Maciej Grzenkowicz
Groningen University, the Netherlands
PhD, visiting student (2023.10-2023.12)
Research: multimodal; argumentation; fact-checking; discoursestudies; visual anthropology
Email: M.N.GRZENKOWICZ@RUG.NL
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Education
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Maciej Grzenkowicz is a scholar in multimodal argumentation working on TikTok at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. But he is also a journalist and a writer. He is writing for a Polish website OKO. press, but also for Gazeta Wyborcza and Dział Zagraniczny. In 2021 his book about micronations was published: 'Tycipaństwa. Księżniczki, Bitcoiny i kraje wymyślone'.
Visiting PhD researcher at the Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Shanghai International Studies University (2023.10-2023.12) Founded by the China-Link Scholarship
Currently a PhD student at the University of Groningen, Netherlands (2022-).
Project title: Tik-Tok, it's time for the truth! The multimodal language of fact-checking on TikTokMA in Liberal Arts - University of Warsaw, Poland. (2019-2021)
Thesis title: Between the nation-state and the idea-state. Strategies of creating the identity of citizens of Liberland and ChristianiaMA in Discourse Studies - University of Warsaw, Poland. (2019-2021)
Thesis title: Disgusting post-democracy. Discourses of disgust in Polish presidential debates in 2020
2021 Minister of Science and Education Scholarship for Students for the Outstanding Achievements Awarded by the Minister of Science and Education Przemysław Czarnek
2020 Rector Scholarship for the Best Students of the University of Warsaw Awarded by the Rector of the University of Warsaw Alojzy Nowak
2019 Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for Students for the Outstanding Achievements Awarded by the Minister of Science and Higher Education Jarosław Gowin
2018 Rector Scholarship for the Best Students of the University of Warsaw Awarded by the Rector of the University of Warsaw Marcin Pałys
Grzenkowicz, M. (2022). Polityczne przechodzi w śmieszne. Polskie i czeskie memy początku pandemii jako lustrzane odbicie politycznych dyskursów epidemiologicznych obu krajów [The political becomes funny. Polish and Czech memes from the beginning of the pandemic as a reflection of the political epidemiological discourses of the both countries]. In: Budzyńska-Daca, A., Rusin Dybalska, R. (eds.) Dyskursy polityczne w Polsce i Czechach po roku 1989: gatunki, strategie komunikacyjne, wizerunki medialne/Politické diskurzy v Polsku a Česku po roce 1989: žánry, komunikační strategie, mediální obrazy [Political Discourses in Poland and Czechia after the year 1989: genres, communication strategies, media images]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
Grzenkowicz, M. (2022). ‘Mój ziom się powiesił w Sylwestra.’ Autodestrukcja klas wyższych w twórczości Maty i narodziny patointeligencji [‘My homie hanged himself on the New Years Eve.’ Autodestruction of the young higher classes in the work of Mata and the birth of patointelligentsia]. In: Witkowska, H., Rudnicka, E. (eds.). Nikt nie chce umierać. Autodestrukcja w perspektywie kulturowej [No one wants to die. Cultural aspects of autodestruction]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
Grzenkowicz, M. (2020). ‘Looks Like It’s Suicide Again For Moe!’ Etyka przedstawienia prób samobójczych w animated sitcoms na przykładzie Moe Szyslaka z serialu ‘Simpsonowie’ [‘Looks Like It’s Suicide Again For Moe!’ Ethics of Suicide Attempts’ Depiction in Animated Sitcoms In the Case of Moe Szyslak from ‘The Simpsons’]. In: Witkowska, H., Rudnicka, E. (eds.). Autodestrukcja. Sytuacje graniczne w kulturze współczesnej [Autodestruction. Border situations in contemporary culture]. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
Grzenkowicz, M. (2021). Tycipaństwa [Tiny Countries]. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie [A non-fiction book connected to my research on micronations].
Grzenkowicz, M. (2020). Przykładność [Exemplarity]. [In:] Łątkowska, M. [ed.]. Wiosnę odwołano. Antologia dzienników pandemicznych [Spring has been cancelled. Anthology of the pandemic journals]. Kraków, Warszawa: Instytut Literatury, Oficyna Wydawnicza Volumen [A journal form the first three months of the pandemic awarded by the Polish Institute of Literature].