Cees Jan Hamelink (born 14 September 1940)[1] is a Dutch academic known for his work on communication, culture, and technology.

[2][3] He was in a number of boards worldwide; chair of the Dutch League for Human Rights, honorary president of the International Association for Media and Communication Research and chair of Amsterdam World Jazz City 2014.

Hamelink wrote over seventeen books on communication, culture and technology.

He is the first scholar outside of the United States to use and conceptualize the notion of information literacy in "An Alternative to News" (1976), a short text proposing a critical conception of literacy along the lines of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire.

As a bassist he played in a trio with Louis van Dijk.