The ZeMKI Persons Dr. Daria Dergacheva Research AssociateResearch staff Lab membershipLab Platform Governance, Media, and TechnologyContactBuilding/room: Linzer Straße 4 (LINZ4) 40250Phone: +49 (0) 421 218 67627E-mail: dergache@uni-bremen.deLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daria-dergacheva-32710310/ Dr. Daria Dergacheva is a postdoct researcher at Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach’s lab “Platform Governance, Media, and Technology” at the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen since February 2022. Her work at the lab is currently focused on governance of misinformation and disinformation by social media platforms, content moderation and censorship. She is also interested in tech regulation on platforms’ transparency and researchers access to data. In 2021-2022, she was a researcher in the project “ReCreating Europe” Horizon 2020 project, where she analysed copyright related content moderation by platforms in the EU. She defended her PhD dissertation at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in July 2021, receiving an “excellent” grade. The title of her dissertation was “‘State Narrative’ construction on Twitter. A case study around news stories on LGBT issues in Russia”, with thesis co-directors Dr Anna Tous-Rovirosa (UAB) and Dr Elena Gapova (Western Michigan University). At the UAB, her research focused on studying the intersection of political communication and social networks using mixed computational and qualitative research methods. She received a Chevening scholarship and graduated from the School of Media at the University of Westminster (UK) in 2013. She has another joint MA in Sociology from the University of Lancaster (UK) and Central European University (Poland). Outside of academia, she has worked in the Russian media and civil society for over 10 years. She was awarded an Open Society scholarship for teaching at the Urals State University. Research interests Platform governance, social media, misinformation, propaganda, political communication, tech regulation, mixed methods Most recent publications (Source: ORCID)Copyright Content Moderation in the European Union: State of the Art, Ways Forward and Policy Recommendations. IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Lawhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-023-01409-5Mandate to overblock? Understanding the impact of the European Union's Article 17 on copyright content moderation on YouTube. Policy & Internethttps://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.379“We Learn Through Mistakes”: Perspectives of Social Media Creators on Copyright Moderation in the European Union. Social Media + Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231220329The Hockey Girls. The creation of a new collective subject: sisterhood and the empowerment of women. Feminist Media Studieshttps://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2029526Redefining Modernization in Russia. Quaestio Rossicahttps://doi.org/10.15826/qr.2021.4.654#EsteVirusloParamosUnidos: War-like political communication on Twitter. Creating homogeneous communities in the Covid-19 crisis. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodísticohttps://doi.org/10.5209/esmp.75758Government’s echo. Twitter discussions around news topics in Russian networked authoritarianism. Russian Journal of Communicationhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19409419.2021.1874790Arto Mustajoki and Nadezjda Zorikhina Nilsson and Rafael Guzman Tirado and Anna Tous-Rovirosa and Daria Dergacheva and Irina Vepreva and Tatiana Itskovich (2020). Covid-19: A Disaster in the Linguistic Dimension of Different Countries. Quaestio Rossica. 8 (4). Ural Federal Universityhttps://doi.org/10.15826%2Fqr.2020.4.533https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8773-7934
