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Maximilian Jablonowski serves as a Research Fellow at the Institute for European Ethnology within the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Sciences at the University of Vienna, where he has worked since September 2023. Previously, he was a scientific assistant at the University of Zurich's Institute for Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies - Populäre Kulturen, where he completed his doctorate in Popular Cultures in 2019 with a media and technology anthropological work on civilian drones.
His academic background includes:
- M.A. in European Ethnology/Cultural Science from Philipps-University Marburg (2013)
- B.A. in Comparative Cultural and Religious Studies from Philipps-University Marburg (2009)
- CAS in Higher Education Teaching from the University of Zurich (2020)
Dr. Jablonowski's research centers on music video cultures in German-speaking regions, particularly Austria and Switzerland, examining how music videos are produced under contemporary media-technical and cultural-economic conditions. His broader scholarly interests encompass pop culture, popular aesthetics, cultural theoretical debates around Structures of Feeling and Conjunctural Analysis, and media technologies. His methodological approach combines cultural anthropology with media studies to analyze contemporary phenomena through everyday practices and technological mediation, with particular attention to aesthetic dimensions and production cultures.
His publication trajectory reveals a progression from drone studies to contemporary music video analysis. Early work focused on civilian drone technologies, examining visual culture, social implications, and aesthetic dimensions, culminating in his 2022 monograph 'Imagine Drones.' More recent publications shift toward analyzing music video production spaces, pandemic-era cultural shifts, and temporal aspects of popular culture, demonstrating his ability to identify emerging cultural phenomena and develop innovative analytical frameworks.
Dr. Jablonowski serves as the 2nd Deputy Chairman of the German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies and has held leadership roles in the Swiss Society for Folklore. His teaching portfolio includes courses on ethnographic methods, qualitative research, pop culture, and media technology. He co-leads the Wiener Werkstatt Ethnografie and has contributed to exhibition projects including 'pop is a 4-letter word' at Rote Fabrik Zürich and 'Von oben: Spelterinis Ballon und die Drohne' at the Swiss National Library.
