Biography
Cindy Roitsch was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Media, Communication, and Information Research (ZeMKI) until the end of 2021. Since October 2014, she has been working as a research assistant in the DFG project “Mediatized Everyday Worlds of Translocal Community Formation: The Communicative Networking and Media-Mediated Community Formation of Older People in ‘The Communicative Construction of Community Formation in Mediatized Worlds: Horizons and Challenges of Media-Mediated Community Formation of Middle-Aged People in a Media Generation Comparison’ (DFG Priority Program 1505 “Mediatized Worlds,” 3rd funding phase) Media Generation Comparison.“ Also as part of the Priority Program, she conducted research between 2011 and 2014 on the communicative networking and media-mediated community formation of ”digital natives” and older people. In addition to this work, Cindy Roitsch is working on her doctoral thesis “Communicative boundary setting: Challenges and practices of young people in a diverse media environment.” Between October 2008 and December 2010, Cindy Roitsch studied media culture at the University of Bremen. Prior to that, she completed a bachelor’s degree in “Specialized Journalism” at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen.