Biography
Jeroen Jansz is Full Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He holds the Chair of Communication and Media in the Department of Media & Communication. He is a member of the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Culture, History & Society (ERMeCHS). He teaches in IBCoM, the International Bachelor's programme in Communication and Media as well as in the international MA Media, Culture and Society. From 2019-2024 he was the Academic Director of EUR's Community for Learning & Innovation where he and his team initiated and supported educational innovation. His research takes the ubiquity of the (digital) media landscape as a starting point and aims to understand and explain the changing relations between media consumers and media producers in contemporary participatory culture. This work includes research on interactive entertainment media, in particular video- and computer games. Together with Mijke Slot he developed the MOOC Serious Gaming on the Coursera platform that reached a massive number of participants. Outside academia, Jansz is the Chair of the Scientific Council for Media Literacy in the Netherlands and the Chair on the European Experts Board in PEGI.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Full professor | Department of Media and Communication
- jansz@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Xiaoyu Zhang, Delia Dumitrica & Jeroen Jansz (2024) - Naturalised athletes as national icons: official and netizen narratives of Eileen Gu in the 2022 Winter Olympics - Sport in Society - doi: 10.1080/17430437.2024.2438000 - [link]
- Yixiang Que, Teresa De La Hera & Jeroen Jansz (2024) - Dive Into the Past: Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Represented in Chinese Mobile Games - Media and Communication, 13 - doi: 10.17645/mac.8749
- Leonor Gaitán-Aguilar, Joep Hofhuis & Jeroen Jansz (2024) - A review of research on global citizenship in higher education: Towards a holistic approach - International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 102 - doi: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102050 - [link]
- Joep Hofhuis, Joran Jongerling & Jeroen Jansz (2024) - Who benefits from the international classroom? A longitudinal examination of multicultural personality development during one year of international higher education - Higher Education, 87 (4), 1043-1059 - doi: 10.1007/s10734-023-01052-6 - [link]
- Teresa De La Hera, Laura Cañete Sanz, Nuria Navarro Sierra, Jeroen Jansz, Julia Kneer, René Glas & Jasper van Vught (2024) - Digital literacy games: A systematic literature review - Frontiers in Communication, 9 - doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1407532
- Xiaoyu Zhang, Delia Dumitrica & Jeroen Jansz (2024) - Mapping Chinese Digital Nationalism: A Literature Review - International Journal of Communication, 18, 1891-1912 - [link]
- Jeroen Jansz, Teresa De La Hera, Julia Kneer, Laura Cañete Sanz, René Glas & Jasper van Vught (2023) - Effectief mediawijsheid en digitale geletterdheid vergroten met digitale games?: Inzichten en adviezen uit de wetenschap en het werkveld - [link]
- Jeroen Jansz (2023) - Online de toekomst tegemoet! Een pleidooi voor het vergroten van het online onderwijsaanbod - Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap, 51 (4), 414-421 - doi: 10.5117/tCW2023.4.004.JANs - [link]
- Roel O. Lutkenhaus, Hua Wang, Arvind Singhal, Jeroen Jansz & Martine P.A. Bouman (2022) - Using markers for digital engagement and social change: Tracking meaningful narrative exchange in transmedia edutainment with text analytics techniques - Digital Health, 8 - doi: 10.1177/20552076221107892 - [link]
- Joep Hofhuis, J Jongerling & Jeroen Jansz (2022) - Who benefits from the international classroom?: A longitudinal examination of multicultural personality development in international higher education - [link]
- Joep Hofhuis, Joran J. Jongerling & Jeroen Jansz (3 september 2024) - Elsevier: Onderwijsminister Eppo Bruins wil bezuinigingsklap dempen: ‘Ik ga knokken voor de universiteiten’
- Joep Hofhuis, J Jongerling & Jeroen Jansz (4 november 2022) - ScienceGuide: International classroom vooral effectief voor Nederlandse studenten
- Jeroen Jansz (2025) - Games en apps: lekker je level halen door (nog meer) te betalen (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Jeroen Jansz (2025) - ... en ondertussen in de wetenschap (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Professional - Teresa De La Hera, Julia Kneer, Jeroen Jansz, Vivian Chen, Yixiang Que & Argyrios Emmanouloudis (2024) - Dutch DiGRA 2024 Symposium (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Xiaoyu Zhang, Delia Dumitrica & Jeroen Jansz (2023) - Drawing and redrawing the boundary of Chinese collective: Analyze the idolization of the naturalized athlete Eileen Gu (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Jeroen Jansz (2023) - Higher Education Online, a Curse or a Blessing? (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Jeroen Jansz (2023) - Representation is Digital Games 2003-2023 (Invited speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Jeroen Jansz & Léonie Ridderstap (2022) - It takes two: the role of co-regulation in students' self-regulation (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Jeroen Jansz (2022) - Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap (Journal) (Member of editorial board)
Activiteit: Editorial work › Academic - Anne van Eldik, Roel Lutkenhaus, Julia Kneer & Jeroen Jansz (2020) - Influencers and the superdiverse city (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Jeroen Jansz (2020) - WODC/Ministerie van Veiligheid en Justitie (External organisation) (Chair)
Activiteit: Membership of committee › Academic
- Jeroen Jansz, Joyce Neys & E.S.H. Tan (2011) - Best Paper Award - Exploring Persistence in Gaming: The Role of Self-Determination and Social Identity
NICAM
- Start date approval
- november 2022
- End date approval
- november 2025
- Place
- HILVERSUM
- Description
- Adviescommissie NICAM
Pan European Game Information S.A.
- Start date approval
- november 2023
- End date approval
- november 2026
- Place
- BRUSSEL
- Description
- Chair Experts Group PEGI
Netwerk Mediawijsheid
- Start date approval
- december 2023
- End date approval
- december 2026
- Place
- HILVERSUM
- Description
- Voorzitter Wetenschappelijke Raad
Pan European Game Information S.A.
- Start date approval
- december 2023
- End date approval
- december 2026
- Place
- BRUSSEL
- Description
- lid Experts group
NICAM
- Start date approval
- november 2025
- End date approval
- november 2028
- Place
- HILVERSUM
- Description
- Adviescommissie NICAM
Introduction to Human Communication
- Level
- BA-1
- Year Level
- BA-1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM1001
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5000
Master Thesis Project
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5050
