Peter van den Besselaar

Head of the Social Sciences Department, and director of the Steinmetz Archive (the Netherlands social sciences survey data archive) at NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor of communication studies at the University of Amsterdam; a special chair in e-social science.

His research program covers the following two areas:

• The design, opportunities and risks of complex ICT based infrastructures, such as community media, and systems for e-government and e-democracy.
• ICTs and new media in the production, communication and use of knowledge (e-social science).

Current activities:

• The second Communities and Technologies Conference Milano, Italy, June 13-16, 2005.
• The Information Society Journal.
• The Journal of Community Informatics.
• AI and Society Journal.

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