Publications

van Es, K., & Iordache, C. (2025). Interface real estate: Amazon Prime and visibility politics. Critical Studies in Television, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020251375211 

Van der Elst, P., Iordache, C., & Raats, T. (2025). Catching the waves: The case of VRT’s digital-first audio strategy. European Journal of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231251370877 

Iordache, C., Leiva, M. T. G., & Raats, T. (2025). Close Contact for Context: Qualitative Methodological Considerations for Assessing Prominence and Discoverability. Media Industries, 12(1), 111-132. https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/id/7625/

Van der Elst, P., Afilipoaie, A., & Raats, T. (2025). Challenges and requirements for implementing due prominence: aligning stakeholder interests in Flanders. Frontiers in Communication, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1569132

Van den Bulck, H., Horowitz, M., & Raats, T. (2025). Rethinking Transparency in Public Service Media: a multidimensional framework for better governance. Frontiers in Communication, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1569363

Lefèvre, B., Errando, A., Afilipoaie, A., Ranaivoson, H., & Wiart, L. (2025). Exploring ethical and regulatory challenges of AI integration in European Union newsrooms. Media Studies, 16(31), 31-55.

Smets, A. Intended, afforded, and experienced serendipity: overcoming the paradox of artificial serendipity. Ethics Inf Technol 27, 33 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-025-09841-6

Binst, B., Michiels, L. & Smets, A., 2025, (Accepted/In press).What is Serendipity? An Interview Study to Conceptualize Experienced Serendipity in Recommender Systems. Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization 

Iordache, C., Martin, D., & Johnson, C. (2025). Public service algorithms: Balancing the scales between public mission and market pressures at the BBC and VRT. MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 40(78), 59-80. https://doi.org/10.7146/mk.v40i78.147182

Bruun, H., Johnson, C., Lassen, J. M., Nucci, A., Raats, T., & Świtkowski, F. (2025). Publishing public service media on demand: A comparative study of public service media companies’ editorial practices on their VoD services in the age of platformization. Journal of Digital Media & Policy.

Iordache, C. et al. (2024). People, personalisation, prominence:  A framework for analysing the PSM shift to digital portals and interrogating universality across contexts. International Journal of Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779241296556

Maes, U., Michiels, L. & Smets, A., (8 Oct 2024). GenUI(ne) CRS: UI Elements and Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Conversational Recommender Systems with LLMs. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Bari: ACM, p. 1177-1179