Lecturer Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication Department of Media and Communication
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- Room
- M8-48
- driessen@eshcc.eur.nl
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Profile
**Simone Driessen is a senior lecturer in the Media and Communication Department of Erasmus University Rotterdam.** As a lecturer she is involved in several courses in the [IBCoM-bachelor programme][] (i.e. International & Global Communication, Communication as a Social Force, and Media Entertainment & Popular Culture). She also supervises theses for the Master Media Studies programs. In June 2017, Simone obtained her PhD from the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC). Her PhD-project focused on the affordances of mainstream popular music in the everyday life of ageing audiences. In several empirical cases, she studied how a particular generation explains and legitimises the consumption and appreciation of music from its recent past in different contexts, such as commercially based reunion events (e.g. of Dutch pop act Doe Maar) or the long-term fandom of boy bands (like the Backstreet Boys). In addition to researching why fans remain fans over time, Simone is currently examinig why fans discontinue their fandom (e.g. after a controversial moment or the cancellation of an artist). [IBCoM-bachelor programme]: http://www.eshcc.eur.nl/english/ibcom/
- Simone Driessen (2022) - Look what you made them do:: understanding fans’ affective responses to Taylor Swift’s political coming-out - Celebrity Studies, 13 (1), 1-4 - doi: 10.1080/19392397.2021.2023851
- Simone Driessen (2022) - Campaign Problems: How Fans React to Taylor Swift’s Controversial Political Awakening - American Behavioral Scientist, 1-15
- Simone Driessen (2020) - Taylor Swift, political power, and the challenge of affect in popular music fandom - Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), 32 - doi: 10.3983/twc.2020.1843 - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2019) - Celebrating nostalgia or critiquing naivety: Reading pop music reunions through discourses of the fan life course - The Journal of Fandom Studies, 7 (2), 133-150 - doi: 10.1386/jfs.7.2.133_1 - [link]
- Simone Driessen & B Jones (2016) - Love Me For A Reason: An Auto-ethnographic Account of Boyzone Fandom - IASPM@Journal, 6 (1), 68-84 - doi: 10.5429/2079-3871(2016)v6i1.5en - [link]
- Arno van der Hoeven, Susanne Janssen & Simone Driessen (2015) - Articulations of identity and distinction: The meanings of language in Dutch popular music - Popular Music and Society, 39 (1), 43-58 - doi: 10.1080/03007766.2015.1061344 - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2015) - Larger than life: exploring the transcultural fan practices of the Dutch Backstreet Boys fandom - Participations, Journal of Audience and Reception Studies (online), 12 (2), 180-196 - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2015) - Still ‘Got the Feelin’’: Exploring Post-Youth’s Enjoyment of Music from their Recent - Postgraduate Journal of Women, Ageing and Media, 1 (2), 90-98 - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2020) - Irritainment & unfluencers: waarom we anderen afkeuren voor ons plezier - Unknown - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2020) - ‘CANCEL CULTURE’ OM MENSEN TERECHT TE WIJZEN: 'GECANCELDE' PERSOON MOET UITLEG GEVEN - Unknown - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2020) - Hoe Tiger King Joe Exotic een hit werd: 'Hij is de klassieke underdog' - Unknown - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2020) - Dertiger en diehard fan zijn: zit er dan een steekje los? - Unknown, 124-128 - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2019) - Voor ouders is er geen ontkomen aan: elk meisje wil Elsa zijn - NRC Handelsblad - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2019) - Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: was unleashing the Swifties the right way to get justice? - Unknown - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2018) - Gillend Gek - Unknown, 70-73
- Simone Driessen (2017) - Fan van de fans - Unknown - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2016) - For many girls, the Back Street Boys were their first venture into love - Erasmus Magazine - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2014) - She loves you - yeah yeah yeah - Unknown - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2019) - Book Review: The Ambivalent Internet. Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online - Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 25, 567-568 - doi: 10.1177/1354856519854203 - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2016) - Understanding the end: Post-object Fandom: Television, Identity and Self-Narrative by Rebecca Williams - Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, 8, 115-117 - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2016) - Book Review: Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and Contemporary Mass Media - Cultural Sociology (online), 10, 546-547 - doi: 10.1177/1749975516672371e
- Simone Driessen (2018) - Book Review: Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture by Lucy Bennett and Paul Booth, Eds - Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 95, 547-549 - doi: 10.1177/1077699018763315 - [link]
- Simone Driessen (2020) - 'For the Greater Good?' Vigilantism in Online Pop Culture Fandoms - In D. Trottier, R. Gabdulhakov & Q. Huang, Introducing Vigilant Audiences (pp. 25-48) - doi: 10.11647/OBP.0200.02 - Open Book Publishers
- L Istvandy, S Baker, J (Jennifer M.) Collins, Simone Driessen & C Strong (2019) - Understanding popular music heritage practice through the lens of ‘Third Place’ - In J. Dolley & C. Bosman, Rethinking Third Places: Informal Public Spaces and Community Building (pp. 116-135) - doi: 10.4337/9781786433916.00015 - [link] - Edward Elgar Publishing
- Simone Driessen (2018) - I'll never break your heart: The perpetual fandom of the Backstreet Boys - In R. Williams, Everybody hurts: Transitions, Endings and Resurrections in Fan Cultures (pp. 31-42) - [link] - University of Iowa Press
- Arno van der Hoeven, Susanne Janssen & Simone Driessen (2017) - Articulations of identity and distinction: The meanings of language in Dutch popular music - In A. Bennett & M.S.S.E. Janssen, Popular music, cultural memory, and heritage (pp. 42-57) - Routledge
- Simone Driessen (2020) - Meidenbands, pop feminisme, en Wannabe - In C Van der Velden, Negentig (pp. 114-134) - Atlas Contact
- Simone Driessen (2017) - Music Brings Us Together: Does it? - In P. Koudstaal, Music Brings Us Together (pp. 194-208) - Uitgeverij Komma
- Simone Driessen (2020) - “I did something bad” – How fans give meaning to Taylor Swift’s political awakening - International Communication Association 70th conference
- Simone Driessen (2015) - Main Organizer European Fan Cultures Conference - European Fan Cultures Conference
- Simone Driessen (2017) - The Affordances of Repackaged Popular Music from the Past - [link] - EUR
- Simone Driessen (2019) - 'Look what you made me do': When affect becomes problematic in popular music fandom - 20th Biennial Conference: Turns and Revolutions in Popular Music
- Simone Driessen (2019) - The fandom strikes back: exploring vigilantism in popular culture fandoms - ICA 69th Conference
- Simone Driessen (2019) - 'For the greater good': vigilantism in online pop culture fandoms - Media In Transition 10: Democracy and Digital Media
- Simone Driessen (2018) - The fandom strikes back: On vigilantism in online pop culture fandoms - Vigilant Audiences: An International Symposium on Scrutiny, Denunciation, and Shaming in Digital Media Use
- Simone Driessen (2018) - Making things whole again - Reading the Pop-music Reunion in Fans’ Life-courses - Fan Studies Network Conference
- Simone Driessen (2018) - Voicing 40 years of fandom - Exploring the meanings of recurring reunions & fandom across the life course - International Communication Association
- Simone Driessen (2017) - Exploring ageing fans’ continued engagement with the recurring reunions of Doe Maar - Fan Studies Network Conference
- Simone Driessen (2015) - Back to the Future: Popular Music and Time - IASPM, 18th Biannual Conference
- Simone Driessen (2015) - Reliving pop music memories at The Big Reunion concert - Etmaal voor de Communicatiewetenschap
- Simone Driessen (2014) - Insights in the longterm fandom of the Backstreet Boys - IASPM Benelux
- Simone Driessen (2014) - Paper presentation: 'As long as you love me' - Insights in the longterm Dutch Backstreet Boys fandom - Fan Studies Network
- Simone Driessen (2013) - Popular music and aging minds - Fan Studies Network Symposium
- Simone Driessen (2013) - Tunes of Identity - European Fandom & Fan Studies Conference: 'Localization and Translation'
- Simone Driessen (2013) - Back to the ‘90s & '00s: reliving the past through popular music - ESA 11th international European Conference: Crisis, Critique and Change
- Simone Driessen (2013) - Tunes of Identity: Audience memories of local music - Etmaal voor de Communicatiewetenschap
- Simone Driessen (2013) - Tunes of Identity: How localities can be remembered through music-narratives of the audience - POPiD conference
- Simone Driessen (2012) - The Discourse of regional popular music (re)considered - ESA Conference: Communication, Culture and Creativity
- Simone Driessen (2012) - Het is een kwestie van geduld: publiek en het vertoog van regionale populaire muziek - Dag van de Sociologie
- Simone Driessen (2019) - Altijd maar weer Queen op nummer één: waarom? - [link] - RTL Nieuws
- Simone Driessen (2018) - NOS: Een rij van bijna een kilometer: K-popband BTS treedt op in Ziggo Dome - [link] - nos
- Simone Driessen (2017) - De 90s zijn booming - hoe komt dat? - [link] - nos
- Simone Driessen (2017) - Er is troost en zin voor de fans van Boyzone en Take That - [link] - NPO Radio 1
- Simone Driessen (2016) - Waarom zo hysterisch bij een concert van je idool? - [link] - nos
- Simone Driessen (2015) - “I want it that way”: 30 en nog steeds fan van the Backstreet Boys - [link] - Versvak
- SMR (Simone) Driessen (25 juni 2021) - Waarom we, ondanks alles, nog steeds massaal naar Michael Jackson luisteren - Waarom we, ondanks alles, nog steeds massaal naar Michael Jackson luisteren
- SMR (Simone) Driessen (2 april 2021) - Cancel Culture | Rock 'n' Roll Highschool Magazine - Cancel Culture | Rock 'n' Roll Highschool Magazine
- SMR (Simone) Driessen (26 december 2021) - 'Ondanks dat er veel details naar buiten zijn gekomen over Tina en Ike, blijft het een heel spicy verhaal' - 'Ondanks dat er veel details naar buiten zijn gekomen over Tina en Ike, blijft het een heel spicy verhaal'
- Simone Driessen (28 februari 2019) - Hablando de: Backstreet Boys - Interview
- Simone Driessen (6 november 2019) - Wetenschappelijke conferentie Songfestival - Interview
- Simone Driessen (23 oktober 2019) - Nieuw tv-programma: een weekend zonder ouders in een villa - Interview
- Simone Driessen (16 oktober 2018) - YouTube trending: BTS Fans - Interview
- Simone Driessen (13 oktober 2018) - NOS Jeugdjournaal - Interview
- Simone Driessen (19 september 2017) - Studio Erasmus - Interview
- Simone Driessen (27 juni 2017) - Langs de Lijn en Omstreken - Interview
- Simone Driessen (26 oktober 2016) - Gillen! Waarom gillen de fans van Justin Bieber bij een concert? - Interview
- Simone Driessen (25 augustus 2015) - BNR Ochtendspits - Interview
- SMR (Simone) Driessen (2022) - Why are fans loyal anyway? - Eurosonic Noorderslag
- SMR (Simone) Driessen (2021) - Cancel culture - No Man’s Land conference
- Simone Driessen (2020) - 'Good Fan, Bad Fan?' On politics, appropriateness, and toxicity - Fan Studies Network America
- Simone Driessen (2018) - De Grote Roddelshow - Dit was 2018! - Dit was 2018!
- Simone Driessen (2018) - Our fascination with Flawed Celebrities - International Film Festival Rotterdam
- Simone Driessen (2017) - Waarom je levenslang fan kunt zijn van de Backstreet Boys - Pop-up Lecture "World's shortest lecture"
- Simone Driessen (2016) - The future of music - CHiFTalk
- Simone Driessen (2018) - ICA top paper award Popular Communication Division
- Simone Driessen (2014) - DAME: Dean’s Award for Multidisciplinary Excellence
Internship
- Level
- BA-2
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- BA-2
- Course Code
- CM3041
Communication as a Social Force
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- BA-1, Pre-master
- Course Code
- CM1009
Methods of Media Research I
- Level
- MA
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- MA
- Course Code
- CM4402
Master Class
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Course Code
- CM4500
Master Thesis
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Course Code
- CM5000
Current Perspectives on Popular Culture
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-3
- Course Code
- CM2032
Audience Engagement
- Level
- MA
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- MA
- Course Code
- CM4302
International and Global Communication
- Level
- BA-2
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- BA-2
- Course Code
- CM2001
Digital Content
- Level
- BA-2
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- BA-2
- Course Code
- CM2011
Culture Online
- Level
- MA
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- MA
- Course Code
- CM4354
