Tanya Lokot
@tanyalokot.bsky.social
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Ukrainian academic living in Ireland. I study digital media, civic mobilisation, & networked authoritarianism. Nature & cats keep me sane. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
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kyivindependent.com
⚡️Russian-installed authorities check students' phones in occupied Crimea.

Occupation authorities in Crimea are checking students' phones in schools for content and settings that may indicate a pro-Ukrainian position, the Center for Countering Disinformation reported on Oct. 7.
Russian-installed authorities check students' phones in occupied Crimea
Occupation authorities in Crimea are checking students' phones in schools for content and settings that may indicate a pro-Ukrainian position, the Center for Countering Disinformation reported on Oct....
kyivindependent.com
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ecreaeu.bsky.social
ECC 2026 call is out! Save the dates: Brno, Czech Republic, September 8–11, 2026.

And don’t forget the deadline — January 8, 2026 😉.
ECREA - ECREA European Communication Conference 2026: Call for Papers and Pre-Conferences
ecrea.eu
tanyalokot.bsky.social
That they even feel the need to offer justifications is notable: performative censorship but for which audience?
kyivindependent.com
⚡️ Russia restricts Telegram, WhatsApp calls amid push for domestic alternatives.

Russia's communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, claimed the apps have become "the main services used to defraud and extort money, and to involve Russian citizens in sabotage and terrorist activities."
Russia restricts Telegram, WhatsApp calls amid push for domestic alternatives
Russia's communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, claimed the apps have become "the main services used to defraud and extort money, and to involve Russian citizens in sabotage and terrorist activities....
kyivindependent.com
tanyalokot.bsky.social
This is tragicomical - instead of reigning in data centers and corporations, mandating renewable energy sources and mitigating climate change, they’re asking people to delete old photos. Akin to digging a tunnel with a teaspoon. www.thejournal.ie/uk-governmen...
British government asks people to delete old emails to reduce data centres' water use
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems’.
www.thejournal.ie
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aoir.bsky.social
We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.

aoir.org/riskyresearc...
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Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety

AoIR Risky Research Working Group

Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica
Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile
Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran,
John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras,
Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy,
Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney
Vowles, Michele White.
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kyivindependent.com
Russia's war has struck Ukrainian teens in a uniquely cruel way — already navigating the turbulence of adolescence, they also face the emotional and psychological scars the war continues to leave on them.
Growing pains: The lives of Ukrainian teenagers at war
The Kyiv Independent asked teens in Ukraine aged between 14 and 17 about their experiences during Russia's war.
kyivindependent.com
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kyivindependent.com
⚡️ 5 killed, 53 injured in Ukraine as Russia strikes hospitals, residential areas across country.

Russian forces killed at least five people and injured at least 53, including four children, across Ukrainian regions over the past day, regional authorities reported on July 15.
5 killed, 53 injured in Ukraine as Russia strikes hospitals, residential areas across country
Russian forces killed at least five people and injured at least 53, including four children, across Ukrainian regions over the past day, regional authorities reported on July 15.
kyivindependent.com
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lukaszolejnik.bsky.social
Meta and Russian Yandex engaged in unprecedented internet tracking practices, likely illegal with EU data protection law. localmess.github.io
tanyalokot.bsky.social
Work in this area by F Musiani, K Ermoshina, L DeNardis, K Easterling, F Daucé, R Deibert, and many others is vital.
tanyalokot.bsky.social
The investigation’s discovery is also another argument for a greater focus on the materiality of technology in platform governance and digital authoritarianism research to highlight the central role of infrastructures in transnational information flows and points of control.
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ericamarat.bsky.social
A special issue on childhood in wartime published by London Ukrainian Review. Open Access.

“Through reportage, conversations, history, and art, it highlights the experiences of young people growing up in Ukraine today”

www.londonukrainianreview.org
London Ukrainian Review
The London Ukrainian Review is an open-access journal that tackles global challenges through the prism of Ukraine while adopting a distinctly internationalist perspective on the Ukrainian past and pre...
www.londonukrainianreview.org
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popovaprof.bsky.social
Some people can’t get it through their thick heads that Pu doesn’t want to compromise and he’s the obstacle to any midway solution actually taking place, not Ukraine’s rightful desire for a just peace.
tanyalokot.bsky.social
For @news.rte.ie, I reflect on how AI is increasingly not only framed as a potential threat, but used by governments strategically to reassert a sense of control in moments of uncertainty. Such reactions can undermine already fragile public trust www.rte.ie/news/primeti... @dublincityuni.bsky.social
In the age of AI, is doubt becoming a political strategy?
As references to AI become more common in political discourse, what happens when democratic governments begin using it to question the authenticity of real events?
www.rte.ie
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digiconstnetwork.bsky.social
They talked about the evolution of the global politics of internet freedom and the forces behind this. Specifically, they addressed how the ‘norm cluster’ of #DigitalSovereignty replaced that of #InternetFreedom leading to a potential ‘hollowing out’ of the latter.
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digiconstnetwork.bsky.social
On today’s second panel DCN member @mariellew.bsky.social and Dublin City University’s Tetyana Lokot presented their work on ‘The Politics of Global Norm Contestation’.
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smex.org
SMEX @smex.org · May 30
If your work falls at the intersection of technology and human rights, we’re looking for you for Bread&Net 2025.

Submit a workshop, talk, or presentation before July 15, 2025.

Want to know more? Visit breadandnet.secure-platform.com/site/ or reach out on [email protected].
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dublincityuni.bsky.social
DCU's Dr Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com and Ciarán O'Connor @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social discuss key issues related to AI and academia in the latest episode of their podcast 'Enough About AI'. You can listen to the full episode here: launch.dcu.ie/3YHqlHk
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mariellew.bsky.social
I'm greatly looking forward to moderating the CERiM CEEhub launch event next week, with a stellar line up of speakers:
@petoandrea.bsky.social, @tanyalokot.bsky.social, Adriana Iamnitchi and @gnoutcheva.bsky.social.

Don't miss it and register today. See you in Maastricht!

#EUsky #IRsky #commsky
umceehub.bsky.social
The CERiM Central and Eastern Europe hub launch event will be moderated by CEEhub steering committee member Dr @mariellew.bsky.social, expert on Russian politics, platform governance and internet censorship.

Make sure to register today:
maastrichtuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...