Dr. Anna Antonakis

Profile

Dr. Anna Antonakis Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

  • Contact hours Tuesday
    Wednesday
    Thursday
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Bern Academy of the Arts
    Forschung
    Fellerstrasse 11
    3027 Bern

Activities

  • PostDoc Research Field Social Design

  • Lecturer Master Design

  • Lecturer Bachelor Transformation Design

Teaching

  • Master Design, Bern University of the Arts, Bern University of Applied Sciences

  • Bachelor Transformation Design, Bern University of the Arts, Bern University of Applied Sciences

  • Diagonal Modul "Calling Bullshit"

  • AWE, School for Computing, Communication and Business, University for Applied Sciences, Berlin

  • Master Media and Political Communication, Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (2019-2022)

  • Bachelor Media and Communication Studies, Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (2019-2022)

  • Dis.em.POWER.ered by Design

  • Gender. Macht. Technik - Sozio-technologische Zugänge zur Erforschung von Ungleichheitsverhältnissen (since 2017)

  • Gender, Power and Technologies in an International Perspective

  • Globale Ungleichheitsverhältnisse und Digitale Teilhabe in Vernetzen Öffentlichkeiten

  • Public Spheres – Power, Participation and Positionality

  • Analyzing Legacies of In- and Exclusions in Journalism Studies and Practices

  • Politik, Film und Konflikt in Mittleren Osten und Nordafrika – Ein Filmseminar

  • Negotiating Race and Gender in a Networked Public Sphere

Research

  • Social Design

  • Science and Technology Studies

  • Political Theory

  • Policy Research

  • Digital Transformation and Intersectionality

  • Digital Mobilisation and Violence

  • Participation and Regulations

  • Inequalities by Design

CV

  • As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Anna Antonakis explores questions around digital technologies and representations, social mobilization and security/ies from post-colonial and intersectional perspectives and engages with critical platform governance studies, regulations and media literacies. Her research interest is anchored in the historical moment of the revolutionary uprisings in Tunisia 2010/2011, which she witnessed on- and offline. She holds a PhD in Political Science from FU Berlin and joined the Institute of Design Research in April 2025.
  • 2022-2024 Senior Program Officer for Gender&Peacebuilding swisspeace
  • 2017-2022 Research Associate Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Media and Communication Studies
  • 2020-2021 Guest Lecturer Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Media and Communication Studies
  • 2013-2016 PhD-Fellow at the Research Division: Middle East and Africa, Project: Elite Change and New Social Mobilizations in the Arab World German Research Institute for Foreign and Security studies (SWP), Berlin
  • 2012-2017 PhD Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Political and Social Science
  • 2006-2012 Diploma Political Science Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Political and Social Science

Projects

Publications

  • (2016) Contested Transformation: Mobilized Publics in Tunisia between Compliance and
    Protest in: Mediterranean Politics. 21 (2016).
    DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2015.1081447

Memberships

  • European Association for the Study of Sciences and Technologies

  • European Consortium for Political Research, Standing Group Internet and Politics

  • Swiss Association for Gender Studies

  • German Association for Political Science (DVPW)

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • French - Full professional proficiency
  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • Spanish - Limited working proficiency
  • Arabic - Elementary proficiency
  • Tunisia
  • Germany
  • Morocco
  • Lebanon