Pieter Ballon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4208802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pieter Ballon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pieter |
| FAMILY NAME | Ballon |
| SIGNATURE | BALLON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6066-3242 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A taxonomy of business models for data intermediaries
Data sovereignty in personal data mobility ecosystems
The European Commission's approach to mergers involving software-based platforms
We’re in This Together
News recommenders are attracting widespread interest in scholarly work. The current research paradigm, however, holds a narrow (mostly user-centered) perspective on the recommendation task. This makes it difficult to understand that their design is in fact the result of a negotiation process among multiple actors involved, such as editors, business executives, technologists and users. To remedy this, a multi-stakeholder recommendation paradigm ha…
Mediated by Code
Amid the widespread diffusion of digital communication technologies, our cities are at a critical juncture as these technologies are entering all aspects of urban life. Data-driven technologies help citizens to navigate the city, find friends, or discover new places. While these technology-mediated activities come in scope of scholarly research, we lack an understanding of the underlying curation mechanisms that select and present the particular …
Becoming the Data-Informed Newsroom? The Promotion of Audience Metrics in the Newsroom and Journalists’ Interactions with Them
In this article, we assess the interactions between user metrics and journalists, as newsrooms shift towards “data-informed” models in which the main online news performance indicator becomes the “time spent” metric, instead of the number of clicks. The paper at hand applies a mixed methods approach combining components of ethnographic participant observation inside the newsroom of a leading Belgian newspaper, and a quantitative analysis of the m…
Dissecting news diversity
News diversity is increasingly gaining momentum and relevance in academic research, but quantifying and qualifying the term remains problematic. This paper presents the results of a structured meta-synthesis literature review, in which all relevant publications dealing explicitly with news diversity, media diversity or content diversity of the 21st century found on Scopus ( n = 61) are coded and analysed. Findings reveal that studies dealing with…
International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society
A Typology of Media Innovations
The concept and phenomenon of media innovation is gaining some attention in the academic community, policy circles and among practitioners. However, the phenomenon is still poorly defined and not well understood. This paper therefore first analyses how media innovation is framed in the literature on media economics and media management. Then it considers to what extent the standard analysis of innovation could be applied to the media field, consi…
The Impact of Convergence on the Competitiveness of the European Consumer Electronics Industry
Consumer Electronics (CE) encompass all electronic hardware and software products and systems, fixed or mobile, intended for purchase by large numbers of private consumers, enabling them access to services, functions and content at their discretion. Today, the CE industry, as it goes rapidly digital, is in the midst of a new wave of change. The different worlds of television, telephone and data processing are beginning to share similar technologi…
Dissecting news diversity
News diversity is increasingly gaining momentum and relevance in academic research, but quantifying and qualifying the term remains problematic. This paper presents the results of a structured meta-synthesis literature review, in which all relevant publications dealing explicitly with news diversity, media diversity or content diversity of the 21st century found on Scopus ( n = 61) are coded and analysed. Findings reveal that studies dealing with…
Becoming the Data-Informed Newsroom? The Promotion of Audience Metrics in the Newsroom and Journalists’ Interactions with Them
In this article, we assess the interactions between user metrics and journalists, as newsrooms shift towards “data-informed” models in which the main online news performance indicator becomes the “time spent” metric, instead of the number of clicks. The paper at hand applies a mixed methods approach combining components of ethnographic participant observation inside the newsroom of a leading Belgian newspaper, and a quantitative analysis of the m…
We’re in This Together
News recommenders are attracting widespread interest in scholarly work. The current research paradigm, however, holds a narrow (mostly user-centered) perspective on the recommendation task. This makes it difficult to understand that their design is in fact the result of a negotiation process among multiple actors involved, such as editors, business executives, technologists and users. To remedy this, a multi-stakeholder recommendation paradigm ha…
The Impact of Convergence on the Competitiveness of the European Consumer Electronics Industry
Consumer Electronics (CE) encompass all electronic hardware and software products and systems, fixed or mobile, intended for purchase by large numbers of private consumers, enabling them access to services, functions and content at their discretion. Today, the CE industry, as it goes rapidly digital, is in the midst of a new wave of change. The different worlds of television, telephone and data processing are beginning to share similar technologi…
A Typology of Media Innovations
The concept and phenomenon of media innovation is gaining some attention in the academic community, policy circles and among practitioners. However, the phenomenon is still poorly defined and not well understood. This paper therefore first analyses how media innovation is framed in the literature on media economics and media management. Then it considers to what extent the standard analysis of innovation could be applied to the media field, consi…
International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society
Dissecting news diversity
News diversity is increasingly gaining momentum and relevance in academic research, but quantifying and qualifying the term remains problematic. This paper presents the results of a structured meta-synthesis literature review, in which all relevant publications dealing explicitly with news diversity, media diversity or content diversity of the 21st century found on Scopus ( n = 61) are coded and analysed. Findings reveal that studies dealing with…
Mediated by Code
Amid the widespread diffusion of digital communication technologies, our cities are at a critical juncture as these technologies are entering all aspects of urban life. Data-driven technologies help citizens to navigate the city, find friends, or discover new places. While these technology-mediated activities come in scope of scholarly research, we lack an understanding of the underlying curation mechanisms that select and present the particular …
Becoming the Data-Informed Newsroom? The Promotion of Audience Metrics in the Newsroom and Journalists’ Interactions with Them
In this article, we assess the interactions between user metrics and journalists, as newsrooms shift towards “data-informed” models in which the main online news performance indicator becomes the “time spent” metric, instead of the number of clicks. The paper at hand applies a mixed methods approach combining components of ethnographic participant observation inside the newsroom of a leading Belgian newspaper, and a quantitative analysis of the m…
The European Commission's approach to mergers involving software-based platforms
We’re in This Together
News recommenders are attracting widespread interest in scholarly work. The current research paradigm, however, holds a narrow (mostly user-centered) perspective on the recommendation task. This makes it difficult to understand that their design is in fact the result of a negotiation process among multiple actors involved, such as editors, business executives, technologists and users. To remedy this, a multi-stakeholder recommendation paradigm ha…
Data sovereignty in personal data mobility ecosystems
A taxonomy of business models for data intermediaries
Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · ICT Impact and Policies (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Conceptual framework (2 works)