Hilde Van Den Bulck

Datos Biográficos

ID3042887
NOMBREHilde Van Den Bulck
NOMBRESHilde Van Den
APELLIDOBulck
FIRMAVAN DEN BULCK H
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Antwerp
ORCID0000-0002-3858-1897
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS61
TOTAL DE CITAS254
TOTAL COMO AUTOR59
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1996
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H9

  • Rethinking the evaluation of news algorithms

    Open AccessMichelle Kulig, Willem Buyens et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2026

    As media organizations increasingly deploy recommender systems, these technologies play a growing role in shaping how individuals encounter and engage with news and public information online. Designing and evaluating these systems effectively, particularly in the news domain, requires attention to the challenges users face in forming knowledge and justified beliefs within complex digital information environments. To address this need, we draw on …

  • An island of trust

    Open AccessChiku Ali, Hilde Van Den Bulck et al.ARTICLEJournal of Communication2025

    This contribution aims to better understand the level of and reasons for the trust U.S. television viewers place in the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) amidst what is often perceived as a general decline in trust in U.S. media and public institutions. Based on a nationwide survey of 1533 self-declared PBS viewers and rooted in theories of the conceptualization of organizational trust, our findings suggest that PBS viewers trust PBS along three …

  • Rethinking transparency in public service media

    Open AccessHilde Van Den Bulck, Minna Aslama Horowitz et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2025

    Transparency has become a cornerstone of public service media (PSM) governance yet it remains inconsistently understood and applied. Increased scrutiny from various stakeholders has resulted in a need for actionable and meaningful transparency. Scholarly evidence highlights transparency’s benefits and risks, including potential misuse, as illustrated with current examples from Finnish PSM organization Yle and tVRT in Flanders (Belgium). This brie…

  • Epistemic welfare and algorithmic recommender systems

    Open AccessAaron Hyzen, Hilde Van Den Bulck et al.ARTICLECommunication Theory2025Citada por: 2Referencias: 17

    Working with the concept of epistemic welfare, defined as creating and maintaining the conditions and capabilities for individuals’ epistemic agency in the public sphere, this contribution provides a theoretical framework to demonstrate a way out of what has been described as an epistemic crisis, illustrating this with the case of algorithmic recommender systems used by media organizations. First, we identify the processes of datafication, algori…

  • Epistemic welfare and public service media's algorithmic recommender systems

    Open AccessHilde Van Den Bulck, Michelle Kulig et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Communication2025Referencias: 47

    This contribution introduces the comprehensive framework of epistemic welfare to discuss how public service media (PSM) can engage with algorithmic recommender systems in a manner in keeping with PSM's foundational principles. We contextualize PSM algorithmic recommenders in their tradition of content curation and discuss the challenges PSM face in implementing these systems. We introduce epistemic welfare, a framework based in social epistemolog…

  • Handbook of Media and Communication Governance

    Gregory id_orcid Asmolov, Manuel Puppis et al.BOOKHandbook of Media and Communication…2024

    The chapter offers a framework for the analysis of media regulation in non-democratic systems. It considers media and Internet regulation as a form of autocratic adaptability in the context of continuous technological innovation. Regulation seeks to protect the legitimacy of autocratic leaders and their regimes in a rapidly changing environment. Accordingly, the regulation should be seen in the context of the trajectory of the development of medi…

  • What are food media (messages)? A scoping review to clarify food media, food messages and food content in academic writing

    Open AccessIsabelle Cuykx, Caroline Lochs et al.ARTICLEBritish Food Journal2024

    Purpose This scoping review aims to explore how “food media”, “food messages” and “food content” are referred to in scholarly writing to enhance a shared understanding and comparability. Design/methodology/approach Following the PRISMA, ScR-guidelines, four scientific databases were screened on published manuscripts in academic journals, books and doctoral theses mentioning food media, content and messages within the prevalent meaning as in human…

  • Comparing Media Systems Through the Lens of Neoliberal Hegemony

    Open AccessNils Wandels, Jelle Mast et al.ARTICLEMedia and Communication2024

    This article argues that increased insight into the global characteristics of the post-Cold War era provides journalism scholars with alternative interpretative lenses to engage in comparative analysis of media system development in the West. We adopt the sociohistorical approach pursued by Hallin and Mancini (2004) in their seminal work Comparing Media Systems to embark on an examination of the dialectic relationship between global neoliberal he…

  • Rumor has it

    Open AccessJonathan Hendrickx, Hilde Van Den BulckARTICLEJournalism2024Citada por: 2Referencias: 19

    Taking the case of Belgian (Flemish) celebrity news, we discuss the impact of digitization of the news media ecology on the epistemology of celebrity journalism. Theoretically, the epistemology of celebrity journalism is considered as a set of practices, through which knowledge is acquired, claimed and justified, that are shaped by the specifics of the media ecology and the celebrity culture and industry. Empirically, we analyze media celebrity c…

  • The magic is in the mix

    Isabelle Cuykx, Paulien Decorte et al.ARTICLEFood Culture & Society2023Referencias: 11

    Food media content has recently grown tremendously in quantity and types. To understand food media’s popularity and the role they play for their audience members, this paper applies a uses and gratifications (U&G) approach to study the recipients’ motives for using or encountering various food media. Where do they come across media messages about food? Do they consciously or unconsciously seek or use them, and why? How do they perceive the outcom…

  • The Changing Face of Journalistic Autonomy

    Nils Wandels, Jelle Mast et al.ARTICLEJournalism Studies2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 20

    Autonomy is considered a prerequisite for the press to function in service of the public. Over the past few decades, both journalism and society at large have been subjected to significant change and instability, potentially affecting journalists’ independent modes of production. We, therefore, argue that a re-evaluation of journalism’s institutional strength to perform the societal functions bestowed upon it by the public is imperative. This pap…

  • Media policymaking and multistakeholder involvement

    Open AccessHilde Van Den Bulck, Tim RaatsARTICLEEuropean Journal of Communication2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 20

    This contribution analyzes government, opposition, public service media, media stakeholders and audience views regarding the role and remit of public service media in the run-up to and their impact on the renewal of the 2021–2025 management contract between public broadcaster VRT and the Flemish Government. Results show that, despite a shifting media ecosystem and academics and government pushing for fundamental reform, audiences and most stakeho…

  • Of Superheroes and SJWs

    Open AccessMatt Griffin, Hilde Van Den BulckARTICLEThe Journal of Popular Culture2022Citada por: 2Referencias: 5

  • Conspiracies, Ideological Entrepreneurs, and Digital Popular Culture

    Open AccessAaron Hyzen, Hilde Van Den BulckARTICLEMedia and Communication2021

    This contribution starts from the contemporary surge in conspiracism to develop a theoretical framework to understand how conspiracy theories make it from the margins to the mainstream. To this end, it combines a view of conspiracy theories as ideology and its propagandists as ideological entrepreneurs with insights into how the affordances of digital media and popular culture are instrumental in propagating the conspiracy theories. It further co…

  • The most paranoid man in America

    Aaron Hyzen, Hilde Van Den BulckARTICLECelebrity Studies2021Citada por: 4Referencias: 8

    Alex Jones, US radio show host, founder of InfoWars.com, and self-proclaimed ‘most paranoid man in America’, is often mentioned in discussions about current US populism and the role of social media

  • Hypocritical investor' or hollywood 'do-gooder'? A framing analysis of media and audiences negotiating Leonardo DiCaprio's 'green' persona through his involvement in Formula E

    Timothy Robeers, Hilde Van Den BulckARTICLECelebrity Studies2021Citada por: 2Referencias: 27

    Leonardo DiCaprio has a considerable track record as a fervent campaigner to save the environment and combat climate change. Drawing from his more recent activist engagements to endorse Formula E, the world’s first fully electric racing series, this contribution aims to analyse how and in what ways this generates additional exposure and appreciation for the series, the environment and DiCaprio. To this end, a qualitative and inductive framing app…

  • Stop Spreading The Data

    Open AccessJannick Kirk Sørensen, Hilde Van Den Bulck et al.ARTICLEJournal of Information Policy2020Citada por: 1Referencias: 7

    The article analyzes problems relating to public service media use of third-party services that track, collect, and analyze user behavior. The article extends a rights-based conception of privacy to privacy as a social phenomenon based in trust, relevant to public service media as “islands of trust.” However, data of European public and private media sites show that public service media, especially those that run advertising, show few differences…

  • I am not your metaphor

    Tina Goethals, Dimitri Mortelmans et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2020Citada por: 7Referencias: 5

    When it comes to disability, powerful ideas are articulated in and circulated through the media. Through framing analysis, this study examines how the media portray disability and people with disabilities in a sample of Flemish print news and entertainment magazines. The study aims to understand the dominant and alternative frames related to disability by scrutinising which aspects of reality are selected, rejected, emphasised or modified in the …

  • Frozen 2

    Open AccessManuel Puppis, Hilde Van Den Bulck et al.ARTICLEJournal of Information Policy2020Citada por: 2Referencias: 9

    This contribution investigates how public funding of media can be reinterpreted to fit a communication rights–based approach to media policy. To this end, it describes and evaluates current public funding in small democratic-corporatist European media systems. While public funding is no longer “frozen” in its late twentieth-century state, as funding mechanisms have undergone significant change, when held against a rights-based approach, it appear…

  • Public Service Media in a Divided Country

    Open AccessKaren Donders, Hilde Van Den Bulck et al.CHAPTERPublic Service Broadcasting and…2019

  • Of lizards and ideological entrepreneurs

    Open AccessHilde Van Den Bulck, Aaron HyzenARTICLEInternational Communication Gazette2019Citada por: 8Referencias: 10

    This contribution analyses the nexus between contemporary US populist nationalism and the post-global media ecology through the case of US radio show host and ‘most paranoid man in America’ Alex Jones and his Infowars. It evaluates the role of Alt Right alternative/activist media and global digital platforms in the success of Jones as ideological entrepreneur. To this end, it looks at Jones’ and Infowars' message (mostly Falls Flag conspiracy the…

  • The politics of pleasing

    Open AccessKaren Donders, Hilde Van Den Bulck et al.ARTICLEMedia Culture & Society2019Citada por: 6Referencias: 25

    This article focuses on contributions and pitfalls of multistakeholder approaches to Public Service Media policymaking. It asks whether the inclusion of stakeholders effectively leads to more coherent and sustainable policies or whether it mainly serves as window dressing and as additional inroad for the private sector to lobby against Public Service Media. First, we discuss multistakeholderism on the basis of deliberative democracy research and …

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research

    Open AccessHilde Van Den Bulck, Manuel Puppis et al.BOOKThe Palgrave Handbook of Methods…2019

  • Separating the sex from the object

    Ann Rousseau, Steven Eggermont et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2018

    Media effects research has confirmed that sexualizing media exposure can negatively affect preteens’ body image and sexual development. While there is a link between sexualizing content and adverse outcomes such as self-objectification and body dissatisfaction, an interest in sexual media content is a normal part of healthy sexual development during the preteen years. Hence, research is needed that examines the variety in preteens’ sexual media d…

  • Celebrity Philanthropy and Activism

    Hilde Van Den BulckBOOKCelebrity Philanthropy and Activism2018

    In recent years, celebrity philanthropy and activism has attracted much attention from the media, sparking a great deal of public interest. As exponents and endorsers of the marketisation and corporatisation of philanthropy and activism, globally renowned super-celebrities habitually lend their name, time and energy to a range of causes. They help raise awareness, generate funds and endeavour to evoke social and political responses to crucial soc…