Kostiantyn Yanchenko
Biographic Data
| ID | 4248610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kostiantyn Yanchenko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kostiantyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Yanchenko |
| SIGNATURE | YANCHENKO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9993-1694 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Adapt or Give Up
What’s in a Cue? Decoding Political Values in Applauded Statements From Ukraine’s Leading Political Talk Shows
Experimental studies show that public opinion cues shape people’s perceptions of public opinion. However, the full extent of political information these cues comprise and, consequently, communicate remains unexplored. This study utilizes standardized content analysis to examine the political values in applauded statements ( n = 1,722) from Ukraine’s major political talk shows. The results suggest that applauded statements embody a complex mix of …
Swayed by the Kremlin? Psychological, Behavioural, and Electoral Correlates of Agreement with Pro-Russian Strategic Narratives in East Germany
Foreign actors often exploit domestic political tensions to influence democratic states, making it important to examine how foreign information campaigns resonate in particularly susceptible regions and populations. In Germany, historical, cultural, and political legacies render the former East German federal states particularly receptive to pro-Kremlin narratives. Drawing on a preregistered survey of 1,308 eligible voters conducted before the 20…
We, the … elites? Anti-elitism of governing populist parties in Poland, Greece, and Ukraine
This article examines anti-elitist communication of populist actors in power, focusing on Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice (PiS), Greece’s left-wing SYRIZA, and Ukraine’s valence populist Servant of the People (SN). Using semantic text analysis and standardized content analysis, the study compares the parties’ anti-elitism on Facebook across four dimensions: sector (political versus non-political), specificity (generic versus specific), scope …
Few-shot learning for automated content analysis
Pre-trained language models (PLM) based on transformer neural networks developed in the field of natural language processing (NLP) offer great opportunities to improve automatic content analysis in communication science, especially for the coding of complex semantic categories in large datasets via supervised machine learning. However, three characteristics so far impeded the widespread adoption of the methods in the applying disciplines: the dom…
Repressed Opposition Media” or “Tools of Hybrid Warfare”? Negotiating the Boundaries of Legitimate Journalism in Ukraine Prior to Russia's Full-Scale Invasion
In transitional democracies, the boundary work of defining journalism and through this, ousting certain media actors as illegitimate and threatful to national security and/or democratic stability can hold a particular urgency. This article considers the sanctions against three Russia-affiliated TV channels by the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council adopted in February 2021 – and the ensuing public debate on this decision – as a partic…
Not fighting corruption, but defeating it’
Research on populism is more abundant than ever, but the Ukrainian case is usually neglected in the comparative literature. This article fills this gap by providing a systematic analysis of the populism of Zelensky’s Servant of the People (SN) at the time of its electoral breakthrough in 2019, and it does so by adopting a broader European perspective. We argue that the success of Zelensky’s SN in 2019 should not be interpreted as something idiosy…
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age
Building upon the literature on new information environments, this article explores how citizens make sense of hyperreal politics. To that end, it turns to the particularly illustrative case of Volodymyr Zelensky’s 2019 presidential campaign, characterized by the complex fusion of fact and fiction, unclear truth statements, and prevalence of populist narratives. In 25 in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the article examines how Zelensky’s voter…
Stories about “Us” and “Them”
Due to continued mediatization of politics, storytelling plays an increasingly important role in political communication. Against this background, it is often argued that populist narratives are essentially more appealing than non-populist political narratives, yet empirical evidence to support this assumption was missing. A multi-message experiment was conducted among U.S. citizens (N = 206) to compare how populist and non-populist political sto…
“We Will not Get Another Chance if We Lose This Battle Now”
Against a background of increasing electoral support of populist political actors in Europe and beyond, this study offers an exploratory inquiry into modern Ukrainian populism. The article examines populist communication, broadcast on the most highly rated Ukrainian television political talk shows, on the eve of the 2019 presidential election, which was completed in two rounds. A qualitative content analysis of populist communication acts (n=283)…
Conceptualizing a Populist Narrative
Narrative analysis represents the cutting edge in various domains of political communication research and has recently made its way into populism studies. Nevertheless, despite the growing academic interest in populist storytelling and populist narratives, a conceptual foundation of these phenomena remains scarce. Situated at the intersection of political communication and literary studies, the article fills this gap by proposing a systematized c…
Not fighting corruption, but defeating it’
Research on populism is more abundant than ever, but the Ukrainian case is usually neglected in the comparative literature. This article fills this gap by providing a systematic analysis of the populism of Zelensky’s Servant of the People (SN) at the time of its electoral breakthrough in 2019, and it does so by adopting a broader European perspective. We argue that the success of Zelensky’s SN in 2019 should not be interpreted as something idiosy…
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age
Building upon the literature on new information environments, this article explores how citizens make sense of hyperreal politics. To that end, it turns to the particularly illustrative case of Volodymyr Zelensky’s 2019 presidential campaign, characterized by the complex fusion of fact and fiction, unclear truth statements, and prevalence of populist narratives. In 25 in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the article examines how Zelensky’s voter…
Conceptualizing a Populist Narrative
Narrative analysis represents the cutting edge in various domains of political communication research and has recently made its way into populism studies. Nevertheless, despite the growing academic interest in populist storytelling and populist narratives, a conceptual foundation of these phenomena remains scarce. Situated at the intersection of political communication and literary studies, the article fills this gap by proposing a systematized c…
“We Will not Get Another Chance if We Lose This Battle Now”
Against a background of increasing electoral support of populist political actors in Europe and beyond, this study offers an exploratory inquiry into modern Ukrainian populism. The article examines populist communication, broadcast on the most highly rated Ukrainian television political talk shows, on the eve of the 2019 presidential election, which was completed in two rounds. A qualitative content analysis of populist communication acts (n=283)…
Conceptualizing a Populist Narrative
Narrative analysis represents the cutting edge in various domains of political communication research and has recently made its way into populism studies. Nevertheless, despite the growing academic interest in populist storytelling and populist narratives, a conceptual foundation of these phenomena remains scarce. Situated at the intersection of political communication and literary studies, the article fills this gap by proposing a systematized c…
Making Sense of Populist Hyperreality in the Post-Truth Age
Building upon the literature on new information environments, this article explores how citizens make sense of hyperreal politics. To that end, it turns to the particularly illustrative case of Volodymyr Zelensky’s 2019 presidential campaign, characterized by the complex fusion of fact and fiction, unclear truth statements, and prevalence of populist narratives. In 25 in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the article examines how Zelensky’s voter…
Stories about “Us” and “Them”
Due to continued mediatization of politics, storytelling plays an increasingly important role in political communication. Against this background, it is often argued that populist narratives are essentially more appealing than non-populist political narratives, yet empirical evidence to support this assumption was missing. A multi-message experiment was conducted among U.S. citizens (N = 206) to compare how populist and non-populist political sto…
Repressed Opposition Media” or “Tools of Hybrid Warfare”? Negotiating the Boundaries of Legitimate Journalism in Ukraine Prior to Russia's Full-Scale Invasion
In transitional democracies, the boundary work of defining journalism and through this, ousting certain media actors as illegitimate and threatful to national security and/or democratic stability can hold a particular urgency. This article considers the sanctions against three Russia-affiliated TV channels by the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council adopted in February 2021 – and the ensuing public debate on this decision – as a partic…
Not fighting corruption, but defeating it’
Research on populism is more abundant than ever, but the Ukrainian case is usually neglected in the comparative literature. This article fills this gap by providing a systematic analysis of the populism of Zelensky’s Servant of the People (SN) at the time of its electoral breakthrough in 2019, and it does so by adopting a broader European perspective. We argue that the success of Zelensky’s SN in 2019 should not be interpreted as something idiosy…
Few-shot learning for automated content analysis
Pre-trained language models (PLM) based on transformer neural networks developed in the field of natural language processing (NLP) offer great opportunities to improve automatic content analysis in communication science, especially for the coding of complex semantic categories in large datasets via supervised machine learning. However, three characteristics so far impeded the widespread adoption of the methods in the applying disciplines: the dom…
We, the … elites? Anti-elitism of governing populist parties in Poland, Greece, and Ukraine
This article examines anti-elitist communication of populist actors in power, focusing on Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice (PiS), Greece’s left-wing SYRIZA, and Ukraine’s valence populist Servant of the People (SN). Using semantic text analysis and standardized content analysis, the study compares the parties’ anti-elitism on Facebook across four dimensions: sector (political versus non-political), specificity (generic versus specific), scope …
Adapt or Give Up
What’s in a Cue? Decoding Political Values in Applauded Statements From Ukraine’s Leading Political Talk Shows
Experimental studies show that public opinion cues shape people’s perceptions of public opinion. However, the full extent of political information these cues comprise and, consequently, communicate remains unexplored. This study utilizes standardized content analysis to examine the political values in applauded statements ( n = 1,722) from Ukraine’s major political talk shows. The results suggest that applauded statements embody a complex mix of …
Swayed by the Kremlin? Psychological, Behavioural, and Electoral Correlates of Agreement with Pro-Russian Strategic Narratives in East Germany
Foreign actors often exploit domestic political tensions to influence democratic states, making it important to examine how foreign information campaigns resonate in particularly susceptible regions and populations. In Germany, historical, cultural, and political legacies render the former East German federal states particularly receptive to pro-Kremlin narratives. Drawing on a preregistered survey of 1,308 eligible voters conducted before the 20…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (5 works) · Ukrainian (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Narrative (4 works)