PD Dr. Anna Litvinenko
About
Anna Litvinenko is a researcher at the “Digitalization and Participation” unit at the IfPuK and an associate researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. From 2015 to 2020, she was a member of the Emmy Noether Research Group “The Mediatization of (Semi-)Authoritarian Rule: The Power of the Internet in the Post-Soviet Space” at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2024, she completed her habilitation in Media and Communication Studies at FU Berlin.
Anna Litvinenko studied journalism in Saint Petersburg and subsequently worked as a journalist for various Russian and German media outlets. After earning her PhD in 2007, she became an associate professor at Saint Petersburg State University (SPSU). Between 2010 and 2015, she headed the German-Russian Center for Journalism at SPSU, and from 2012 to 2015 she also directed the Office for International Academic Exchange.
Positions
Associate Researcher, Research Group: Digital News Dynamics
Former Research Fellow, Research Group: Digitalization and the Transnational Public Sphere (February - April 2020)
Fields of Research
Anna Litvinenko conducts research on:
- The role of social media in diverse socio-political contexts
- political communication in (semi-)authoritarian regimes
- media trust
- innovative dialogue formats for strengthening social cohesion