Arno van der Hoeven MSc

Lecturer/PhD Candidate

Biographical Note

Arno van der Hoeven is lecturer and PhD candidate in the Department of Media & Communication at Erasmus University. His PhD research is part of the research project Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity (POPID), a large scale international collaborative research project funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area).

The first paper of his PhD project about popular music heritage and cultural identity is concerned with the negotiation of cultural identities in relation to the heritage of illegal (pirate) radio in the Netherlands. Arno is also working on articles about the popular music of the 1990s and the representation of local music histories in museum and archives.

He has studied in Nijmegen, Leuven and Antwerp. In 2009 he graduated cum laude in Communication Science (Radboud University Nijmegen). In his master's thesis (Ga je mee naar het stadion? De identiteit van voetbalfans in een geglobaliseerde samenleving), he studied the identity construction of football fans. The focus of this study was on the tension between the often locally rooted identity of the fans and the international orientation of players, clubs and media.

In 2010, he obtained his master's degree in Sociology from the University of Antwerp, graduating with great distinction. His thesis for this master was about the influence of Open Content-licenses on ideas of authorship (Digitaal recombineren als immateriële arbeid. Een sociologische studie naar de betekenis van Creative Commons-licenties in de kunst- en erfgoedsector).