Welcome to the website of Elly A. Konijn, Ph.D. Senior Associate Professor Dept. of Communication Science Faculty of Social Sciences at VU University Amsterdam. Phone: +31(0)20 598 6839/-54 Fax: +31(0)20 598 6820 E-mail: ea.konijn@fsw.vu.nl Postal address: De Boelelaan 1081 1081 HV Amsterdam Visiting address: METROPOLITAN BUILDING Buitenveldertselaan 3 Room Z.512 Short bio Elly Konijn, senior associate professor in Communication Science at VU University Amsterdam, is a multidisciplinary scholar with a background in Psychology, Social Scientific Information Systems, and Media Studies. Elly Konijn also is: - Editor Media Psychology: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/15213269.asp - Vice chair of ICA's division Information Systems: http://www.icahdq.org/ - Lecturer at Amsterdam University College: http://www.auc.nl/auc - Research fellow CAMeRA (Center for Advanced Media Research Amsterdam): http://camera.vu.nl/ - Board member NESCoR (Netherlands School for Communication Research). Elly Konijn has been awarded the prize of the Faculty of Social Sciences for - the best researcher of 2009, by emiriti professors - the best lecturer of 2009, by the student council She studied at the University of Amsterdam, earned her PhD at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and was a visiting scholar at the City University of New York. She received a prestigeous ASPASIA grant to further explore the blurring borders between fiction and reality in contemporary media fare (including tv, film, internet, games). Her research focuses on processing information via media and the role of emotions therein. She publishes in major scientific journals (e.g., Media Psychology, Pediatrics, Developmental Psychology, Discourse Processes), serves on various editorial boards, wrote several books, recently published the edited volume “Mediated Interpersonal Communication” (Routledge, 2008), and currently co-edits the “Handbook on Emotions and Mass Media” (Routledge, 2010). Her field of interest is media psychology, especially to understand underlying mechanisms and individual differences in media uses and effects, emotion processes, perceived realism, and mediated interpersonal communication. She focuses on adolescents and adults, multimedia (e.g., tv, video games, serious games, internet), entertainment-education, and current developments in online virtual worlds.               © Copyright 2003-2010, E.A. Konijn Site development by M.E. Breuker, Information Management & Software Engineering, VU Amsterdam