Janelle Ward PhD

Assistant Professor

Biographical Note

Janelle Ward is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research interests include new media and political communication, particularly how information and communication technologies can be used to stimulate political engagement and participation.

In 2003, Janelle Ward received an MA in European Communication Studies from the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences (ISHSS), University of Amsterdam. She completed her PhD research in political communication at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) in 2008, and defended her dissertation entitled “Youth, Citizenship and Online Political Communication” on January 20, 2009. She joined the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University in September 2008.