapter, we encourage you to think about your goals and come up with a strategy that will help you achieve those goals. In this main part of the handbook, we follow your child from the womb through to the age of twelve. The journey unfolds in seven age brackets, centred around important steps in your child's development.

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Making students more resilient to extremist content online. Critical thinking skills & self-awareness of cognitive biases

(European commission, 2020)

Authors: Catherine Bouko, Alena Krempaská, and Anna Kucińska

This toolkit comprises eleven units: an introductory unit about automatic thinking and cognitive biases, 10 units for the ten selected biases. 

It is possible to use each of the 10 units devoted to a particular bias independently of the others.

The theory and activites are induced from real-life study cases.

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Vivre ensemble dans un monde médiatisé

(Ministère de l'enseignement de la FWB, 2016)

Cet ouvrage collectif a été construit autour du croisement entre une approche centrée sur l'éducation aux médias et une approche philosophique.
Chacune de ces approches est organisée autour de 10 thématiques. Chacune de celles-ci est présentée sous forme d'un court article de réflexion et de vulgarisation et est soutenue par une fiche pédagogique destinée à l'enseignant qui reprend le canevas d'une proposition de cours. Une « fiche élève » est téléchargeable sur le site Internet du CSEM. Elle peut être directement utilisée en classe et est modifiable par le professeur.
Cette publication est dense et multiple. Elle permet à l'enseignant, tant de l'enseignement général que qualifiant, de s'approprier chacune des thématiques de manière réflexive mais aussi très concrète et didactique.
L'ouverture thématique croisée des différentes fiches permet aussi de revenir sur certains débats de nos sociétés contemporaines : construction du vivre-ensemble, pluri — ou multi-culturalité et identité plurielle, embrigadement et fanatisation des jeunes.

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