Susanne Eichner

is Professor in Analysis and Aesthetics of audiovisual Media at the department of Media Studies at Filmuniver-sity Babelsberg in Potsdam (Germany), and affiliated Associated Professor in the Department of Media and Journalism Studies at Aarhus University, (Denmark). She employs a cross-media approach focusing on recep-tion aesthetics and audience research, media sociology, production ecology and popular (serial) culture. From 2019-2022 she was co-director of the Center for Transnational Media Research at Aarhus University, she is currently chair of the IAMCR section Mediated Communication, Public Opinion and Society and vice-chair of the ECREA section Television Studies. Her publications include: Agency and Media Reception (monography, Springer, 2014), Transnationale Serienkultur (co-editor, Springer, 2013) and Fernsehen: Europäische Perspek-tiven (co-editor, UVK, 2014).