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I am a computational political scientist, currently serving as an Advanced Quantitative Fellow in the Department of Methodology and as a Guest Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the LSE.
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Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies
Solo-authored. 2025. Communist and Post-Communist Studies [open access]
This article explores how text-as-data methodologies can be used to reveal patterns of mass-media manipulation strategies employed in modern autocracies. First, it explains the importance of studying media strategies by reviewing literature on autocratic resilience, with a particular focus on scholarship addressing state-controlled mass-media tactics. Next, it outlines the computational methods currently used to study mass-media management, highlighting key academic contributions in the field of political communication, especially those focused on present-day autocracies. Finally, the article discusses the challenges of using text-as-data methods to study mass-media management strategies in autocracies.
Key words: text as data, text analysis, media, autocracies, Russia
Enemy of Justice? Secrecy in Domestic War Crimes Trials in Serbia
with Denisa Kostovicova and Timothy Waters. 2025. Journal of Genocide Research [open access]
Key words: war crime trials, secrecy, Serbia, optical recognition
Are Domestic War Crimes Trials Biased?
with Ivor Sokolić, Denisa Kostovicova, and Sanja Vico. 2024. Journal of Peace Research [open access]
Keywords: domestic war crimes trials, ethnic bias, paramilitaries, Serbia, deniability, human rights violations
Keywords: Putin, Russia, television, autocracy, autocratic resilience
Grandstanding Instead of Deliberative Policy-making: Parliamentary Questions, Publicness, and Transitional Justice in the Croatian Parliament
with Denisa Kostovicova. 2024. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding [open access]
Key words: parliamentary questions, Croatia, transitional justice, grandstanding, publicness
Legislative Debates and Transitional Justice in the Western Balkans
Policy Article
with Denisa Kostovicova and Ivor Sokolić. 2024. Aspen Institute [open access]
Methods in Russian Studies: Overview of Top Political Science, Economics, and Area Studies Journals
Solo-authored. 2023. Post-Soviet Affairs [open access]
How has Russia been studied by political scientists, economists, and scholars in cognate fields who publish in specialized area-specific journals studied Russia? To systematically analyze the approaches employed in Russian studies over the last decade, I collected all publications (1,097 articles) on the country from the top five area studies journals covering the territories of the former USSR, the top 10 journals in political science, and the top five journals in economics from January 2010 to January 2022 and classified them based on the methods they utilized, empirical focus, and sub-fields within method. In this article, I discuss the results of this classification and the pitfalls associated with over-reliance on some methods over others, notably those that include self-reported data, in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the increasingly repressive domestic environment under Putin’s autocracy. I also propose some ways of addressing the new realities of diminished access to data and fieldwork.
Keywords: Russia, Russian Studies, methods, surveys, survey bias, economics, political science
Textual Corpus from Channel One
book chapter in Autocracy, Influence, War: Russian Propaganda Today, edited by Paul Goode, University of Michigan Press
Solo-authored. Forthcoming
Key words: Russia, television, news
Protests in Russia Raise Questions about the Role of New Media in Democratisation
Blog post about Telegram and its role in protests at Media@LSE. 2021.
Ukraine on Russian Domestic Television: Media Agenda-setting and Distraction, 2009–2019
Solo-authored. R&R
Key words: autocratic resilience, Russia, Ukraine, television, news
Vicarious Denial: War Crimes and Online Deliberation in Serbia for and against Ukraine
with Denisa Kostovicova. R&R
Who's Asking Whom? Gendering in Parliamentary Interactions
with Denisa Kostovicova, Tolga Sinmazdemir, and Vesna Popovski. R&R
Key words: gender, legislature, content analysis, Croatia, interactions
Ingroup and Intergroup Effects of Djokovic's Exclusion from the 2022 Australian Open
with Denisa Kostovicova, Tolga Sinmazdemir, and Sanja Vico. Work in progress
Key words: athletes, national pride, ethnic identity, unexpected event during survey, text as data, Serbia
Ongoing Book Project
I Say, You Say: Transitional Justice as Conversational Practice
with Denisa Kostovicova and Ivor Sokolić. Work in progress
Key words: transitional justice, interactions
Sustaining Dissent: Emotional Shifts and the Persistence of #НетВойне Activism
solo-authored. Work in progress
Key words: digital activism, Russia, war
Islamic Solidarity or Strategic Nostalgia? Neo-Ottomanism in Turkish Reactions to Srebrenica on Twitter
with Denisa Kostovicova and Ivor Sokolić. Work in progress
Key words: Neo-Ottomanism, memory politics, Srebrenica, genocide
When Genocide Trends: Peaks of Online Attention to Mass Violence, 2021–2024
with Denisa Kostovicova and Ivor Sokolić. Work in progress
Key words: genocide
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