Kateryna will be working on the Australian Search Experience 2.0 project, where she will examine how searching practices and search interfaces shape each other and relate to real-world events such as wars and crises, as well as social phenomena such as partisanship. Her research will partially extend upon the theoretical model of digital practices developed in her doctoral research and consisting of six interrelated elements – action, collectivity, language, normativity, knowledge, and materiality. This model has allowed her to reliably and scalably identify practices of cosmopolitan engagement with Russia’s war on Ukraine through Twitter/X by combining LLM-based discourse modelling, network analysis, and scroll-back user interviews.
Kateryna’s model of digital practices has also supported computational approaches to identifying practices of online communities through innovative computational discourse modelling (practice prediction) and network analysis (practice mapping) methods. This collaborative and individual work on user practices on social media has been published in journals including Convergence, Media, War & Conflict, and Social Media + Society, and the Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference.