Prof. Dr. Christiane Eilders

Prof. Dr. Christiane Eilders (born 1962) worked as an academic consultant at the Hans-Bredow-Insitutute form October 2002 to May 2007. After studying Communications in Munich, she subsequently worked at the German Institute for Young People, where she looked at young people’s political attitudes and their use of the media. From 1990 to 1995, she was at the Communications Institute at the Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, before she moved to the Research Centre for Empirical Social Research in Berlin. Her dissertation examines the role of news factors in reception. At the Research Centre, she led a DFG project oriented towards the sociology of public affairs, „The Voice of the Media in the Political Process”, which investigated the independent contribution of the media in public discourse. In May, 2006 she gained post-doctoral qualifications with her thesis, “The public Sphere in Commentary – the Structures of public Opinion Formation in the transregional Quality Press” at the Free University of Berlin. She has been the spokesperson for the specialist group, „Politics and Communication”, at the DGPuK, the German Society for Public Communications, since February, 2006. She was Acting Professor for communications at the University of Augsburg from April 2006 onwards and received a professorship there in May, 2007.