Vera Zvereva
Biographic Data
| ID | 4495535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vera Zvereva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vera |
| FAMILY NAME | Zvereva |
| SIGNATURE | ZVEREVA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8071-6380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Troll Tactics: Sowing Discord in Finland’s Russian-Language Facebook Groups
This article examines a 2024 trolling campaign targeting a Russian-speaking Facebook group in Finland, in the context of Russian information warfare against the EU. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, it explores how pro-Kremlin trolls localized their messaging to exploit vulnerabilities of Russian-speakers in Finland. Two strategies – “fat” and “subtle” trolling – provoked emotional responses and led users to reproduce propaganda narratives,…
Social media users in search of ‘facts’: The Trade Union House fire case
What factors influence users to believe the stories they find in social media, and what role do emotions play for users in concluding that a particular fact is ‘true’? This article examines one aspect of emotionalized communication in social networks in an information war context, namely, how social network users make decisions about the reliability of the information they receive. We employ a qualitative study of a single case – a discussion amo…
Politics, Activism and Trolling on the Russian Internet
In the years that have passed since the social media powered protest movement of 2011-2012, the Russian government has dramatically expanded its restrictions on the Internet, while simultaneously consolidating its grip on traditional media. The Internet, which long provided a space for alternative media and free speech to blossom, is becoming increasingly restricted by a growing corpus of legislation and expanding state surveillance. With legally…
Social Mass Media in Work of a Historian
Memory, Conflict and New Media
This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states - where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism. To this day, former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities, producing national memories, and relating to the Soviet legacy. Their pasts are principally intertwined: changing readings of history in one country generate f…
Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States
Lifestyle Programs on Russian Television
This article explores representations of Russian middle class in the lifestyle television shows. It focuses on Russian lifestyle television programmes (2000-2010) and the ways in which these programmes portray the everyday life of the middle class. Although the format of lifestyle programmes is generic, the Russian series have their own peculiar features. They range from the rhetoric and stories told by protagonists to the fact that the shows off…
Lifestyle Programs on Russian Television
This article explores representations of Russian middle class in the lifestyle television shows. It focuses on Russian lifestyle television programmes (2000-2010) and the ways in which these programmes portray the everyday life of the middle class. Although the format of lifestyle programmes is generic, the Russian series have their own peculiar features. They range from the rhetoric and stories told by protagonists to the fact that the shows off…
Lifestyle Programs on Russian Television
This article explores representations of Russian middle class in the lifestyle television shows. It focuses on Russian lifestyle television programmes (2000-2010) and the ways in which these programmes portray the everyday life of the middle class. Although the format of lifestyle programmes is generic, the Russian series have their own peculiar features. They range from the rhetoric and stories told by protagonists to the fact that the shows off…
Memory, Conflict and New Media
This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states - where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism. To this day, former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities, producing national memories, and relating to the Soviet legacy. Their pasts are principally intertwined: changing readings of history in one country generate f…
Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States
Social Mass Media in Work of a Historian
Politics, Activism and Trolling on the Russian Internet
In the years that have passed since the social media powered protest movement of 2011-2012, the Russian government has dramatically expanded its restrictions on the Internet, while simultaneously consolidating its grip on traditional media. The Internet, which long provided a space for alternative media and free speech to blossom, is becoming increasingly restricted by a growing corpus of legislation and expanding state surveillance. With legally…
Social media users in search of ‘facts’: The Trade Union House fire case
What factors influence users to believe the stories they find in social media, and what role do emotions play for users in concluding that a particular fact is ‘true’? This article examines one aspect of emotionalized communication in social networks in an information war context, namely, how social network users make decisions about the reliability of the information they receive. We employ a qualitative study of a single case – a discussion amo…
Troll Tactics: Sowing Discord in Finland’s Russian-Language Facebook Groups
This article examines a 2024 trolling campaign targeting a Russian-speaking Facebook group in Finland, in the context of Russian information warfare against the EU. Drawing on critical discourse analysis, it explores how pro-Kremlin trolls localized their messaging to exploit vulnerabilities of Russian-speakers in Finland. Two strategies – “fat” and “subtle” trolling – provoked emotional responses and led users to reproduce propaganda narratives,…
Political science (4 works) · Social media (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Collective memory (2 works) · Collective memory (2 works) · communist countries (2 works) · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (2 works)