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Overview

Liesbet van Zoonen is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and engineering fields with a focus on the intersection of technology and society. The work encompasses subfields such as sociology and political science, media technology, transportation, management of technology and innovation, and communication.

The scientist's research topics cover various dimensions of smart cities and technologies, human mobility and location-based analysis, privacy, security, and data protection, as well as innovative approaches in technology and social development. Additional themes include innovative human-technology interaction, COVID-19 digital contact tracing, and e-government and public services.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Liesbet van Zoonen include:

  • Data governance and citizen participation in the digital welfare state, 2020, Data & Policy
  • Smart city technologies from the perspective of technology acceptance, 2022, IET Smart Cities
  • Public views of the smart city: Towards the construction of a social problem, 2022, Big Data & Society
  • The changing roles of frontline bureaucrats in the digital welfare state: The case of a data dashboard in Rotterdam's Work and Income department, 2022, Data & Policy
  • Confronting the smart city governance challenge, 2025, Nature Cities

Frequent co-authors of Liesbet van Zoonen include:

  • Margot Kersing
  • Lieke Oldenhof
  • Emiel Rijshouwer
  • Kim Putters
  • Els Leclercq

The main publication venues for their work are:

  • Data & Policy
  • IET Smart Cities
  • Big Data & Society
  • Nature Cities
  • Science Technology & Human Values

Best Publications

  • Entertaining the Citizen: When Politics and Popular Culture Converge

    Liesbet van Zoonen

  • Power to the frame: Bringing sociology back to frame analysis

    Rens Vliegenthart;Liesbet van Zoonen

  • Privacy concerns in smart cities

    Liesbet van Zoonen

  • One of the girls?:The changing gender of journalism

    Liesbet Van Zoonen

  • Headscarves and Porno-Chic: Disciplining Girls' Bodies in the European Multicultural Society

    Linda Duits;Liesbet van Zoonen

  • Gendering the Internet Claims, Controversies and Cultures

    Liesbet van Zoonen

  • The personal, the political and the popular: A woman’s guide to celebrity politics

    Liesbet van Zoonen

  • Imagining the Fan Democracy

    Liesbet van Zoonen

  • I-Pistemology: Changing truth claims in popular and political culture:

    Liesbet van Zoonen

  • Internet Use and Political Participation: Reflections on the Mobilization/Normalization Controversy

    Fadi Hirzalla;Liesbet van Zoonen;Jan de Ridder

  • Feminist theory and information technology

    Liesbet van Zoonen

  • Performing citizenship on YouTube: Activism, satire and online debate around the anti-Islam video Fitna

    Liesbet van Zoonen;Farida Vis;Sabina Mihelj

  • A professional, unreliable, heroic marionette (M/F Structure, agency and subjectivity in contemporary journalisms

    Liesbet van Zoonen

  • Writing from experience: Presentations of gender identity on weblogs.

    Niels van Doorn;Liesbet van Zoonen;Sally Wyatt

  • Excluding citizens from the European smart city: The discourse practices of pursuing and granting smartness

    Jiska Engelbert;Liesbet van Zoonen;Fadi Hirzalla

  • A tyranny of intimacy? Women, femininity and television news

    Liesbet van Zoonen

  • Rethinking Women and the News

    Liesbet van Zoonen

  • Gender, politics and communication

    Annabelle Sreberny;Liesbet van Zoonen

  • Audience reactions to Hollywood politics

    Liesbet van Zoonen

  • YouTube interactions between agonism, antagonism and dialogue: Video responses to the anti-Islam film Fitna

    Liesbet van Zoonen;Farida Vis;Sabina Mihelj

Frequent Co-Authors

Jessica Ringrose
Jessica Ringrose University College London
Emma Renold
Emma Renold Cardiff University
David Buckingham
David Buckingham Loughborough University

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