Anne Burkhardt is a postdoctoral researcher in the field of “AI & (Global) Justice” at the Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence (RHET AI Center). She is a member of Unit 2 of the RHET AI Center, which is based at the Chair of Audiovisual Media, Film and Television in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Tübingen.

Anne Burkhardt's current research focuses on artificial intelligence and questions of global justice. Drawing on epistemologies, discourses, and theories from the (Global) Souths, she examines the epistemic, infrastructural, economic, environmental, and narrative inequalities surrounding AI, as well as approaches to addressing them.

Her areas of expertise include film and media analysis, applied media and technology ethics, and Global South Studies, with a regional focus on Latin America. She leads the international and interdisciplinary Working Group AI & Global Justice at the International Center for Global South Studies (ICGSS) and coordinates the RHET AI Center’s international collaboration with partners in the Global South through the RhetAI Coalition.

Anne Burkhardt studied Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Mainz. She received her PhD from the Department of Media Studies at the University of Tübingen with a dissertation on cinematic representations of the Colombian armed conflict, which was awarded a Dissertation Prize of the German Association for Latin American Research (ADLAF).During her doctoral studies, she spent most of her time in Colombia, supported by scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the State Graduate Funding Programme of Baden-Württemberg, where she also contributed to the organization of a local short film festival. From 2014 to 2016, she served as a lecturer and research assistant at the Department of Media Studies and the Center for Media Competence (ZFM) at the University of Tübingen. Between 2016 and 2021, she worked as a research associate on several third-party funded projects in the research area “Society, Culture and Technological Change” at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), University of Tübingen. Since January 2022, she has been a postdoctoral researcher in Unit 2 of the RHET AI Center.

• Burkhardt, Anne (2026): Visualising the Invisible: Representations and Narrative Motifs of AI in Latin American Film. In: Digital Culture & Society 11/2, S. 223-250. Special Issue “Towards Popular Techno-Futures – a Global Policy Perspective”, Hg. von Jascha Bareis, Anya Heise-von der Lippe & Felix Spremberg, Bielefeld: transcript. https://digicults.org/files/2026/05/DCS_11_2_8_Burkhardt.pdf
• Burkhardt, Anne (2025): Von der technischen Erweiterung des Menschen zur menschlichen Erweiterung der Technik: Hierarchie, Extraktion und Ausbeutung in Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera, 2008). In: Reiter, Barbara; Reulecke, Anne-Kathrin (Hg.): Imaginationen künstlicher Menschen. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf zeitgenössische Romane, Filme und Serien. Graz: University Library Publishing, S. 97-118. DOI: doi.org/10.25364/978-3-903374-43-0-05
• Burkhardt, Anne (2025): Artificial intelligence in the work and view of Latin American filmmakers: insights from a qualitative interview study. AI & Society 41/2, S. 969–987. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02577-3
• Burkhardt, Anne (2025): Infrastructural Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence—On the Implications of AI Infrastructures for Global Justice. In: Bieling, Hans-Jürgen; Diez, Thomas; Flemmer, Riccarda; Futterer, Andrea (Hg.): Transnational Infrastructures and the Transformation of Global Orders. Springer, SpaceAffairs: City – Region – Landscape, S. 81-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74846-2_6
• Burkhardt, Anne (2023): ‘Centering the South(s)’: Dekoloniale Perspektiven auf Künstliche Intelligenz. Pre-Print zum Sammelband: Burkhardt, Anne; Kramer, Olaf; Marschall, Susanne (Hg.): Artificial Turn? Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Künstliche Intelligenz. Freiburg, wbg/Herder. https://rhet.ai/2023/12/13/centering-the-souths-dekoloniale-perspektiven-auf-kuenstliche-intelligenz/
• Jang, Heesoo; Narayanamoorthy, Nanditha; Schelenz, Laura; Brandner, Lou Therese; Burkhardt, Anne; Hirsbrunner, Simon David; Timcke, Scott (2023): Platform (In)Justice: A Call for a Global Research Agenda. Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), Minneapolis, MN, USA, Pages 411–414, https://doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3608439
• Jang, Heesoo; Narayanamoorthy, Nanditha; Schelenz, Laura; Brandner, Lou Therese; Burkhardt, Anne; Hirsbrunner, Simon David; Pidoux, Jessica; Timcke, Scott; Lampinen, Airi; Shaikh, Riyaj Isamiya (2023): Platform (In)Justice: Exploring Research Priorities and Practical Solutions. Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), Minneapolis, MN, USA, Pages 576–580, https://doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3606953
• Burkhardt, Anne (2021): Aspekte einer guten Medienpraxis für Quartiere der Vielfalt. In: Frevel, Bernhard (Hg.): Migration und Sicherheit in der Stadt. Münster: Lit-Verlag, S. 140-159,https://www.migsst.de/onewebmedia/Frevel%20%28Hg%29%20migsst%209783643150295.pdf
• Bescherer, Peter/Burkhardt, Anne/Feustel, Robert/Mackenroth, Gisela/Sievi, Luzia (2021): Urbane Konflikte und die Krise der Demokratie. Stadtentwicklung, Rechtsruck und Soziale Bewegungen. Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot. ISBN: 978-3-89691-057-8
• Burkhardt, Anne (2019): Kino in Kolumbien. Der innerkolumbianische Konflikt im Film zwischen Gewaltdiskurs und (trans-)nationaler Identität. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN: 978-3-8376-4673-3

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