José van Dijck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

José van Dijck

Dutch media scholar

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1960

Place of Birth: Boxtel, North Brabant, Netherlands

Profession: university teacher, Dutch language specialist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Johanna Francisca Theodora Maria "José" van Dijck (15 November 1960 in Boxtel) is a new media author and a distinguished university professor in media and digital society at Utrecht University since 2017.
From 2001 to 2016 she was a professor of Comparative Media Studies where she was the former chair of the Department of Media Studies and former dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam.
She is the author of ten (co-)authored and (co-)edited books including Mediated Memory in the Digital Age; The Culture of Connectivity.
; and The Platform Society.
Public Values in a Connective World.
Since 2010 Van Dijck has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 2015 she was elected by Academy members as the president of the organisation and became the first woman to hold the position.In 2016 Dutch magazine Opzij named Van Dijck the most influential Dutch woman of 2016.