Anton Törnberg
POSTDOCTOR
Department of Sociology and WorkAbout Anton Törnberg
Background
Anton Törnberg defended his doctoral thesis in 2017, titled: ”The wicked nature of social systems – a complexity approach to sociology”. The 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.
Anton 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.
Specialist Fields
- Complexity Science/Theory
- 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
Since 2019, Anton is employed as a postdoc at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg. His research chiefly focuses on the radical right movement online, particularly radicalization processes and violent extremism. Methodologically, Anton combines various methods and techniques within machine learning, such as topic modeling, word embedding and sentiment analysis, together with qualitative analysis. He also combined social network analysis and text analysis in order to study how various concepts and discourses diffuse within digital networks.
Together with Mattias Wahlström, Hans Ekbrand and Petter Törnberg, Anton Törnberg is also 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”.
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.
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Prefigurative politics and social change: a typology drawing on transition
studies
Anton Törnberg
Distinktion : Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory - 2021-01-01 -
Dynamics of violent and dehumanizing rhetoric in far-right social
media
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg, Hans Ekbrand
New Media and Society - 2020-01-01 -
Promotion of racist and anti-immigrant violence on social
media
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg, Hans Ekbrand
Research on Racism and Discrimination: Where Are We and Where Are We Heading? A Digital Conference Organized by the Swedish Research Council 15 October 2020 - 2020-01-01 -
Local conditions and national context for anti-immigrant arson attacks: the case of Sweden in the
2000s
Anton Törnberg, Mattias Wahlström, Hans Ekbrand, Måns Lundstedt
ECPR - 2020-01-01 -
Mer fakta i klimatfrågan kommer inte åt den ökade
polariseringen
Johan Söderberg, Anton Törnberg
Ord & Bild - 2020-01-01 -
Teorins död?: Om framväxten av en digital
empirism
Anton Törnberg
Fronesis - 2020-01-01 -
Social Media Mechanisms for Right-Wing Political Violence in the 21st Century: Discursive Opportunities, Group Dynamics, and
Co-Ordination
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg
Terrorism and Political Violence - 2019-01-01 -
Minding the gap between culture and connectivity: laying the foundations for a relational mixed methods social network
analysis
Petter Törnberg, Anton Törnberg
Mixed Methods Social Network Analysis: Theories and Methodologies in Learning and Education. Froehlich, D. E., Rehm, M., & Rienties, B. C. (Eds.) - 2019-01-01 -
Sectoral networks of transnational trade union cooperation in
Europe
Bengt Larsson, Anton Törnberg
Economic and Industrial Democracy - 2019-01-01 -
Dynamics of violent and dehumanizing rhetoric in radical right social
media
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg, Hans Ekbrand
14th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Manchester, United Kingdom, 20 – 23 August 2019 - 2019-01-01 -
Abstractions on steroids: A critical realist approach to computer
simulations
Anton Törnberg
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour - 2019-01-01 -
Wicked systems and the friction between “old theory and new data” in biology, social science and archaeology (in
press)
Claes C, Anton Törnberg, Petter Törnberg
Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution - 2018-01-01 -
Om den högerradikala nätaktivismens
funktioner
Anton Törnberg
Röda rummet - 2018-01-01 -
“A beating is the only language they understand”: Dynamics of violent rhetoric in radical right social
media
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg, Hans Ekbrand
C-REX Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism, 29-30 November, Oslo - 2018-01-01 -
Den kommunikativa blicken. En analys av principerna för svenska kommuners
kommunikationsverksamheter
Magnus Fredriksson, Mathias A. Färdigh, Anton Törnberg
- 2018-01-01 -
The limits of computation: A philosophical critique of contemporary Big Data
research
Petter Törnberg, Anton Törnberg
Big data and Society - 2018-01-01 -
Transnational trade union co-operation networks on sectoral level in
Europe
Bengt Larsson, Anton Törnberg
Industrial Relations in Europe Conference 10-12 sept, Leuven - 2018-01-01 -
The Discursive Mechanisms of the Radical Right
Online
Anton Törnberg
ECPR Hamburg, 22-25 August 2018 - 2018-01-01 -
Violent rhetoric on social media: situational, contextual and individual
dynamics
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg
ECPR Hamburg, 22-25 August 2018 - 2018-01-01 -
The discursive mechanisms of the radical right online: How Stormfront.org reacted to the elections of Obama and
Trump
Anton Törnberg
Sociologidagarna, Working group 4: Digital Sociology. Lund: 7-9 March 2018 - 2018-01-01 -
Unveiling the radical right online Exploring framing and identity in an online anti-immigrant discussion
group
Anton Törnberg, Mattias Wahlström
Sociologisk Forskning - 2018-01-01 -
Combining transition studies and social movement theory: towards a new research
agenda
Anton Törnberg
Theory and Society - 2018-01-01 -
Researching Resistance: Methodological challenges, ethical concerns and the future of Resistance
Studies
Anton Törnberg
Journal of Resistance Studies - 2017-01-01 -
The Wicked Nature of Social Systems - a Complexity Approach to
Sociology
Anton Törnberg
- 2017-01-01 -
Complexity and the Digital World: mixed method digital
research
Anton Törnberg
Paper presented at the Higher Seminar at Umeå university - 2017-01-01 -
Quantitative Tools for Qualitative Analysis: investigating the discursive representations of Muslims and Islam in Social
media
Anton Törnberg
Quantitative Tools for Qualitative Analysis: Computational Social Science meets Discourse Analysis. Alan Turing Institute, London: 15 November - 2017-01-01 -
Discursive opportunities for right-wing political violence in the 21th century: a research
agenda
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg
Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference. Oslo: 6-9 September - 2017-01-01 -
The co-evolution of social mobilization: from free spaces to societal
transitions
Anton Törnberg
BISA conference 2017 in Brighton - 2017-01-01 -
Modelling free social spaces and the diffusion of social
mobilization
Anton Törnberg, Petter Törnberg
Social Movement Studies - 2017-01-01 -
Muslims in social media discourse: Combining topic modeling and critical discourse
analysis
Anton Törnberg, Petter Törnberg
Discourse, Context & Media - 2016-01-01 -
Combining CDA and topic modeling: Analyzing discursive connections between Islamophobia and anti-feminism on an online
forum
Anton Törnberg, Petter Törnberg
Discourse & Society - 2016-01-01 -
Social mobilization
2.0?
Anton Törnberg
Digital Development Debates - 2015-01-01 -
Societal Systems - Complex or
worse?
Claes Andersson, Anton Törnberg, Petter Törnberg
Futures : The journal of policy, planning and futures studies - 2014-01-01 -
Developing of the future: scaffolded Darwinism in societal
evolution
Claes Andersson, Anton Törnberg, Petter Törnberg
Behavioral and Brain Sciences - 2014-01-01 -
An evolutionary developmental approach to cultural
evolution
Claes Andersson, Anton Törnberg, Petter Törnberg
Current Anthropology - 2014-01-01 -
Låt de hungerstrejkande palestinierna
stanna
Hanna Wikström, Tobias Davidsson, Gustav Svensson, André Rodin, Adrián Groglopo, Anders Törnquist, Ann Ighe, Anna Hall, Anna Nelson, Anna R Bengtsson, Anette Skårner, Anton Törnberg, Björn Andersson, Carl Cassegård, Carl Wilén, Catharina Thörn, Charlotte Melander
SVT Opinion - 2014-01-01 -
Resistance Matter(s): Resistance Studies and the Material
Turn
Anton Törnberg
Resistance studies magazine - 2013-01-01 -
Using Complexity Theory Methods for Sociological Theory
Development.
Petter Törnberg, Anton Törnberg
- 2011-01-01