She is co-founder of the International Media and Nostalgia Network and a Council Member of the International Association for Media and History. Her major areas of research lie in the field of media culture, media theory, and semiotics. She is particularly interested in the interrelations between media and memory and history by focussing on (media-)events, commemorations, and nostalgia. Among her recent books is the edited volume Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, Present and Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).