Vita

• Since October 2019 research associate in the project "Journalism and the Order of Emotions" of the CRC "Affective Societies", Freie Universität Berlin

Studies

• 2016 – 2019 Media and Political Communication M.A., Freie Universität Berlin

Master Thesis Title: „Narratives of International Crisis in 280 Characters. A content analysis of Russian and British diplomatic Twitter accounts following the Novichok attack in Salisbury, UK in March 2018". Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Juliana Raupp.

• 2013 – 2016 Communication Studies and Sociology B.A., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

Scholarships

• 2012 - 2016 DAAD-scholarship for graduates of German schools abroad

Memberships

International Communication Association (ICA)

European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK)

The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy

Summer term 2020

• Emotionen im Journalismus (with Dr. Débora Medeiros)

Research

• Since 2019/10: CRC Project "Affective Societies: Journalism and the Order of Emotions", Freie Universität Berlin

Research Topics

• Affect and Emotion
• Far-right Publics on Social Media
• Media and Migration
• Crisis Communication

Refereed Articles

• Medeiros, D., & Makhashvili, A. (2022). United in Grief? Emotional Communities around the Far-Right Terror Attack in Hanau on TV and Twitter. Media and Communication, Cogitatio, 10(3), 39-49.  https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i3.5438

Lectures

• Medeiros, D., Makhashvili, A. and Lünenborg, M. (2022). Negotiating Journalism's Boundaries within the Networked Affective Publics Around the Far-Right Terror Attak in Hanau. ICA 2022: One World, One Network? 26-30 May 2022, Paris.
• Makhashvili, A. (2022). Hijacking Solidarity: The Networked and Affective Dynamics of Far-Right Publics on Twitter. Media and Publics Conference. 29 April 2022, Roskilde University.

• Makhashvili, A. and Lünenborg, M. (2021). Affective Publics on Twitter: Contesting Journalism’s Authority. ICA 2021: Engaging the Essential Work of Care: Communication, Connectedness, and Social Justice. 27-31 May 2021, online.

• Makhashvili, A. and Lünenborg, M. (2021). #Chemnitz and its Polarized Affective Publics. DACH21: #Kommunikation #(R)Evolution. Zum Wandel der Kommunikation in der digitalen Gesellschaft. 7-9 April 2021, online.

Other

• Jointly with Medeiros, Débora: The affective economy of anxiety or how the German far right capitalizes on Covid-19. In: SFB Affective Societies Blog, September 2020.
• Algorithmic media and the becoming ir/rational of affect. A book review. In: SFB Affective Societies Blog, October 2021.