Peter Mechant

Peter Mechant

Universiteit Gent

H-index: 25

Europe-Belgium

About Peter Mechant

Peter Mechant, With an exceptional h-index of 25 and a recent h-index of 19 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Universiteit Gent, specializes in the field of Internet, social media, Online Communities, egov, Open Data.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Towards an Affordance-Based Typology of Personal Data Stores

Personal Data Stores and data cooperatives: a two-pronged, sociotechnical approach for data activism

BESOCIAL: social media archiving at KBR in Belgium

Online neighborhood networks: The relationship between online communication practices and neighborhood dynamics

Integrating OSLO semantics in word processors

Making curation algorithms apparent: a case study of ‘Instawareness’ as a means to heighten awareness and understanding of Instagram's algorithm

Towards a research agenda for personal data spaces: synthesis of a community driven process

Nudging towards exposure diversity: Examining the effects of news recommender design on audiences’ news exposure behaviours and perceptions

Peter Mechant Information

University

Position

Sr. Researcher Research group for Media Innovation & Communication Technology

Citations(all)

2393

Citations(since 2020)

1342

Cited By

1511

hIndex(all)

25

hIndex(since 2020)

19

i10Index(all)

43

i10Index(since 2020)

25

Email

University Profile Page

Universiteit Gent

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Peter Mechant Skills & Research Interests

Internet

social media

Online Communities

egov

Open Data

Top articles of Peter Mechant

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Towards an Affordance-Based Typology of Personal Data Stores

Privacy and Identity Management. Sharing in a Digital World: 18th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7, 11.6 International Summer School, Privacy and Identity 2023, Oslo, Norway, August 8–11, 2023, Revised Selected Papers

Laurens Vandercruysse

Peter Mechant

2024

Personal Data Stores and data cooperatives: a two-pronged, sociotechnical approach for data activism

Sander Van Damme

Peter Mechant

Maarten De Mildt

Steven Dewaele

Laurens Vandercruysse

2023

BESOCIAL: social media archiving at KBR in Belgium

Fien Messens

Peter Mechant

Lise-Anne Denis

Eva Rolin

Pieter Heyvaert

...

2022

Online neighborhood networks: The relationship between online communication practices and neighborhood dynamics

Media and Communication

Ben Robaeyst

Bastiaan Baccarne

Jonas De Meulenaere

Peter Mechant

2022

Integrating OSLO semantics in word processors

Dwight Van Lancker

Niels Van Durme

Eveline Vlassenroot

Raf Buyle

Peter Mechant

...

2022/10/4

Making curation algorithms apparent: a case study of ‘Instawareness’ as a means to heighten awareness and understanding of Instagram's algorithm

Information, Communication & Society

Thibault Fouquaert

Peter Mechant

2022/9/10

Towards a research agenda for personal data spaces: synthesis of a community driven process

Sander Van Damme

Peter Mechant

Eveline Vlassenroot

Mathias Van Compernolle

Raf Buyle

...

2022/8/30

Nudging towards exposure diversity: Examining the effects of news recommender design on audiences’ news exposure behaviours and perceptions

Digital Journalism

Glen Joris

Stefaan Vercoutere

Orphée De Clercq

Kristin Van Damme

Peter Mechant

...

2022/7/26

Unlocking web and social media archives for humanities research: a critical reflection

Eveline Vlassenroot

Friedel Geeraert

Sally Chambers

Peter Mechant

Fien Messens

...

2021

BESOCIAL: towards a sustainable strategy for archiving and preserving social media in Belgium

Fien Messens

Julie M Birkholz

Sally Chambers

Friedel Geeraert

Alejandra Michel

...

2021

Saving the web by decentralizing data networks? A socio-technical reflection on the promise of decentralization and personal data stores

Peter Mechant

Ralf De Wolf

Mathias Van Compernolle

Glen Joris

Tom Evens

...

2021/11/25

Towards a sustainable social media archiving strategy for Belgium: BESOCIAL: WP1 report: an international review of Social Media Archiving initiatives

Alejandra Michel

Jessica Pranger

Friedel Geeraert

Sven Lieber

Peter Mechant

...

2021

WP1 report: An international review of social media archiving initiatives

Alejandra Michel

Jessica Pranger

Friedel Geeraert

Sven Lieber

Peter Mechant

...

2021

Web-archiving and social media: an exploratory analysis: Call for papers digital humanities and web archives–A special issue of international journal of digital humanities

International Journal of Digital Humanities

Eveline Vlassenroot

Sally Chambers

Sven Lieber

Alejandra Michel

Friedel Geeraert

...

2021/11

A sustainable method for publishing interoperable open data on the web

Data

Raf Buyle

Brecht Van de Vyvere

Julián Rojas Meléndez

Dwight Van Lancker

Eveline Vlassenroot

...

2021/8/19

Exercising the right of access: a benchmark for future GDPR evaluations

Glen Joris

Peter Mechant

Lieven De Marez

2020

Piloting access to the Belgian web-archive for scientific research: a methodological exploration

Peter Mechant

Sally Chambers

Eveline Vlassenroot

Friedel Geeraert

2020

Requirements and desiderata for the scholarly use of web archives

Eveline Vlassenroot

Sally Chambers

Friedel Geeraert

Peter Mechant

2020

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Co-Authors

H-index: 48
Lieven De Marez

Lieven De Marez

Universiteit Gent

H-index: 31
Steve Paulussen

Steve Paulussen

Universiteit Antwerpen

H-index: 29
Erik Mannens, Prof. PhD. MEng. MSc.

Erik Mannens, Prof. PhD. MEng. MSc.

Universiteit Gent

H-index: 27
Toon De Pessemier

Toon De Pessemier

Universiteit Gent

H-index: 24
Tom Evens

Tom Evens

Universiteit Gent

H-index: 20
Pieter Verdegem

Pieter Verdegem

University of Westminster

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