Biography
**Erik Hitters is Associate Professor of Media and Creative Industries in the Department of Media & Communication of Erasmus University Rotterdam.** He has co-founded and is managing director of ERMeCC, the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture. Erik’s research interests lie in the broad field of transformations in the media and cultural industries. His first strand of research deals with the changing logics of institutional and field dynamics in the media and cultural industries, including the film, music and broadcasting industries. His second interest is in local, regional and national creative industries policies. His third in media clustering and creative cities. He leads two large research projects. The first is the NWO funded Creative Industries Strategic Research Project “Cultures of Innovation in the Creative Industries”. The second is the Smart Culture Strategic Research Project “Staging popular music: sustainable live music ecologies for artists, music venues and cities (POPLIVE)”, jointly funded by NWO and SIA.
Erik Hitters was trained as a sociologist at Tilburg University. He received his doctorate in Social Sciences from Utrecht University in 1996. In 1997 he was a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. Prior to his present job at the Media & Communication Department of Erasmus University, he worked as lecturer and assistant professor at the universities of Nijmegen and Tilburg and as a senior researcher at the Department of Arts and Culture Studies of Erasmus University. He served as Chair of the Examination Board and Director of Education a.i. of the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication. He lectures for IBCOM, the International BA in Media & Communication and the MA Media Studies, where he is the academic coordinator of the Media & Creative Industries specialisation.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- hitters@eshcc.eur.nl
More information
Work
- Rick Everts, Pauwke Berkers & Erik Hitters (2024) - Licensed to Rock (or so they say). How Popular Music Programmes at Higher Music Education Institutions Create Professional Musicians - Cultural Sociology - doi: 10.1177/17499755241229475 - [link]
- Rick Everts, Pauwke Berkers & Erik Hitters (2024) - Facilitating Dreams, with a Sense of Reality: Employability in Dutch Higher Popular Music Education - [link]
- Pauwke Berkers, Yosha Wijngaarden, Frank Kimenai & Erik Hitters (2023) - From Metaphor to Measurement of Popular Music Ecosystems: Putting Diversities at the Heart of Resilience
- Arno van der Hoeven & Erik Hitters (2023) - Live music and the New Urban Agenda: Social, economic, environmental and spatial sustainability in live music ecologies - City, Culture and Society, 32, 1-10 - doi: 10.1016/j.ccs.2022.100490 - [link]
- Rick Everts, Pauwke Berkers & Erik Hitters (2022) - Milestones in music: Reputations in the career building of musicians in the changing Dutch music industry - Poetics, 92, 1-11 - doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101647 - [link]
- Arno van der Hoeven, Rick Everts, Martijn Mulder, Pauwke Berkers, Erik Hitters & Paul Rutten (2021) - Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: Negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands - Journal of Cultural Economy, 15 (2), 1-16 - doi: 10.1080/17530350.2021.2002175
- Yosha Wijngaarden, Pawan V. Bhansing & Erik Hitters (2021) - Character trait, context or… create! Innovative practices among creative entrepreneurs - Industry and Innovation, 28 (8), 1077-1097 - doi: 10.1080/13662716.2021.1949964 - [link]
- Martijn Mulder & Erik Hitters (2021) - Visiting pop concerts and festivals: measuring the value of an integrated live music motivation scale - Cultural Trends (online), 30 (4), 355-375 - doi: 10.1080/09548963.2021.1916738 - [link]
- Rick Everts, Erik Hitters & Pauwke Berkers (2021) - The working life of musicians: mapping the work activities and values of early-career pop musicians in the Dutch music industry - Creative Industries Journal, 15 (1), 97-117 - doi: 10.1080/17510694.2021.1899499 - [link]
- Arno van der Hoeven & Erik Hitters (2021) - De waarden van livemuziek voor steden - [link]
- Martijn Mulder & Erik Hitters (2019) - Dancing on a tight rope. Risk and trust in the live music industry (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Erik Hitters (2019) - Live Music Ecologies and Value Creation for Musicians, Industries and Cities. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Arno Hoeven & Erik Hitters (2019) - The Values of Live Music in Urban Development: The Case of Rotterdam (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Arno Hoeven & Erik Hitters (2019) - The values of live music in urban development: the case of Rotterdam (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Rick Everts, Pauwke Berkers & Erik Hitters (2019) - ‘All institutions die hard’, How beginning pop artists navigate the changing Dutch music industry (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Erik Hitters (2018) - Media policy as cultural policy. A comparative exploration. [Invited lecture and workshop] (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Rick Everts, Pauwke Berkers & Erik Hitters (2018) - Making a Living in Live Music: entrepreneurial artists in the Dutch popular music industry (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Arno Hoeven & Erik Hitters (2018) - The social and cultural values of live music ecologies for cities: a study of local music policies. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Erik Hitters (2018) - POPLIVE. Sustainable live music ecologies for artists, music venues and cities [Invited contribution] (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Pauwke Berkers, Erik Hitters, Arno Hoeven, Rick Everts & Martijn Mulder (2017) - POPLIVE: denk mee over het grote livemuziek-onderzoek (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional
Management of Media&Creative Industries
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM4301
Master Thesis Project
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5050
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5000