Media scholar, Senior Lecturer - Digital Cultures @Sydney_Uni, @arc_gov_au DECRA fellow, director @SICSSSydney. Tweets about Ukraine, algorithms, and dachshunds
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New paper alert!🚨 In this study, I explore the "boots on the ground" component of Russia's influence operations, showing how historically non-conforming social groups get co-opted to propagate Russia's geopolitical influence in Western democracies:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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Incredibly grateful to @AAUS_says for the Award of the Best Article in Ukrainian studies. Thankful to my supervisor Dr. Rebecca Manley, sp. editors @ViktorPaal and Iris Borowy, @JContHist, @HolodResearchEd and many colleagues for their support. See the article (open access) 🔽
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A new @ConversationEDU article co-written by @olgarithmic from Digital Cultures unpacks why President Zelensky might have secured a win for his country in the US-Ukraine minerals deal. theconversation.com/why-zele…
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The North Atlantic Fella Organisation has devised creative ways to support the Ukrainian cause – while navigating the complexities of content moderation. @olgarithmic @QUT @Sydney_Uni theconversation.com/three-ye…
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DEVELOPING STORY: Berlin ad agency LURE used images of Ukrainian victims to promote Russian outlet @meduza_en, which relies on crowdfunding.
@MFA_Ukraine called it “marketing cynicism” and demanded removal and an apology.
We’ve also contacted them 👇
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The showing of “Russians at War” by the Antenna Documentary Film Festival in Australia should be stopped. The representation of soldiers who have systemically and deliberately raped, looted, tortured, burned, kidnapped and murdered their way through #Ukraine (100K war crimes and counting) as ‘just normal soldiers’ is factually untrue and pure Russian propaganda. You cannot humanise this behaviour, only punish it. What’s next - a doco on why the Gestapo and SS were just misunderstood? Some moral leadership on this issue from our elected leaders would help.
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🕯️ Today, we honor the lives lost in the Holocaust and heroes like Anatoliy Shapiro, a Ukrainian-born Jewish soldier who led the first troops to liberate Auschwitz.
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Yay to new translated 🇺🇦books! In the climate where the people who have ~strong opinions~ about Donbas far outnumber those who actually know the region, "Ukrainian Sunrise" by Kateryna Zarembo is a valuable attempt to "decolonize the knowledge" about Donetsk & Luhansk regions🧵
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Thrilled to share that the Handbook of Computational Social Science manuscript was finally submitted to the publisher in full! Huge thanks to all the authors and reviewers who made this possible.
Check out the Table of Contents!
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“Trump’s return to power in the US raises serious questions about America’s future role in NATO,” says Prof. @ReneedeNevers. “This leaves European NATO with a serious security problem at a time when the threat to Europe from Russia is clear and present.” bit.ly/3OqfbkR
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Russia is now severing the internet cables on which the US and Europe rely for global communications, two in one day.
Probably no coincidence that Musk has the "solution" via his starlink.
Naive western folks still has no idea what's coming.
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Language dynamics in social media in🇺🇦 shifted dramatically since full scale invasion. For 1st time Ukrainian is the language of over 50% of posts & pages, up from 15% in 2020. Someone tell putin his “must keep 🇺🇦 in Ru World” plan backfired yet again. life.pravda.com.ua/society/u…
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probably in a week or two the sound of “carol of the bells” will become inescapable all around the world as everyone eases into xmas. while Pokrovsk, the city where it was composed, is being erased to dust by russians
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Turns out, Musk isn’t a reliable ally - we raised this issue back in 2022 in our @ForeignPolicy piece with @olgarithmic foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/20…
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This book by @DaryaTsymbalyuk, out in March 2025, should be on your reading list.
“In this poignant book, Ukrainian researcher Darya Tsymbalyuk offers an intimate portrait of her beloved homeland against the backdrop of Russia’s war and ecocide.”
The return of birds comes in spring @politybooks #ecocide #environmental #RussianUkrainianWar #StopTheWar #SupportUkraine
politybooks.com/bookdetail?b…
My latest article for @ForeignPolicy on splinternet and Kremlin’s new frontiers in weaponising disinformation:
foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/04…
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“Everything is dead. Not a single organism survived. This is unprecedented. It’s Europe’s first completely dead river.”
Russia is deliberately leaking chemical waste into the Desna river, with deadly consequences for wildlife.
This is ecocide.
theguardian.com/world/2024/o…
