Jos de Haan PhD

Professor

Biographical Note

Jos de Haan (1960) is Professor of ICT, Culture and Knowledge Society at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a senior researcher at the Social and Cultural Planning Office (SCP) in The Hague. Currently, he chairs the SCP Department of Time, Media and Culture Research. He received his PhD from Utrecht University in 1994 with a thesis about research groups in Dutch sociology.

Jos de Haan has published widely on developments in cultural participation and media use in the Netherlands and other Western countries. His present research focuses on the diffusion and consequences of ICT, media use and cultural participation. In the field of ICT, he has published on the digital divide, the consequences of ICT for our lifestyles and the acquistion of digital skills among high school students. He also serves as the editor of the Dutch Yearbook ICT en Samenleving (ICT and Society), of which the first issue was published in the spring of 2003.