ACS - Patti Valkenburg - Final

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Ellen Wartella

00:02

ICA presents: Hello, I'm Ellen Wartella and welcome to this episode of the Architects of Communication Scholarship podcast series, a production of the ICA Podcast Network. Today, our architect is Patti Valkenburg. Patti Valkenburg is a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the cognitive, emotional and social effects of media on youth and adults. She is particularly interested in theorizing and demonstrating how children, adolescents and adults differ in their susceptibility to the effects of media. Her research has been recognized by multiple grants and awards, among them the Career Achievement Award by the International Communication Association and the Outstanding Interdisciplinary Contribution Award from the Society for Research on Adolescence. Patti is as well a Fellow of the ICA, the Association for Psychological Science, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Holland Society of Science and Humanities. Today, Patti Valkenburg will be interviewed by Tim Verbeji and Teun Siebers. Both Tim and Teun are currently PhD students at the University of Amsterdam.

Tim Verbeij

01:10

Hi, everyone. I am Tim Verbeij. I study the validity of social media use measures.

Teun Siebers

01:14

Hello, everyone. I am Teun Siebers. I study the effects of social media use on adolescent self control and distraction. Tim and I are both part of Project AWeSoMe led by Patti Valkenburg. Project AWeSoMe stands for Adolescents, Well-being, and Social Media and we are investigating why social media use makes some adolescents happy while leaving others feeling blue. We are very excited to interview Patti Valkenburg, our PhD supervisor.

Tim Verbeij

01:39

So hello, Patti. It's great to have you on this podcast. Can you tell us a little bit more about your personal background?

Patti Valkenburg

01:46

Thank you, Tim and Teun. I'm born in Delft, a medieval town in the Netherlands. I'm a first generation scholar. My academic career actually did not follow the standard path. I started my university studies only at age 30. Before that, I worked for 12 years as a nurse, a secretary, a bartender, and in between, I studied to become a teacher in healthcare education. A few years after I finished my teacher training, I started my university studies on healthcare education. This program was part of the Department of Child and Family Studies at Leiden University here in the Netherlands, so I formally graduated in Child and Family Studies.

Tim Verbeij

02:35

So how did you end up in communication then?

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