Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber
Social and behavioural sciences, Social anthropology, ethnology, sociology
Arts, Journalism and information, Languages, Social and behavioural sciences
Sociology of Media and Culture, Media and Communications research, Journalism Studies, Sociology of the Arts, Sociology of Music, Sociology of Literature
Susanne Janssen has published widely on the agents and institutions involved in the creation, dissemination and valuation of literature and other art forms.
Her current research focuses on changes and continuities in the classification of culture; the socialand economic significance of cultural heritage (in particular popular music heritage); processes, structures and impacts of cultural globalization; the production and consumption of online media content; cultural authority and trust; innovative practices in the media and creative industrie.
TOP PAPER AWARD Popular Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA), 2006
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(2015, forthcoming) Popular Music, Memory and Heritage. Special issue of Popular Music and Society, 38(2) [co-edited with A. Bennett).
(2014) Popular Music, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity. Special issue of International Journal of Heritage Studies, 20(3) [co-edited with A. Brandellero, S. Cohen & L. Roberts]
(2011) Globalization and Diversity in Cultural Fields: Comparative Perspectives on Music, Literature and Television. Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist, 55(5) [co-edited with T.J. Dowd].
(2009). Fields in Transition, Fields in Action. Special Issue of Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, Media and the Arts, 37(5-6), 295-398 [co-edited with T.J. Dowd & M. Verboord].
(2009). Classifying Culture. Agents, Structures, Processes. Special Issue of Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, Media and the Arts, 37(4), 295-398 [co-edited with S. Baumann & T.J. Dowd].
In 2003, she received the prestigious VICI grant for the research project Cultural Classification Systems in Transition, a large-scale, longitudinal and cross-national study into the social valuation of cultural products in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.
Between 2010 and 2014, she served as director of an international collaborative research project on Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity (POPID) for which she has been awarded a major European research grant (HERA JRP grant).
Since 2014, she directs the five-year Transformations in the Production and Consumption of Media and Culture project, for which she received the Erasmus University Research Excellence Initiative Grant.
American Sociological Association (ASA) / Culture Section
Council for European Studies (CES)
Erasmus Graduate School for Social Sciences and Humanities (EGSH3)
Erasmus Network for Female Professors (ENHV)
Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC)
European Sociological Association (ESA)
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
International Communication Assocation (ICA)
International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and the Media (IGEL)
International Sociological Association (ISA)
Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW – Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities)
Netherlands Flanders Communication Association (NEFCA)
Netherlands School for Communication Research (NESCoR)
Nederlandse Vereniging van Sociologen (Dutch Sociological Association)
Research School for Media Studies (RMeS)
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Interested in International Collaborative Research projects in the field of Media, Communication and Culture.
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Social and behavioural sciences, Social anthropology, ethnology, sociology
Languages, Social and behavioural sciences, Modern Chinese Studies / Sinology; Political Science; Political Sociology
Social and behavioural sciences, Simulation of innovation processes in complex social systems
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Translation studies, History of education, History of classical philology