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José van Dijck is a professor of Comparative Media Studies  at the University of Amsterdam.

After completing her BA and MA at the University of Utrecht , she received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her graduate and postgraduate work was supported by Fulbright and AAUW  grants. She was an assistant professor of Journalism atthe University of Groningen (NL) and an associateprofessor of media and visual culture at the University of Maastricht (NL). In 2001, she became a professor at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where she was chair from 2002-2007. She served as Dean of Humanities from 2008 to 2011. 

Van Dijck was a visiting professor at Concordia University (Montreal); she was also a visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the Science and Technology program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Cambridge), and in the School for Literature, Science and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta). In 2005, she was the Walker Ames honorary lecturer at the University of Washington (Seattle). During the Spring semester of 2012, she was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney (AUS).

Van Dijck's research areas include media and science, media technologies, digital culture, popularisation of science and medicine, and television and culture. Her latest book, Mediated Memories in the Digital Age was published by Stanford University Press. Her forthcoming book on social media, tentatively titled  The Culture of Connectivity. Social media and the Engineering of Everyday Life will be published by Oxford University Press later this year.