Background
Anton obtained his BA and MA degree in sociology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has previously worked as a research assistant within several projects at the Department of Physical Resource Theory at Chalmers University of Technology, and has been assegno di ricerca at the European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT) at Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy. Anton defended his doctoral thesis in 2017, titled: “The wicked nature of social systems – a complexity approach to sociology”. Available at: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/51507
Specialist Fields
- Complexity Science/Theory
- Methodology
- Social media and Big data
- Social Movement Theory
- Critical/Complex Realism
- Agent-based Modelling
- Social Network Analysis
- Automated Text Analysis
- Philosophy of Science
Current research
Antons’ doctoral thesis investigates how the interdisciplinary field of Complexity Science can inform both sociological theory and methodological practice. Empirically the focus in the theses lies on digital data and social movements.
Starting in 2017, Anton is together with Mattias Wahlström, Hans Ekbrand and Petter Törnberg involved in a project focusing on extreme-right discourses in social media and the potential impact of such discourses on offline action. The project is titled: “Online social media as discursive opportunity structure for attacks against refugee housing facilities”. He also continues the research on the intersection between complexity theory and sociology, and develops tools for automated text analysis of digital data.
Cooperation
Anton has worked within several projects at the Department of Physical Resource Theory at Chalmers University of Technology, among others INSITE and the ED-FET project Emergence by Design: two research projects focusing on innovation dynamics and socio-technological change. Anton is also organizing an interdisciplinary PhD-course in Social Network Analysis together with two colleagues at Physical Resource theory. Anton has previously been a guest researcher at the University of Amsterdam, at ECLT in Venice and at UMASS, in Massachusetts, USA.
