B Van Gorp
Biographic Data
| ID | 45465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Van Gorp |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Gorp |
| SIGNATURE | VAN GORP B |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2937-0665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Co-Creating GenAI-Generated Visualizations of People Living With Dementia
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) are increasingly shaping public perception of dementia through visual representations. These technologies often reproduce harmful and stigmatizing stereotypes that misrepresent the lived experiences of people living with dementia (PLWD). This article introduces and evaluates a three-phase framework for GenAI-facilitated co-creation sessions that centers PLWD as active co-…
Consolation Strategies in Children’s News
This study examined consolation strategies in children’s news on television and their remediated content on TikTok. A content analysis of 987 TikTok videos and 201 broadcasts of the Flemish children’s news program Karrewiet was conducted using a codebook developed through focus groups with children aged 8 to 12 ( N = 101) and validated via member-check interviews. Results revealed that television news relies on experts and child sources for conso…
The Meaning-Making of Dementia (MMoD) model
In Western Europe, dementia is commonly portrayed in media as a societal burden, emphasizing economic costs and loss of personhood. The goal of this research is to nuance those representations by focusing on the personal experiences of people living with dementia (PLWD) and their interpretations of the condition. This study examines which and how aspects of lived experiences inform meaning-making (RQ1) and how this meaning-making relates to cultu…
Children’s perceptions of scary news in Belgium
Negative news items can cause fear reactions in children, which has prompted various parental mediation strategies and recommendations for news makers on how to make the news less scary. However, recent studies about what factors in news elicit fear and how children themselves perceive and experience the mediation of news by adults are limited. This study therefore conducted 12 focus groups with children aged 8 to 12 (N = 101) in Belgium. Results…
Unravelling Watergate’s impact
This article examines the enduring influence of Bob Woodward’s and Carl Bernstein’s investigative reporting during the Watergate affair and its relevance to present-day journalism. By contextualizing the iconic status of both investigative journalists within a nuanced perspective, this article juxtaposes their modus operandi with journalistic practices of the present day. In addition to academic literature, primary sources such as All the Preside…
An observational sketch essay of an undocumented immigrant hunger strike in Brussels
This visual essay makes use of sketches and watercolour drawings in order to present an observational study of a hunger strike conducted by undocumented immigrants in a Brussels church in 2021. The study aimed to explore the lived experience of the hunger strikers, focusing on the physical consequences, emotional states and process of the strike. The essay highlights the importance of visibility in gaining public support for a hunger strike. The …
Newsroom Engineering Teams as “Survival Entities” for Journalism? Mapping the Process of Institutionalization at The Washington Post
Engineering teams – a form of newsroom innovation labs – have been heralded as survival entities in the news ecosystem as they have the potential to improve where news goes and moves. At The Washington Post, these teams have been around for three years, and they started to implement tools like election models fueled by A.I. and smart data pipelines that can possibly affect the autonomy and the tasks of the broader newsroom. By applying the proces…
Framework for analyzing conceptions of excellence in higher education
Honors programs and similar initiatives aimed at evoking excellence of students are increasingly promoted in higher education. However, there is a lack of conceptual clarity with regard to the concept of 'student excellence'. The purpose of this article is to present a conceptual framework, called FACE (Framework for Analyzing Conceptions of Excellence), which provides a reflective tool for analyzing ideas on who is excellent, what is student exc…
Cartoons as bridge builders
Terrorist attacks and the departure of “foreign fighters” to conflict areas have created a hasty security approach towards radicalization in many countries; similarly in Belgium, the country under scrutiny in this contribution. Implemented policies impact society by imposing a dominant security frame. This study centers around conversations with members of the “suspect community,” young people with a migration background in Molenbeek, Verviers, a…
New Organizations, Different Journalistic Roles, and Innovative Projects
Over the past ten years, various newsroom innovation labs have emerged to modernize journalistic workflows. These labs have started to alter the news ecosystem, and we therefore focus on the organization, the roles, and the projects of innovation labs. This exploratory study conducted interviews with members of labs of The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Der Spiegel, and BR. Results on the organizational level show that there are t…
Where exactly between utopia and dystopia? A framing analysis of AI and automation in US newspapers
Over the last 60 years, media outlets have been covering emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. This countrylevel study wants to give a nuanced overview of how these technologies were covered in US newspapers. First, a Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling was conducted on articles on AI and automation in The New York Times and The Washington Post between 1985 and 2020. Second, an inductive manual frami…
China’s Pathway to Climate Sustainability
This study explores the evolution of the climate discourses of China’s flagship party paper People’s Daily. Climate reports during COP1-24 (1995–2018) are analyzed in terms of the underlying development ideas and framings of climate change. It is found that climate change received increasing attention, with the years 2007 and 2015 representing two historical hallmarks of reporting. In tandem, the official discourses underwent noticeable shifts, t…
Face masks as floating signifiers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Belgium
Research-based drawings are used to demonstrate how face masks functioned as floating signifiers in the public space in Belgium during the 2020 pandemic. Face masks have become the external hallmark of a pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, a potentially life-threatening virus that is, by definition, invisible. Paradoxically, the presence of face masks seems to indicate a risk of infection, while the absence of face masks indicates safety. Unlike in As…
Deproblematization as an Enrichment of Framing Theory
Entities wanting to communicate purposefully should have insight into the different frames and counter-frames that give meaning to an issue. Therefore, this research introduces a Framing Counter-framing Theory (FCT). A conceptual distinction is made between frames that define an issue as a problem and frames that deproblematize it. An experimental study (N = 1,000) was conducted in Belgium regarding the effects of an awareness-raising campaign on…
A frame analysis of political-media discourse on the Belt and Road Initiative
The article seeks to unpack the increasingly polarised discussion on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and provide a holistic understanding of it by identifying the diverging interpretations in the form of frames and analysing the competing framing practices of actors figuring prominently in the debate. To that end, this study leverages conceptual insights from cultural framing and content-analyses a purpose-built corpus of political and media c…
When Algorithms Recommend What’s New(s)
Newsroom innovation labs have been created over the last ten years to develop algorithmic news recommenders (ANR) that suggest and summarise what news is. Although these ANRs are still in an early stage and have not yet been implemented in the entire newsroom, they have the potential to change how newsworkers fulfil their daily decisions (gatekeeping) and autonomy in setting the agenda (agenda-setting). First, this study focuses on the new dynami…
The framing of radicalisation in the Belgian societal debate
Following the terrorist attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris and 22 March 2016 in Brussels, radicalisation has become the topic of lively debate in Belgium. However, little research has been done on the different perspectives which people use to communicate about radicalisation in Belgium. Therefore, an inductive framing analysis of 2,271 excerpts, taken from various newspaper articles, policy documents and social media, was performed to precisel…
Using counterframing strategies to enhance anti-stigma campaigns related to mental illness
Negotiating climate change
Climate negotiations have increasingly resonated with global governance and world power relations. However, media studies of climate change have paid relatively less attention to media frames of the problem solving. This study addresses this issue by examining the media coverage of COP21 from three countries that have considerable influence on climate politics: the United Kingdom, the United States, and China. By applying an inductive frame analy…
The Use of Social Media by Chinese Climate Journalists
The aim of this paper is to probe into the social media use by Chinese climate journalists through the examination of their professional practices on social media. Taking COP21 as a case, the study conducted a survey from Chinese COP21 journalists and analyzed WeChat and Weibo posts from Chinese journalists and tweets from their UK and US colleagues. The results show the prevalent use of WeChat among Chinese journalists and the personalization of…
Determinants of degree of integration of Turkish diaspora in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany
This study constructs and tests the building of social capital and integration among Turkish minorities (n = 967) residing in three countries with different integration policy realities according to the Migrant Integration Policy Index for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. Through online and offline surveys, the study examines the extent to which bridging and bonding social capital, the dominant language of media use, and the socio-demograph…
Driving the Frame
Until relatively recently, emotions were often ignored within framing effects studies. Only as scholars have become more interested in the finer details of the composition of news stories, and in models of the psychology of news framing effects, have emotions been studied more closely. Yet, the integration of emotion into these models of news framing effects is incomplete, and it has proven to be more difficult than expected. Competing psychologi…
Framing the Asian infrastructure investment bank
This qualitative study is designed to identify the frames in the debate on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and analyze the framing by different actors. To that end, it drew insights from framing theory and conducted an in-depth inductive frame analysis based on a representative sample of official documents and news articles. 14 frames (7 frames and 7 counterframes) emerged therefrom. They represent the AIIB debate along six dimens…
Thinking and Writing About Global Poverty
Journalistic coverage informs audiences about poverty in developing countries. However, little is known about the contribution of individual journalists to the frame building of this topic. This study explores the cognitive frames of 54 journalists from the Netherlands who regularly write about the issue. The results are compared with the media frames in their articles. Additionally, the study identifies factors that influence the frame-building …
Women, ethnic minorities and newsworthiness
This study seeks to determine the extent to which the Flemish press gives voice to gender and ethnic diversity. A total of 16 in-depth interviews with print journalists outlined five key arguments about diversity in the newsroom. Two of these view the portrayal of diversity as conceptually irrelevant or inconsistent with a notion of universal equality. The third argument defines diverse representation as an active search process that is part and …
Frames and counter-frames giving meaning to dementia
The news is in the frame
This article seeks to understand the genesis of frame-building based on the early coverage of the Belgian Syria fighters in the four leading newspapers in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. For a period of 6 weeks, a frame analysis of news stories was linked to reconstruction interviews with reporters and supplemented by newsroom observations and in-depth interviews with superiors. The findings show that the framing of ‘new’ events on …
Where exactly between utopia and dystopia? A framing analysis of AI and automation in US newspapers
Over the last 60 years, media outlets have been covering emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. This countrylevel study wants to give a nuanced overview of how these technologies were covered in US newspapers. First, a Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling was conducted on articles on AI and automation in The New York Times and The Washington Post between 1985 and 2020. Second, an inductive manual frami…
Triggering the News Story
The origin of news production processes has not been extensively researched. This study identifies the factors that influence journalists' preferences for certain newsgathering channels to others at the genesis of news production: (1) the type of newspaper; (2) the centralization of the newsroom; (3) the story selection autonomy of the reporter; and (4) the specialization of the reporter in the topic of the story. During a six-week period, this s…
The news framing of the ‘Syria fighters’ in Flanders and the Netherlands
In this article we present a cross-national comparison of framing of the issue of the ‘Syria fighters’ in Flanders and the Netherlands. We examine this topic using inductive and deductive framing analysis and interpret the results in terms of the advocates expressing the frames and the newspapers they were published in. We argue that variation in frame use can be explained by considering the background and social identification of the frame advoc…
Women, ethnic minorities and newsworthiness
This study seeks to determine the extent to which the Flemish press gives voice to gender and ethnic diversity. A total of 16 in-depth interviews with print journalists outlined five key arguments about diversity in the newsroom. Two of these view the portrayal of diversity as conceptually irrelevant or inconsistent with a notion of universal equality. The third argument defines diverse representation as an active search process that is part and …
New Organizations, Different Journalistic Roles, and Innovative Projects
Over the past ten years, various newsroom innovation labs have emerged to modernize journalistic workflows. These labs have started to alter the news ecosystem, and we therefore focus on the organization, the roles, and the projects of innovation labs. This exploratory study conducted interviews with members of labs of The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Der Spiegel, and BR. Results on the organizational level show that there are t…
A frame analysis of political-media discourse on the Belt and Road Initiative
The article seeks to unpack the increasingly polarised discussion on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and provide a holistic understanding of it by identifying the diverging interpretations in the form of frames and analysing the competing framing practices of actors figuring prominently in the debate. To that end, this study leverages conceptual insights from cultural framing and content-analyses a purpose-built corpus of political and media c…
Thinking and Writing About Global Poverty
Journalistic coverage informs audiences about poverty in developing countries. However, little is known about the contribution of individual journalists to the frame building of this topic. This study explores the cognitive frames of 54 journalists from the Netherlands who regularly write about the issue. The results are compared with the media frames in their articles. Additionally, the study identifies factors that influence the frame-building …
When Algorithms Recommend What’s New(s)
Newsroom innovation labs have been created over the last ten years to develop algorithmic news recommenders (ANR) that suggest and summarise what news is. Although these ANRs are still in an early stage and have not yet been implemented in the entire newsroom, they have the potential to change how newsworkers fulfil their daily decisions (gatekeeping) and autonomy in setting the agenda (agenda-setting). First, this study focuses on the new dynami…
The framing of radicalisation in the Belgian societal debate
Following the terrorist attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris and 22 March 2016 in Brussels, radicalisation has become the topic of lively debate in Belgium. However, little research has been done on the different perspectives which people use to communicate about radicalisation in Belgium. Therefore, an inductive framing analysis of 2,271 excerpts, taken from various newspaper articles, policy documents and social media, was performed to precisel…
Framing the Asian infrastructure investment bank
This qualitative study is designed to identify the frames in the debate on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and analyze the framing by different actors. To that end, it drew insights from framing theory and conducted an in-depth inductive frame analysis based on a representative sample of official documents and news articles. 14 frames (7 frames and 7 counterframes) emerged therefrom. They represent the AIIB debate along six dimens…
Newsroom Engineering Teams as “Survival Entities” for Journalism? Mapping the Process of Institutionalization at The Washington Post
Engineering teams – a form of newsroom innovation labs – have been heralded as survival entities in the news ecosystem as they have the potential to improve where news goes and moves. At The Washington Post, these teams have been around for three years, and they started to implement tools like election models fueled by A.I. and smart data pipelines that can possibly affect the autonomy and the tasks of the broader newsroom. By applying the proces…
Deproblematization as an Enrichment of Framing Theory
Entities wanting to communicate purposefully should have insight into the different frames and counter-frames that give meaning to an issue. Therefore, this research introduces a Framing Counter-framing Theory (FCT). A conceptual distinction is made between frames that define an issue as a problem and frames that deproblematize it. An experimental study (N = 1,000) was conducted in Belgium regarding the effects of an awareness-raising campaign on…
Determinants of degree of integration of Turkish diaspora in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany
This study constructs and tests the building of social capital and integration among Turkish minorities (n = 967) residing in three countries with different integration policy realities according to the Migrant Integration Policy Index for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. Through online and offline surveys, the study examines the extent to which bridging and bonding social capital, the dominant language of media use, and the socio-demograph…
Insights into the reception and acceptance of risk messages
The objective of this paper is to test whether the effect of variables such as knowledge, attitudes, trust, risk perception, and psychometric risk characteristics changes in the different stages of risk-related information processing. To address this question, a distinction is made between two information-processing steps, reception (measured as a person’s ability to retain the information communicated) and acceptance (measured as a person’s leve…
It takes two to tango
The objective of this paper is twofold. The first aim is to examine the characteristics of the celebrity press in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) in comparison with the foreign celebrity press. The second aim is to characterise the interaction between local celebrities and journalists, as conflict, cooperation or negotiation. To this end, a content analysis was performed on the three Flemish celebrity magazines and leading journalis…
Cartoons as bridge builders
Terrorist attacks and the departure of “foreign fighters” to conflict areas have created a hasty security approach towards radicalization in many countries; similarly in Belgium, the country under scrutiny in this contribution. Implemented policies impact society by imposing a dominant security frame. This study centers around conversations with members of the “suspect community,” young people with a migration background in Molenbeek, Verviers, a…
The Battle of Ideas About Global Poverty in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Flanders
The euro crisis in metaphors and frames
This study examines the frames used in reporting on the euro crisis. As far as the debt crisis is concerned, the media are the main source of information for European citizens. It is therefore interesting to carry out an in-depth content analysis of news coverage. The study looks into five dominant frames in Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking Belgium) and Dutch newspapers. War proved to be the most frequently used frame, followed by disease, natural di…
The CarerQol instrument
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German Abstract Get access Baldwin Van Gorp Baldwin Van Gorp Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 60–78, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00329_4.x Published: 28 February 2007
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El Enfoque Constructivista del Framing: Trayendo Cultura a Baldwin Van Gorp Departamento de Ciencia de la Comunicación Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands El objetivo de este artículo, dentro del paradigma constructivista, apunta a integrar la noción de cultura al proceso del framing. Cuatro características son importantes para esta aproximación: la distinción entre el evento, el contenido de los medios masivos, y el encuadre; la atenció…
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Korean Abstract Baldwin Van Gorp Baldwin Van Gorp Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 60–78, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00329_2.x Published: 28 February 2007
Frames and counter-frames giving meaning to dementia
From the wizard to the doubter
The aim of this paper is to gain insight into the prototypical scientists as they appear in fiction and non-fiction media consumed by children and teenagers in the Netherlands. A qualitative-interpretive content analysis is used to identify seven prototypes and the associated characteristics in a systematic way. The results show that the element of risk is given more attention in fiction than in non-fiction. Also, eccentric scientists appear more…
Culture and Protest in Media Frames
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Insights into the reception and acceptance of risk messages
The objective of this paper is to test whether the effect of variables such as knowledge, attitudes, trust, risk perception, and psychometric risk characteristics changes in the different stages of risk-related information processing. To address this question, a distinction is made between two information-processing steps, reception (measured as a person’s ability to retain the information communicated) and acceptance (measured as a person’s leve…
The euro crisis in metaphors and frames
This study examines the frames used in reporting on the euro crisis. As far as the debt crisis is concerned, the media are the main source of information for European citizens. It is therefore interesting to carry out an in-depth content analysis of news coverage. The study looks into five dominant frames in Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking Belgium) and Dutch newspapers. War proved to be the most frequently used frame, followed by disease, natural di…
Triggering the News Story
The origin of news production processes has not been extensively researched. This study identifies the factors that influence journalists' preferences for certain newsgathering channels to others at the genesis of news production: (1) the type of newspaper; (2) the centralization of the newsroom; (3) the story selection autonomy of the reporter; and (4) the specialization of the reporter in the topic of the story. During a six-week period, this s…
It takes two to tango
The objective of this paper is twofold. The first aim is to examine the characteristics of the celebrity press in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) in comparison with the foreign celebrity press. The second aim is to characterise the interaction between local celebrities and journalists, as conflict, cooperation or negotiation. To this end, a content analysis was performed on the three Flemish celebrity magazines and leading journalis…
The news is in the frame
This article seeks to understand the genesis of frame-building based on the early coverage of the Belgian Syria fighters in the four leading newspapers in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. For a period of 6 weeks, a frame analysis of news stories was linked to reconstruction interviews with reporters and supplemented by newsroom observations and in-depth interviews with superiors. The findings show that the framing of ‘new’ events on …
The Battle of Ideas About Global Poverty in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Flanders
The news framing of the ‘Syria fighters’ in Flanders and the Netherlands
In this article we present a cross-national comparison of framing of the issue of the ‘Syria fighters’ in Flanders and the Netherlands. We examine this topic using inductive and deductive framing analysis and interpret the results in terms of the advocates expressing the frames and the newspapers they were published in. We argue that variation in frame use can be explained by considering the background and social identification of the frame advoc…
Thinking and Writing About Global Poverty
Journalistic coverage informs audiences about poverty in developing countries. However, little is known about the contribution of individual journalists to the frame building of this topic. This study explores the cognitive frames of 54 journalists from the Netherlands who regularly write about the issue. The results are compared with the media frames in their articles. Additionally, the study identifies factors that influence the frame-building …
Women, ethnic minorities and newsworthiness
This study seeks to determine the extent to which the Flemish press gives voice to gender and ethnic diversity. A total of 16 in-depth interviews with print journalists outlined five key arguments about diversity in the newsroom. Two of these view the portrayal of diversity as conceptually irrelevant or inconsistent with a notion of universal equality. The third argument defines diverse representation as an active search process that is part and …
Driving the Frame
Until relatively recently, emotions were often ignored within framing effects studies. Only as scholars have become more interested in the finer details of the composition of news stories, and in models of the psychology of news framing effects, have emotions been studied more closely. Yet, the integration of emotion into these models of news framing effects is incomplete, and it has proven to be more difficult than expected. Competing psychologi…
Framing the Asian infrastructure investment bank
This qualitative study is designed to identify the frames in the debate on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and analyze the framing by different actors. To that end, it drew insights from framing theory and conducted an in-depth inductive frame analysis based on a representative sample of official documents and news articles. 14 frames (7 frames and 7 counterframes) emerged therefrom. They represent the AIIB debate along six dimens…
Negotiating climate change
Climate negotiations have increasingly resonated with global governance and world power relations. However, media studies of climate change have paid relatively less attention to media frames of the problem solving. This study addresses this issue by examining the media coverage of COP21 from three countries that have considerable influence on climate politics: the United Kingdom, the United States, and China. By applying an inductive frame analy…
The Use of Social Media by Chinese Climate Journalists
The aim of this paper is to probe into the social media use by Chinese climate journalists through the examination of their professional practices on social media. Taking COP21 as a case, the study conducted a survey from Chinese COP21 journalists and analyzed WeChat and Weibo posts from Chinese journalists and tweets from their UK and US colleagues. The results show the prevalent use of WeChat among Chinese journalists and the personalization of…
Determinants of degree of integration of Turkish diaspora in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany
This study constructs and tests the building of social capital and integration among Turkish minorities (n = 967) residing in three countries with different integration policy realities according to the Migrant Integration Policy Index for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. Through online and offline surveys, the study examines the extent to which bridging and bonding social capital, the dominant language of media use, and the socio-demograph…
The framing of radicalisation in the Belgian societal debate
Following the terrorist attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris and 22 March 2016 in Brussels, radicalisation has become the topic of lively debate in Belgium. However, little research has been done on the different perspectives which people use to communicate about radicalisation in Belgium. Therefore, an inductive framing analysis of 2,271 excerpts, taken from various newspaper articles, policy documents and social media, was performed to precisel…
Using counterframing strategies to enhance anti-stigma campaigns related to mental illness
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