ABOUT Me

First, my name: it is Mandy Tröger but due to having lived in different countries, you can also find me as Mandy Troeger or Mandy Troger. I'm still the same person.

I am a Walter Benjamin Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Born and raised in (East) Berlin, I received my PhD from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2018. Since then, I have worked at the University of Munich (LMU) and the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media in Germany.

My research focuses on (digital) media markets and communication history, critical theory and the transformation of media industries. At public events, I often talk about media history, issues of representation and (structural) diversity. I also care deeply for social justice issues and have been active in social justice work for years.

Since 2017, I am part of the organizing committee of the Network for Critical Communications Research (krikowi), and since 2022, vice-chair of the Political Economy Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). In 2024, I joined the board of editors of Journalism Research (Journalistik), a bilingual academic journal dedicated to journalism studies. I also work as a freelance journalist and, until recently, was as a (media) columnist at the Berlin newspaper Berliner Zeitung.