Kateryna Kasianenko
Biographic Data
| ID | 316622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kateryna Kasianenko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kateryna |
| FAMILY NAME | Kasianenko |
| SIGNATURE | KASIANENKO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7159-5676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Searching for the truth? search engines and their AI affordances’ responses to conspiratorial search practices
Search engines are a common pathway to conspiracy theories, and producers of conspiratorial narratives actively encourage users to search for particular terms. Understanding how search engines respond to different information-seeking practices is therefore essential for explaining the dynamics of online conspiracy theories. Existing audits of search engines rarely account for systematic variation in query formulation arising from users’ differing…
Foregrounding user agency in digital discourse studies
Community-Led Moderation in ‘The Ruins’ of Twitter/X: A Case Study of the North Atlantic Fella Organization (Nafo)
Recent developments in platform governance point to community-led moderation as an increasingly preferred solution by mainstream social media platforms when dealing with problematic content. While research has shown the benefits of involving online communities in content moderation efforts, this type of moderation is also prone to limitations, such as leaving volunteer moderators on their own heuristics to decide upon complex categories of conten…
Why Reddit? Histories, Ethics, Politics & Practices as Reddit Turns 20
As Reddit approaches its twentieth anniversary in 2025, it occupies a unique and relatively under-studied place in the online landscape. The ruptures of recent internet history are visible as geological fixtures through the persistence and growth of structures and communities on Reddit. Once the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet”, to the latest tagline encouraging users to “dive into anything”, Reddit has evolved from a news alert homep…
Playful digital citizenship in wartime: Civic practices and algorithmic imaginaries in the North Atlantic Fella Organization
This article articulates strategies citizens engage in to reclaim their agency in an increasingly fragmented and unmoderated algorithmic public sphere. Drawing on the case of the North Atlantic Fella Organization (NAFO), we demonstrate how playful, allegorithmic civic practices constitute a participatory response to disinformation at the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Capitalising on their algorithmic literacy, algorithmic resistance, …
Boycotting Russia: Expressive and instrumental motivations in political consumerism on social media
Recent global events have prompted a flurry of boycott and divestment campaigns targeting foreign governments, expressed through social media. These surrogate boycotts – targeting corporate proxies of state actors – are often dismissed as merely expressive, though this assessment is based primarily on the outcomes of the campaign rather than the motivations of participants. This article investigates the motivations conveyed by individuals posting…
The entangled dynamics leading to the sedimentation of polarisation on political Reddit
“My first thought was Africa”: Gates as a floating signifier in global Covid-19 philanthropy discussions on X
Philanthropists play an important role in tackling global crises. As observed in scholarly studies and acknowledged by philanthropists themselves, they have also become a major target of online conspiracy theories. Drawing on a case study of X discussions of Gates's COVID-19 philanthropy on the African continent, we argue that figures of Bill and Melinda Gates became floating signifiers during the pandemic. We used an innovative mixed methods app…
“The Algorithm Is Your Mom”: Playful Algorithmic Agency in the North Atlantic Fella Organisation
This paper explores playful engagement with algorithmic systems among members of the North Atlantic Fella Organisation (NAFO). NAFO are an international social movement that emerged on Twitter in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. We use a combination of textual analysis and semi-structured scroll-back interviews, to understand how NAFO members make sense of the algorithmic environment of Twitter, and how their understanding o…
Elements of practices in digital publics: A model for identifying collective doings on social media platforms
Studies of public communication in digitally networked spaces have increasingly adopted the notion of practice to make sense of patterned doings in such spaces. They have identified and theorized about practices ranging from highly mundane and intimate doings to more collective and organized instances of grassroots platform governance to doings likely to result in harm. Despite this, it remains unclear how doings in networked publics must look, w…
Boosting the distant Other: Visibility practices on Japanese Twitter during Russia’s war on Ukraine
This paper identifies the visibility practices of Japanese Twitter users supporting Ukraine during Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion. Studies of digital visibility often suggest that moral goals and ideals are not attainable in such practices, as they clash with conditions of visibility configured by social media. This has led scholars to suggest that moral paradoxes, or the need to reconcile conflicting considerations, are the main characteristi…
The lives and afterlives of community-created bots on Twitter: A minor history
This article presents a minor history of the beneficial community-created bots that once flourished on Twitter, showcasing their important but overlooked role in enhancing platform cultures, accessibility, and user experience. We present a typology of Twitter’s community-created bots, positioning them as marginal but active characters, tracing how and why they were crafted and co-evolved with, and in connection to, platform changes. The article o…
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks
This article introduces the analytical approach of practice mapping , using vector embeddings of network actions and interactions to map commonalities and disjunctures in the practices of social media users, as a framework for methodological advancement beyond the limitations of conventional network analysis and visualization. In particular, the methodological framework we outline here has the potential to incorporate multiple distinct modes of i…
Canonizing online activism: Memetic iconography in the North Atlantic Fella Organization
Memes are iconic digital artefacts that acquire meaning through their production and circulation among the digitally mediated publics. This visual essay presents an iconographic exploration of the North Atlantic Fella Organization (NAFO) – a vernacular online collective engaged in ridiculing Russian disinformation and rallying support for Ukraine’s defence and recovery efforts. We approach memes as a visual interface between the user and various …
Canonizing online activism: Memetic iconography in the North Atlantic Fella Organization
Memes are iconic digital artefacts that acquire meaning through their production and circulation among the digitally mediated publics. This visual essay presents an iconographic exploration of the North Atlantic Fella Organization (NAFO) – a vernacular online collective engaged in ridiculing Russian disinformation and rallying support for Ukraine’s defence and recovery efforts. We approach memes as a visual interface between the user and various …
Boosting the distant Other: Visibility practices on Japanese Twitter during Russia’s war on Ukraine
This paper identifies the visibility practices of Japanese Twitter users supporting Ukraine during Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion. Studies of digital visibility often suggest that moral goals and ideals are not attainable in such practices, as they clash with conditions of visibility configured by social media. This has led scholars to suggest that moral paradoxes, or the need to reconcile conflicting considerations, are the main characteristi…
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks
This article introduces the analytical approach of practice mapping , using vector embeddings of network actions and interactions to map commonalities and disjunctures in the practices of social media users, as a framework for methodological advancement beyond the limitations of conventional network analysis and visualization. In particular, the methodological framework we outline here has the potential to incorporate multiple distinct modes of i…
The lives and afterlives of community-created bots on Twitter: A minor history
This article presents a minor history of the beneficial community-created bots that once flourished on Twitter, showcasing their important but overlooked role in enhancing platform cultures, accessibility, and user experience. We present a typology of Twitter’s community-created bots, positioning them as marginal but active characters, tracing how and why they were crafted and co-evolved with, and in connection to, platform changes. The article o…
Canonizing online activism: Memetic iconography in the North Atlantic Fella Organization
Memes are iconic digital artefacts that acquire meaning through their production and circulation among the digitally mediated publics. This visual essay presents an iconographic exploration of the North Atlantic Fella Organization (NAFO) – a vernacular online collective engaged in ridiculing Russian disinformation and rallying support for Ukraine’s defence and recovery efforts. We approach memes as a visual interface between the user and various …
“My first thought was Africa”: Gates as a floating signifier in global Covid-19 philanthropy discussions on X
Philanthropists play an important role in tackling global crises. As observed in scholarly studies and acknowledged by philanthropists themselves, they have also become a major target of online conspiracy theories. Drawing on a case study of X discussions of Gates's COVID-19 philanthropy on the African continent, we argue that figures of Bill and Melinda Gates became floating signifiers during the pandemic. We used an innovative mixed methods app…
“The Algorithm Is Your Mom”: Playful Algorithmic Agency in the North Atlantic Fella Organisation
This paper explores playful engagement with algorithmic systems among members of the North Atlantic Fella Organisation (NAFO). NAFO are an international social movement that emerged on Twitter in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. We use a combination of textual analysis and semi-structured scroll-back interviews, to understand how NAFO members make sense of the algorithmic environment of Twitter, and how their understanding o…
Elements of practices in digital publics: A model for identifying collective doings on social media platforms
Studies of public communication in digitally networked spaces have increasingly adopted the notion of practice to make sense of patterned doings in such spaces. They have identified and theorized about practices ranging from highly mundane and intimate doings to more collective and organized instances of grassroots platform governance to doings likely to result in harm. Despite this, it remains unclear how doings in networked publics must look, w…
Boosting the distant Other: Visibility practices on Japanese Twitter during Russia’s war on Ukraine
This paper identifies the visibility practices of Japanese Twitter users supporting Ukraine during Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion. Studies of digital visibility often suggest that moral goals and ideals are not attainable in such practices, as they clash with conditions of visibility configured by social media. This has led scholars to suggest that moral paradoxes, or the need to reconcile conflicting considerations, are the main characteristi…
The lives and afterlives of community-created bots on Twitter: A minor history
This article presents a minor history of the beneficial community-created bots that once flourished on Twitter, showcasing their important but overlooked role in enhancing platform cultures, accessibility, and user experience. We present a typology of Twitter’s community-created bots, positioning them as marginal but active characters, tracing how and why they were crafted and co-evolved with, and in connection to, platform changes. The article o…
Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks
This article introduces the analytical approach of practice mapping , using vector embeddings of network actions and interactions to map commonalities and disjunctures in the practices of social media users, as a framework for methodological advancement beyond the limitations of conventional network analysis and visualization. In particular, the methodological framework we outline here has the potential to incorporate multiple distinct modes of i…
Searching for the truth? search engines and their AI affordances’ responses to conspiratorial search practices
Search engines are a common pathway to conspiracy theories, and producers of conspiratorial narratives actively encourage users to search for particular terms. Understanding how search engines respond to different information-seeking practices is therefore essential for explaining the dynamics of online conspiracy theories. Existing audits of search engines rarely account for systematic variation in query formulation arising from users’ differing…
Foregrounding user agency in digital discourse studies
Community-Led Moderation in ‘The Ruins’ of Twitter/X: A Case Study of the North Atlantic Fella Organization (Nafo)
Recent developments in platform governance point to community-led moderation as an increasingly preferred solution by mainstream social media platforms when dealing with problematic content. While research has shown the benefits of involving online communities in content moderation efforts, this type of moderation is also prone to limitations, such as leaving volunteer moderators on their own heuristics to decide upon complex categories of conten…
Why Reddit? Histories, Ethics, Politics & Practices as Reddit Turns 20
As Reddit approaches its twentieth anniversary in 2025, it occupies a unique and relatively under-studied place in the online landscape. The ruptures of recent internet history are visible as geological fixtures through the persistence and growth of structures and communities on Reddit. Once the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet”, to the latest tagline encouraging users to “dive into anything”, Reddit has evolved from a news alert homep…
Playful digital citizenship in wartime: Civic practices and algorithmic imaginaries in the North Atlantic Fella Organization
This article articulates strategies citizens engage in to reclaim their agency in an increasingly fragmented and unmoderated algorithmic public sphere. Drawing on the case of the North Atlantic Fella Organization (NAFO), we demonstrate how playful, allegorithmic civic practices constitute a participatory response to disinformation at the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Capitalising on their algorithmic literacy, algorithmic resistance, …
Boycotting Russia: Expressive and instrumental motivations in political consumerism on social media
Recent global events have prompted a flurry of boycott and divestment campaigns targeting foreign governments, expressed through social media. These surrogate boycotts – targeting corporate proxies of state actors – are often dismissed as merely expressive, though this assessment is based primarily on the outcomes of the campaign rather than the motivations of participants. This article investigates the motivations conveyed by individuals posting…
The entangled dynamics leading to the sedimentation of polarisation on political Reddit
Misinformation and Its Impacts (7 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Social media (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)