On Tuesday, 3 February, I spoke at the event “Grenzeloos Online? Leeftijdsverificatie en de Digitale Generatie” (Borderless Online? Age Verification and the Digital Generation), hosted by Offlimits. It was a lovely afternoon with interesting talks from Simone van der Hof Read More

Congrats to our Charge Your Brainzzz team for winning the Valorization Award of the Faculty of Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam! Sleep and health are so important, and we are proud that with Charge Your Brainzzz research, we can Read More

When the Journal of Children & Media launched, the digital society was just beginning. Gameboys topped holiday wish lists and TheFacebook was a novelty. I was in my early days of graduate school, trying to grasp this changing world. So Read More

During a (snowy … yes, snowy) visit to Brussels, I was humbled to deliver the keynote address for the 2024 Safer Internet Forum. During my talk, I focused on key actions and tools we can use to protect and empower Read More

Since 2021, I have been leading a team to develop a tool to monitor digital competence across the lifespan (project DIGCOM; see also dedigiq.nl), commisioned by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (MinBZK). As a follow-up to Read More

Officially launched in February 2021, Project DIGCOM represents a new collaboration between the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the UvA and the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (minBZK). This is an exciting two-year collaboration designed to assess Read More