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Queens College
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Research:
As a former television and Internet journalist, United Nations Development Programme communication professional, and a media scholar, I am deeply intrigued by the changing relationship between the state and the civil society in the digital era. As a Ukrainian studies scholar, I am fascinated by unfolding opportunities for development of democracy in Ukraine with the rise of new media.
My current research focuses on grassroots digital start-ups and social media campaigns, which provide new mechanisms for what I call public 鈥榮elf-service鈥� in Ukraine. I explore how digital infrastructure facilitates the co-production of public services between citizens and state institutions, enabling civic activists to participate in welfare state-building. Ultimately I show that a motivation for volunteering and extensive social mutual self-help networks of cooperation and trust, coupled with the availability of the unpoliced and highly accessible digital media, have led to the development of a robust 鈥榙igital civil society鈥� in Ukraine. Digital media affordances allow grassroots civic initiatives to gain scale and institutionalise themselves, retaining the horizontal ethos of co-production. The case of Ukraine thus contributes to a growing body of evidence of the strength of informal digital civic activism in post-Soviet and post-colonial societies, inviting us to revisit the presuppositions of the liberal paradigm in civil society studies, which have dominated the scholarly debate in Western Europe and Northern America since the early 2000s.
Publications:
- 鈥楤ook Review: Karl Schl枚gel:听Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland鈥�, Journal of European Studies, volume 49, issue: 1: 87-88.
- 'Where Broadcast and Digital Cultures Collide: A Case Study of Public Service Media in Ukraine', Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (digitalicons.org), No 17: 73-92. Available online:
- 'Attention Please!: Exploring Attention Management on Wikipedia in the Context of the Ukrainian Crisis' in Ciampaglia Giovanni听Luca et al. (eds.) Social Informatics, 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2017, Proceedings, Part II (with Jon Roozenbeek).
- 'Ukrainian Television in the Context of Current Global Media Trends.'听Journalism 14 (39): 139-149. Available听.
- 'The Global Media Trends in the Content of the TV-Channel STB.'听Scientific Research of the Ukrainian Media Content: Social Dimention 1 (4): 15-22. Available听.
- 'Russian Television in the Information Warfare between Ukraine and Russia in 2014.'听Obraz 2 (17): 44-54. Available听.
Selected Conference Papers:
- 鈥楾he Right to Self-Defense: Exploring the Role of Nationalist Volunteer Battalions in the Military Conflict in Ukraine鈥檚 Donbas鈥�, 50th Annual ASEEES Convention, Boston, USA, 6-9 December 2018.
- 鈥業nternet as Public Self-Service Media: Exploring Digital Civil Society in Post-Maidan Ukraine鈥�, Internet, Policy & Politics Conference 2018, University of Oxford, UK, 20-21 September 2018.
- 鈥楿kraine's Digital Civil Society Against Russian Propaganda: Whose Story Will Make History?鈥�, Forum Transregionale Studien, Prisma Ukra茂na, Research Network Eastern Europe, Berlin, Germany, 19 June 2018.
- 鈥楾he Conflict in Ukraine and (Anti-)Russian Intervention: The Case Study of Ukrainian Grassroots Fact-Checking Projects鈥�, 2018 World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Harriman Institute, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA, 3-5 May 2018.
- 鈥楴et Non-Profit: How Internet Mediates the Rise of Philanthropic Engagement in Post-Maidan Ukraine鈥�, (BASEES) Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, 澳门六合彩开奖记录, 13-15 April 2018.
- 鈥楿nexpected Digital Nation: Exploring the Networked Forms of Civil Society in Post-Maidan Ukraine鈥�, Ukraine: Hope for the future, or land of lost opportunity? Reform, politics and protest, foreign relations and conflict, St. Antony鈥檚 College, University of Oxford, 7-8 March 2018.
- 'Attention Please!: Exploring Attention Management on Wikipedia in the Context of the Ukrainian Crisis' (with Jon Rozenbeek), Social Informatics, 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 13-15 September 2017.
- 鈥榃here Broadcast and Digital Cultures Collide: A Case Study of Public Service Media in Ukraine鈥�, 2017 Annual International Communication Association Conference 鈥業nterventions: Communication Research and Practice鈥�, San Diego, USA, 25-29 May 2017.
- 鈥榊es Web Can: The Role of the Internet in Establishment of Public Service Media in Ukraine鈥�, Graduate Conference on Screen Media and Cultures, Corpus Christi College, 澳门六合彩开奖记录, 澳门六合彩开奖记录, UK, 27 April 2016.
- 鈥楾he Tabloidization of Social Issues as a Challenge for the Journalism of Tolerance (Based on Example of the Talk-Show 鈥極ne For All鈥�, STB)鈥�, the International Scientific Conference of Postgraduate Students and Young Researchers 鈥淢odern Challenges for Socially Significant Media Practice鈥�, the Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, 26-27 March 2015.
- 鈥楪lobal Modern Media Trends and Ukrainian Television鈥�, the XIII International International Scientific Conference of Postgraduate Students and Young Researchers 鈥淪hevchenkivska Vesna 鈥� 2015: Social Communications鈥�, the Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2 April 2015.
Awards and Scholarships:
- Erasmus+ Scholarship, CamPo, 澳门六合彩开奖记录, 2020.
- The First Prize in PhD Thesis Presentation Contest of the Ukrainian Academic International听Network, 2018.
- Senkowsky Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Ukrainian Studies, Harvard University, 2017.
- Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Studentship, Harvard University, 2017.
- PhD Studentship (CEELBAS Affiliate Award), 澳门六合彩开奖记录, 2016.
- Perry Fund Award, Queens鈥� College, 澳门六合彩开奖记录, 2016, 2018.
Teaching Experience:
- Ukrainian Language Teaching Fellow (Elementary A and Elementary B), 澳门六合彩开奖记录 University, 2017-2019.
- Grammar Supervision, ab initio Russian (Part IA), 澳门六合彩开奖记录 University, 2019.
- Guest lecturer, 鈥楾elevision journalism鈥�, Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
- Course instructor, 鈥楾elevision presenting鈥�, Institute of Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Languages (in addition to English)
Ukrainian (native), Russian (native), advanced French (DALF C1), basic Spanish and German
