Prof. Dr. Susanne Eichner


Prof.
Dr. Susanne Eichner

Professor in Analysis and Aesthetics of audiovisual Media

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Susanne Eichner is Professor in Analysis and Aesthetics of audiovisual Media at the department of Media Studies at the Filmuniversity Babelsberg in Potsdam (Germany). She has studied Cultural Studies & Media Studies in the UK and Germany and holds a PhD in media studies on the topic of Agency and Media Reception. After receiving her PhD, Susanne Eichner has worked and taught at the University of Bayreuth (GER) and the University of Rostock (GER). From 2014 to 2022 she was Associate Professor at the department of Media and Journalism Studies, University of Aarhus (DK) where she was also co-director of the research program Cultural Transformations and co-director of the research center CTMR. In 2022, Susanne returned to Germany to start her new position at the Filmuniversity. In her research, Susanne Eichner employs a cross-media and transnational approach, focusing on reception aesthetics and audience research, media sociology, production ecology, popular (serial) culture and matters of representation in transnational contexts. Her publications include the monography Agency and Media Reception (Springer, 2014), and the anthologies Transnationale Serienkultur (co-editor, Springer, 2013) and Fernsehen: Europäische Perspektiven (co-editor, UVK, 2014).

Susanne Eichner is currently the chair of the  IAMCR section Mediated Communication, Public Opinion and Society and vice-chair of the ECREA section Television Studies and member of ECREA Advisory board of Critical Studies in Television
 

Academic field

Media Studies
 

Research areas

Transnational media and television research, popular (serial) culture, audience research, media industry studies, representation in audiovisual media, television studies, media audiences and users
 

Publications

Full data: ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7137-8583; PURE: https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/susanne-eichner(7739e6db-d79f-49e1-8d2a-41c33ece13df).html

Monographs and editorials:

  • Gutiérrez Lozano, Juan Francisco; Eichner, Susanne & Hagedoorn, Berber; Cuartero, Antonio (Eds.) (forthcoming summer 2022): New Challenges in European Television.National Experiences in a Transnational Context. Editorial Comares.
  • Hagedoorn, Berber; Eichner, Susanne & Gutiérrez Lozano, Juan Francisco (eds.) (2021): Special Issue: The Youthification of Television, Critical Studies in Television, 16(2).
  • Eichner, Susanne & Prommer, Elizabeth (eds). (2014): Fernsehen: Europäische Perspektiven. Konstanz, München: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2014): Agency and Media Reception : Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television. Wiesbaden: Springer.
  • Eichner, Susanne; Mikos, Lothar; Prommer, Elizabeth & Wedel, Michael. (2007): Die »Herr der Ringe«-Trilogie: Attraktion und Faszination eines populärkulturellen Phänomens. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft.

Recent publications (selection):

  • Eichner, Susanne (forthcoming summer 2022): Representation of Gender and Migration in Danish Television Drama: Asymmetrical Agency in When the Dust Settles. In: Gutiérrez Lozano, Juan Francisco; Eichner, Susanne & Hagedoorn, Berber; Cuartero, Antonio (Eds.), New Challenges in European Television.National Experiences in a Transnational Context. Editorial Comares.
  • Christine Bang Dall-Hansen, Amalie K. Falk Stauner & Susanne Eichner(forthcoming): Body experiences in the mediatized everyday lives of 10 to 12-year-old children. In: Jensen; Redvall; Christensen (eds.), Audiovisual content for children and adolescents in The Nordics - Production, distribution and reception in a multi-platform era. Nordicom.
  • Hagedoorn, Berber; Eichner, Susanne & Gutiérrez Lozano, Juan Francisco (2021): The ‘youthification’ of television. In: Critical Studies in Television, 16(2), p. 83-90.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2021): Selling location, selling history. New German Series and changing market logic. In: Barra; Scaglioni (eds.), European Television Fiction Renaissance: Premium Production Models and Transnational Circulation. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 191-210.
  • Eichner, Susanne & Esser, Andrea (2020): Key international markets: distribution and consumption of Danish TV drama series in Germany and the UK. In: Waade; Novrup Redvall; Jensen (eds.),Danish television drama: global lessons from a small nation. London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 187-207.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2020): Lifeworld relevance and practical sense-making: audience engagement with Danish television drama series. In: Jensen; Jacobsen (eds.), The Global Audiences of Danish Television Drama. Göteborg: Nordicom, p. 107-124.
  • Eichner, Susanne; Prommer, Elizabeth; Yurtaeva‐Martens, Yulia & Kaptan, Yeşim (2019): New media and audience behavior. In: Arnold; Kinnebrock; Preston (eds.), The handbook of European communication history. Wiley, p. 385-402.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2018): Crime Scene Germany: Regionalism, Audience, and the German Public Broadcasting System. In: Toft Hansen; Peacock; Turnbull (eds.), European Television Crime Drama and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 173-192.
  • Eichner, Susanne & Mikos, Lothar (2017): Berlin in Television Drama Series : A Mediated Space. In: SERIES - International journal of TV series narratives, 3(1), p. 41-49.
  • Eichner, Susanne & Prommer, Elizabeth (2017): Doing Media : Multiperspektivität als Theorie- und Forschungskonzept in komplexen Medienwelten. In: Medien und Kommunikationswissenschaft, 65(3), p. 573-590.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2017): Medienhandeln und Medienerleben: Agency und Doing Media. In: Mikos; Wegener (eds.), Qualitative Medienforschung. Ein Handbuch. 2.Auflage, UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 112-121.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2017): Videospielanalyse. In: Mikos; Wegener (eds.), Qualitative Medienforschung. Ein Handbuch. 2.Auflage, UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 524-533.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2016): Food across media: popular food contents among children in Germany. In: Leer; Klitgaard Povlsen (eds.), Food and media: practices, distinctions and heterotopias. Routledge, p. 169-184.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2016): In-Sight the Game : Special Effects im Computerspiel. In: Wedel (ed.), Special Effects in der Wahrnehmung des Publikums: Beiträge zur Wirkungsästhetik und Rezeption transfilmischer Effekte. Springer, p. 269-284.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2016): Representing Childhood, Triggering Emotions : Child Characters in Video Games. In: Perron; Schröter (eds.), Video Games and the Mind: Essays on Cognition, Affect and Emotion. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, p. 174-188.

Talks (selection):

  • Eichner, Susanne (2021): New partnerships in drama co-productions (case study Germany). Media Mutations 12, Bologna, Italy.
  • Eichner, Susanne. (2021): "Othered" identities: Representation in European drama fiction. NECS 2021 - Transitions: Moving Images and Bodies, Palermo, Italy.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2021): The different articulations of forced migration in TV drama series. Critical Studies in Television Biennial Conference, Ormskirk, United Kingdom.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2019): Berlin Noir: Location, Aesthetics and Market Logic of New German series. EURONOIR, Aalborg, Denmark.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2019): Negotiating gender: Female protagonists as role models in Scandinavian TV drama series. NordMedia 2019, Malmö, Sweden.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2019): Screening migration. European television drama series and female agency. NECS 2019: Structures and Voices: Storytelling in Post-Digital Times, Gdańsk, Poland.
  • Eichner, Susanne (2018): Following The Bridge: The multiple flows from Denmark to Asia. Crossroads, Shanghai, China.