Nathalie Wesseling is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Digital Media and the Creative Industry at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Recently, her research has explored the influence of the Internet and AI on society, along with the ethical questions of data use and implications arising from it. Her earlier research, for the Department of Communication and Creative Business (formerly known as Media, Communication, and Information), focused on the factors influencing academic advancement and the relationship between social media and student success in higher education and the predictive value of a student choice test.

areas of expertise

* Internet and AI

* Data & ethics

* Influence of (social) media

* Higher education and factors of study success

* Integration or engagement in education

* ‘Digital natives’ and ‘digital immigrant’

* Influence of (social)media upon society

* Network / information society

* Digital sociology / Social physics

* Factor analysis / Principal Component analysis/Data analysis

* Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with SPSS AMOS

* Evaluation of students & education

* Media literacy and internet skills