Mareike Fenja Bauer is a PhD Candidate and researcher at the European New School of Digital Studies. She has a background in information science, political science, and social science. In her PhD project she focusses on anti-feminism on visual social media platforms. More precisely, in her doctoral research she is interest in how female anti-feminist influencers engage in meaning-making processes and the distribution of anti-feminism on visual social media platforms.

Here are some of her recent works:

• Bauer, Mareike Fenja (2023) Beauty, baby and backlash? Anti-feminist influencers on TikTok, Feminist Media Studies.
• Bauer, Mareike Fenja (2023). Anti-Feminism in the Context of Corona Conspiracy Theories in Germany. In: Goetz, Judith, und Stefanie Mayer, Hrsg. Global Perspectives on Anti-Feminism: Far-Right and Religious Attacks on Equality and Diversity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
• Bauer, M., Heimstädt, M., Franzreb, C., & Schimmler, S. (2023). Clickbait or conspiracy? How Twitter users address the epistemic uncertainty of a controversial preprint. Big Data & Society, 10(2).