Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
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 is dedicated to collaborative, interdisciplinary academic work that engages communities and industry. She has researched in the areas of media and everyday life, social inclusion, consumption, and environmental sustainability, working together with government, commercial and not-for-profit partners. At Monash, she has taught media units in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs, with the focus on the influence of media on social life and social change. Aneta has supervised students across disciplines of media and communication, the sociology of consumption and design.
Before joining Monash University in 2016, she had been a researcher at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne (2008-2016), 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 chief investigator (with Kath Hulse) 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 (2014-2017). She was also involved in a CRC LCL project called ‘A “market” for analysing residential housing and business policy interventions’ led by CSIRO (2015-2018).
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).
At MFJ she is part of the ‘Environment and Media’ and ‘Culture, Media, Economy’ research programs, and Deputy Director Research Impact and Engagement. She is currently researching digital marketplaces and secondhand economies, environmental media and the impacts of digitisation on the future of work.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Media Studies
- Consumption
- Sustainability
Network
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Workers in transition through automation, digitalisation and robotisation of work
Fyhn, H., Andersen, L., Tondel, G., Søraa, R., Berker, T., Aune, M., Serrano, A., Monteiro, E., Pink, S., Podkalicka, A., Andrejevic, M. & Lanzeni, D.
1/07/20 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
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A “virtual market” for analyzing residential housing policy interventions
3/10/16 → 30/11/17
Project: Research
Research output
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At home with Gumtree: a cultural analysis of Australia’s popular secondhand online marketplace
Podkalicka, A., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Thrift Stores
Podkalicka, A. & Duque Hurtado, M., 2021, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, G. (ed.). USA: John Wiley & Sons, 1 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Encyclopaedia / Dictionary Entry › Other › peer-review
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Dreaming Diversity: Second Generation Australians and the Reimagining of Multicultural Australia
Ballantyne, G. & Podkalicka, A., 2020, In: M/C Journal. 23, 1, 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Grand Designs and The Block: audience engagement and modes of consumption through lifestyle reality TV in Australia
Milne, E. & Podkalicka, A. M., 2020, Routledge Companion to Global Television. Shimpach, S. (ed.). 1st ed. Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge, p. 152-162 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
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Lived, Local and Everyday: Understanding Media Use in Green Home Renovation
Podkalicka, A. M. & Anderson, D., 2020, When the Local meets the Digital: Implications and Consequences for Environmental Communication. Diaz Pont, J., Maeseele, P., Egan Sjölander, A., Mishra, M. & Foxwell-Norton, K. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 247-269 23 p. (Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
Activities
- 1 Editorial responsibility
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Linkoping University Electronic Press (Publisher)
Aneta Podkalicka (Guest editor) & Alexa Färber (Guest editor)
2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility