Olessia Koltsova
- Laboratory Head:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies / Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics
- Associate Professor:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies / Department of Sociology
- Olessia Koltsova has been at HSE University since 2002.
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's
European University in St. Petersburg - 1995
Degree
Saint Petersburg State University
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.
Olessia (Elena) Koltsova is a social scienist committed to interdisciplinary research in the sphere of computational communication science. As the director of Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics (formerly – 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, cognitive and psychological limits to online communication, ethnicity-targeted speech detection, user content topical composition and sentiment, and other topics. She is also the author of News Media and Power in Russia, Routledge, 2006.
Courses (2022/2023)
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
The Analysis of Media Texts (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; field of study "42.04.05. Медиакоммуникации", field of study "42.04.05. Медиакоммуникации"; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2021/2022)
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2019/2020)
Computational Text Analysis (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; field of study "58.04.01. Востоковедение и африканистика", field of study "41.04.04. Политология"; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Data Analysis with Python (Postgraduate course’s programme; 2 year, 1 semester)Eng
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2018/2019)
- Media in Contemporary Politics and Society (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Editorial board membership
2020: Member of the Editorial Board, Computational Communication Research.
2020: Member of the Editorial Board, Information Processing and Management.
2001: Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Eurasian Studies.
2014–2019: Member of the Editorial Board, Internet Research.
Other publications71
- Article Bryanov K., Kliegl R., Koltsova O., Lokot T., Miltsov A., Pashakhin S., Porshnev A., Sinyavskaya Y., Maxim Terpilovskii, Vziatysheva V. What Drives Perceptions of Foreign News Coverage Credibility? A Cross-National Experiment Including Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine // Political Communication. 2023. Vol. 40. No. 2. P. 115-146. doi
- Book Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts. 10th International Conference, AIST 2021, Tbilisi, Georgia, December 16–18, 2021, Revised Selected Papers / Ed. by E. Burnaev, D. I. Ignatov, S. Ivanov, M. Khachay, O. Koltsova, A. Kutuzov, Sergei O. Kuznetsov, N. Loukachevitch, A. Napoli, A. Panchenko, P. M. Pardalos, J. Saramäki, A. Savchenko, E. Tsymbalov, E. Tutubalina. Cham : Springer, 2022. doi
- Book Digital Transformation and Global Society. 6th International Conference, DTGS 2021, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 23–25, 2021, Revised Selected Papers / Ed. by D. A. Alexandrov, A. V. Boukhanovsky, A. V. Chugunov, Y. Kabanov, O. Koltsova, I. Musabirov, S. Pashakhin. Cham: Springer, 2022. doi
- Article Giachanou A., Zhang X., Barrón-Cedeño A., Koltsova O., Rosso P. Online information disorder: fake news, bots and trolls // International Journal of Data Science and Analytics. 2022. Vol. 13. P. 265-269. doi
- Article Panicheva P., Mararitsa L., Sorokin S., Koltsova O., Rosso P. Predicting subjective well-being in a high-risk sample of Russian mental health app users // EPJ Data Science. 2022. Vol. 11. Article 21. doi
- Chapter Koltsova O. Social media for joint experimental, survey & observational data collection: the case of VK, in: The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. SAGE Publications Ltd, 2022.
- Book Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts: 9th International Conference, AIST 2020, Skolkovo, Moscow, Russia, October 15–16, 2020, Revised Selected Papers / Ed. by W. M. van der Aalst, V. Batagelj, D. I. Ignatov, M. Khachay, O. Koltsova, A. Kutuzov, Sergei O. Kuznetsov, I. A. Lomazova, N. Loukachevitch, A. Napoli, A. Panchenko, P. M. Pardalos, M. Pelillo, A. Savchenko, E. Tutubalina. Vol. 12602. Cham: Springer, 2021. doi
- Article Pronoza E., Panicheva P., Koltsova O., Rosso Paolo. Detecting ethnicity-targeted hate speech in Russian social media texts // Information Processing and Management. 2021. Vol. 58. No. 6. Article 102674. doi
- Article Kirkizh N., Koltsova O. Online News and Protest Participation in a Political Context: Evidence from Self-Reported Cross-Sectional Data // Social Media and Society. 2021. Vol. 7. No. 1. P. 1-10. doi
- Book Recent Trends in Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts. 9th International Conference, AIST 2020, Skolkovo, Moscow, Russia, October 15–16, 2020 Revised Supplementary Proceedings / Ed. by W. M. van der Aalst, V. Batagelj, A. V. Buzmakov, D. I. Ignatov, A. A. Kalenkova, M. Khachay, O. Koltsova, A. Kutuzov, S. Kuznetsov, I. A. Lomazova, N. Loukachevitch, I. Makarov, A. Napoli, A. Panchenko, P. M. Pardalos, M. Pelillo, A. Savchenko, E. Tutubalina. Vol. 12602. Springer, 2021. doi
- Chapter Koltsova O., Porshnev A., Sinyavskaya Y. Social Media-based Research of Interpersonal and Group Communication in Russia, in: The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies / Ed. by D. Gritsenko, M. Wijermars, M. Kopotev. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. doi P. 335-352. doi
- Article Koltsova Olessia Y., Mararitsa Larisa V., Terpilovskii Maxim A., Sinyavskaya Yadviga E. Social signature in an online environment: stability and cognitive limits // Computers in Human Behavior. 2021. No. 122. Article 106856. doi
- Article Koltsova O., Pashakhin S. Agenda Divergence in A Developing Conflict: A Quantitative Evidence from A Ukrainian and A Russian TV Newsfeeds // Media, War and Conflict. 2020. Vol. 13. No. 3. P. 237-257. doi
- Chapter Koltsova O., Sinyavskaya Y., Terpilowski M. Designing an Experiment on Recognition of Political Fake News by Social Media Users: Factors of Dropout, in: Social Computing and Social Media. Design, Ethics, User Behavior, and Social Network Analysis Part 1: 12th International Conference, SCSM 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, 2020. doi P. 261-277. doi
- Article Rykov Y., Koltsova O., Sinyavskaya Y. Effects of user behaviors on accumulation of social capital in an online social network // Plos One. 2020. Vol. 15. No. 4. Article e0231837.. doi
- Chapter Koltsova O., Alexeeva S., Pashakhin S., Koltsov S. PolSentiLex: Sentiment Detection in Socio-political Discussions on Russian Social Media, in: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language. AINL 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science Book 1292: Communications in Computer and Information Science. Cham: Springer, 2020. P. 1-16. doi
- Book Digital Transformation and Global Society: 4th International Conference, DTGS 2019, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 19–21, 2019, Revised Selected Papers / Ed. by D. A. Alexandrov, A. V. Boukhanovsky, A. V. Chugunov, Y. Kabanov, O. Koltsova, I. Musabirov. Cham : Springer, 2019. doi
- Article Koltsov S., Ignatenko V., Koltsova O. Estimating Topic Modeling Performance with Sharma–Mittal Entropy // Entropy. 2019. Vol. 21. No. 7. P. 1-29. doi
- Article Koltsova Olessia, Selivanova Galina. Explaining Offline Participation in a Social Movement with Online Data: The case of Observers for Fair Elections // Mobilization. 2019. Vol. 24. No. 1. P. 77-94. doi
- Preprint Rykov Y., Sinyavskaya Y., Koltsova O. Accumulating social capital in an online urban network: The effects of user behaviors / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series SOC "Sociology". 2018. No. 83/SOC/2018 .
- Book Digital Transformation and Global Society Third International Conference, DTGS 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 30 –June 2, 2018, Revised Selected Papers, Part I / Ed. by Daniel A. Alexandrov, A. V. Boukhanovsky, A. V. Chugunov, Y. Kabanov, O. Koltsova. Issue 858. Cham : Springer, 2018. doi
- Book Digital Transformation and Global Society. Third International Conference, DTGS 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2018, Revised Selected Papers. Part II. Communications in Computer and Information Science 859 / Ed. by D. A. Alexandrov, A. V. Boukhanovsky, A. V. Chugunov, Y. Kabanov, O. Koltsova. Issue 859. Springer, 2018. doi
- Chapter Dokuka S., Koltsov S., Koltsova O., Koltsov M. Echo chambers vs opinion crossroads in news consumption on social media, in: Proceedings of Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts – 7th International Conference, AIST 2018, Moscow, Russia, July 5-7, 2018, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Ed. by W. M. van der Aalst, V. Batagelj, G. Glavaš,, D. I. Ignatov, M. Khachay, O. Koltsova, S. Kuznetsov, I. A. Lomazova, N. Loukachevitch,, A. Napoli,, A. Savchenko, A. Panchenko,, P. M. Pardalos, M. Pelillo,. Vol. 11179. Berlin : Springer, 2018. doi P. 13-19. doi
- Chapter Koltsova O. Methodological Challeges for Detecting Interethnic Hostility on Social Media, in: Internet Science. INSCI 2018 Vol. 11193. Springer, 2018. doi (in press)
- Preprint Nora A. Kirkizh, Olessia Y. Koltsova. Online News and Protest Participation in a Political Context: Evidence from Self-Reported Cross-Sectional Data / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2018. No. WP BRP 58/PS/2018. doi
- Preprint Koltsova O., Pashakhin S. Agenda Divergence in a Developing Conflict: A Quantitative Evidence from a Ukrainian and a Russian TV Newsfeeds / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2017. No. 79/SOC/2017.
- Chapter Koltsova O., Nikolenko S. I., Alexeeva S. V., Nagornyy O. S., Koltsov S. Detecting interethnic relations with the data from social media, in: Digital Transformation & Global Society: Second International Conference, DTGS 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 21-23, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, 2017. P. 16-30. doi
- Chapter Rykov Y., Nagornyy O. S., Koltsova O. Digital Inequality in Russia through the Use of a Social Network Site: A Cross-Regional Comparison, in: Digital Transformation & Global Society: Second International Conference, DTGS 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 21-23, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, 2017. P. 70-83. doi
- Book Digital Transformation and Global Society. Second International Conference, DTGS 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 21–23, 2017, Revised Selected Papers / Ed. by Alexandrov Daniel A., A. V. Boukhanovsky, A. V. Chugunov, Kabanov Yury, Koltsova Olessia. Cham : Springer, 2017. doi
- Article Koltsova O., Svetlana Alexeeva, Sergey Nikolenko, Koltsov M. Measuring Prejudice and Ethnic Tensions in User-Generated Content // Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine. 2017 (in press)
- Preprint Nagornyy O. S., Koltsova O. Mining media topics perceived as social problems by online audiences: use of a data mining approach in sociology / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series SOC "Sociology". 2017. No. WP BRP 74/SOC/2017.
- Article Sinyavskaya Y., Koltsova O. Self-disclosure online and offline: the Effect of Age // Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine. 2017. Vol. 15. P. 88-91.
- Article Sergey Nikolenko, Sergei Koltcov, Olessia Koltsova. Topic modelling for qualitative studies // Journal of Information Science. 2017. Vol. 43. No. 1. P. 88-102. doi
- Article Koltsova O., Koltsov S., Sinyavskaya Y. When Internet Really Connects Across Space: Communities of Software Developers in Vkontakte Social Networking Site, International Journal of Web Based Communities // Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2017. Vol. 10540. P. 431-442. doi
- Article Svetlana S. Bodrunova, Koltsova O., Sergey Koltcov, Sergey Nikolenko. Who’s Bad? Attitudes Toward Resettlers From the Post-Soviet South Versus Other Nations in the Russian Blogosphere // International Journal of Communication. 2017. Vol. 11. P. 3242-3264.
- Article Braslavski P., Markov I., Pardalos P. M., Volkovich Y., Koltsov S., Koltsova O., Ignatov D. I. 9th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2015) // ACM SIGIR Forum. 2016. Vol. 49. No. 2. P. 72-79. doi
- Chapter Koltsova O. Yu, Alexeeva S. V., Kolcov S. N. An Opinion Word Lexicon and a Training Dataset for Russian Sentiment Analysis of Social Media, in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной международной конференции «Диалог» (Москва,1–4 июля 2016 г.) / Под общ. ред.: В. Селегей. Вып. 15. М. : Изд-во РГГУ, 2016. P. 277-287.
- Article Koltsova O., Koltsov S., Nikolenko S. I. Communities of co-commenting in the Russian LiveJournal and their topical coherence // Internet Research. 2016. Vol. 26. No. 3. P. 710-732. doi
- Book Information Retrieval. 9th Russian Summer School, RuSSIR 2015, Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 24-28, 2015, Revised Selected Papers / Ed. by P. Braslavski, P. Markov, Y. Volkovich, D. I. Ignatov, S. Koltsov, O. Koltsova, P. M. Pardalos. Vol. 573. Switzerland : Springer, 2016. doi
- Article Apishev M., Koltsov S., Koltsova O. Mining ethnic content online with additively regularized topic models // Computacion y Sistemas. 2016. Vol. 20. No. 3. P. 387-403. doi
- Chapter Rykov Y., Nagornyy O. S., Koltsova O., Natta H., Kremenets A., Manovich L., Cerrone D., Crockett D. Semantic and Geospatial Mapping of Instagram Images in Saint-Petersburg, in: Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language AINL FRUCT 2016 Conference, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 10-12 November 2016 / Сост.: S. I. Balandin, A. Filchenkov, Pivovarova L., J. Zizka. FRUCT Oy, 2016. P. 110-113.
- Chapter Sergei Koltcov, Nikolenko S. I., Olessia Koltsova, Vladimir Filippov, Svetlana Bodrunova. Stable Topic Modeling with Local Density Regularization, in: Internet Science, Proc. of 3d conf INSCI 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science series Vol. 9934. Switzerland : Springer, 2016. doi P. 176-188. doi
- Chapter Koltsov S., Nikolenko S. I., Koltsova O., Bodrunova S. Stable topic modeling for web science: Granulated LDA, in: WebSci 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Web Science Conference. Elsevier, 2016. P. 342-343. doi
- Chapter Nikiforova / Nikivincze I., Koltsova O., Koltsov S., Braslavski P. StartupPoint.ru: The Use of Online Social Networks for Startup Development, in: XVI Апрельская международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества: в 4 кн. / Отв. ред.: Е. Г. Ясин. Кн. 3. М. : Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2016. P. 596-606.
- 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., Nikolenko S. I., Koltsova O., Koltsov S., Шиморина А. 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, 2013. P. 265-274.
- 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, 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.
- 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, 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 / Ed. by P. Chakravartty, Y. Zhao. NY, Lanham, Boulder, Toronto, Plymouth : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. P. 51-73.
- 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 Olessia Koltsova. News Production in Contemporary Russia: Practices of Power // European Journal of Communication. 2001. Vol. 16. No. 3. P. 315-335. doi
- 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 Е. 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.
Employment history
- 2023 – present: Oxford Martin Visiting Scholar, Oxford, UK.
- 2020 – present: director, Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St.Petersburg.
- 2012 – 2019: director, Laboratory for Internet Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St.Petersburg.
- 2008 – 2012: dean, faculty of sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St.Petersburg.
- 2002 – present: associate professor, department of sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St.Petersburg.
- 2001-2002: lecturer, faculty of sociology, St.Petersburg State University.
Study of Women in Russian Cinema Presented in Toronto
On May 29, Olessia Koltsova, Head of the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics and Ksenia Leontyeva, research intern and associate professor of the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television, spoke at the 73rd International Communications Association (ICA) conference at the Global Film Industries session, where works on the film markets of China and Nigeria were also presented.
Sinyavskaya Jadwiga's Ph.D. Thesis Pre-defense
On December 19, a pre-defense of Sinyavskaya Jadwiga’s Ph.D. thesis on the topic “Privacy strategies in the social network Vkontakte and their role in the formation of individual social capital” took place.
SCILA at the AINL Conference 2020
SCILA researchers presented two papers at the 9th conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language (AINL 2020), which took place from 7 to 9 October 2020.
SCILA’s academic supervisor
Since June 22, 2020, Professor Paolo Rosso has officially taken the responsibilities of SCILA’s academic supervisor. Paolo Rosso is a full professor at the department of Information Systems and Computation of Polytechnical university of Valencia, Spain, where he also heads Natural Language Engineering research group within Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technologies Research Centre (PRHLT).
LINIS at the Aleksanteri Conference
On October 23-25 the Laboratory for Internet Studies took part in Aleksanteri Conference in Helsinki.
Conference “Digital Media Research Methods” at Nazarbayev University
On October 15, the head of the Internet Studies Lab Olessia Koltsova participated in the conference “Digital Media Research Methods: Theoretical and Practical Aspects”, which was held in the young and rapidly developing Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan).
HSE SPb Researchers to Receive Russian Science Foundation Grants
The HSE Internet Studies Lab has got an opportunity to study political fake news for the period of three years, and the project ‘Modern Models of Poetics: a Reconstructive Approach’ received a two-year extension of funding.
Emotions vs rationality: SPbU International conference on comparative media studies
LINIS team took part in VI International Conference on Comparative Media Studies in Today’s World, which held on 17-19 April at High School of Journalism and Media Communication SPbU.
LINIS at AOiR
Olessia Koltsova took a part in annual international conference of AOiR 2017, which took place in Tartu (Estonia) from October 18-21, 2017.
LINIS at CyberPsychology Conference
LINIS staff took a part in 22nd Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference (CyPsy22), which was held on June 26-28 in the University of Wolverhampton (UK).
The Second International Conference “Digital Transformation & Global Society” (DTGS’17)
The Second International Conference “Digital Transformation & Global Society” (DTGS’17) was held between 21 and 23 June, 2017, to address various issues of information society development. The conference was co-organized by the National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg) and the ITMO University.
Congratulation our colleague on winning a contest!
Oleg Nagornyy, research intern of LINIS, took the premier place in the contest of best master thesis, which is annually arranged by VCIOM.
LINIS at DTGS
LINIS staff took a part in the Second International Conference “Digital transformation & Global society” (DTGS’17), which was held in Saint-Petersburg on June 21-23.
Russian-Chinese collaboration
The head of the Laboratory for Internet studies Olessia Koltsova returned from the journey to China.
AINL FRUCT-2016
Staff of LINIS presented their papers at the International conference Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language-2016 (AINL) held 10-12 November in Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
Web Science-2017 in Saint-Petersburg!
We are happy to congratulate our colleagues on winning in WSTNet Web science Summer School competitive proposal procedure!
Openness, Collaboration and Collective Action!
It was the motto of the 3rd International Conference on Internet Science-2016, which was attended by members of the LINIS. September 12-14 in Florence, scientists, practitioners and politicians from around the world came together to discuss socially important problems and their solutions.
ISMW FRUCT-2016
Sergey Koltsov and Olesya Koltsova was invited as experts in the field of topic modeling to conduct workshops at International FRUCT conference ISMW-2016.