Jean Monnet Project

European Centre of Excellence (ECE) - Radboud University Nijmegen

Ed Hollander is a senior associate professor, Department of Communication, and director of studies at the University of Nijmegen. His research interests include policy studies and theoretical and empirical research on local and regional media. For the past three decades he has been involved in (early) studies of local cable television experiments in The Netherlands and has done research on community press, community radio and television, and digital community networks. The research for his dissertation, Local Communication and the Local Public Sphere, provided the groundwork for translating Habermas's notion of public sphere to community media. Hollander is an editor of Gazette. The International Journal for Communication and was a member of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Program for Development Communication of UNESCO.