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Ana-Nzinga Weiß

@ananzinga.bsky.social

Researcher at Rostock University | interested in critical media research, media and socio-cultural change, racism and intersectionality, epistemic hierarchies, participation in hybrid media systems

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Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut @bredowinstitut.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

📣Open access erschienen: #M&K Heft 3/2025 zu "Diversität, Intersektionalität und Geschlecht im Journalismus" 🗺️🌈📖, herausgegeben von @mluenenborg.bsky.social, @ananzinga.bsky.social, @yenerbayramoglu.bsky.social und @bernadetteuth.bsky.social 👉 www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/1...

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Ana-Nzinga Weiß @ananzinga.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The case study focuses on how racism was debated in German public media after the 2020 BLM protests.

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Ana-Nzinga Weiß @ananzinga.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I develop a framework to analyze how media representations (re)produce inequality in Germany's hybrid media system.

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Ana-Nzinga Weiß @ananzinga.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

It offers insights from my PhD research on public debates about racism in political talk shows on German public-service television, YouTube, and Instagram.

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Ana-Nzinga Weiß @ananzinga.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

New article out now in Frontiers in Sociology! [Open access] My latest article has been published in Frontiers in Sociology: 🔗 www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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Frontiers | Between normative universality and sharing embodied knowledge–exploring the (re-) definition of legitimate knowledge and knowers using the example of the German public media debate about r...

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Ana-Nzinga Weiß @ananzinga.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We need to continue asking: What is it in platforms that could facilitate disruption of conformity to dominant discourse?

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Ana-Nzinga Weiß @ananzinga.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

And yet, disruptions of a best-of-both-worlds normativity in the trend are: “[…] difficult in current platform politics and increasingly unlikely with platforms’ recent accelerated return to promoting right-wing libertarian content policies […]”

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Ana-Nzinga Weiß @ananzinga.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Still, there are moments of rupture, where users push back against the constraints of the platform trend and the imposition of racialized ideals. Here, creators do resist dominant discourses and neoliberal platform logics.

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Ana-Nzinga Weiß @ananzinga.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“[…] satisfies the neoliberal desire for individuality while simultaneously reinforcing this need by sustaining and benefiting from the platform’s trend-driven infrastructure. As McMillan Cottom (2020) points out, platform capitalism is racial capitalism […].”

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Ana-Nzinga Weiß @ananzinga.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We show how TikTok’s platform logic rewards identity performances that conform to a dominant, white, cis-heteronormative gaze, while leaving little space for representations that challenge these norms. Performing an ideal of mixedness following gendered and racialized beauty standards thereby:

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Ana-Nzinga Weiß @ananzinga.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

NEW PUBLICATION [OPEN ACCESS] @floprim.bsky.social , Hanna Szabó and I have published our latest article in Platforms & Society: ‘Eyo, mixed girl check’: The commodification of embodied performance in the #mixedgirlcheck trend on TikTok 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2976...

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YECREA @yecrea.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Great onboarding meeting with new & ongoing #YECREA reps! Excited to keep supporting early career researchers in media & communication studies through networking, mentorship & collaboration. Let’s make an impact together!

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