Biography
Simone Driessen is an assistant professor in Media & Popular Culture in the Arts & Culture Department of 美女福利电影院午夜. Before, she worked as a senior lecturer in the Media and Communication Department. As a researcher she is interested in topics at the intersection of media and popular culture. As a lecturer she is involved in several courses in the Arts & Culture program(s), and supervises theses.
In June 2017, Simone obtained her PhD from the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC). Her PhD-project examined the affordances of mainstream popular music in the everyday life of ageing audiences (e.g., exploring why fans remain fan of a band like boy band Backstreet Boys over time). In addition to researching why fans remain fans over time, Simone is currently examinig why fans discontinue their fandom (e.g. after a controversial moment or the cancellation of an artist).
Furthermore, Simone is involved as a researcher in two Horizon projects (Inspiring and Anchoring Trust in Science, and COALESCE, which works towards a European center on science communication) on science communication, particularly popular, digital science communication.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- driessen@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Simone Driessen (2026) - - Popular Communication - doi: -
- Simone Driessen, Ga毛lle Ouvrein & Eve Ng (2026) - - Social Semiotics, 36 (2), 143-154 - doi: -
- Guilherme Giolo, Simone Driessen & Mel Stanfill (2026) - - Social Semiotics, 36 (2), 199-214 - doi: -
- Simone Driessen & Sidsel Kirstine Harder (2026) - - Social Semiotics, 36 (2), 215-231 - doi: -
- Jason Pridmore, Sarah Young & Simone Driessen (2025) - - Kairos, a Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 30 (1) -
- Guilherme Giolo , Daniel Trottier & Simone Driessen (2025) - - Media/Culture : a Journal of media and culture, 28 (3) - doi: -
- Adriana Amaral & Simone Driessen (2024) - - Brazilian Creative Industries Journal, 4 (1), 2-12 - doi:
- Ana Barbosa Mendes, Charlotte Bruns, Dana Mahr & Simone Driessen (2024) - - Journal of Science Communication, 23 (6) - doi: -
- Simone Driessen & Veerle van Mil (2024) - - IASPM Journal, 14 (1), 21-37 - doi: -
- Simone Driessen, Bethan Jones & Benjamin Litherland (2024) - - Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 30 (1), 304-312 - doi:
- Simone Driessen (8 maart 2026) - Van cancel naar comeback: waarom krijgt Lil Kleine weer podium?
- Simone Driessen (28 februari 2026) - The Olympics and Politics Are More Intertwined Than Ever. Maybe That鈥檚 a Good Thing
- Simone Driessen (5 december 2025) - Keert Marco Borsato ooit terug op het podium? Ook bij vrijspraak is dat nog maar de vraag
- Simone Driessen (6 november 2025) - Blote borsten, seksuele mores: hoe team Borsato de aandacht wist af te leiden
- Simone Driessen (1 november 2025) - 鈥楶opvrouwen laten zich niet langer dicteren door mannelijke platenbazen鈥
- Simone Driessen (2 oktober 2025) - Taylor Swift laat fans diep in buidel tasten voor albums: 'Ze slaat door'
- Simone Driessen (5 september 2025) - Backstreet Boys bestaan 30 jaar: Nederlandse fans nog altijd dolenthousiast
- Simone Driessen (26 augustus 2025) - Waarom zijn fans zo gelukkig met de verloving van Taylor Swift? "Het is alsof hun grote zus gaat trouwen"
- Simone Driessen (7 augustus 2025) - Hoe Sydney Sweeney鈥檚 jeans/genes de VS verdelen
- Simone Driessen (13 mei 2025) - Wie wisten het allemaal? Dat is de grote vraag in misbruikzaak tegen rapper P. Diddy
- Matteo Rinaldi, Julia Kneer, Freya De Keyzer & Simone Driessen (2026) - 鈥淭here Are No Feminists When WW3 Starts鈥 - A Discourse Analysis of Symbolic Violence on Manfluencers鈥 YouTube Short Content (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Matteo Rinaldi, Freya De Keyzer, Simone Driessen & Julia Kneer (2026) - 鈥淭here Are No Feminists When WW3 Starts鈥 - A Discourse Analysis of Symbolic Violence on Manfluencers鈥 YouTube Short Content (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Simone Driessen (2026) - Fandom & Virality (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Professional - Matteo Rinaldi, Freya De Keyzer, Simone Driessen & Julia Kneer (2025) - "Why do women steal away men鈥檚 joy?" 鈥 A qualitative visual-verbal video content analysis of manfluencers discourse on YouTube short content (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Matteo Rinaldi, Freya De Keyzer, Simone Driessen & Julia Kneer (2025) - Toxic Entertainment: a Trojan Horse for Toxicity (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Simone Driessen (2025) - Reactionary Fandoms (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Simone Driessen (2024) - Roundtable Toxic Fans (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Simone Driessen (2024) - Cancelcultuur in de Media - juridische duiding (Advisor)
Activiteit: Consultancy 鈥 Professional - Charlotte Bruns, Simone Driessen & Jason Pridmore (2024) - Science speaks pop: leveraging popular culture for effective science communication (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Simone Driessen (2022) - Insights into music fandom across the life course (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Academic
- Simone Driessen (2025) - ESHCC Societal Impact Award
- Simone Driessen (2018) - ICA top paper award Popular Communication Division
- Simone Driessen (2014) - DAME: Dean鈥檚 Award for Multidisciplinary Excellence
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- BA-1, BA-1
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- 2025
- Course Code
- CC1021
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- BA-2, BA-2
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- 2025
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- CC2020
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2, BA-3, BA-3
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- 2025
- Course Code
- CC2051
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- MA
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- MA
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- 2025
- Course Code
- CC4008
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- MA
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- MA
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- 2025
- Course Code
- CC4050
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- MA
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- MA
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- 2025
- Course Code
- CC4150
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- MA-2
- Year Level
- MA-2
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CS5050
