[Air-L] Announcing AoIR 2016 Keynote: José van Dijck

[Cornelius Puschmann]

We are thrilled to announce that José van Dijck (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_van_Dijck) will hold the opening
keynote at AoIR 2016 in Berlin.

José van Dijck is a professor of Comparative Media Studies at the
University of Amsterdam. Her research areas include media technologies,
digital culture, social media, popularisation of science and medicine, and
television and culture. Her latest book, titled The Culture of
Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media, was published by Oxford
University Press (2013). She is currently writing a book on the role of
online platforms in the public sphere.

After completing her BA and MA at the University of Utrecht, José received
a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, San
Diego (UCSD, 1992). Her graduate and postgraduate work was supported by
Fulbright and AAUW  grants. She was an assistant professor of Journalism at
the University of Groningen (NL) and an associate professor of media and
visual culture at the University of Maastricht (NL). In 2001, she became a
professor at the Department of Media Studies at the University of
Amsterdam, where she was chair from 2002-2007. She served as Dean of
Humanities from 2008 to 2011. She was elected President of the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.

We greatly look forward to her critical interrogation of the conference
theme, INTERNET RULES!

Best wishes,

Cornelius Puschmann, AoIR 2016 program chair
http://aoir.org/aoir2016/

-- 
Dr. Cornelius Puschmann
Postdoctoral Researcher (DFG)
Berlin School of Library and Information Science (BSLIS)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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10117 Berlin, Germany
www.ibi.hu-berlin.de

Research Associate
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
Oberwallstraße 9
10117 Berlin, Germany
www.hiig.de

Faculty Associate
Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
23 Everett Street, Second Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
cyber.law.harvard.edu

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