Joyce Neys graduated cum laude in 2007 at the University of Amsterdam, Research Master Communication Science. Besides a general interest in research methodology, her main area of research focuses on new media and its users and producers.
Between 2007 and 2008 she worked at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The project she worked on was called: Pleasure and Pain in Gaming in which she collaborated with Prof. Dr. Ed Tan (ASCoR) and Prof. Dr Jeroen Jansz (Eramsus University Rotterdam). She presented several papers at both national and international conferences and has published in the European Journal of Communication.
From September 2010 onwards she is a PhD student at Media & Communication where she is working on her project Empowered Citizens: How new media facilitate civic engagement together with Prof.Dr. Jeroen Jansz. A first study focused on online political video games and their facilitating function concerning political citizenship. Currently, she is working on a study that looks at (producers and users of) video mash-ups and how these practices relate to do-it-yourself citizenship.
In 2010-2011 she will be teaching the following courses: Introduction to Human Communication, Introduction to Statistical Analysis, and the research workshop Cross-National Comparative research. |
