Patricia Maria (Patti) Valkenburg (born 19 August 1958,

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) is a Distinguished Professor of Communication at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

. She is the founder and director of Center for research on Children, Adolescents, and the Media (CCAM). She is a fellow of the

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. In 2011, she received the

Spinoza Prize The Spinoza Prize ( nl, Spinozapremie) is an annual award of 2.5 million euro, to be spent on new research given by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The award is the highest scientific award in the Netherlands. It is named after the philosoph ...

, the highest Dutch award in science.

Biography

Valkenburg received her MSc (1992, cum laude) and PhD (1995, cum laude) from

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, the Netherlands. In 2006, she was recognized as the most productive communication scientist in Europe. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, 5 solo-authored books, and 35 book chapters. In 2010 she received an Advanced Investigator grant (2.5 million euro) from the

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, which is the highest European scientific recognition. In 2011, she was awarded the

. The winners of this prize receive a small statue of

Baruch Spinoza Baruch (de) Spinoza (born Bento de Espinosa; later as an author and a correspondent ''Benedictus de Spinoza'', anglicized to ''Benedict de Spinoza''; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, ...

and 2.5 million euro to spend on research of their own choice. Since 2011 Valkenburg is member of the

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CCAM

Valkenburg is the founder and chair of the Center for research on Children, Adolescents, and the Media (CCAM), which hosts 22 researchers from nine social and behavioral sciences. In 2009, researchers in CCAM initiated a well-evaluated international master program Youth and Media. Valkenburg is associate editor of Human Communication Research and a member of the editorial boards of most other journals in her field. She is the founder of the first international academic division Children, Adolescents, and the Media within the

Research and intellectual interests

Valkenburg’s research interests include the cognitive, emotional, and social effects of media and technologies on children and adolescents. Her work has focused on all kinds of media contents and technologies, including advertising, pornography, media violence, and social media. Based on dozens of empirical studies she has developed several models to understand why media have small effects on some children but large and long-lasting effects on other children, which children are particularly susceptible to media effects, and how negative media effects can be minimized or counteracted.

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CCAM
Center for Research on Children, Adolescents and the Media
University of AmsterdamInternational Communication AssociationProf. dr. P.M. Valkenburg, 1958 -
at the Amsterdam University Album Academicum {{DEFAULTSORT:Valkenburg, Patti M. 1958 births Living people Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam Leiden University alumni Dutch mass media scholars Mass media theorists Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Delft Spinoza Prize winners