prof.dr. MNM (Marc) Verboord

Biography

Marc Verboord is professor of Media and Society at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC), Erasmus University Rotterdam.

His research is situated at the intersection of cultural and media sociology, communication science, and journalism studies. His expertise concerns sociological aspects of media consumption, societal impacts of digitalization and new media, media and trust, and cultural legitimation. 

Marc Verboord received his PhD in Sociology from Utrecht University in 2003, at the Interuniversity Centre of Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS). His dissertation examined the influence of literary education and parental socialization on the reading of fiction books in the period 1975-2000. He worked in various research projects, including Cultural Canons and Cultural Capacities (as postdoc, 2003-2004), Cultural Classification Systems in Transition (as postdoc, 2004-2008), and Cultural Value in the Age of the Internet (main researcher, 2011-2016). Between 2020 and 2023, he was Board member and researcher in the H2020-project INVENT: European Inventory of Societal Values of Culture as a Basis for Inclusive Cultural Policies in the Globalizing World, a comparative research project in nine European countries. His current research project focuses on the relationship between media use, journalistic authority, and institutional trust.

He has published in more than 40 peer-reviewed scholarly journals including American Sociological Review, New Media & Society, American Behavioral Scientist, Information, Communication & Society, European Sociological Review, European Journal of Communication, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Poetics, International Journal of Press/Politics, and PLOS One. He is member of the Editorial board of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts, for which he served as co-Editor-in-Chief between 2015 and 2021. An overview of his research can be found at Google Scholar, an overview of editor and reviewer activities here.

He teaches in the International BA in Communication and Media (IBCoM), the MA Media Studies and the research master Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts. Between 2020 and 2023, he served as head of the department of Media & Communication at ESHCC. In 2018 he was visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen in the department of Media, Cognition and Communication.