dr. HJCJ (Erik) Hitters

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

Associate professor | Department of Media and Communication
Email
hitters@eshcc.eur.nl

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Work

  • Erik Hitters (6 September 2013) - European Capital of Culture

  • 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

News regarding dr. HJCJ (Erik) Hitters

More female musicians on festival stages than ever

After five years, POPLIVE is coming to an end. Researchers Martijn Mulder and Erik Hitters discussed these years, and shared their thoughts on the future
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