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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Olessia Koltsova
- 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 (Elena) 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
Degree
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.
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.
Student Term / Thesis Papers
- Bachelor
U. Petrova «Teens and Online Privacy». St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017
D. Popkova «The Demand of Professions on the Labor Market and it's Reflection in the Media». St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017
- Master
S. Pashakhin «The Representation of the Ukrainian Crisis in News: Frame Analysis with Topic Modeling». St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017
A. Kovaleva «Children’s Books in the Space of the Tastes of Instragram Users». St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017
O. Nagornyy «The Representation of the Ethnicities in Russian Social Media: the Case of Nothern Caucaus». St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017
Courses (2018/2019)
- Computational Text Analysis (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; programme "Comparative Politics of Eurasia"; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Machine Learning and Data Mining (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; programme "Modern Social Analysis"; 1 year, 4 module)Eng
- Media in Contemporary Politics and Society (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; programme "Comparative Politics of Eurasia"; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; programme "Modern Social Analysis"; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; programme "Modern Social Analysis"; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2017/2018)
- Data Mining and Social Network Analysis (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; programme "Marketing Technologies"; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Media in Contemporary Politics and Society (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; programme "Modern Social Analysis"; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Media in Contemporary Politics and Society (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; programme "Applied and Interdisciplinary History "Usable Pasts"", "Comparative Politics of Eurasia"; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; programme "Modern Social Analysis"; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; programme "Modern Social Analysis"; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2016/2017)
Interdisciplinary Examination (Bachelor’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 4 year, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Virtual community: control, management, risks (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; field of study "41.04.04. Политология", field of study "38.04.04. Государственное и муниципальное управление", field of study "39.04.01. Социология"; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2015/2016)
- Personal and Social Safety (Bachelor’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Virtual community: control, management, risks (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; field of study "41.04.04. Политология", field of study "38.04.04. Государственное и муниципальное управление", field of study "39.04.01. Социология"; 2 year, 1 module)Rus
Courses (2014/2015)
- Comparative Studies of Mass Communication and Mass Culture (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 2 year, 1 module)Rus
- Online Research (Bachelor’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Online Research (Bachelor’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2013/2014)
- Basics of Sociological Theory and Methodology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Sociology; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- Comparative Studies of Mass Communication and Mass Culture (Master’s programme; Faculty of Sociology; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Faculty of Sociology; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Faculty of Sociology; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Social Communication" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Sociology; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Social Communication" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Sociology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Social Communication" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Sociology; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Sociological Theory (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Sociology; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
Courses (2012/2013)
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Sociology; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Faculty of Sociology; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Research Seminar “Methods of Analytical Sociology” (Master’s programme; Faculty of Sociology; "Методы сравнительных социальных исследований"; field of study "040100.68 Социология"; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Sociology of Mass Communication (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Sociology; 3 year, 2 module)Rus
Editorial board membership
2014: Member of the Editorial Board, Internet Research.
2001: Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Eurasian Studies.
Other publications41
- Article Kirkizh N., Koltsova O. The Effect of Online News on Protest Participation in a Political Context: Evidence from Self-Reported Cross-Sectional Data // Mass Communication and Society. 2018
- 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 print)
- 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 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 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
- Article Koltsov S., Nikolenko S. I., Koltsova O. Gibbs Sampler Optimization for Analysis of a Granulated Medium // Technical Physics Letters. 2016. Vol. 8. No. 42. P. 837-839. 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, А. Фильченков, Л. М. Пивоварова, J. Zizka. FRUCT Oy, 2016. P. 110-113.
- 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
- 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, 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 / 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 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
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.
