Daria Kravets
Research Associate and PhD Student
Research Interests
- Search engines
- Algorithmic bias
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computational methods and Computational Social Sciences
Thesis title:
Search Engines as Mediators of Foreign Influence: A Case-Study of Russian News Flows Abroad through the Search Engines Google and Yandex
Teaching (in German):
Automatisierte Datensammlung und Analyse mit R (Kursmaterialien)
Since October 2020
- Teaching and Research Associate at the Chair of Science Communication with Prof. Dr. Hannah Schmid-Petri at the University of Passau
Since December 2019
- Research Associate and Doctoral Student at the Chair of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region within the ERC Consolidator Grant Research Group: The Consequences of the Internet for Russia's Informational Influence Abroad (RUSINFORM) with Prof. Dr. Florian Töpfl at the University of Passau
October 2019 to January 2020
- Lecturer for “Web Scraping for Social Sciences" at Technische Universität Berlin
May 2019 to November 2019
- Research Assistant at the Emmy Noether research group "Mediating (Semi-)Authoritarianism. The Power of the Internet in the post-Soviet World" at Freie Universität Berlin
2016 to 2019
- Tutor for „Introduction into Media and Communication Science“ at Freie Universität Berlin
2016 to 2019
- Master's studies in Media and Political Communication at Freie Universität Berlin and at the University of Melbourne, Australia
2015 to 2019
- Student Assistant at the Emmy Noether research group "Mediating (Semi-)Authoritarianism. The Power of the Internet in the post-Soviet World" at Freie Universität Berlin
2013 to 2016
- Bachelor's studies in Media and Communication Science and Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin
Publications
2023
- Kravets, D., Ryzhova, A., Toepfl, F., & Beseler, A. (2023). Different platforms, different plots? The Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex as a resource for Russia’s informational influence in Belarus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journalism. Advanced Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231157845
- Toepfl, F., Ryzhova, A., Kravets, D., & Beseler, A. (2023). Googling in Russian Abroad: How Kremlin-Affiliated Websites Contribute to the Visibility of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories in Search Results. International Journal Of Communication, 17, 1126–1146.
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19423/4042
2022
- Toepfl, F., Kravets, D., Ryzhova, A., & Beseler, A. (2022). Who are the plotters behind the pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Google search results across five key target countries of Russia’s foreign communication. Information, Communication & Society, 26(10), 2033-2051. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2065213
2021
- Kravets, D., & Toepfl, F. (2021). Gauging Reference and Source Bias Over Time: How Russia’s Partially State-Controlled Search Engine Yandex Mediated an Anti-Regime Protest Event. Information, Communication & Society, 25(15), 2207-2223.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1933563
2023
- Kravets-Meinke, Daria (2023). Yandex's Top-5 News Algorithms as a Resource of Russia's Propaganda.Präsentation auf der ZOiS Jahreskonferenz, PechaKucha-Abend am ZOiS, 16. November 2023, Berlin.
- Kravets-Meinke, D., Ryzhova, A. & Toepfl, F. (2023). The Kremlin-Controlled Search Engine Yandex as a Resource for Russia’s Informational Influence in Belarus During the COVID-19 Pandemic. AoIR2023 (2023 Association of Internet Researchers Conference), 18.-21. Oktober 2023, Philadelphia, USA.
- Kravets-Meinke, D. (2023). Auditing Yandex’s Top News Algorithms in Belarus. 9th Annual Conference of the International Journal of Press/Politics, 12.-13. Oktober 2023, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2022
Kravets, Daria (May 2022). Search engines as ‘globalizing machines’: International news flow through Google during the 2020 Belarusian election. International Communication Association (ICA) 2022, Paris, France
2021
Kravets, Daria (Jan 2021). Search Engines and Foreign Influence: Google as a Mediator of Russian Influence during the 2020 Belarusian Presidential Election. PolComm Research Workshop REEE-Series. Online.
2019
Kravets, Daria & Töpfl, Florian (Nov 2019). Gauging Content and Precision Bias Over Time: How Russia’s Leading Search Engine Yandex Mediated an Anti-Regime Protest Event. DigiKomm2019 Conference “Automating Communication in the Networked Society: Contexts, Consequences, Critique," Berlin, Germany.
Kravets, Daria & Töpfl, Florian (Apr 2019). Ranking the Past: How Search Engines Construct Memories of Opposition Protests in Authoritarian Russia. 7th International Conference Comparative Media Studies in Today’s World, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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