Access to reliable digital sources: 

An information right for all citizens

Dr. Eugène Loos is an emeritus Associate Professor public administration and organizational science.

He was active in the Utrecht University focus area  Governing the Digital Society (https://www.uu.nl/onderzoek/governing-the-digital-society) and the strategic theme Dynamics of Youth (https://www.uu.nl/en/research/dynamics-of-youth)  He is also Associated Editor Digital Impacts for the journal Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Editorial Board member of the Journal Societies, 

From 2009 to 2019 he was a Professor by special appointment of 'Old and new media in an aging society' for the ANBO (Dutch association for senior citizens) at the University of Amsterdam.

In his research he focuses on the role of media literacy for the accessibility of reliable digital information for all citizens. What is the impact of digitization on younger and older generations.

Dr. Eugène Loos was leading (inter)national research projects on fake news to get insight into the effectiveness of legal, technological and educational measures to help citizens to engage critically with their news sources, and promotes access and use of reliable digital information. He was a member of BENEDMO, the Flemish-Dutch collaboration against disinformation, by and for factcheckers, media companies, scientists and other experts (https://benedmo.eu/english/).

Picture by ChatGPT, 01.04.2026

Currently he examines the opportunities and threats by ChatGPT for a) education and b) medical information.