Marc Verboord

Marc Verboord
Erasmus University Rotterdam | EUR · Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC)

PhD

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December 2021 - present
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Position
  • Professor
April 2011 - November 2021
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
September 2008 - March 2011
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
Education
September 1997 - March 2003
Utrecht University
Field of study
  • Department of Sociology
September 1990 - August 1996
Tilburg University
Field of study
  • Language and Culture Studies, specialization Marketing and Sociology of Literature

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Publications (87)
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This study offers a cross-national multilayered analysis of music flows between 1960 and 2010. Advancing on previous empirical studies of cultural globalization, it attends to the global and country level, while adding the individual level of music flows. Concretely, the authors analyze the international composition of pop charts in nine countries...
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This article contributes to the study of legitimate authority and symbolic power in the media field by analyzing what I call the “validation repertoires” of audiences, that is, the various ways individuals combine in a single set of beliefs separate judgments of how valid or worthwhile they regard the opinions of a media worker with a specific inst...
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The paper contributes to the study of institutional trust by making a connection to “cultural backlash” theory and analyzing more recent forms of news consumption. We examine how trust in politics, media, and science is shaped by “cultural backlash” and media use in nine European countries. We employ representative survey data collected in 2021 in...
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This research note studies how cultural participation impacts affective well-being in everyday life by taking a novel methodological approach via Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM). The potential for culture to improve the well-being of citizens has been a long-running subject of study. Through participation in cultural activities, individuals w...
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This article examines the role of institutional trust in current European societies. Based on a secondary data analysis of Eurobarometer data (response rate 39.6%), it maps institutional trust repertoires and analyzes their consequences for a crisis that disturbed public life immensely in 2020 and 2021—the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures to figh...
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This exploratory study renders it an open empirical question how ordinary people understand the meaning of culture and what are its sociopolitical implications. Using original survey data from over 11,000 respondents across nine European countries, the study focuses on an open-ended question where the respondents defined the meaning of “culture” in...
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Despite the long history of debating its meaning and its current unprecedented ubiquity both in scholarly and popular discourses, little is systematically known about how “culture” is conceived by ordinary people. This paper examines how evaluations of the contents and boundaries of expressive culture are patterned among people in and across presen...
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How do cultural critics in the digital age convince audiences that their writings are valuable? What discursive strategies do they employ to construct their authority? And which differences can we see between professional critics working in institutionalized media and amateur critics contributing to online platforms? This article presents an in-dep...
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Cosmopolitanism, which is often defined as openness to other cultures and individuals, is significant for understanding processes of stratification in contemporary, globalised societies that are home to increasingly diverse populations. In this paper, we broaden the perspective on cosmopolitanism to include cultural, interpersonal, and political di...
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How the media influence the trust that citizens have in institutions such as politics and science seems more important than ever, given the decline of institutional trust in Western societies, and the increasingly diversified media landscape. This paper focuses on the relationship between media repertoires, institutional trust, and two socializing...
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This study looks at population response to government containment strategies during initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in four high-trust Northern European countries–Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden–with special emphasis on expressions of governmental trust. Sentiment analysis and topic modeling analysis were performed using Twitt...
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Cultural journalism contributes to the symbolic production culture, but an understudied element is how audiences partake in using and valuing cultural information in the media. This chapter examines how audiences use the internet to find information on new cultural products as well as contribute to the production of information. Our study is relati...
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This article studies how people across Europe think about cultural value, including cultural heritage, and how this is related to their media usage. Drawing on data from the Eurobarometer in October 2017, which were designed with EU cultural policy goals in mind, we examine which cultural value orientations are most prevalent among citizens in Euro...
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On the basis of an online survey conducted among young Chinese adults, this study examines how the association between media usage – of both traditional and social media – and political trust can be explained by three factors: the mediating roles of the perceived credibility of traditional and social media; the moderating roles of trust in sources...
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This study takes a repertoire-oriented approach to examining how social and traditional media usage affect political engagement in China. Building on previous studies and giving them a new direction, we examine how various social media platforms and traditional media outlets are combined in cross-media repertoires of young Chinese adults. We do thi...
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This article aims to contribute to work on music mavenism with the explicit goals to analyze how important connectivity (e.g. someone social network) is in the way music spreads, compared to dispositions (schemes of perception and appreciation). Concretely, I study how individuals find new music and who are involved in spreading information on musi...
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Cultural consumer markets are to a large degree governed by processes of social stratification, distinction, and the symbolic properties of cultural taste. Especially Bourdieu's field theory has been influential, but in recent years criticized-often for its emphasis on cultural hierarchies and consecration agents. This article argues that it would...
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This research aims to study what role YouTube-arguably the largest and most popular video sharing website in the world-plays in the globalization of pop music. As a transnational medium, the internet has the potential to diminish the impact of cultural centrality and cultural proximity in explaining cultural flows. We conducted an empirical analysi...
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This research aims to study what role YouTube – arguably the largest and most popular video sharing website in the world – plays in the globalization of pop music. As a transnational medium, the internet has the potential to diminish the impact of cultural centrality and cultural proximity in explaining cultural flows. We conducted an empirical ana...
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Despite the transnational interconnected nature of the internet, cross-national comparisons in internet usage and their effects are still relatively scarce. Moreover, one of the core intrinsic properties that internet theorists have distinguished, the ability to increase democracy and ‘global understanding’ through its connectivity, has hardly been...
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This study aims for a deeper understanding of the TV audience's exposure to TV's moral content and the reception of this content through an innovative methodological design. We combine content analysis data on the moral contents of TV genres and survey data on the moral reflection on moral elements offered by these genres among a representative sam...
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This article addresses the extent and ways in which gender inequality in the newspaper coverage of arts and culture has changed in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, 1955-2005. Through a quantitative content analysis, we mapped all articles that appeared in two elite newspapers in each country in four sample years 1955, 1975, 1...
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Many authors have pointed to the internet’s potential to increase connectivity across the world, which would imply an equalizing effect, yet few researchers have examined this. At the same time, the increasing usage of social media by popular culture celebrities for self-promotion has been signaled. We study the extent to which social media can red...
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The shaping influence of cultural mediators, in particular their legitimizing power, has led cultural scholars to coin them ‘tastemakers,’ ‘gatekeepers,’ ‘surrogate consumers,’ ‘reputational entrepreneurs,’ or even ‘coproducers’ of the work of art. Yet, in practice, mediators perform highly different and often distinct activities according to their...
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The increased use of the Internet since the late 1990s has had a large impact on how arts and culture products such as films, books, cds, museum exhibitions, etc., are produced, distributed, acquired, and received. This article aims to discuss some of the most relevant developments in the study of the Internet's relation to arts and culture from a...
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In the second half of the twentieth century, the volume, content and appearance of arts journalism in Western daily newspapers have changed significantly in accordance with wider transformations in the arts and journalism. Previous studies have focused on (a) which culture receives attention, (b) the way culture gets attention, and (c) economic pre...
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Music charts have long been a potent symbol of the relationship between the music industry, artists and consumers (Hakanen 1998). Since the first appearance of the Billboard’s ‘Music Popularity Chart’ in July 1940 (Sassoon 2006), many radio stations and magazines across the world have rapidly followed suit. Our study takes pop charts as a vantage p...
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Contributing to research on social processes of cultural de-hierarchization, this article explores how critical recognition in elite newspapers is related to the recognition that authors receive from other agents in the literary field in the past half-century. We distinguish four types of institutional recognition: (a) long-term recognition in lite...
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Traditionally, media critics play a central role in the attribution of symbolic value to cultural products. This article studies empirically how the process of cultural evaluation is affected by the rise of peer-produced criticism online. More specifically, I examine how the discourse that critics employ to substantiate their aesthetic evaluations...
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Dit artikel behandelt de mate waarin en de manier waarop genderongelijkheid is veranderd in de dagbladberichtgeving over artistieke genres in Frankrijk, Duitsland, Nederland en de Verenigde Staten van 1955 tot 2005. Via een kwantitatieve inhoudsanalyse van twee elitekranten per land voor de jaren 1955, 1975, 1995 en 2005 zijn alle artikelen over ku...
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This article addresses to what extent literary critics in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany have drawn ethnic boundaries in their reviews of ethnic minority writers between 1983 and 2009 and to what extent these boundaries have changed in the course of ethnic minority writers’ careers and across time. By analysing newspaper reviews, we...
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Today’s complex film world seems to upset the dual structure corresponding with Bourdieu’s categorization of ‘restricted’ and ‘large-scale’ fields of cultural production. This article examines how movies in French, Dutch, American and British film fields are classified in terms of material practices and symbolic affordances. It explores how popular...
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Going global. Trends in pop music charts 1960-2010 Going global. Trends in pop music charts 1960-2010 This paper studies the cultural globalization of pop music by (a) describing trends in pop music single charts in nine countries in the period 1960-2010, and (b) explaining global success using a double comparative design in which multiple origin g...
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In this article we study how the frequency of book-reading – a form of legitimate culture – develops in the period from adolescence to young adulthood and how it is influenced by parents’ education, parental reading socialization climate, school and their interactions. In disentangling parental and educational effects we contribute to the cultural...
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This article studies trends in gender inequality in the domain of fiction books between 1960 and 2009 in France, Germany and the United States by analysing bestseller lists and literary award winners. It is argued that gender inequality is larger in fields or genres where more status is at stake for individual agents, as this causes an influx of me...
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The impact of the cultural blogosphere has – in contrast to that of the political blogosphere – rarely been studied to date, although the number of cultural blogs is rapidly increasing. This article offered an explorative study of film blogs by analysing structural and content characteristics of 180 film blogs, which varied in the degree of authori...
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This article examines whether the attention to cultural products on the internet is more democratically structured (in terms of gender and genre distributions) than in traditional print media, and how these types of media attention affect commercial success. For the U.S. fiction book releases in February 2009, I analyze consumer ratings at the web...
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This paper analyzes how cultural classification has changed, during the period 1970–2007, in France, Germany and the United States for one particular case: fiction book bestseller lists. Drawing on recent studies in the material production (the publishing field) and symbolic production (the literary field) of literature, I examine the impact of the...
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Television as a moral training room. A quantitative exploration of moral reflection induced by television narratives Television as a moral training room. A quantitative exploration of moral reflection induced by television narratives. In this article the focus is on a quantitative exploration of different groups of viewers and how they engage in mo...
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In contrast to most studies on cultural globalization, this article examines the dynamics of cross-cultural exchange between and within (Western) nation-states. Through content analysis, the authors study the extent and composition of newspaper coverage given to literary authors of non-Western ethnic origin—both foreign and domestic—in four nations...
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This article seeks to elucidate over time changes and cross-national variations in the status of art forms through a comprehensive content analysis of the coverage given to arts and culture in elite newspapers of four different countries – France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States – in the period 1955-2005. The authors explore how cul...
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TONNY KRIJNEN & MARC VERBOORD Television as a moral training room. A quantitative exploration of moral reflection induced by television narratives. In this article the focus is on a quantitative exploration of different groups of viewers and how they engage in moral reflection during or after watching television. Using perspectives derived from lit...
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In de traditionele ‘hoge’ kunsten, zoals de literatuur, deed al te nadrukkelijk zoeken naar commercieel succes lang afbreuk aan artistieke reputaties. Conglomeralisering, marketing en star power hebben echter ook in het boekenvak hun intrede gedaan. Over de verhouding tussen het belang van artistieke waarde en commerciële afstemming voor actoren en...
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Journalistieke aandacht voor cultuur, zoals recensies van voorstellingen en boekbesprekingen, draagt bij aan de vorming van culturele hiërarchiën. Op basis van een uitgebreide inhoudsanalyse van elitekranten in de periode 1955-2005 gaan wij na in hoeverre de aandacht voor verschillende culturele vormen is verschoven in Frankrijk, Duitsland, Nederla...
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In this article, we describe general features of popular music coverage in elite newspapers in the United States, France, Germany, and the Netherlands from 1955 to 2005. Drawing on data from content analysis of over 4,000 newspaper articles sampled in four reference years (1955, 1975, 1995, and 2005), we document broad changes and continuities in t...
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This article addresses to what extent literary critics in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany have drawn ethnic boundaries in their reviews of ethnic minority writers between 1983 and 2009, and to what extent ethnic boundaries in literary criticism have changed in each country in the course of ethnic minority writers’ careers and across...
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This article seeks to elucidate changes over time and cross-national variations in the status of art forms through a comprehensive content analysis of the coverage given to arts and culture in elite newspapers of four different countries – France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States – in the period 1955–2005. The authors explore how cul...
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The aim of this article is to increase the understanding of how cultural consumers—in this era of increasing Internet usage and more omnivorous cultural taste patterns—use and rate different types of cultural mediators in informing themselves on cultural matters. We focus on how book readers in the Netherlands and Flanders consult critics of varyin...
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This is the into to a special issue that Susanne Janssen, Marc Verboord, and I co-edited for Poetics (Volume 37 / Issues 5-6). It featured contributed articles by Andy Bennett; Rodney Benson; Pauwke Berkers; Laura E. Braden; Michèle Ollivier, Guy Gauthier, & Alexis Hiêú Truong; and Diogo L. Pinheiro & Timothy J. Dowd.
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In contrast to most studies on cultural globalization, this article examines the dynamics of cross-cultural exchange between and within (western) nation-states. Through content analysis, we examine the extent and composition of the newspaper coverage given to literary authors of non-western ethnic origin – both foreign and domestic – in France, Ger...
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In contrast to most studies on cultural globalization, this article examines the dynamics of cross-cultural exchange between and within (western) nation-states. Through content analysis, we examine the extent and composition of the newspaper coverage given to literary authors of non-western ethnic origin - both foreign and domestic in France, Germa...
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This article examines how curriculum content in secondary education has developed at the meso- and micro-levels. It does so via the case of Dutch literary education between 1968 and 2000. Textbooks and teachers may wish to focus on literary authors because of their alleged artistic merits or rather strive for literary authors considered likable by...
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This article examines how cultural classification processes develop over time. Specifically, we analyse author selection in literary textbooks for Dutch secondary education, and how this selection has changed since the 1960s. The content analysis of 34 literary textbooks addresses both structural properties of classifications (levels of consensus,...
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This article charts key developments and cross-national variations in the coverage of foreign culture (i.e., classical and popular music, dance, film, literature, theater, television, and visual arts) in Dutch, French, German, and U.S. elite newspapers between 1955 and 2005. Such coverage signals the awareness of foreign culture among national elit...
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This article aims at charting and elucidating key developments and cross-national variations in the coverage given to foreign and indigenous cultural products (classical and popular music, dance, film, literature, theater, television fiction, and visual arts) in American, Dutch, French, and German newspapers between 1955 and 2005. Using content ana...
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In dit artikel worden de ontwikkelingen in de aandacht voor buitenlandse kunst en cultuur in Amerikaanse, Duitse, Franse en Nederlandse dagbladen in de periode 1955-2005 beschreven en nader toegelicht.
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Jongeren maken steeds meer gebruik van internet en lezen steeds minder. Over de rol van internet op school wordt vaak negatief bericht. In dit artikel wordt onderzocht hoe het gebruik van websites met boekenuittreksels zich laat relateren aan de mediaoriëntatie van jongeren en hun leesgedrag binnen de schoolcontext.
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Het leesrepertoire van de Nederlandse scholier is in de afgelopen decennia vaak onderwerp geweest van discussie. Verboord brengt op basis van leeslijsten uit de periode 1962-2005 het leesgedrag van middelbare scholieren in kaart. Hij kijkt hierbij specifiek naar de mate van diversiteit, hiërarchie en vernieuwing in het leesrepertoire. Het leesreper...
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We investigated the influence of literary education models on the book-reading frequency of students later in life, and how this influence can be explained. In total, 85 mother-tongue teachers in secondary education in the Netherlands were retrospectively questioned about their literary instruction in a random year between 1975 and 1998. Almost 700...
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In this study, I investigated a new system to classify authors by literary prestige. The notion of ‘canon’ was considered to lackclear theoretical and empirical grounding. Evaluation and classification practices were examined and operationalized from the perspective of literary field theory. The value that is attributed to authors by literary insti...
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The influence of reading socialization on the level of books read in adult life was investigated for birth cohorts who finished secondary education between 1975 and 1998. Three forms of reading socialization were taken into account: socialization in the parental home, literary socialization at secondary school, and socialization through popular cul...
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Samenvatting In dit artikel wordt onderzocht welke invloed benaderingen van literatuuronderwijs hebben op de frequentie waarmee personen op vol-wassen leeftijd boeken lezen en hoe deze invloed verklaard kan worden. In totaal 88 do-centen Nederlands in het voortgezet onder-wijs zijn retrospectief ondervraagd over het literatuuronderwijs dat zij in e...
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Cultural classifications, in the sense of categorisations of cultural goods and practices, are often abused in cultural stratification studies to classify people involved with these goods and practices. In this paper the issue is discussed of how to use cultural classifications without begging the question of their definition and without claiming t...
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Over the last twenty years, museum attendance has grown steadily. Increasingly, participation rates are being viewed as indicators of the success and legitimacy of policy in a given field of culture. Consequently, museums have become more interested in gaining insight into factors that affect museum attendance. This paper focuses on variables that...
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Socialization as an explanation for declining reading frequency? The influence of parents and school on the reading of books investigated more closely In this article the impact of socialization processes in both the parental and school context on current book reading frequency of recent birth cohorts is investigated. Given the decline in reading i...

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