Netherlands

Jos de Haan is head of the Care, Emancipation and Time Use research sector at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research | SCP and Professor of ICT, Culture and Knowledge Society at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). Areas of expertise: digital skills, e-culture, youth, sociology, new media.

Annemarie Wennekers  is a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP), where she studies the role of media and technology in society. Her research projects include a comprehensive time-use study on media use in the Netherlands. Annemarie has a background in social psychology (MSc./Ph.D.) and communication science (persuasive communication).

Dr Marjolijn Antheunis is an Assistant Professor at the Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Her research interests focus on social aspects of the internet in general, and online friendship formation and online impression formation specifically.

Susanne Baumgartner is Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, ASCoR, at the University of Amsterdam. As a member of the Center for Research on Children, Adolescents, and the Media, she investigates adolescents' risk behavior on the internet (www.ccam-ascor.nl).

Simone van der Hof is full Professor of Law and the Information Society at Leiden University and researches online child safety and children's rights. She is project leader of a multi-disciplinary project on cyberbullying, a collaboration with Professor Patti Valkenburg (Amsterdam University) and Proessor. Catholijn Jonker (Delft University).

Els Kuiper is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. She graduated in educational science. Her research interests focus on the use of technology in education, in particular the way in which education can contribute to the critical use of the internet by children.  

Peter Nikken is Professor of Media, Children and Parents at Erasmus University Rotterdam and senior researcher at the Netherlands Youth Institute. His research focuses on the intermediate role of parents and professional educators on children's media use. He has published popular and academic reports on children and media, and is a consultant for several organisations, including Kijkwijzer and PEGI.

Natascha Notten works as an Associate Professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Her research interests include social stratification in various domains (e.g. media use, cultural consumption, health and educational inequalities), and more specifically, causes and consequences of parental media socialisation. She has published her research in several international and Dutch journals.

Marc Verboord is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on cultural consumption patterns, cultural socialisation, classification of cultural products, media use, and the Internet's impact on the social valuation of cultural products.