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Anna Ryzhova

Research Associate and PhD Student

Room HK14c 409
Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 14c
94032 Passau

Phone: +49(0)851/509-3915

Anna.Ryzhova@uni-passau.de

Research Interests

  • Political communication
  • Audience research, with a special focus on Russian-speaking audiences in Germany
  • News trust and news literacy

Office Hours

  • According to agreement

Since July 2020

  • 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

November 2018 to February 2019

  • International Research Fellow at the Caucasus Resource Research Center (CRRC-Armenia) in Yerevan, Armenia
  • Participation in the research project Study on Knowledge of Foreign Languages in Armenia in grant management and outreach communication activities

2017 to 2019

  • Master's studies in Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Master's thesis: Strategic narratives and public diplomacy in the Russian news media portrayal of Sweden: case of Russia Today
  • University of Gothenburg Study Scholarship
  • Adlerbert Foundation Scholarship

2010 to 2015

  • Bachelor's studies in Asian Studies at the Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
  • Bachelor's thesis: The course of the first Indochina war as reflected in American, French, Vietnamese and Russian historiography
  • Selected among students across Russia to study at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Vietnam from 2012 to 2013 with a full scholarship

2024

2023

  • Glazunova, S. & Ryzhova, A. & Bruns, A. & Montaña-Niño, S. X. & Beseler, A. & Dehghan, E. (2023). A platform policy implementation audit of actions against Russia’s state-controlled media. Internet Policy Review, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.14763/2023.2.1711 
  • 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

  • Ryzhova, A. (2022). Motivated by political beliefs, not only by language: How Russian speakers in Germany compose their transnational news repertoires. Journalism. Advance online publication. 
    https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849221130557
  • Toepfl, F., Kravets, D., Ryzhova, A., & Beseler, A. (2023). 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

2024

  • Ryzhova, A. & Toepfl, F. 2024. “Being a journalist? It's very dangerous both there and here”: How russian speaking migrants deploy authoritarian folk theories about news media literacy to make sense of democratic news environments [Conference presentation]. ECREA 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 24–27.

2023

  • Glazunova, S., Ryzhova, A., Bruns, A., Montaña-Niño, S., Beseler, A., & Dehghan, E. (2023). Deplatforming RT and Sputnik during the Russia-Ukraine war: A policy implementation audit in 10 countries. Presentation at the annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), 25- 29 May, Toronto, Canada.

2022

  • Toepfl, F., Ryzhova, A., Kravets, D., & Beseler, A. B. (2022). How misinformation as accessed through Google varies with input language and geolocation: A comparison of Covid-19 conspiracy narratives retrieved from five countries in response to Russian- versus English-language queries. Presentation at the ICA 2022, 26-20 of May, Paris, France

2021

  • Ryzhova, A. (2021). Transnational News Repertoires in times of Conflict: How Russian Speakers in Germany Navigate News Media Landscapes. Annual Aleksanteri Conference, 27-29 October 2021, Helsinki, Finland
  • Ryzhova, A. (2021). Strategic narratives and public diplomacy in the Russian news media portrayal of Sweden: the case of Russia Today. Presentation at the Fifth Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, 6th to 8th of June, Tartu, Estonia.

2019

  • Ryzhova, A. (2019). Fostering new Russian identity: How “Eurasianism” influenced rhetoric and policy of Vladimir Putin during the third presidential term (2012-2018). Presentation at the Fourth Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, 10th to 11th of June, Tartu, Estonia.

Affiliation

This project is affiliated with the Chair of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region.

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