
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- Room
- M8-43
- nikken@eshcc.eur.nl
Profile
Peter Nikken is Endowed Professor on Parental Mediation in the Department of media and Communication at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
His research interests is focused on the intermediate role of parents and professional educators for children’s media use. More specifically, Peter Nikken looks at how parents and co-educators experience the presence of media in the child’s environment and how their educational and care-giving strategies are related to the child’s development. Moreover, he also looks at how the media-industry affects parenting by either supporting parents and co-educators in their mediation practices or by creating problems for parenting.
Peter Nikken has published widely both popular and academic reports on children, young people and media in the Netherlands and abroad. In addition, he has also given many presentations on children and media regarding media violence, advertising, children's TV broadcasting policy, and sex in the media. He is an academic consultant for several organisations, including Kijkwijzer and PEGI (the age-rating classification systems for media productions), Kennisnet/Mijn Kind Online, and the Dutch Media Authority (CvdM).
Peter Nikken is also a senior researcher at the Netherlands Youth Institute (NJi) in Utrecht and Lector in Child and media studies at Windesheim university for applied science, Zwolle. He received his PhD from Leiden University in 1999 with a thesis on quality standards for children's television.
- Peter Nikken (2018) - Correction to: Parents’ Instrumental use of Media in Childrearing: Relationships with Confidence in Parenting, and Health and Conduct Problems in Children - Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28 (2), 611-612 - doi: 10.1007/s10826-018-1296-9 - [link]
- Peter Nikken (2018) - Parents’ Instrumental use of Media in Childrearing: Relationships with Confidence in Parenting, and Health and Conduct Problems in Children - Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28 (2), 531-546 - doi: 10.1007/s10826-018-1281-3 - [link]
- Peter Nikken & Suzanna Opree (2018) - Guiding young children’s digital media use: SES-differences in mediation concerns and competence - Journal of Child and Family Studies, 27 (6), 1844-1857 - doi: 10.1007/s10826-018-1018-3 - [link]
- Peter Nikken & J Haan (2018) - Guiding young children’s internet usage at home: Problems that parents experience in their parental mediation and the need for parenting support - Cyberpsychology: journal of psychosocial research in cyberspace, 9 (1) - doi: 10.5817/CP2015-1-3. - [link]
- Peter Nikken (2018) - Young children growing up in a media-saturated environment: The Dutch situation - [link]
- Peter Nikken (2017) - Implications of low or high media use among parents on young children’s media use - Cyberpsychology: journal of psychosocial research in cyberspace, 11 (3) - doi: 10.5817/CP2017-3-1 - [link]
- Peter Nikken (2017) - Commentary: The need for evidence based parenting support
- Peter Nikken (2017) - Determinanten van het zelfstandig en gezamenlijk gebruik van print- en beeldschermmedia door kinderen van 0 tot en met 6 jaar - Pedagogiek, 37 (3), 199-225 - doi: 10.5117/PED2017.3.NIKK - [link]
- Peter Nikken (2017) - Parental mediation of media - doi: 10.1002/9781118783764.wbieme0204
- M Vergeer & Peter Nikken (2016) - Media en kinderen met een LVB: Een analyse van wat er al is en wat nog nodig is om kinderen met een LVB te includeren bij mediawijsheid
- Peter Nikken (2018) - Instrumental use of media technology in childrearing: Relationships with trust in parenting
- Peter Nikken (2015) - Keynote Kinderen en media: De professional aan zet
- Peter Nikken (2013) - Keynote Media-pedagogiek in de 21e eeuw; heeft het nut om je daar in te verdiepen?
- Peter Nikken (2012) - Keynote Schadelijke effecten van media op minderjarige
Master Class
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Course Code
- CM4500
Master Thesis
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Course Code
- CM5000
Media, Children and Parents
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-3
- Course Code
- CM2025