Biography
Susanne Janssen is Full Professor of Sociology of Media and Culture, Research Director of the Department of Media and Communication, and Academic Director of the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2021, she was appointed a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Susanne Janssen is Full Professor of Sociology of Media and Culture, Research Director of the Department of Media and Communication, and Academic Director of the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She was recently appointed a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Her research and teaching activities lie in the fields of cultural sociology, media and communications research, and the sociology of the arts and literature. Susanne Janssen has published widely on the role of cultural mediators (e.g., critics, journalists, curators, editors, marketers) in the creation, dissemination and valuation of literature, music and other art forms; changes, continuities and cross-national differences in the classification of culture; the social and cultural significance of popular music heritage; and processes, structures and impacts of cultural globalization.
Her current research projects focus on the consequences of increased diversity and digitalization for agents, institutions, structures, processes and practices in the fields of media, culture, education, and politics.
Susanne Janssen currently leads a large-scale Horizon 2020 research project, entitled INVENT: European Inventory of Societal Values of Culture as a Basis for Inclusive Cultural Policies in the Globalizing World. This EU funded international collaborative project will run from 2020-2024 and involves leading scholars and research institutions based in nine different countries. She also co-directs the Doing Diversity project which examines diversity practices in the educational, cultural and sports sector in the City of Rotterdam (2022-2024).
Janssen was awarded the prestigious VICI grant (2003) for her Cultural Classification Systems in Transition project from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). From 2010 to 2014, she directed another large-scale international collaborative research project: Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity which was funded as part of the HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Dynamics: Inheritance and Identity.
Janssen also received several other major project grants, including an Erasmus Research Excellence grant (REI), four NWO PhD in the Humanities grants, a HERA Knowledge Exchange grant, and funding from the Erasmus Initiative Vital Cities and Citizens. In addition, she was part of the research team of the NWO funded Creative Industries-Smart Culture project on Sustainable Live Music Ecologies (POPLIVE).
In the past thirteen years, nineteen PhD dissertations have been successfully completed under Janssen’s supervision. Currently, she (co-)supervises eleven PhD candidates and three postdoc researchers (cf. her full CV).
Susanne Janssen is the founding chair of the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam, which she headed from its inception in 2008 until 2020. She is the founding co-director of the MA in Media Studies and the research master in the Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts (top-rated programme 2014, 2016 and 2017) and the founding Dean of the International Bachelor in Communication and Media (IBCoM) which was awarded the NVAO Distinctive Quality Feature for Internationalisation and the European Certificate for Quality in Programme Internationalisation (2014; re-accredited in 2019).
She is also the founding academic director of ERMeCC, the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (2008). ERMeCC is currently home to more than fifty researchers and over fifty PhD students from a variety of international and disciplinary backgrounds, and has grown into one of the largest research groups focusing on the social dimensions of media, culture and the arts worldwide.
Susanne Janssen performed manifold executive and advisory services in academia and the cultural sector, including serving as member of the national Council for Culture in the Netherlands, chair-elect of the European Research Network for the Sociology of the Arts (ESA), member founding committee of the Netherlands-Flemish Communication Association (NEFCA), and member of the NWO Cultural Dynamics programme. From 2010-2012, Janssen was co-editor-in-chief of Poetics, the premier journal for empirical research on culture, media and the arts and a leading journal in sociology, for which she presently serves as an advisory editor. Current memberships include the academic executive board of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) Centre for the Governance of Migration and Diversity, the executive board of the national School of Media Studies (RMES), the National Panel for Quality and Relevance in the Humanities, the international editorial advisory boards of Sociologie de l’Art and the International Journal of Music Business Research. Janssen was appointed an Honorary Professor (2010-2016) in the Centre for Cultural Research at Griffith University, Australia, a member of the Royal Dutch Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) in 2015, and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2021.
Susanne Janssen holds an MA degree in General Language and Literature Studies and received her Ph.D. from the University of Tilburg (1994). Her dissertation research on processes of reputation formation and the role of reviewing and criticism in the field of literature was funded by NWO (Open Competition). She moved to the Faculty of History and Arts – now called the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC) - of Erasmus University Rotterdam at the start of the Department of Arts and Culture Studies in 1989, where she was appointed Associate Professor in 1999, endowed Professor in 2003, and Full Professor in 2007.
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Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- s.janssen@eshcc.eur.nl
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- M8-06
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- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Rian Koreman, Marc Verboord & Susanne Janssen (2023) - Constructing authority in the digital age: Comparing book reviews of professional and amateur critics - European Journal of Cultural Studies, 1-18 - doi: 10.1177/13675494231187472
- Marc Verboord, Susanne Janssen, Nete Kristensen & Franziska Marquart (2023) - Institutional trust and media use in times of cultural backlash: A cross-national study in nine European countries. - International Journal of Press/Politics, 1-23 - doi: 10.1177/19401612231187568
- Tally Katz-Gerro, Susanne Janssen, Neta Yodovich, Marc Verboord & Joan Llonch-Andreu (2023) - Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: Mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe - Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 1-16 - doi: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2211531 - [link]
- Semi Purhonen, Marc Verboord, Nete Kristensen, Susanne Janssen, Višnja Kisić, Goran Tomka & Philippe Bonnet (2023) - Diverse understandings of culture and their social correlates - [link]
- B. G. Żerebecki, S. J. Opree, J. Hofhuis & S. Janssen (2023) - Successful Minority Representations on TV Count: A Quantitative Content Analysis Approach - Journal of Homosexuality, 1-24 - doi: 10.1080/00918369.2023.2191287 - [link]
- Bartosz G. Żerebecki, Suzanna J. Opree, Joep Hofhuis & Susanne Janssen (2023) - Recognizing the Similarities and Appreciating the Differences?: Content Choices and Perceived (Dis)similarity With TV Show Characters Among Youth - Psychology of Popular Media - doi: 10.1037/ppm0000465 - [link]
- Sylvia Maria Holla & Susanne Janssen (2022) - Cultuur in turbulente tijden. Online petities en burger initiatieven tijdens Corona - [link]
- Susanne Janssen, Nete Kristensen, Marc Verboord & Riie Heikkila (2022) - Cultural participation in a digitized society: Comparing repertoires of online and offline cultural participation and their social correlates across Europe
- Marc Verboord, Susanne Janssen, Nete Kristensen & Franziska Marquart (2022) - Institutional trust and media use in times of political turmoil.: A cross-national study in 9 countries
- Nete Kristensen, Susanne Janssen, Eva Pina Myrczik & Marc Verboord (2022) - Digitalization and culture. Impacts, practices, perceptions in nine European countries - [link]
- Susanne Janssen & Marc Verboord (2023) - Key findings about Europeans’ digital cultural participation and potential implications for cultural policy
- Marc Verboord & Susanne Janssen (2023) - Key findings about diversities and inequalities in cultural participation and potential implications for cultural policy
- Susanne Janssen & Marc Verboord (2023) - INVENT Culture: European Inventory of Societal Values of Culture as Basis for Inclusive Cultural Policies
- BG (Bartosz) Zerebecki, SJ (Suzanna) Opree, J (Joep) Hofhuis & MSSE (Susanne) Janssen (2021) - What attracts Polish youth viewers to entertainment TV shows? Exploring (dis)similarity with characters, onscreen diversity, and the possibility for stereotype change.
- Bartosz Zerebecki, Suzanna Opree, Joep Hofhuis & Susanne Janssen (2021) - What attracts Polish youth viewers to entertainment TV shows?
- Rian Koreman, Marc Verboord & Susanne Janssen (2020) - Analysing professional and amateur music reviews through topic modelling
- Susanne Janssen (2018) - Keynote lecture: The Art of Comparison: Features and Findings of Comparative Research in Cultural Journalism
- Susanne Janssen (2018) - Invited Lecture. Critical Authority and Taste in the Contemporary Literary Field
- A Bennett & Susanne Janssen (2016) - Popular Music and Society (Journal)
- Susanne Janssen (2014) - Invited presentation on 'Cultural Classifications in Transition' Project
Research Master Seminar I
- Level
- MA-1
- Year Level
- MA-1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CS5016
Master Thesis
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- MA-2
- Year Level
- MA-2
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CS5050
Globalization, Digitalization and Cult.
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- MA-1
- Year Level
- MA-1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CS5009
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM5000
Culture Online
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- MA
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- MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM4354