Aneta is a media researcher and lecturer in Communications and Media Studies, in the School of Media, Film and Journalism (MFJ) at Monash University, Melbourne. She has researched in the areas of media and everyday life, social inclusion, consumption, and environmental sustainability, working with a range of scholars and partners across not-for-profit, government and commercial sectors.

Aneta's current research focuses on digital and automated technologies and work futures; thrift/secondhand/circular economies; environmental media. 

She has taught media units in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs, covering topics related to the role of media in social life and social change; media analytics; research training. Aneta has supervised students across disciplines of media and communication, the sociology of consumption and design.

She is part of the 'Media and Environment' research group at MFJ. 

Before joining Monash University in 2016, she had been a researcher at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, where she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on an ARC-funded Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation collaborative, longitudinal study of youth media social enterprise, and later on was a chief investigator on an interdisciplinary research project funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living, examining the role of media and communications in helping promote sustainable home renovations. 

Aneta is co-author of two book manuscripts: Using Media for Social Innovation (Intellect, 2018, with Ellie Rennie), and Grand Designs: Consumer Markets and Home-Making (Palgrave, 2018, with Esther Milne and Jenny Kennedy), and co-editor of the cultural history of skiing (Palgrave, 2018, with Philipp Strobbl).