Dr. Anja Stevic, M.A. MSc

Postdoctoral Researcher

Währinger Straße 29 (R. 7.37), 1090 Vienna

✆  +43-1-4277-49318
✉  anja.stevic@univie.ac.at

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Anja Stevic is a researcher (postdoc since July 2021) in the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna since August 2018. She studied journalism, communication and political science at the University of Zagreb, the University of Vienna and University of Warsaw. As a graduate student, she was a visiting researcher at the MSU Social Science Research Centre in 2016. Her research focuses on social media and well-being, media effects and mobile communication.



Awards & Acknowledgements

  • 2023, September
    Stanford post-doc exchange scholarship of the University of Vienna for a research stay at the Department of Communication, Stanford University (Professor Jeff Hancock)
  • 2023, May
    Top 4 Paper Panel Award for the paper "A tale of two concepts. Differential predictions of habitual and compulsive social media use concerning connection overload and sleep quality", Mobile Communication Division, ICA annual convention, Toronto, Canada (as a co-author of Kevin Koban & Jörg Matthes).
  • 2023, March
    Teaching Award, Department of Communication, University of Vienna, for excellent teaching in Communication Science
  • 2021, October
    Research Award (1st place, together with Isabelle Freiling), Department of Communication, University of Vienna, for the project To Disclose or Not to Disclose? The Role of Anxiety, Privacy Concerns, and Connectedness in Online Self-Disclosure