José Van Dijck is Professor of Media and Digital Society at Utrecht University. She is an internationally renowned researcher, focusing on how digital media and platforms affect society and individuals. She combines humanities and social science approaches, and em-phasizes critical theory development.
She addresses questions of what a digital society is, what power global platforms have, and how they should be regulated. She explores and challenges our understanding of the impact of a digi-tal society on key values such as privacy, security, tolerance, justice, equality and autonomy.
Van Dijck is an editorial board member of some of the major international journals in her field, and her many visiting professorships include universities such as MIT, Cambridge, Georgia Tech, Concordia Montreal, University of Technology at Sydney, and Stockholm University.
She holds the NWO's (Dutch Research Council) Spinoza Award, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Lund University in 2019.
UiO's honorary doctoral degrees
Honorary doctoral degrees of UiO (Doctor Honoris Causa) are given to prominent academics. The degrees are awarded without a thesis defence/disputation.
UiO has been entitled to appoint honorary doctorates since 1824, and appointments usually occur every three years.
The honorary doctors are conferred at UiO's Annual Celebration on 2 September.