Miriam Meckel, is currently Professor for Corporate Communication and Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen

University of St. Gallen

The University of St. Gallen is a public research university located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is specialized in the fields of business administration, economics, law, and international affairs. The University of St. Gallen is also known as HSG, which is an abbreviation of its former German...

 in Switzerland

Switzerland

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2001 Miriam Meckel became the State Secretary at the department of the Premier of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia and government spokeswoman, later on the State Secretary for Europe, International Affairs and Media. From 1999 to 2001 she was a professor for Communication Sciences at the University of Münster in Germany. Her publications include texts on media economics, communication and cyberpolitics

Cyberpolitics

Cyberpolitics is a term widely employed across the world, largely by academics interesting in analyzing its breadth and scope, of the use of the Internet for political activity. It embraces all forms of social software...

 - in 2010 she wrote about her experience with burn-out syndrom

Burnout (psychology)

Burnout is a psychological term for the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest. Research indicates general practitioners have the highest proportion of burnout cases; according to a recent Dutch study in Psychological Reports, no less than 40% of these experienced high levels of...

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As a member of international jury of the Development Gateway Foundation of the World Bank

World Bank

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 she was instrumental in designing the Development Gateway Award (Petersberg Prize).

In November 2001 Meckel received the Cicero Award for best speech in the academia category.

Publications (extract)

• 1994: Fernsehen ohne Grenzen? Europas Fernsehen zwischen Integration und Segmentierung
• 1996: Internationale Kommunikation - eine Einführung
• 1998: Fernsehnachrichten. Strukturen, Funktionen, Prozesse
• 1999: Redaktionsmanagement. Ansätze aus Theorie und Praxis
• 1999: with Klaus Kamps, Patrick Rössler and Werner Gephart: Medien-Mythos? Die Inszenierung von Prominenz und Schicksal am Beispiel von Diana Spencer
• 2000: with Marianne Ravenstein: Cyberworlds. Computerwelten der Zukunft
• 2001: Die globale @genda. Kommunikation und Globalisierung
• 2005: Cyberpolitics and Cyberpolity, Zur Virtualisierung politischer Kommunikation
• 2007: Das Glück der Unerreichbarkeit, Wege aus der Kommunikationsfalle
• 2010: Brief an mein Leben: Erfahrungen mit einem Burnout

Personal

Meckel lives in St. Gallen

St. Gallen

St. Gallen is the capital of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century. Today, it is a large urban agglomeration and represents the center of eastern Switzerland. The town mainly relies on the service sector for its economic...

, Switzerland and Berlin, Germany. She has been in a long-term relationship with Anne Will

Anne Will

Anne Will is a television journalist from Germany. She was anchorwoman of the daily Tagesthemen news broadcast on ARD from April 14, 2001, to June 24, 2007.-Biography:...

, a German television journalist.