Research Interests
- Mis- and disinformation
- Digital propaganda and conspiracies
- Alternative media
- Biases in news consumption
- Algorithmic curation of information
- Surveys and online experiments
Lebenslauf
Since September 2023, Victoria Vziatysheva is a PhD student at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Bern. She is working on the project focusing on the use of search engines and web search bias in the context of federal popular votes in Switzerland.
Victoria graduated from the joint MA program in Global Communication and International Journalism (Freie Universität Berlin & St. Petersburg State University) in 2016. Before coming to Bern, she worked as a doctoral researcher in the group "Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda" at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin.
Her research interests include misinformation, propaganda, alternative news, as well as factors affecting trust in this content. She is experienced in quantitative and qualitative methods such as surveys, online experiments and content analysis. Prior to her academic career, Victoria worked as a journalist.
