Publications

Publications

Pre-prints

2024 | Algorithmically Curated Lies: How Search Engines Handle Misinformation about US Biolabs in Ukraine (with Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, Urman, A., Stolze, M., Vitulano, I.). 24 January 2024

2023 | In Generative AI we Trust: Can Chatbots Effectively Verify Political Information? (with Makhortykh, M., Vziatysheva, V., Stolze, M., Baghumyan, A., Urman, A.). 22 December 2023

Peer-reviewed

2023 | Temporally Stable Multilayer Network Embeddings: A Longitudinal Study of Russian Propaganda (with Matter, D., Vziatysheva, V., Vitulano, I., Pfeffer, J.) in Proceedings of the 2023 Tenth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2023, pp. 1-8.

2023 | ‘Blame it on the Algorithm? Russian Government-sponsored Media and Algorithmic Curation of Political Information on Facebook’ (with Makhortykh, M.) International Journal of Communication. 17(2023), 971-992.

2021 | ‘Kontrpropaganda Today: The roots of RT’s defensive practices and countering ethic,’ Journalism. Online First. Open access.

2020 | ‘Theorising Resilience: Russia’s Reaction to US and EU Sanctions’ (with Guter-Sandu, A.), East European Politics. 36:4, 603-621. Open access.

2018 | ‘Framing and Counter-framing in World Politics: The Case Study of Russian International Broadcasting, RT,’ PhD dissertation, City, University of London. 5 November 2018.

Working Papers

2021 | ‘Blame it on the Algorithm? Russian Government-sponsored Media and Algorithmic Curation of Political Information on Facebook’ (with Makhortykh, M.), 62nd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), Las Vegas. 8 April 2021.

2019 | ‘Normative Change and Democracy: Russia’s Digital Messages Find its Way into the International Public Sphere’, Winter School on ‘Digital Epistemics in International Relations’, Groningen, Lausanne, Oslo, Bruxelles, and Erfurt (GLOBE), Leysin (Switzerland).

Media Publications & Appearances

2022 | ‘Eine diverse Gemeinschaft: Mediennutzung russischsprachiger Menschen in Deutschland.’ Radio interview by Annika Schneider. Deutschlandfunk, 11 April 2022.

2022 | ‘Russen in Deutschland trauen vielen Medien nicht’. Der Freitag, 16 March 2022.

2022 | ‘Putin Shuts Down Russia’s Free Press for Reporting Accurately on Ukraine’. Nieman Reports, 9 March 2022.

2021 | ‘Alexei Navalny, Social Media, and the State of Free Press in Russia’. Nieman Reports. Harvard University, 10 June 2021.

2020 | ‘What to know about Russian Election Meddling.’ Media Interview by Higgins B. Elite Daily, 5 October 2020.

2018 | ‘RT and the Ideological Vacuum in Russia’. Diplomatic Magazine, 1 September 2018.

Awards

Robert H. Donaldson Award for the best paper written on the post-Communist region. ‘Russian Public Diplomacy Today: RT and Kontrpropaganda’. Paper presented on the 2019 Annual International Studies Association (ISA). Toronto. March 2019

Workshop & Conference Organisation

2023 | Programme Chair. AI, Big Data, Social Media, and People on the Move. Weizenbaum Conference 2023. Berlin, 19-20 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.cp/5

2023 | The Role of Online Platforms and Their Algorithms During the War in Ukraine’. 73rd Annual ICA Conference. Toronto, 29 May 2023.

2021 | From Cultural Security to Strategic Digital Communication in Russian Media Space’. Panel in Political Communication section at the 62nd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) Las Vegas, 6-9 April 2021.

2020 | ‘Russian Public Diplomacy Today: RT and Kontrpropaganda’, Boston University, Center for the Study of Europe, Research Seminar, 22 May 2020.

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Writing database

Writing database

Hungry for more
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Hungry for more
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Why you should embrace remote research
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Why you should embrace remote research
Qualitative research is typically conducted in-person, in a lab environment. But for many qualitative studies remote research can be just as good, if not better, at generating the insights needed to help a team move forward in their work.
The Creative Cycle
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The Creative Cycle
I’ve noticed a pattern, it reveals itself through my mood and my energy, my self esteem and my ego, and my vigor or my listlessness. I refer to this pattern as the Creative Cycle.
The conversational tendencies to avoid in user interviews
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The conversational tendencies to avoid in user interviews
Our natural social behaviours can hinder a deeper understanding of users. But what are these conversational tendencies and how can we avoid them to conduct better user interviews?
The product team’s missing function
January 12, 2019
The product team’s missing function
In a team of optimists trying to push things forward the researcher provides a necessary friction. Their indifference to the product keeps them questioning whether it needs to exist at all, long after the rest of the team have begun to believe their own stories.