Erik Hekman

Research Fellow

I was born in 1982 in Nijmegen. After a Bachelor in Information and Communication Technology (B.ICT) at the University of Applied Sciences Arnhem and Nijmegen I obtained a masters (MSc) in Media Technology at Leiden University. Currently, I work at the faculty of Communication and Journalism at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, where I am connected to the research group "Crossmedia Business" as a researcher.

I have started a PhD on value creation in Social Media in April 2010. The aim of this research is to model the different monetary and non monetary value chains that exist in the social media ecosystem, and apply that model in specific sectors. I am also interested in (digital) cultural heritage and developed the "Ik weet wat dit is" application in the PACE project. I teach courses in Web Design, Object-oriented Design, Computer Programming and Research for the study Digital Communication, and have supervised research of international students.

In my spare time I enjoy practicing aikido, Mexican food and learning Spanish.

• CELL
  
• Centrumondernemers en Nieuwe Media
  
• Connecting Creativity
  
• Cultuur in Context
  
• DLWO 2.0
  
• HDTV
  
• Museumkompas
  
• PACE
  
• Roots2Share
  
• Social Media
  

• Facebook usage by local restaurants: a large scale survey
  18 April 2013
• Social Media Behavior of Local Restaurants and Their Customers: All Talk and No Conversation?
  29 December 2012
• Crowd-funding in the creative industries
  21 September 2012
• American’s are top taggers
  14 May 2012
• Paper accepted!
  30 March 2012
• Bringing the past to the Present
  11 February 2012
• How to measure online success?
  5 November 2011
• The role of social media in the entrepreneurial process
  20 June 2011
• Bringing the Past to the Present: The use of tagging and storytelling for the enrichment of digital cultural heritage
  18 May 2011
• Help I’m in the Cloud!
  20 January 2011
• A trip down memory lane
  30 November 2010
• PhD research proposal; social media a marketplace for esteem?
  15 October 2010

• Idola van de Crossmedia
• Verrijken - Verhalen - Verbinden
• Ludonomics - The Game Economy
• Social Media in a Nutshell
• Poster Presentation Museums and the Web conference 2009
• Poster Presentation Museums and the Web conference 2009
• Social media are highly accessible media
• From tagging to storytelling: enriching museum collections
• Cultuur in Context
• Digitale presentaties