Valerie Frissen

Valerie Frissen, 2009

Valerie Alice Josepha Frissen (* 1960 in Puth bei Schinnen , Province of Limburg ) is a Dutch communication scientist.

After studying anthropology and communication science , she did her doctorate in 1992 at the Catholic Radboud University in Nijmegen on the phenomenon of the so-called couch potato in the Netherlands. She then lectured at the University of Amsterdam for eight years before accepting a position in the field of information and communication technology development at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) in 1999. There she headed a project that examined the social effects of information and communication technologies on social coexistence and their effects on politics.

Since 2003 she has been Associate Professor of Information and Communication Technology and Social Change (ICT en Sociale verandering) at the Philosophical Faculty of the Erasmus University Rotterdam .

Publications

• Brants, K., & Frissen, V. (2000). Inclusion and exclusion in the Information Society. Final Deliverable to the European Media and Technology Everyday Life Network, 2003.
• Frissen, V. (1995). Gender is calling: Some reflections on past, present and future uses of the telephone. The gender technology relation.
• Frissen, V. (1996). Gender, ICTs and Everyday Life. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.
• Frissen, V. (1997). Gender, ITCs and Everyday Life: Mutual Shaping Processes: European Commission.
• Frissen, V. (2000). Under construction. Personal identity in culturele identiteit in het multimediatijdperk. Infodrome.
• Frissen, V. (2001). De schaduwdemocratie: ICT en maatschappelijke participatie: sn
• Frissen, V. (2004). De domesticatie van de digital wereld: Erasmus Universteit.
• Frissen, V., & de Mul, J. (2000). Under construction: persoonlijke en culturele identiteit in het multimediatijdperk: Infodrome.
• Frissen, V., & Punie, Y. (2001). Present users, future homes - A theoretical perspective on acceptance and use of ICT in the home environment: TNO rapport STB-01-30a. Delft: TNO.
• Frissen, V., & Zaat-Jones, J. (1999). ICT en arbeid in het dagelijks leven: Rathenau Instituut.
• Servaes, J., & Frissen, V. (1997). De interpretatieve benadering in de communicatiewetenschap: theory, methodology and case studies: Acco.
• Van Audenhove, L., Cammaerts, B., Frissen, V., Engels, L., & Ponsioen, A. Transnational Civil Society in the Networked Society.

Web links

• Short biography and interview with Valerie Frissen (Dutch) (PDF file; 157 kB)
• Frissen in the Royal Library of the Netherlands