Jan Van den Bulck

Professor

jvdbulck@umich.edu

Office Information:

5369 North Quad
105 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285
phone: 734.615.4038

Media Psychology; Communication and Media; Department Administration

Education/Degree:

D.Sc in Epidemiology 2006, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
PhD in Social Sciences 1996, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
MA in Political Science 1989, University of Hull, England
MA in Communication Science 1987, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
BA in Social and Political Sciences 1985, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

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.

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