Olessia Koltsova

Senior Research Fellow:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / Centre for Interdisciplinary Basic Research
Associate Professor:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Sociology
Laboratory Head:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities / Internet Studies Lab

Olessia Koltsova has been at HSE since 2002.

Short bio

Olessia Koltsova is an academic commited to interdicplinary data driven research and respective task-oriented teaching. As the director of Laboratory for Internet Studies, she leads various collective projects in the sphere of internet and society, as well as in methods of large-scale automatic internet data analysis for social science. In recent years, she has published on online community structure, user content topical composition and sentiment, relation of internet to protests, electoral preferences, entrepreneurial success, and other topics. She is also the author of News Media and Power in Russia, Routledge, 2006.

Education and Degrees

2001
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Sociological Sciences
Thesis Title: The institute of mass media in contemporary Russia: news production as a system of power relations
1998
Master
European University in St. Petersburg
1995
Diploma
Saint Petersburg State University
1995
Diploma
Saint Petersburg State University

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Professional Interests

analysis of large internet data social studies of the Internet online social networks

Student Term / Thesis Papers

Master
E`. Kirkizh «Интернет как фактор влияния на участие в протестах: межстрановой анализ». St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2015
S. Orlova «Освещение событий Евромайдана и его последствий в российских и украинских СМИ». St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2015

Full list of of student term / thesis papers

Courses (2016/2017)

Глобальная коммуникация и информационные потоки (Minor; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 3, 4 module)
Past Courses

Courses (2015/2016)

Глобальная коммуникация и информационные потоки (Minor; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 3, 4 module)

Courses (2013/2014)

Sociological Theory (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Sociology; 4 year, 3 module)

Editorial board membership

2014: Member of the Editorial Board, Internet Research.
2001: Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Eurasian Studies.

Publications²⁶

Preprint Koltsova O., Selivanova G. EXPLAINING OFFLINE PARTICIPATION IN A SOCIAL MOVEMENT WITH ONLINE DATA: THE CASE OF OBSERVERS FOR FAIR ELECTIONS / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series SOC "Sociology". 2015. No. 67.
Article Koltsova O., Scherbak A. N. ‘LiveJournal Libra!’: The political blogosphere and voting preferences in Russia in 2011–2012 // New Media and Society. 2015. Vol. 17. No. 10. P. 1715-1732. doi
Article Meylakhs P., Rykov Y., Koltsova O., Koltsov S. An AIDS-denialist Online Community in a Russian Social Networking Service: Patterns of Interactions with the Newcomers and Rhetorical Strategies of Persuasion // Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2014. Vol. 16. No. 11. P. e261.
Chapter Koltsova, O., Koltcov, S., Alexeeva, S. Do ordinary bloggers really differ from blog celebrities?, in: Proceedings of WebSci '14 ACM Web Science Conference, Bloomington, IN, USA — June 23 - 26, 2014. NY : ACM, 2014. P. 166-170.
Chapter Koltsov S., Koltsova O., Nikolenko S. I. Latent Dirichlet Allocation: Stability and Applications to Studies of User-Generated content, in: Proceedings of WebSci '14 ACM Web Science Conference, Bloomington, IN, USA — June 23 - 26, 2014. NY : ACM, 2014. P. 161-165.
Chapter Nikolenko S. I., Koltsov S., Koltsova O. Measuring Topic Quality in Latent Dirichlet Allocation, in: Proceedings of the Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics: Aspects of Interaction 2014 Conference. St. Petersburg : The Euler International Mathematical Institute, 2014. P. 149-157.
Preprint Koltsova O., Sergei Koltcov. When Location Does Not Matter: Membership And Networking In Online Communities Of Software Developers / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series SOC "Sociology". 2014. No. WP BRP 57/SOC/2014.
Chapter Svetlana Alexeeva, Olessia Koltsova, Sergei Koltsov Общественное мнение онлайн: сравнение структуры и тематики постов «обычных» и «популярных» блогеров Живого Журнала // В кн.: Supplementary Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts (AIST 2014) / Ed. by D. I. Ignatov, M. Y. Khachay, A. Panchenko, N. Konstantinova, R. Yavorsky, D. Ustalov. Vol. 1197: Supplementary Proceedings of AIST 2014. Ekaterinburg : CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2014. С. 177-181.
Preprint Maslinsky K. A., Koltsov S., Koltsova O. Changes in the Topical Structure of Russian-Language Livejournal: The Impact of Elections 2011 / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series SOC "Sociology". 2013. No. 14.
Preprint Koltsova O., Koltsov S., Nikolenko S. I. Comment-Based Discussion Communities In The Russian LiveJournal And Their Topical Coherence / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series SOC "Sociology". 2013. No. WP BRP 33/SOC/2013.
Chapter Bodrunova S., Koltsov S., Koltsova O., Nikolenko S. I., Shimorina A. Interval Semi-supervised LDA: Classifying Needles in a Haystack, in: Proceedings of the 12th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2013) Part I: Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications. Berlin : Springer Verlag, 2013. P. 265-274.
Article Koltsova O., Sergei Koltcov. Mapping the Public Agenda with Topic Modeling:The Case of the Russian LiveJournal // Policy & Internet. 2013. Vol. 5. No. 2. P. 207-227.
Article Кольцова Е. Ю., Маслинский К. А. Выявление тематической структуры российской блогосферы: автоматические методы анализа текстов // Социология: методология, методы, математическое моделирование. 2013. № 36. С. 113-139.
Article Кольцова О. Ю., Ясавеев И. Г. Конструирование проблемы полицейского насилия в Российской блогосфере: риторика, лейтмотивы и стили // Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии. 2013
Chapter Кольцова Е. Ю. Чем дышит блогосфера? К Методологии анализа больших текстовых данных для социологических задач // В кн.: Онлайн исследования в России 3.0 / Отв. ред.: И. Ф. Девятко, А. В. Шашкин, С. Г. Давыдов; науч. ред.: И. Ф. Девятко. М. : OMI RUSSIA, 2012. С. 163-187.
Chapter Koltsova O. The Role of Media for Democracy. Coverage of Social Problems in the St. Petersburg Press, in: Use and Views of Media in Sweden & Russia. A comparative Study in St. Petersburg &Stockholm / Ed. by C. von Feilitzaen, P. Petrov. Issue 44. Huddinge : Södertörns högskola, 2011. Ch. 6. P. 249-270.
Chapter Koltsova O. Blogging in Russia is not Russian Blogging, in: International Blogging: Identity, Politics and networked publics Issue 50. NY : Peter Lang Publishing, 2009. P. 65-84.
Chapter Кольцова Е. Ю. Освещение бездомности в региональной прессе // В кн.: Бездомность и язык вражды в средствах массовой информации. СПб. : Межрегиональная Сеть "За преодоление социальной исключенности", 2009. С. 23-46.
Chapter Koltsova O. Media, State, and Responses to Globalization in Post-Communist Russia, in: Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy / Науч. ред.: P. Chakravartty, Y. Zhao. NY, Lanham, Boulder, Toronto, Plymouth : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. P. 51-73.
Book Koltsova O. News Media and Power in Russia. L., NY : Routledge, 2006.
Chapter Кольцова Е. Ю. Массовые коммуникации: новейшие исследования и современные тенденции развития СМК // В кн.: Социальные коммуникации. Сборник программ и методических материалов к учебным курсам. СПб. : Интерсоцис, 2005. С. 164-178.
Article Кольцова Е. Ю., Таратута Е. Е. Измерение толерантности // Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии. 2003. Т. 6. № 4. С. 98-112.
Book Карпенко О., Шпаковская Л. Л., Кольцова Е. Ю., Торчинский Ф. И., Дубровский Д. В. Язык вражды в русскоязычном Интернете. Материалы по идентификации текстов ненависти. СПб. : Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2003.
Article Koltsova Elena. Change in the Coverage of the Chechen Wars: Reasons and Consequences // Javnost - The Public. 2000. Vol. 7. No. 3. P. 39-54.
Article Кольцова О. Ю. Кто и как влияет на производство новостей в современной России // Pro et Contra. 2000. Т. 5. № 4. С. 82-108.
Article Кольцова Е. Ю. Массовая коммуникация и коммуникативное действие // Социологический журнал. 1999. № 1-2. С. 77-87.

Work experience

2011-present: Head, Laboratory for Internet Studies, HSE St.Petersburg
2008-2012 Dean, faculty of sociology, HSE St.Petersburg

Jun

2011

The Plight of the Sinking

Elena Koltsova, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, HSE Branch in Saint-Petersburg, comments on the situation in the Russian media community.

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