Are the media just one more environmental factor that can affect sleep, or are they something else entirely? This talk explores the extent to which our waking and sleeping lives have (or have not) changed by the introduction by consecutive innovation in the entertainment and communication media.

Jan Van den Bulck, PhD

Jan Van den Bulck, PhD, is Professor of Media Psychology at the University of Michigan, where he is also Director of the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences program.

Professor Van den Bulck is a pioneer in researching media and sleep; his research interests also include the unintended effects of media use on perceptions, attitudes, and behaviour, particularly how and what people learn about the real world from their exposure to fiction. He is the editor of the International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology (Wiley).