M.A. Annabella Backes

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Journalism Studies

Institute for Media and Communication Studies

Department of Political and Social Sciences

Researcher

CRC 1171 "Affective Societies" - D02

Address

Habelschwerdter Allee 45
Room JK 33/231
14195 Berlin

Telephone

+49 30 838 50397

annabella.backes@fu-berlin.de

Office hours

Appointment by arrangement via e-mail

Vita

Since October 2023 research associate in the project "Contested Order of Emotions: (Anti-)Feminist Discourses on Social Media" of the CRC "Affective Societies", Freie Universität Berlin

Studies

2021–2023 Global Studies Program M.A., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Master thesis title: "Contested (In)Securities – Caught Between Capitalism, Cops, Crime and their Counterparts. A Critical Analysis of the Twitter Discourse Surrounding the Police Station at Kottbusser Tor in Berlin". Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Margreth Lünenborg

01/2022–06/2022 Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
08/2021–12/2021 University of Pretoria, South Africa

2017–2021 Social and Cultural Anthropology B.A., Media and Communication Studies Minor, Freie Universität Berlin

Scholarships

2022 PROMOS Scholarship

Research

Since 10/2023: Project "Contested Order of Emotions: (Anti-)Feminist Discourses on Social Media" of the CRC "Affective Societies", Freie Universität Berlin

Research Topics

Affect and Emotion
Gender Media Studies
Aging Studies

Refereed Articles

Adlung, S., & Backes, A. (2023). Representing Life and Death in Care Institutions: Between Invisible Victims and Suffering Old Women. Media and Communication, 11(1), 163–172. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i1.6056
Adlung, S., & Backes, A. (2021). (In)Visibilities of Ageing Bodies in Scientific Studies and the Media: An Analysis of the Intersectional Entanglements of Age, Gender and Disability. Medien und Altern, 18, 76–87. https://web.p.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=c9ce0040-d513-41cc-9444-01a679a9cade%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=151029852&db=asn

Book Chapters

Adlung, S., & Backes, A. (2023). „Die Schwächsten der Gesellschaft" – Repräsentationen hochaltriger Menschen im Corona-Risikodiskurs. In E. Grittmann, K. Müller, C. Peil, & J. Pinseler (Eds.), Medien und Ungleichheiten: (Trans-)nationale Perspektiven auf Geschlecht, Diversität und Identität (pp. 1–13).The German Communication Association. https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.86634

Lectures

Adlung, S., & Backes, A. (2021). Neue (Un)Sichtbarkeit durch Covid-19? Eine intersektionale Untersuchung medialer Altersrepräsentationen. Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Medien, Öffentlichkeit und Geschlecht: „Medien und Ungleichheiten: (Trans-)nationale Perspektiven auf Geschlecht, Diversität und Identität", 22–24 September, Magdeburg.