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  1. My war is your special operation: Engagement with pro- and anti-regime framing of the war in Ukraine on Russian social media

    Article • Media War & Conflict, September 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  2. Correction to: How do media contribute to the dissemination of conspiracy beliefs? A field study combining panel and web tracking at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Journal of Communication, September 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  3. 273Holocaust Memory on Instagram and TikTok

    Article • July 2025, De Gruyter

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  4. How do media contribute to the dissemination of conspiracy beliefs? A field study combining panel and web tracking at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Journal of Communication, July 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  5. WEIRD Audits? Research Trends, Linguistic and Geographical Disparities in the Algorithm Audits of Online Platforms - A Systematic Literature Review

    Article • June 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  6. Finding Frames With BERT: A Transformer-Based Approach to Generic News Frame Detection

    Article • Social Science Computer Review, May 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  7. Tracing Knowledge Gaps: Investigating the Influence of Education on News Exposure and Knowledge Using Digital Trace Data

    Article • The International Journal of Press/Politics, May 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  8. Propaganda and Ideology in the Russian‐Ukrainian War by JonRoozenbeek. Contemporary Social Issues. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 234 pp. $34.99. ISBN 978‐1‐00‐924400‐8

    Article • The Russian Review, April 2025, Wiley

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  9. Populist radical-right attitudes, media trust, and social media reliance: Combining survey and tracking data to investigate predictors of online exposure to disinformation

    Article • Telematics and Informatics, April 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  10. Where did you come from, where did you go? News trajectories in Germany and Switzerland

    Article • Journal of Computational Social Science, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  11. Is a single model enough? The systematic comparison of computational approaches for detecting populist radical right content

    Article • Quality & Quantity, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  12. A matter of mindset? Features and processes of newsroom-based corporate communication in times of artificial intelligence

    Article • Corporate Communications An International Journal, January 2025, Emerald

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  13. Digital Dybbuks and virtual Golems: the ethics of digital duplicates in Holocaust testimony

    Article • Memory Mind & Media, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  14. Handling the hype: Demystifying artificial intelligence for memory studies

    Article • Memory Mind & Media, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  15. Digital Dybbuks and virtual Golems: the ethics of digital duplicates in Holocaust testimony – ERRATUM

    Article • Memory Mind & Media, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  16. In generative AI we trust: can chatbots effectively verify political information?

    Article • Journal of Computational Social Science, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  17. Imagining Human-AI Memory Symbiosis

    Article • Memory Studies Review, December 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  18. Panning for gold: Comparative analysis of cross-platform approaches for automated detection of political content in textual data

    Article • PLOS One, November 2024, PLOS

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  19. Examining bias perpetuation in academic search engines: An algorithm audit of Google and Semantic Scholar

    Article • First Monday, November 2024, University of Illinois Libraries

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  20. The silence of the LLMs: Cross-lingual analysis of guardrail-related political bias and false information prevalence in ChatGPT, Google Bard (Gemini), and Bing Chat

    Article • Telematics and Informatics, November 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  21. Trolls, bots and everyone else: the analysis of multilingual social media manipulation campaigns on Twitter during 2019 elections in Ukraine

    Article • East European Politics, October 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  22. Improving the Quality of Individual-Level Web Tracking: Challenges of Existing Approaches and Introduction of a New Content and Long-Tail Sensitive Academic Solution

    Article • Social Science Computer Review, October 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  23. Personality and political news consumption online: A comparison between self-reports and webtracking data

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, October 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  24. Does it get better with time? Web search consistency and relevance in the visual representation of the Holocaust

    Article • September 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  25. Stochastic lies: How LLM-powered chatbots deal with Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine

    Article • August 2024, Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  26. Digitally witnessable war from pereklychka to propaganda: Unfolding Telegram communication during Russia’s war in Ukraine

    Article • Media War & Conflict, July 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  27. Framing is Mightier than the Sword: Detection of Episodic and Thematic Framing in News Media

    Article • Human Computation, June 2024, ThinkSplash, LLC

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  28. User Attitudes to Content Moderation in Web Search

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  29. How should platforms be archived? On sustainable use practices of a Telegram Archive to study Russia’s war against Ukraine

    Article • Media Culture & Society, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  30. Populist Radical-Right Attitudes, Political Involvement and Selective Information Consumption: Who Tunes Out and Who Prefers Attitude-Consonant Information

    Article • Mass Communication & Society, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  31. Hyperpartisan, Alternative, and Conspiracy Media Users: An Anti-Establishment Portrait

    Article • Political Communication, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  32. Shall the robots remember? Conceptualising the role of non-human agents in digital memory communication

    Article • Memory Mind & Media, January 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  33. Personality and Political News Consumption: A Re-Evaluation of the Evidence Using Webtracking Data

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  34. Populist Radical-Right Attitudes, Media Trust, and Social Media Reliance: Combining Survey and Tracking Data to Investigate Predictors of Online Exposure to Disinformation

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  35. #Hashtag Commemoration: A Comparison of Public Engagement with Commemoration Events for Neuengamme, Srebrenica, and Beau Bassin During Covid-19 Lockdowns

    Article • December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  36. AI and Archives: How can Technology Help Preserve Holocaust Heritage Under the Risk of Disappearance?

    Article • Eastern European Holocaust Studies, December 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  37. The user is dead, long live the platform? Problematising the user-centric focus of (digital) memory studies

    Article • Memory Studies, December 2023, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  38. Constants and Variables: How Does the Visual Representation of the Holocaust by AI Change Over Time

    Article • Eastern European Holocaust Studies, November 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  39. Generative AI and Contestation and Instrumentalization of Memory About the Holocaust in Ukraine

    Article • Eastern European Holocaust Studies, November 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  40. Open Forum: Possibilities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence for Holocaust Memory

    Article • Eastern European Holocaust Studies, November 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  41. Unreliable Narrators or Untimely Archivists? Challenges of Using Digital Platforms for Documenting and Remembering Russia’s War in Ukraine

    Article • Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, September 2023, Project Muse

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  42. Novelty in News Search: A Longitudinal Study of the 2020 US Elections

    Article • Social Science Computer Review, August 2023, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  43. Shall androids dream of genocides? How generative AI can change the future of memorialization of mass atrocities

    Article • Discover Artificial Intelligence, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  44. #Azovsteel: Comparing qualitative and quantitative approaches for studying framing of the siege of Mariupol on Twitter

    Article • Media War & Conflict, July 2023, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  45. You are how (and where) you search? Comparative analysis of web search behavior using web tracking data

    Article • Journal of Computational Social Science, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  46. How transparent are transparency reports? Comparative analysis of transparency reporting across online platforms

    Article • Telecommunications Policy, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  47. Populist Right Parties on TikTok: Spectacularization, Personalization, and Hate Speech

    Article • Media and Communication, March 2023, Cogitatio

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  48. Do (Not!) Track Me: Relationship Between Willingness to Participate and Sample Composition in Online Information Behavior Tracking Research

    Article • Social Science Computer Review, February 2023, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  49. No AI After Auschwitz? Bridging AI and Memory Ethics in the Context of Information Retrieval of Genocide-Related Information

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  50. Can an algorithm remember the Holocaust? Comparative algorithm audit of Holocaust-related information on search engines

    Article • January 2023, Nomos Verlag

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  51. Memory, counter-memory and denialism: How search engines circulate information about the Holodomor-related memory wars

    Article • Memory Studies, November 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  52. Media Trust and the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Short-Term Trust Changes, Their Ideological Drivers and Consequences in Switzerland

    Article • Communication Research, November 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  53. My war is your special operation: Engagement with pro- and anti-regime framing of the war in Ukraine on Russian social media

    Article • September 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  54. Where the earth is flat and 9/11 is an inside job: A comparative algorithm audit of conspiratorial information in web search results

    Article • Telematics and Informatics, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  55. Representativeness and face-ism: Gender bias in image search

    Article • New Media & Society, June 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  56. “Foreign beauties want to meet you”: The sexualization of women in Google’s organic and sponsored text search results

    Article • New Media & Society, June 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  57. Laughing to forget or to remember? Anne Frank memes and mediatization of Holocaust memory

    Article • Media Culture & Society, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  58. Scaling up search engine audits: Practical insights for algorithm auditing

    Article • Journal of Information Science, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  59. Auditing the representation of migrants in image web search results

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  60. News, Threats, and Trust: How COVID-19 News Shaped Political Trust, and How Threat Perceptions Conditioned This Relationship

    Article • The International Journal of Press/Politics, April 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  61. Not all who are bots are evil: A cross-platform analysis of automated agent governance

    Article • New Media & Society, April 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  62. Sociotechnical imaginaries of algorithmic governance in EU policy on online disinformation and FinTech

    Article • New Media & Society, April 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  63. A story of (non)compliance, bias, and conspiracies: How Google and Yandex represented Smart Voting during the 2021 parliamentary elections in Russia

    Article • March 2022, Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  64. How to Reach Nirvana: Yandex, News Personalisation, and the Future of Russian Journalistic Media

    Article • Digital Journalism, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  65. To track or not to track: examining perceptions of online tracking for information behavior research

    Article • Internet Research, December 2021, Emerald

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  66. Hey, Google, is it what the Holocaust looked like?

    Article • First Monday, October 2021, University of Illinois Libraries

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  67. Can Filter Bubbles Protect Information Freedom? Discussions of Algorithmic News Recommenders in Eastern Europe

    Article • Digital Journalism, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  68. Safeguarding the Journalistic DNA: Attitudes towards the Role of Professional Values in Algorithmic News Recommender Designs

    Article • Digital Journalism, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  69. The Matter of Chance: Auditing Web Search Results Related to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Primary Elections Across Six Search Engines

    Article • Social Science Computer Review, April 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  70. Auditing Source Diversity Bias in Video Search Results Using Virtual Agents

    Article • April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Aleksandra Urman, Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  71. There can be only one truth: Ideological segregation and online news communities in Ukraine

    Article • Global Media and Communication, April 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  72. Detecting Race and Gender Bias in Visual Representation of AI on Web Search Engines

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  73. Memoriae ex machina: How Algorithms Make Us Remember and Forget

    Article • Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, January 2021, Project Muse

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  74. Explanations of news personalisation across countries and media types

    Article • Internet Policy Review, October 2020, Internet Policy Review, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  75. Overcoming polarization with chatbot news? Investigating the impact of news content containing opposing views on agreement and credibility

    Article • European Journal of Communication, July 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  76. We are what we click: Understanding time and content-based habits of online news readers

    Article • New Media & Society, July 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  77. How search engines disseminate information about COVID-19 and why they should do better

    Article • May 2020, Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  78. Memory, politics and emotions: internet memes and protests in Venezuela and Ukraine

    Article • Continuum, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  79. Historical memory and securitisation of the Russian intervention in Syria

    Article • International Politics, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  80. Four tales of sci-fi and information law

    Article • Internet Policy Review, March 2020, Internet Policy Review, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  81. Personalizing the war: Perspectives for the adoption of news recommendation algorithms in the media coverage of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine

    Article • Media War & Conflict, February 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  82. Past Is Another Resource: Remembering the 70th Anniversary of the Victory Day on LiveJournal

    Article • Nationalities Papers, January 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  83. Animating the subjugated past: digital greeting cards as a form of counter-memory

    Article • Visual Communication, December 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  84. Designing for the better by taking users into account

    Article • September 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  85. News personalization for peace: how algorithmic recommendations can impact conflict coverage

    Article • International Journal of Conflict Management, June 2019, Emerald

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  86. Reading News with a Purpose

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Felicia Loecherbach, Shabnam Najafian, Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  87. SIREN

    Article • January 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  88. Uphill from here: Sentiment patterns in videos from left- and right-wing

    Article • January 2019, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  89. #Euromaidan: Quantitative Analysis of Multilingual Framing 2013–2014 Ukrainian Protests on Twitter

    Article • August 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  90. Nurturing the pain: audiovisual tributes to the Holocaust on YouTube

    Article • Holocaust Studies, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  91. Discussing Wartime Collaboration in a Transnational Digital Space: The Framing of the UPA and the Latvian Legion in Wikipedia

    Article • December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  92. Remediating the past: YouTube and Second World War memory in Ukraine and Russia

    Article • Memory Studies, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  93. War Memories and Online Encyclopedias

    Article • Journal of Educational Media Memory and Society, September 2017, Berghahn Journals

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  94. Social media and visual framing of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine

    Article • Media War & Conflict, April 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh

  95. #SaveDonbassPeople: Twitter, Propaganda, and Conflict in Eastern Ukraine

    Article • The Communication Review, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Mykola Makhortykh