prof. dr. Elly Konijn

Full Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Communication Science

Full Professor, Network Institute

Full Professor, Research Programmes - Social Sciences, Communication Choices, Content and Consequences (CCCC)

Personal information

Elly A. Konijn (Ph.D. 1994) is a full professor in Media Psychology at the Department of Communication Science and a Fenna Diemer-Lindeboom endowed chair at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is the initiator and chair of the program Media Psychology Amsterdam at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Research

Her scientific research program focuses on three main lines:

Relating to media figures, virtual humans, and social robots. Read more
Emotions and media-based reality perceptions (e.g., social reality perceptions shaped through media use, including moral standards). Read more
Media use among adolescents (e.g., cyberbullying, violent video game effects, thin-body ideal, self-presentation). Read more

In each domain, she has published in major scientific journals (read more)

Documentaries

Professional documentaries based on research of Elly Konijn:

Acteurs Spelen Emoties / Actors Acting Emotions (NPS/ K. ter Braak, 1995; 2011)
Ik ben Alice / Alice Cares (Doxy/ Burger, 2015) -- About a humanoid robot visiting elderly.
National TV-broadcast prime-time news for children about robot tutor, “Jeugdjournaal” (2016): http://jeugdjournaal.nl/artikel/2080809-robot-geeft-rekenlessen.html
"Leren leren leren" / New techology in the future of education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HrHeRYcKpM . Link to the website of underlying research: https://stt.nl/nieuws/premiere-stt-documentaire-leren-leren-leren/
Forthcoming: Documentary Series ‘Man 2.0’ (working title) about AI and future society (by Kepach Prod., Italy, Dir. M. Brega & G. Zaninotto).