Ana Makhashvili M.A.

Journalism Studies
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
CRC Project "Affective Societies"
Doctoral Researcher
Room JK 33/231
14195 Berlin
Office hours
During winter term 2020/21:
Appointment by arrangement via e-mail
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
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.
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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.
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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.