Anna Kuschezki
Short profile
Anna Sophie Kuschezki is a research assistant at the Institute for Communication and Media (ikum) at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and a lecturer on the online journalism programme. Since 2025, she has been working on her doctorate with the junior professorship "Digital Economies" in the Department of Media Management at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Her dissertation focuses on structural perspectives on digital violence against female journalists.
ORCID: 0009-0004-4950-440X
2026 Encouragement Award from the Journalism Research Section (DGPuK)
At the conference of the Journalism/Journalism Research Section of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK) in September 2026, the 2026 Sponsorship Award was presented to Anna Kuschezki. The award is worth 2,000 euros and is made possible by the Ludwig Delp Foundation. As the Section stated: “We extend our warmest congratulations to Anna Kuschezki from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, who impressed the jury with her concept, the high relevance of her topic and her clearly structured plan. Congratulations on the award!
Her research project, “Organisational decision-making and implementation processes in dealing with digital violence against journalists”, is a sub-study of the doctoral thesis that Anna Kuschezki is undertaking in collaboration with Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and the Bauhaus University Weimar.
The project examines how media organisations in Germany develop, introduce and embed measures against digital violence within their organisations. The focus is on the questions of which factors influence decisions for or against specific protective measures, what challenges arise during implementation, and how gender-specific forms of digital violence are taken into account in this process. The study is based on structured interviews with decision-makers from private and public-service media organisations. Theories from organisational research are drawn upon for the analysis. As part of the doctoral thesis, the findings of the study are intended to contribute to a better understanding of how organisations deal with digital violence and to support media organisations in developing effective and sustainable protective measures.
mijofo spokesperson
Since 2026, Anna Kuschezki has been part of the four-member team of spokespersons for the Mid-Career Academics’ Network for Journalism Research (mijofo) within the DGPuK’s Journalism/Journalism Research Section.
mijofo is an independent network run by and for mid-level academic staff within the Journalism/Journalism Research Section. With the support of the Section, mijofo creates opportunities for professional exchange, networking and further training for PhD students, postdocs and other mid-level academic staff. To this end, we organise various events, including monthly get-togethers, PhD student colloquia, workshops and visits to newsrooms.
Publications & Presentations
Publication
Kuschezki, A. S. (2026). (In)security online. An exploratory study on individual, editorial and legal measures against digital violence against female journalists. Communicatio Socialis, 59, 63–74. doi.org/10.5771/0010-3497-2026-1-63
Presentations
Kuschezki, A. S. (24 September 2024). Organisational decision-making and implementation processes in addressing digital violence against journalists: A theoretical approach. Media production and the creative industries between niche and mainstream: economic and sociological approaches. Joint annual conference of the Media Economics and Sociology of Media Communication sections of the DGPuK, St. Pölten.
Kuschezki, A. S. (11 September 2026). Structures, impacts and responses to digital violence against female journalists: Findings from a systematic literature review. Journalistic Quality: New Channels, New Actors, New Formats. Annual Conference of the DGPuK’s Journalism/Journalism Research Section, Cologne.
Kuschezki, A. S. (5 March 2026). Understanding Digital Violence Towards Women Journalists Through a Systematic Literature Review. Bauhaus Colloquium for Emerging Researchers 2026, Weimar.
Kuschezki, A. S.; Heidbrink, H. (12 September 2024). Protecting Female Journalists: Individual Perspectives on Personal, Editorial and Legal Responses to Gendered Online Violence in Germany. Joint Annual Conference of the DGPuK’s Media, Public Sphere and Gender, and Journalism/Journalism Research Sections, Berlin.
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ORCID: 0009-0004-4950-440X