Miriam Meckel was a professor of communication sciences, she wrote textbooks on cyberpolitics and served as the State Secretary.
Miriam Meckel (born July 18, 1967) is a German journalist and professor for Corporate Communication, editor and publisher of the German magazine Wirtschaftswoche and Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. In November 2014, Meckel was appointed editor-in-chief of Germany's leading business weekly Wirtschaftswoche, as the first woman to hold that position. In April 2017, she became the publisher of the magazine. Her publications include texts on media economics, communication, and cyberpolitics; in 2010 she wrote about her experience with burn-out syndrome. 1994: Fernsehen ohne Grenzen? Europas Fernsehen zwischen Integration und Segmentierung 1996: Internationale Kommunikation - eine Einfuhrung 1998: Fernsehnachrichten. Strukturen, Funktionen, Prozesse 1999: Redaktionsmanagement. Ansatze aus Theorie und Praxis 1999: with Klaus Kamps, Patrick Rossler 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 Gluck der Unerreichbarkeit, Wege aus der Kommunikationsfalle 2010: Brief an mein Leben: Erfahrungen mit einem Burnout 2011: 'NEXT - Erinnerungen an eine Zukunft ohne uns' 
