Dr. Kostiantyn Yanchenko

Education and Academic Career

• SoSe 2024 – ongoing: Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Communication Science, University of Jena
• 2022–2024: Research Assistant, BMBF project "Few-Shot Learning for Automated Content Analysis in Communication Science" (FLACA), University of Hamburg & Leibniz- Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI)
• 2020–2023: Doctoral degree, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Hamburg, Germany. Thesis: Understanding the Nature, Effects, and Audiences of Populist Narratives in Contemporary Information Environments, (magna cum laude). Academic supervisors: Prof. Dr. Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw; Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink.
• 2021–2022: Cofounder and Lecturer, Ukrainian Academic Accelerator (UAA: JMC), an educational project for students obtaining degrees in the fields of journalism, media, and communication
• 2019–2021: Student Assistant, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Hamburg, Germany
• 2017–2019: Master’s degree in Journalism, Media, and Globalization (final grade: excellent), Aarhus University, Denmark & University of Hamburg, Germany. Thesis: Populism and the Media: A Case Study of the Ukrainian Presidential Elections 2019.
• 2013–2017: Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. Thesis: Local Practices of Global Media: Impact on Marketing and Professional Standards.

Work Experience (non-academic)

• 2013–2017: Freelance Journalist, Internews Ukraine, KyivPost, Euromaidan Press, The Day Newspaper, Vysokyi Zamok, Zik, Ukrainska Pravda, Lb.ua. For some of my journalistic works in English, see: https://euromaidanpress.com/author/yanchenko/External link)External link

Further Professional Training

• 2019–2021: New Frontiers in Journalism, Communication and Media Research, Graduate School of University of Hamburg
• 2020: Soft-Skills Workshops, Hamburg Research Academy
• 2020: Methods Courses, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
• 2018: Youth Advisory Board Internship, Index on Censorship London

• populism and populist communication
• media systems of Central and Eastern European states
• public opinion formation
• manipulation in the digital age

• Hamburg University Doctoral Scholarship, 2020–2022
• Mini-grant of the German-Ukrainian Academic Society (DUAG), 2021
• Hamburg University Degree Completion Grant, 2019
• Grant of the Denmark's Development Foundation (DANIDA), 2015
• Grants of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), 2014, 2015

• WiSe: 2 courses on Inferential Statistics (BA)
• SoSe 2024: Public Opinion in the Digital Age (BA), University of Jena
• SoSe 2024: Inferential Statistics with R (BA), University of Jena
• WiSE 2023/24: Investigative Ethnography of Political Disinformation on Telegram (BA, MA), University of Hamburg
• SoSe 2023: Political Disinformation and Counter-Publics on Telegram (BA, MA), University of Hamburg
• WiSe 2022/23: Populist Communication (BA, MA), University of Hamburg

• Rieger, J., Yanchenko, K., Ruckdeschel, M., von Nordheim, G., Kleinen-von Königslöw, K., Wiedemann, G. (2024). Few-shot Learning for Automated Content Analysis: Efficient Coding of Arguments and Claims in the Debate on Arms Deliveries to Ukraine. Studies in Communication and Media (SCM), 72-100. https://doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2024-1-72External link
• Yanchenko, K., Zulianello, M. (2023) “Not Fighting Corruption, But Defeating It”: Explaining the Rise of Zelensky’s Servant of the People in a Comparative Perspective. European Societies, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2023.2203214External link
• Yanchenko, K., Shestopalova, A., von Nordheim, G., Kleinen-von Königslöw, K. (2023). “Repressed Opposition Media” or “Tools of Hybrid Warfare”? Negotiating the Boundaries of Legitimate Journalism in Ukraine Prior to Russia's Full-Scale Invasion. International Journal of Press/Politics. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612231167791External link
• Yanchenko, K. (2022). Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age: Evidence from Volodymyr Zelensky's Voters. Mass Communication & Society, 26(3), 509-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2022.2105234External link
• Yanchenko, K. (2022). Stories about “Us” and “Them”: An Experimental Inquiry into the Relative Appeal of Populist Storytelling. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 34(1), edac004, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edac004External link
• Yanchenko, K. (2021). “We Won`t Have Another Chance if We Lose This Battle Now”: Populism on Ukrainian Television Political Talk Shows ahead of the Presidential Elections 2019. East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 8(2), 275-306. https://doi.org/10.21226/ewjus560External link
• Yanchenko, K. (2021). Conceptualizing a Populist Narrative: Rationales, Attributes, Implications. Populism, 4(2), 199–220. https://doi.org/10.1163/25888072-bja10024External link 
• Yanchenko, K. (2019). Community, Network or Both? Towards a Holistic Approach to Studying Online Social Structures. Communication & Language at Work, 6(2), 15–27. Retrieved from https://tidsskrift.dk/claw/article/view/116081External link

• Yanchenko, K. (2023). Populist Storytelling Beyond the Buzzword. The Loop. ECPR’s Political Science Blog. Retrieved from https://theloop.ecpr.eu/populist-storytelling- beyond-the-buzzword/External link
• Yanchenko, K. Review of Makarychev, Andrey, Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe’s Eastern Margins. H-Russia, H-Net Reviews. July, 2022. URL: https://networks.h-net.org/node/10000/reviews/10496008/yanchenko-makarychev-popular-biopolitics-and-populism-europe’sExternal link

2024

• Presenter, DGPuK 2024, Erfurt, Germany.
  Topic: Zero Shot Stance Detection Using GPT Models.
• Presenter, UNPOP International Colloquium on Emotions, Narratives and Identities in Politics, Populism and Democracy, Coimbra, Portugal. Topic: In search of a better story: How the structural approach to populist narratives can benefit populism studies.

2023

• Presenter, HEPP4, Emotions, Populism, and Polarized Politics, Media, and Culture, University of Helsinki. Topic: We – the... elites? Anti-elitist communication of populist parties in power.
• Presenter, ECREA PolComm 2023, Weizenbaum Institut & FU Berlin. Topic: Beyond “master frames”: A Semi-automated approach to studying viewpoint diversity of the media discourse.
• Presenter, DGPuK-Konferenz 2023, Universität Bremen. Topic: Few-shot learning for automated content analysis: Efficient coding of arguments and claims in the debate on arms deliveries to Ukraine.
• Discussant, The Research Centre for East European Studies (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa – FSO), Bremen. Topic: Presentation of the book “Zelensky Effect...” by Olga Onuch and Henry E. Hale.

2022

• Presenter, Ghent-Tartu Research Workshop hosted by Johan Skytte Institute for Political Science. Topic: Reconsidering communication studies in Ukraine after Russia's full-scale invasion: Novel priorities, research questions, and collaborative directions.
• Presenter, Mundus Journalism ECREA pre-conference, Aarhus. Topic: Stories about “Us” and “Them”: An Experimental Inquiry into the Relative Appeal of Populist Storytelling.
• Presenter, the Summer School “Reorienting Research Projects and Area Studies after 24 February 2022.” Topic: Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-truth Age: Evidence from Volodymyr Zelensky’s Voters.

2021

• Presenter, the GWZO Leipzig workshop “Post-Imperial and Post-Socialist Legacies in Today’s Populisms in Eastern Europe.” Topic: Post-Soviet Legacies in Modern Populism in Ukraine.
• Presenter, The 3rd Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media by Oxford Internet Institute. Topic: Negotiating Journalistic Boundaries from the Perspectives of Regulation, Journalism, and Antagonistic Actors – A Case Study from a Transitional Democracy.
• Presenter, Populism: New Perspectives, 5th Populism Specialist Group (PSA) Workshop, Cardiff. Topic: Conceptualizing a Populist Narrative: Rationales, Attributes, Implications.

2020

• Presenter, The Impact Workshop of Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI), Hamburg. Topic: Relation between Populism and Storytelling: Implications for the European Media Policy.

2019

• Panelist, Populism in European Societies – Repercussions in the Media, EEGA, Leipzig. Topic: Comparative Perspectives on the Repercussions of Populism in the Media.
• Presenter, Advancing Science and Education through International Cooperation, DUAG, Tübingen. Topic: Populism on Television Talk Shows: a Case of Ukrainian Presidential Elections 2019.