
Maja Sawicka
Analyst DELab UW
Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
Sociologist, assistant professor at the Department of Digital Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. She is interested in the sociology of emotions and social interactions. In her research, she currently focuses on digital interactions and examines the emotional mechanisms underlying the emergence of local digital (sub)cultures of emotions. She specializes in qualitative research methods, with particular emphasis on digital ethnography.
Sociologist, assistant professor at the Department of Digital Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. She is interested in the sociology of emotions and social interactions. Her current research focuses on digital interactions and examines the emotional mechanisms underlying the emergence of local digital (sub)cultures of emotions. She specializes in qualitative research methods, with particular emphasis on digital ethnography. She is an active member of the European Sociological Association (Research Network 11 – Sociology of Emotions) and the Digital Anthropology Laboratory at the University of Tübingen (Germany). In her key publications, she examines how participants in digital interactions jointly construct local, emotional lifeworlds – “ethnopsychologies”. She is the author and co-author of articles published in journals such as Symbolic Interaction, Cultural Sociology, Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, Criminology and Criminal Justice and others. She is a graduate of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation scholarship and also received a scholarship for outstanding young scientists from the Minister of Science and Higher Education.