Annekatrin Bock

Annekatrin Bock is a Professor of Media Research with a focus on the Digitalization of Education at the University of Vechta, where she also leads the Medienkompetenzzentrum Vechta. She is affiliated with the Faculty of Educational Sciences and specializes in the intersection of media, communication, and educational research. Her career includes significant roles at the Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien | Georg-Eckert-Institut in Braunschweig, where she led the 'Medien in der Schule' research team, and teaching positions at TU Braunschweig, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and the University of Cologne.

Her research interests include media research, digital transformation in education, datafication of schools, Open Educational Resources (OER), ethnographic classroom studies, and critical app studies. She investigates how digital technologies reshape teaching, learning, and institutional cultures, particularly during and after the pandemic. Her methodological expertise lies in qualitative and ethnographic approaches, with a focus on observational data and sociotechnical walkthroughs.

The recent publications reflect a strong trend toward critical digital education, examining how data, algorithms, and platforms influence educational practices. Her work spans from theoretical critiques of sharing culture in OER to empirical studies on mobile media use in schools and digital textbook transformation. She emphasizes equity, agency, and participatory design in digital learning environments.

• Scientific awards: None explicitly mentioned.

Bock has supervised and collaborated on multiple research projects funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, and the Hasso Plattner Institute. These projects include ETIC (Education, Technology and Inequality after Corona), DATAFIED, LernDiWa, and Schools in the Cloud. She mentors students and offers thesis topics in action research, AI in education, and media-pedagogical concept development. She actively contributes to public discourse through keynotes and workshops on AI, digital learning, and educational futures.

She is involved in several research teams and labs, most notably the Medienkompetenzzentrum Vechta and collaborative ethnographic research groups with institutions like the Georg-Eckert-Institut and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Her collaborative network includes scholars such as Felicitas Macgilchrist, Kerstin Rabenstein, and Nadine Wagener-Böck.