Mark Boukes

Mark Boukes (MSc) is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research at the University of Amsterdam. He works on the project ‘It’s fun! But is it effective? The consequences of new news shows’. His research focuses on new news genres (soft news, infotainment and late-night comedy) and how watching these kinds of television programs might have effects on levels of political knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. Most studies for this project will be conducted by means of experiments.

Before Mark started to work on this PhD project, he was a student in the Research Master as well as the Bachelor programme of Communication Science, also at the University of Amsterdam.