A welcome policy can be embedded in a municipal authority organisation in a number of different ways. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses. To be effective, the local policy makers must be clear on how they hope to make use of the welcome policy and how this will benefit or suffer from different …

Introduction to a special issue of the IASPM journal. This special issue on fan studies aims to build a bridge with the study of popular music in order to inspire further investigation of music fandom.

This paper discusses a recent (and ongoing) Dutch television series called Penoza (Kro, 2010-). It portrays the Dutch criminal milieu from the perspective of the daughter of an Amsterdam mobster who shortly into the first season will be the widow of another criminal. Against her wishes she is drawn into …

Lecture on reading images (using semitiocs and discourse theory) and the theorization of 'affect' (what is it that images 'do' to us).

Onderzoek in opdracht projectgroep Leef en Leer! (bestaand uit ObA, gemeente Amsterdam, E-TV en AT5) om onderzoek te doen naar de kwaliteit van netwerkvorming en netwerkintelligentie en de manier waarop die netwerkvorming ondersteund kan worden met een goed hanteerbare communicatiestructuur. Leef en …

Research on how music artists generate sales from their content through different platforms is scant. In this study, configuration theory is used to show that different market access configurations are viable simultaneously and that young musicians differ significantly in how they generate revenues. …

This paper will query whether a dedicated news platform can attune to young people’s civic needs? That is to ask: can this be a space that follows a social media logic of conversation and ‘give and take’ – with producers and consumers changing roles or even losing the distinction? How could and would …

Inleiding voor de bundel Het lectoraat Media, Cultuur en Burgerschap heeft in de periode 2011-2013 onderzoek gedaan naar poppodia en theaters in een samenwerking met de Inholland lectoraten City Marketing en Leisure Management en Media Business en met de brancheverenigingen Vereniging Schouwburg- en …

In media audience research we tend to assume that media are engaged with when they are used, however ‘light’ such engagement might be. Once ‘passive media use’ was banned as a reference to media use, being a media audience member became synonymous with being a meaning producer. In audience research however …

Interview met Associate Lector Koos Zwaan in Het Parool. Eerste alinea van het artikel: Muziekindustrie: Uitgevers hebben hun draai gevonden in het digitale tijdperk Koos Zwaan en Sabine de Lat onderzoeken voor het Amsterdam Creative Industries Centre of Expertise nieuwe verdienmodellen van de muziekindustrie: …