Biography
Marc Verboord is professor of Media and Society at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC), Erasmus University Rotterdam.
His research is situated at the intersection of cultural and media sociology, communication science, and journalism studies. His expertise concerns sociological aspects of media consumption, societal impacts of digitalization and new media, media and trust, and cultural legitimation.
Marc Verboord received his PhD in Sociology from Utrecht University in 2003, at the Interuniversity Centre of Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS). His dissertation examined the influence of literary education and parental socialization on the reading of fiction books in the period 1975-2000. He worked in various research projects, including Cultural Canons and Cultural Capacities (as postdoc, 2003-2004), Cultural Classification Systems in Transition (as postdoc, 2004-2008), and Cultural Value in the Age of the Internet (main researcher, 2011-2016). Between 2020 and 2023, he was Board member and researcher in the H2020-project INVENT: European Inventory of Societal Values of Culture as a Basis for Inclusive Cultural Policies in the Globalizing World, a comparative research project in nine European countries. His current research project focuses on the relationship between media use, journalistic authority, and institutional trust.
He has published in more than 40 peer-reviewed scholarly journals including American Sociological Review, New Media & Society, American Behavioral Scientist, Information, Communication & Society, European Sociological Review, European Journal of Communication, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Poetics, International Journal of Press/Politics, and PLOS One. He is member of the Editorial board of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts, for which he served as co-Editor-in-Chief between 2015 and 2021. An overview of his research can be found at Google Scholar, an overview of editor and reviewer activities here.
He teaches in the International BA in Communication and Media (IBCoM), the MA Media Studies and the research master Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts. Between 2020 and 2023, he served as head of the department of Media & Communication at ESHCC. In 2018 he was visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen in the department of Media, Cognition and Communication.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- verboord@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- 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
- Marc Verboord (2024) - Trust repertoires and the reception of institutional responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Europe: A latent class analysis - International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 65 (6), 711-730 - doi: 10.1177/00207152231223730 - [link]
- Semi Purhonen, Marc Verboord, Ossi Sirkka, Nete Nørgaard Kristensen & Susanne Janssen (2023) - Definitely (not) belonging to culture: Europeans’ evaluations of the contents and limits of culture - Poetics, 101 - doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101840 - [link]
- 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, 27 (4), 1-18 - doi: 10.1177/13675494231187472
- Marc Verboord, Larissa Fritsch, Alysa Karels, Eva Pina Myrczik & Lucas Page Pereira (2023) - Experiencing culture. Applying new methods to understand contexts and outcomes of participation in cultural activities. - [link]
- Marc Verboord (2024) - Social inequalities in media use: Trends in Europe 2010-2023 (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Marc Verboord (2024) - Tampere University (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic - Marc Verboord (2024) - Disconnected: Stakeholder perceptions of what constitutes higher popular music education. (Examiner)
Activity: Examination › Academic - Marc Verboord (2024) - New Media and Society (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Marc Verboord (2024) - Journalism (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Marc Verboord (2024) - Social Forces (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Marc Verboord (2024) - Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Marc Verboord (2024) - New Media and Society (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Marc Verboord (2024) - International Journal of Public Opinion Research (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Marc Verboord (2023) - Journalism (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Marc Verboord (2023) - Communication Research (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Marc Verboord (2023) - Co-chair / Founding member Research Cluster Journalism, Information technologies and Media use (JIM), ERMeCHS. (with Mijke Slot) (Participant)
Activity: Other › Academic - Marc Verboord (2023) - Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) (External organisation) (Member)
Activity: Membership of committee › Academic - Marc Verboord (2023) - Sociological Forum (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Marc Verboord (2023) - I was There! Pop venues and festivals and their value in the ecosystem of live music (Examiner)
Activity: Examination › Academic - Susanne Janssen & Marc Verboord (2023) - Key findings about Europeans’ digital cultural participation and potential implications for cultural policy (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Susanne Janssen & Marc Verboord (2023) - Key findings about diversities and inequalities in cultural participation and potential implications for cultural policy (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Marc Verboord (2023) - Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Susanne Janssen & Marc Verboord (2023) - EU Workshop - The Societal Value of Art and Culture and the Impact on Well-being, Mental Health and Inclusion of All. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Professional
Media repertoires
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM2099
Introduction to Social Science Research
- Year Level
- BA-1, Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM1002
Advanced Quantitative Methods
- Level
- MA-1
- Year Level
- MA-1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CS5005
Research Traineeship
- Level
- MA-1
- Year Level
- MA-1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CS5008
Research Master Seminar I
- Level
- MA-1
- Year Level
- MA-1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CS5016
Master Thesis
- Level
- MA-2
- Year Level
- MA-2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CS5050
Master Thesis Project
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5050
Internship
- Level
- BA-2
- Year Level
- BA-2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM3041
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5000