Tetyana Lokot
Dr
Tanya (Tetyana) Lokot is Associate Professor in Digital Media and Society and Programme Chair of the MA in Social Media Communications at the School of Communications. A native of Ukraine, she researches threats to digital rights, networked authoritarianism, networked citizenship, digital resistance, internet freedom and internet governance in Eastern Europe. She is the author of Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and Augmented Dissent (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), an in-depth study of protest and digital media in Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity.
She is currently PI (Project Coordinator) on the MEDIATIZED EU project (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2020 GA no: 101004534). She is also a member of the ECREA Governing Body (since 2024) and Vice-Chair of the ECREA Ukraine Task Force (since 2022). In 2022, she was a SSSHARC Fellow at the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre, University of Sydney, Australia. In 2023, she was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies in Bochum, Germany.
Tanya's research has been published in Information, Communication & Society; Social Media + Society; Digital Journalism; Internet Policy Review; Surveillance & Society; Misinformation Review; Irish Studies in International Affairs; Partecipazione et Conflitto; Media and Communication; Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies; Post-Soviet Affairs and Journal of International Relations and Development. She has presented her research at top international conferences, including ICA, AoIR, IAMCR, ECPR and ECREA. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy and The Irish Independent, and she frequently contributes expert commentary to Wired, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, CodaStory and Bloomberg.
She has contributed research to Freedom House's Freedom on the Net report and the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index. In 2014-2016 and in 2021-2022, she was contributing editor covering Eastern Europe at Global Voices and a contributor to Advox. Prior to embarking on a research career, she worked as a journalist, non-profit consultant, and media trainer in Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia, and speaks fluent English, Ukrainian, and Russian.
Previously, she was Assistant Professor and Head of New Media Sequence at Mohyla School of Journalism (National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine). Tanya received her PhD from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
Current research projects and initiatives:
Negotiating Networked Citizenship in Authoritarian Regimes: As part of my 2023 Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany, I began investigating the competing interpretations and practices of networked citizenship in authoritarian regimes. I am now continuing work on understanding networked citizenship in a global context.
The Global Politics of Internet Freedom: In collaboration with Dr. Mariëlle Wijermars (Maastricht University), the project analyses how various groups of actors – the tech and academic community, non-profit advocacy organisations, states and corporations – have influenced how we conceptualise internet freedom and the real-world consequences of their ideas. Center for Advanced Internet Studies 2024 Working Group.
MEDIATIZED EU: Mediatised Discourses on Europeanisation and Their Representations in Public Perceptions (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2020 GA no: 101004534) is a European Research and Innovation Action project that studies how the diverse media discourses across Europe are constructed to either foster or hamper the European project and how they resonate among the public, by focusing on the elite-media-public triangle. Kicking off in 2021, the four-year MEDIATIZED EU project, coordinated by DCU, conducts comparative research across seven European countries to reveal the impact of mediatised discourses on Europeanisation.
Interdisciplinary Digital Research Group: This is a new initiative within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at DCU. The purpose of the initiative is to develop a collaborative space for inquiry and applied research that is dedicated to openness in terms of disciplinary perspective, theory, and methodology, and that is committed to critical and grounded approaches to understanding the human world of the present, past, and future.
Book
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Lokot, Tetyana (2021) Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and Augmented Dissent. London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. [Link] https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786605962/Beyond-the-Protest-Square-Digital-Media-and-Augmented-Dissent |
Book Chapter
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2022 | Scott Gehlbach; Tetyana Lokot; Anton Shirikov (2022) 'The Russian media' In: Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. [Link] [DOI] | |
2022 | Tetyana Lokot (2022) 'Social Media and Protest: Contextualising the Affordances of Networked Publics' In: Constitutionalising Social Media. Oxford, UK : Hart Publishing / Bloomsbury Publishing. [Link] http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509953738 | |
2022 | O’Brien, S.; Cadwell, P.; Lokot, T. (2022) 'Parallel Pandemic Spaces: Translation, trust and social media' In: Translation and Social Media Communication in the Age of the Pandemic. [Link] [DOI] | |
2021 | Lokot, Tetyana (2021) 'The Future of Visibility: Imagining Possibilities for Networked Civic Discontent' In: Horizon Scanning: The Role of Information Technologies in the Future of Civil Society. Moscow, Russia : Cogito-Centre. [Link] [DOI] | |
2021 | Porshnev, Alexander, Alex Miltsov, Tetyana Lokot, and Olessia Koltsova (2021) 'Effects of Conspiracy Thinking Style, Framing and Political Interest on Accuracy of Fake News Recognition by Social Media Users: Evidence from Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine' In: Social Computing and Social Media: Experience Design and Social Network Analysis. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12774. Cham : Springer International Publishing. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77626-8_23 | |
2019 | Lokot, Tetyana (2019) 'Affective Resistance Against Online Misogyny and Homophobia on the RuNet' In: Gender Hate Online. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96226-9_11 | |
2019 | Lokot, T. (2019) 'Mediated urban protest: Practicing dissent in hybrid city spaces' In: The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication. [Link] [DOI] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
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2023 | Tetyana Lokot (2023) 'The role of citizens’ affective media practices in participatory warfare during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine'. Journal of International Relations and Development, 26 (4). [Link] https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00317-y | |
2023 | Lokot, Tetyana (2023) 'Russia’s Networked Authoritarianism in Ukraine’s Occupied Territories during the Full-Scale Invasion: Control and Resilience'. LSE Public Policy Review, 3 (1). [Link] https://doi.org/10.31389/lseppr.85 | |
2023 | Lokot, T.; Wijermars, M. (2023) 'The politics of internet freedom rankings'. Internet Policy Review, 12 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2023 | Andrew Iliadis; Eugenia Siapera; Tetyana Lokot (2023) 'Decolonising the internet: an introduction to the #AoIR2022 special issue'. INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY, 26 (12):2369-2375. [Link] [DOI] | |
2023 | Ana Pérez Escoda; Tetyana Lokot (2023) 'Mediatized Discourses on European Integration: Information, Disinformation, and Polarization'. Media and Communication, 11 (4). [Link] https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.i367 | |
2023 | Ana Pérez-Escoda; Tetyana Lokot (2023) 'Charting the Impacts of Media Discourses on the European Integration Project'. Media and Communication, 11 (4). [Link] https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v11i4.7526 | |
2022 | WIjermars, Mariëlle; Lokot, Tetyana (2022) 'Is Telegram a “harbinger of freedom”? The performance, practices, and perception of platforms as political actors in authoritarian states'. Post-Soviet Affairs, 38 (1-2):125-145. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2022.2030645 | |
2022 | Lokot, Tetyana; Boichak, Olga (2022) 'Translating Protest: Networked Diasporas and Transnational Mobilisation in Ukraine’s Euromaidan Protests'. Partecipazione e Conflitto, 15 (1):203-222. [Link] [DOI] | |
2021 | Lokot, Tetyana (2021) 'Ukraine is Europe? Complicating the concept of the 'European' in the wake of an urban protest'. COMMUNICATION AND CRITICAL-CULTURAL STUDIES, 18 (4). [DOI] | |
2020 | Lokot, Tetyana (2020) 'Articulating Networked Citizenship on the Russian Internet: A Case for Competing Affordances'. Social Media + Society, 6 (4). [Link] https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120984459 | |
2020 | Lokot, T. (2020) 'Data subjects vs. people’s data: Competing discourses of privacy and power in modern Russia'. Media and Communication, 8 . [Link] http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2883 | |
2020 | Freelon, Deen; Lokot, Tetyana (2020) 'Russian Twitter disinformation campaigns reach across the American political spectrum'. HKS Misinformation Review, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-003 | |
2019 | Lokot, Tetyana (2019) 'Urban Media Studies| The Augmented City in Protest: The Urban Media Studies Perspective'. International Journal of Communication, 13 :5333-5350. [Link] https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/7975 | |
2018 | Lokot, Tetyana (2018) 'Urban Murals and the Post-Protest Imagery of Networked Publics: The Remediated Aftermath of Ukraine’s Euromaidan on Instagram'. WiderScreen, (1-2/2018). [Link] | |
2018 | Lokot, Tetyana (2018) 'Be Safe or Be Seen? How Russian Activists Negotiate Visibility and Security in Online Resistance Practices'. Surveillance & Society, 16 (3):332-346. [Link] https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v16i3.6967 | |
2018 | Lokot, Tetyana (2018) '#IAmNotAfraidToSayIt: stories of sexual violence as everyday political speech on Facebook'. INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY, 21 (6):802-817. [Link] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1430161 | |
2017 | Lokot, Tetyana (2017) 'Public Networked Discourses in the Ukraine-Russia Conflict: ‘Patriotic Hackers’ and Digital Populism'. IRISH STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (PRINT), 28 :99-116. [Link] http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3318/isia.2017.28.9 | |
2015 | Lokot, Tetyana; Diakopoulos, Nicholas (2015) 'News Bots: Automating news and information dissemination on Twitter'. DIGITAL JOURNALISM, 4 (6):682-699. [Link] |
Other Journal
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2021 | Lokot, Tetyana; Dias, Marcos (2021) 'The Mediapolis Q&A: Marcos Dias’ The Machinic City' 6 (3) . [Link] | |
2020 | Lokot, Tetyana (2020) 'The Landscape as a Monument: Time, Space and Memory in the Geographies of Eastern Ukraine' 5 (4) . [Link] | |
2015 | Lokot, T., Prado, A., Xu, B., and Steiner, L. (2015) 'News Magazine Coverage of the Petraeus/Broadwell Affair: The Disjunction between Power and Agency' 43 (2) :6-21. |
Conference Publication
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2020 | Wijermars, Mariëlle; Lokot, Tetyana (2020) Association of Internet Researchers THE POLITICS OF INTERNET FREEDOM RANKINGS: A CALL FOR A COMPARATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING INTERNET FREEDOM https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11362 | |
2020 | Lokot, Tetyana; Boichak, Olga (2020) Association of Internet Researchers EXPLORING NETWORKED IDENTITY AND TRANSNATIONAL MOBILIZATION IN UKRAINE’S EUROMAIDAN PROTEST https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11263 | |
2016 | Karamshuk, D., Lokot, T., Pryymak, O., Sastry, N. (2016) 8th International Conference on Social Informatics Identifying Partisan Slant in News Articles and Twitter during Political Crises [Link] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-47880-7_16 | |
2021 | Porshnev, Alexander; Miltsov, Alexandre; Lokot, Tetyana; Koltsova, Olessia (2021) HCI International 2021 (Conference Proceedings, LNCS) Effects of conspiracy thinking style, framing and political interest on accuracy of fake news recognition by social media users: evidence from Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine Washington, DC (virtual conference), 24/07/2021- 29/07/2021 [Link] https://link.springer.com/conference/hci |
Conference Contribution
Published Report
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2024 | Jan Farfał; Wojciech Przybylski; Magda Jakubowska; Anna Hofmann; Zakaria Al Shmaly; Rostyslava Babinets; Marek Bičan; Stanislav Budnitsky; Tetiana Bulakh; Olga Chyzhova; Nikola Dimitrov; Pavel Havlíček; Marek Havrda; Tetyana Lokot; Hennadiy Maksak; Vukan Marković; Eric Maurice; Merouan Mekouar; Felix Oldenburg; Samuel Ramani; Emma Rimpiläinen; Maryia Rohava; Naira Sahakyan; Maria Simeonova; Žilvinas Švedkauskas; Paul Taylor; Julian Waller; Amanda Zadorian (2024) Costs of Non-Enlargement: Foresight Report on EU Enlargement and Neighbourhood. Visegrad Insight, ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS, . [Link] | |
2022 | Lokot, Tetyana (2022) Unfreedom Monitor: Russia Country Report. Advox / Global Voices, . [Link] | |
2022 | multiple authors, including Lokot, Tetyana (2022) The 2022 Ranking Digital Rights Big Tech Scorecard. Ranking Digital Rights, . [Link] | |
2020 | Ranking Digital Rights (multiple authors, including Lokot, Tetyana) (2020) 2020 Corporate Accountability Index. Ranking Digital Rights, New America Foundation, . [Link] | |
2019 | Matteo Tarantino; Tetyana Lokot; Susan Moore; Scott Rodgers; Simone Tosoni; Alexandre Babak Hedjazi (2019) Urban Data Cultures in Post-Socialist Countries: Challenges for Evidence-Based Policy towards Housing Sustainability. University of Geneva, . [Link] [DOI] | |
2019 | Ranking Digital Rights (multiple authors, including Lokot, Tetyana) (2019) 2019 Corporate Accountability Index. Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation, . [Link] | |
2018 | Ranking Digital Rights (multiple authors, including Lokot, Tetyana) (2018) 2018 Corporate Accountability Index. Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation, . [Link] | |
2017 | Ranking Digital Rights (multiple authors, including Lokot, Tetyana) (2017) 2017 Corporate Accountability Index. Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation, . [Link] | |
2015 | Ranking Digital Rights (multiple authors, including Lokot, Tetyana) (2015) 2015 Corporate Accountability Index. Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation, . [Link] |
Editorial
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Olga Boichak; Tetyana Lokot (2022) Billionaires Won’t Save Ukraine’s Internet. ED [Link] | |
2021 | Lokot, Tetyana; Wijermars, Mariëlle (2021) Russia’s Social Media Self-Censorship Law is Misguided – and the West Must Avoid Making the Same Mistake. ED [Link] | |
2021 | Lokot, Tetyana; Wijermars, Mariëlle (2021) The Kremlin forced U.S. tech firms to shut down an app some Russian voters hoped to use. Now what?. ED [Link] | |
2019 | Lokot, Tetyana (2019) Opinion: Ukraine elected a comedian and an actual rock star this year. So now what?. ED [Link] |
Online Article
Year | Publication | |
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2024 | Tetyana Lokot (2024) What does Telegram founder's arrest mean for tech platforms globally?. Dublin, Ireland: ELEA [Link] | |
2020 | Herasimenka, A., Lokot, T., Onuch, O., Wijermars, M. (2020) There’s more to Belarus’s ‘Telegram Revolution’ than a cellphone app. Washington, DC, USA: ELEA [Link] | |
2019 | Lokot, Tetyana; Lipman, Maria (2019) Disconnecting the Russian Internet: Implications of the New “Digital Sovereignty” Bill. Washington, DC, USA: ELEA [Link] | |
2019 | Ging, Debbie; Lokot, Tetyana (2019) Does social media love hate?. Dublin, Ireland: ELEA [Link] | |
2018 | Lokot, Tetyana (2018) Russia's problem with social media memes. Dublin, Ireland: ELEA [Link] | |
2018 | Lokot, Tetyana (2018) Telegram: What’s In an App?. Washington, DC, USA: ELEA [Link] | |
2017 | Lokot, Tetyana (2017) Visible Protests in the Hybrid Media Era: Social Media, Live Streaming and Witnessing. ELEA [Link] | |
2013 | Lokot, Tetyana (2013) Dilutions of Grandeur: Meme Longevity and Political Disillusionment. ELEA [Link] | |
2013 | Lokot, Tetyana (2013) Dead or Not Dead? Technology, Media and Death. ELEA [Link] |
Blog
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2022 | Wijermars, Mariëlle; Lokot, Tetyana (2022) Conceptualizing Platforms as Actors in Contentious Politics – A Novel Approach. New York, NY: BLOG [Link] |
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Digital media and society; internet governance; digital authoritarianism; war, conflict and digital media