Publications
The art of attracting attention: a process model of chinese toubu vloggers’ strategies to create online identities and self-brands Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Audience views on professional norms of journalism. A media repertoire approach. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The media for democracy monitor 2021. How leading news media survive digital transformation 2 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Media as the great emancipators? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Do I see or not? A study on the impact of placement on program consumption in an on-demand environment Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Reach or Trust Optimisation? A Citizen Trust Analysis in the Flemish Public Broadcaster VRT Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In democracies, one of Public Service Media’s (PSM) main roles is to inform the public. In a digital news ecosystem, where commercial, citizen, and alternative news sources have multiplied, questions about the ability and need for PSM to fulfil this role are increasingly being raised. While the role of PSM can and should be scrutinized, a too-narrow a focus on an informed citizenry may obfuscate aspects, other than audience reach and ...
Innovation Beyond the Buzzwords: The Rocky Road Towardsa Digital First-based Newsroom Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this paper, we report on an 18-month ethnographic field study inside the newsroom of a popular newspaper in Belgium, chronicling the endeavours of editors and journalists as they shift from a classic division between print and online beats to an integrated digital first-based newsroom. Throughout the paper, we stress the messiness and contingencies of changing the fixed structures of working journalists who are forced to undergo radical ...