About
Fellow of the International Communication Association
As a social scientist with a PhD from the University of Leuven in Belgium (1996), Jan Van den Bulck is interested in involuntary and incidental media effects. He has studied how the entertainment media, in general, and fiction, in particular, affect our perception of the real world. Much of his work in this area has been tied to cultivation theory. He is particularly interested in how TV viewing affects our knowledge of violence, the world of law enforcement, health, and emergency medicine. As an epidemiologist with a DSc from the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (2006), he is also interested in the health effects of media use. His research in this field has focused on the effects of media use on various eating and exercise behaviors, but in recent years, he has mainly studied the relationship between media use and sleep. Jan Van den Bulck has studied the effects of media on adult and young populations. The rapid changes in media hardware and content mean that studying the effects of the media is in constant flux. The methodological problems of studying new and established uses of new and old media are, therefore, inextricably tied to any research on their effects.
LAB: https://prod.lsa.umich.edu/comm/research/research-groups/m2e2.html
Bibliography: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LlAHX4kAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
