Cees Hamelink

Cees Hamelink
Cees Hamelink
Born	Cees Jan Hamelink; 14 September 1940; Rotterdam, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Occupation	Professor
Academic background
Education	University of Amsterdam
Academic work
Institutions	University of Amsterdam; University of Aruba; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Cees Jan Hamelink (born 14 September 1940)[1] is a Dutch academic known for his work on communication, culture, and technology. He is emeritus professor of international communications and emeritus professor of media at the University of Amsterdam; professor in management information and knowledge at the University of Aruba; and professor of media, religion and culture at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

He was in a number of boards worldwide; chair of the Dutch League for Human Rights, chair of the Jan van Eyck Academie, honorary president of the International Association for Media and Communication Research and chair of Amsterdam World Jazz City 2014.

Hamelink wrote over seventeen book on communication, culture and technology. Among which best sellers as "The Technology Gamble", "The Politics of World Communication" and "The Ethics of Cyberspace". He is considered to be the first scholar outside of the United States to use and conceptualize the notion of information literacy in "An Alternative to News" (1976), a short text proposing a critical conception of literacy along the lines of brazilian educator Paulo Freire.[2]

Next to all this he is a passionate jazz musician. As a bassist he played in the trio with Louis van Dijk. Since 2008 he plays with Tamara Hoekwater in the Bourgondisch Combo, performing in the Netherlands and abroad. On 3 October 2014 they launched their CD I said yes in the Faculty Club of the University of Amsterdam.

Publications

Global Communication, London, 2014
Media and Conflict, Escalating Evil, 2011
Regeert de leugen?: mediaplichtigheid aan leugen en bedrog, Amsterdam, 2004
Human Rights for Communicators, 2003
(in Dutch) De leugen regeert: over leugen en bedrog in de informatiesamenleving, tekst inaugurele rede Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2002
The Ethics of Cyberspace, Londen, 2000, vertaling van Digitaal fatsoen: mensenrechten in cyberspace uit 1999
(in Dutch) Digitaal fatsoen: mensenrechten in cyberspace, Amsterdam, 1999
The Politics of World Communication, 1994
(in Dutch) Internationale communicatie: arena van internationale conflicten, tekst inaugurele rede Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1984
(in Dutch) Informatie en macht: over de samenhang tussen de toegang tot informatie en de uitoefening van maatschappelijke macht, Baarn, 1984
(in Dutch) De computersamenleving, Baarn, 1980
(in Dutch) Derde wereld en culturele emancipatie, Baarn, 1978
(in Dutch) De mythe van de vrije informatie, Baarn, 1978
Perspectives for public communication: a study of the churches' participation in public communication, proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam, Baarn, 1975

References

Prof. dr. C.J. Hamelink, 1940 at the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum.
Whitworth, Andrew (27 August 2014). Radical information literacy : reclaiming the political heart of the IL movement. Oxford. ISBN 978-1-78063-429-6. OCLC 889955879.

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[1] Prof. dr. C.J. Hamelink, 1940 at the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum.

[2] Whitworth, Andrew (27 August 2014). Radical information literacy : reclaiming the political heart of the IL movement. Oxford. ISBN 978-1-78063-429-6. OCLC 889955879.