Hans Martens received his master’s degree in Social Sciences from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2004. He graduated on a socio-historical master’s thesis on the reaction of Hollywood against the rise of Nazism between 1933 and 1941. In 2005 he successfully participated in the Master Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Antwerp, resulting in a Master’s Thesis analysing - in a Cavellian vein - Frank Capra’s Lady for a Day. After this, he gradually focused his attention on media education. Working for kortfilm.be - an online magazine specialized in short film criticism -, he participated in INgeBEELD. Through this initiative, the Flemish Community attempts to broaden the traditional interpretation of 'literacy' in primary and secondary education. At the moment Hans Martens is assistant at the Communication Studies department in Antwerp. He is a member of the research unit Visual Culture and is preparing a PhD on media education in Flanders. His main research interests are media literacy education, instructional communication and mass media.