Mark Deuze
Professor, Journalism and New Media
Leiden University (The Netherlands)
Mark Deuze holds a joint appointment at Indiana University’s Department of Telecommunications in Bloomington, United States, and as Professor of Journalism and New Media at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Mark holds a BA in Journalism from the Fontys School of Journalism at Tilburg, The Netherlands, an MPhil in History and Communication Studies from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and received his PhD in the Social Sciences in March 2002 from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. From 2002 to 2003, Deuze was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication.
As a visiting professor he has lectured at various schools and departments in the fields of journalism, communication and media in The Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Portugal, Australia, South Africa, and the United States.
His research interests include the social, economical and technological convergence of media culture in general and the creative industries in particular (advertising, marketing communications and public relations, journalis, film/TV production, digital games).
Publications of his work include five books – most recently Media Work (Polity Press, 2007), and articles in journals such as the International Journal of Cultural Studies, New Media & Society, Journalism Studies, and Media Culture & Society.
