| Conference Presentations
2025
Between Restoration and Transformation in Pennsylvania’s Nonprofit News Ecosystem. IAMCR July 13-17, 2025 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. (Berman, D.E., Hyzen, A., & Pickard V.)
Capture and Corruption. Paper forth coming at the Union for Democratic Communications, June 19-22, 2025 | Tacoma, United States. (Hyzen, A.)
Between Restoration and Transformation in Pennsylvania’s Nonprofit News Ecosystem. Paper forth coming at the Union for Democratic Communications, June 19-22, 2025 | Tacoma, United States. (Berman, D.E., Hyzen, A., & Pickard V.)
Epistemic Welfare, Public Service Media and Artificial Intelligence: A Framework to Guide Value-Driven Algorithmic Recommender Systems. Paper forth coming at the ICA Conference, June 12-16, 2025 | Denver, United States. (Van den Bulck, H., Hyzen, A., Külig, M., Puppis, M., Paulussen, S.)
2024
An Epistemic Welfare Framework for European Media Policy. Paper presented at the Workshop of the Network Media Structures, November 7-8, 2024 | Salzburg. (Külig, M., Puppis, M., Van den Bulck, H., Hyzen, A., Paulussen, S.)
Epistemic Welfare as Theoretical Framework and Actionable Program: The Case of Algorithmic Recommender Systems. Paper presented at the Epistemic Challenges and Democratic Accountability in European Media Conference, October 24-25, 2024 | Helsinki. (Van den Bulck, H., Hyzen, A., Külig, M., Puppis, M., Paulussen, S.)
Untouched minds in a tangled web: Navigating ‘epistemic welfare’ amidst digital propaganda. Paper presented at the ECREA 2024 Communication & social (dis)order conference. September 24-27, 2024 | Ljubljana. (Hyzen, A. & Yildirim, E.)
Epistemic welfare and the digital public sphere: Creating conditions for epistemic agency and out of the epistemic crisis. Paper presented at the ECREA 2024 Communication & social (dis)order conference. September 24-27, 2025 | Ljubljana. (Hyzen, A., Külig, M., Paulussen, S., Puppis, M. & Van den Bulck, H.).
An Epistemic Welfare Framework for European Media Policy. Paper presented at the Workshop of the Network Media Structures, November 7-8, 2024 | Salzburg. (Külig, M., Puppis, M., Van den Bulck, H., Hyzen, A., Paulussen, S.)
Algorithmic recommender systems for public service media from an epistemic welfare perspective: Matching epistemic standards and public service values. Paper presented at the RIPE@ conference, May 16-18, 2024 | Lisbon. (Van den Bulck, H., Külig, M., Hyzen, A., Puppis, M., Paulussen, S.)
Out of the crisis: epistemic welfare in a digitized media ecology. Presentation for the UCD (University College Dublin) Clinton Institute conference: Epistemic Crisis: Journalism, Academia and the Production of Knowledge. March 7-8, 2024 | Dublin. (Hyzen, A., Külig, M., Paulussen, S., Puppis, M. & Van den Bulck, H.)
2023
Algorithms, epistemic wellbeing and epistemic welfare: A new framework to understand governance of recommender systems. Paper for the ECREA Communication Law and Policy Workshop Digital Platform Policy Spring? Promises and Trajectories for Digital Platform Regulation. November 2-3, 2023 | Saltzburg. (Hyzen, A., Külig, M., Paulussen, S., Puppis, M. & Van den Bulck, H.)
Understanding the impact of AI in media and communication through the concepts of epistemic wellbeing and epistemic welfare. Paper for the ECREA Philosophy of Communication Workshop Philosophical Challenges, New Communication Theories. October, 26-27, 2023 | Barcelona. (Hyzen, A., Külig, M., Paulussen, S., Puppis, M. & Van den Bulck, H.)
2022
Towards the truth, away from the truth: Operationalizing propaganda for the 21st century. Paper presented at the ECC conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association ECREA, September 19-October 2, 2022 | Aarhus. (Hyzen, A.).
Leaks and Lawfare: Adding a legal filter to the Herman & Chomsky model. Full paper. Paper presented at the ICA conference, May 26-30, 2022 | Paris. (Hyzen, A.)
2021
Three sides of the same coin? Matching audience, stakeholder and government expectations of PSM’s role in market and society. Paper presented at the RIPE@2021 Conference, September 27-28, 2021 | Online. (Van den Bulck, H., Raats, T., Minnebo, J. & Hyzen, A.)
Propaganda revisited: Theorizing propaganda for the 21st Century. Paper presented at the ECC conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association ECREA, September 6-9, 2021 | Online. (Hyzen, A.)
Conspiracies, ideological entrepreneurs and popular culture from a media ecology perspective. Paper presented at the Media Ecology Association annual conference, July 8-11, 2021 | Online. (Van den Bulck, H. & Hyzen, A.).
Herman & Chomsky model: adding a legal filter? Extended Abstract presented at the ICA conference, May 27-31, 2021 | Online. (Hyzen, A.)
2020
If the earth was flat, how would it wear its pants?’: Meme culture and the mainstreaming of the Flat Earth Conspiracy., Paper presented at the Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, February 6-7, 2020 | Amsterdam. (Hyzen, A. & Van den Bulck, H.)
2019
Populist ideological entrepreneurs and remix culture: Alex Jones as celebrity populist or populist celebrity? Paper presented at the IAMCR conference, July 7-11, 2019 | (Van den Bulck, H. & Hyzen, A.)
Promises and Threats: Elon Musk and the representation of Artificial Intelligence in a sample of US Media, Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, February 7-8, 2019 | Nijmege. (Hyzen, A.)
2018
Of lizards and men: Infowars’ Alex Jones and the articulation of fandom and anti-fandom in the celebrity – populism nexus. Paper presented at the Conference of the Celebrity Studies Journal, June 25-29, 2018 | Rome. (Hyzen, A & Van den Bulck, H.)
Alex Jones and Infowars in the nexus between populism and post-global media’. Paper presented at the ICA conference, May 23-29, 2018 | Prague. (Van den Bulck, H. & Hyzen, A.)