Presentations

Vziatysheva, V., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M. & Jumle, V. (2025). How beliefs, knowledge and intuition affect the way we search? Examining how users formulate search queries about climate change. AoIR 2025. 15-18 October. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Vziatysheva, V., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., & Jumle, V. (2025). Bias is in the Eye of the Beholder: How Users Understand Search Engine Bias and How It Affects Trust in Search Results. SEASON 2025. 24-25 September. Hamburg, Germany.

Jumle, V., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., & Vziatysheva, V. (2025). How search engines frame political initiatives. SEASON 2025. 24-25 September. Hamburg, Germany.

Makhortykh, M., Rohrbach, T., & Sydorova, M. (2025). Invisible in Search? Auditing Gender Bias in the Visual Representation of Holocaust Victims on Google. SEASON 2025. 24-25 September. Hamburg, Germany.

Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., Urman, A., & Ulloa, R. (2025). Auditing what the algorithm pays attention to at the time of war: How image search framed the Russian-Ukrainian war before and after the 2022 invasion. SEASON 2025. 24-25 September. Hamburg, Germany.

Jumle, V., Makhortykh, M., & Sydorova, M. (2025). “Be like others”: On what search engines tell us about our nations. SEASON 2025. 24-25 September. Hamburg, Germany.

Keller, F.B., Baghumyan, A., Adam, S., Rohrbach, T. & Makhortykh, M. (2025). Are There Good Conspiracy Beliefs? Groups of Conspiracies and Who Believes Them? APSA 2025. 11-14 September. Vancouver, Canada.

Makhortykh, M., Rohrbach, T., Sydorova, M., & Kuznetsova, E. (2025). Search Engines in Polarized Media Environment: Auditing Political Information Curation on Google and Bing Prior to 2024 US Elections. ECPR 2025. 26-29 August. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., Vziatysheva, V., & Jumle, V. (2025). Does Bias Get Too Personal? Auditing Effects of Personalization and Randomization on Politics-Related Web Searches in Switzerland. ECPR 2025. 26-29 August. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Jumle, V. & Makhortykh, M. (2025). Digital Monuments and Memories: A Decade of Holocaust Narratives on Twitter. ECPR 2025. 26-29 August. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Vziatysheva, V., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., & Jumle, V. (2025). Political Beliefs Vs. Search Engine Autocomplete: How Citizens Choose Search Queries to Find Information About Climate Change. ECPR 2025. 26-29 August. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Kuznetsova, E., Makhortykh, M., Vitulano, I., Stolze, M., & Sydorova, M. (2025). Algorithmic Deceptions: An LLM-Assisted Analysis of Russian Propaganda Curation on Search Engines. ECPR 2025. 26-29 August. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Kuznetsova, E., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., & Rohrbach, T. (2025). Searching for Trouble: Problematic Content and Political Advertising on Search Engines During German 2025 Federal Election. ECPR 2025. 26-29 August. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Logunova, O., Khlevnyuk, D., Maksimova, A., & Makhortykh, M. (2025). From Revolutionaries to Dictators: Anti- and Pro-War Digital Memory Activism at the Beginning of the Large-Scale Russian Invasion of Ukraine. ICCEES XI World Congress. 21-25 July. London, UK.

Makhortykh, M., Vziatysheva, V., Sydorova, M., Baghumyan, A., & Kuznetsova, E. (2025). Lies in the eyes of AI: Auditing how LLM-powered chatbots deal with disinformation about Russia's war in Ukraine across languages. ICCEES XI World Congress. 21-25 July. London, UK.

Smit, R., Merrill, S., Makhortykh, M., Richardson-Walden, V., Mandolessi, S., & Smits, T. (2025). Handling the Hype: Demystifying AI for Memory Studies [round table]. MSA 2025. 12-16 July. Prague, Czech Republic.

Sydorova, M., Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., & Ulloa, R. (2025). Splinter in the eye of an algorithm? Visual analysis of war trauma representation by web search engines. MSA 2025. 12-16 July. Prague, Czech Republic.

Vziatysheva, V., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., & Jumle, V. (2025). Can web search be a form of trauma communication? Investigating how Internet users search for information. MSA 2025. 12-16 July. Prague, Czech Republic.

Marten, P.L, Makhortykh, M. & Stadtler, M. (2025). Can AI take over my evaluation task? Probably not! Comparing sourcing and corroboration performance of ChatGPT with that of adolescents and young adults. ST&D 2025. 9-11 July. Padua, Italy.

Kozlovski, A. & Makhortykh, M. (2025). The Ethics of Digital Duplicates: A Case Study. IACAP/AISB-25. 1-3 July. Twente, Netherlands.

Urman, A., Makhortykh, M., & Hannak, A. (2025). WEIRD Audits? Research Trends, Linguistic and Geographical Disparities in the Algorithm Audits of Online Platforms - A Systematic Literature Review. June 23-26. Athens, Greece.

Makhortykh, M. (2025). Watching the watchers: How AI affects Holocaust memory outside heritage institutions. Connective Holocaust Commemoration Expo 2025. June 24-26. Brighton, UK.

Vziatysheva, V., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M. & Jumle, V. (2025). How Citizens Search for Information about Climate Change: Role of Search Suggestions, Political Beliefs, and Intuition. Weizenbaum Conference 2025. 4-5 June. Berlin, Germany.

Vziatysheva, V., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M. & Jumle, V. (2025). Shades of Bias: How Users Understand Search Engine Bias and How It Affects Trust in Search Results. Weizenbaum Conference 2025. 4-5 June. Berlin, Germany.

Wirz, D., de León, E., Adam, S., & Makhortykh, M. (2025). Tracing Knowledge Gaps: Investigating the Influence of Education on News Exposure and Knowledge using Digital Trace Data. ICA 2025. 12-16 June. Denver, USA.

Rorhbach, T., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M. & Baghumyan, A. (2025). Campaigning through the lens of Google: A large-scale algorithm audit of Google searches in the run up to the Swiss Federal Elections 2023. ICA 2025. 12-16 June. Denver, USA.

de León, E., Kristensen, J.B., Makhortykh, M., Mayerhöffer, E. & Adam, S. (2025). The Political Weaponization of Online Content: From Direct to Networked Exposure. ICA 2025. 12-16 June. Denver, USA.

Rohrbach, T., Adam, S., Keller, F., Makhortykh, M., de Léon, E., Valli, C., ... & Sydorova, M. (2025). How Do Media Contribute to the Dissemination of Conspiracy Beliefs? A Field Study Combining Panel and Web Tracking at the Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic. ICA 2025. 12-16 June. Denver, USA.

Kuznetsova, E., Vitulano, I., Vziatysheva, V., Stolze, M., & Makhortykh, M. Tackling Falsehoods with Generative AI: A Systematic Cross-Topic Examination of LLMs Capacity to Detect Veracity of Political Information.ICA 2025. 12-16 June. Denver, USA.

Makhortykh, M. (2025). Three point problem: On the role of AI in history education and memory. 4th Forum for History Education of the Council of Europe. 11-13 June. Budapest, Hungary.

Gil-Lopez, T., Makhortykh, M., Ulloa, R. & Urman, A. (2025). Google, is it a protester or an activist? Auditing the algorithmic gaze on different forms of civil resistance. International workshop "Kaleidoscopic Patterns of Protest". June 3-4. Innsbruck, Austria.

Vziatysheva, V., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M, Jumle, V. (2025). Search suggestions, climate beliefs, or thinking style? What Swiss citizens rely on when searching for the environment-related popular vote. SGKM annual conference. May 21-23. Chur, Switzerland.

Makhortykh, M., Rorhbach, T., Sydorova, M. & Kuznetsova, E. (2025). Red news for red states? Auditing political information exposure on Google and Bing prior to the 2024 US elections. SGKM annual conference. May 21-23. Chur, Switzerland.

Makhortykh, M., Vziatysheva, V. & Jumle, V. (2025). Can a Robot Simulate Family memories? Exploring How Large Language Models Can Contribute to (Intergenerational) Memory Transmission Research. International conference "All roads lead to … the family? Political socialisation among migrants and non-migrants". 28-30 April. Berlin, Germany. 

 Makhortykh, M., Kulichkina, A. & Maikovska, K. (2025). The Word for War is Special Operation? A Comparative Study of Ukrainian and Russian Political Communication on Telegram Before and After Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine. 7th ANNUAL COMPTEXT Conference. April 24-26. Vienna, Austria.

Kozlovski, A. & Makhortykh, M. (2025). The Ethics of Digital Duplicates – a case study. International workshop "Values at the threshold". February 7-9. Giessbach, Switzerland.

Makhortykh, M. (2025). Is AI uncertainty epistemic or aleatoric? Auditing how LLMs deal with knowledge contestation regarding Russia's war in Ukraine. International workshop "Values at the threshold". February 7-9. Giessbach, Switzerland.

Makhortykh, M., Richardson-Walden, V. & Rücker, N. (2025). AI and the future of Holocaust memory and learning (roundtable). International Forum on Holocaust Memory and Learning in an Age of Manipulated Information. January 28-29 2025. Krakow, Poland.

 Wirz, D., de León, E., Adam, S. & Makhortykh, M. (2025). Die Entstehung von Wissensklüften im Rezeptionsverlauf: Eine Studie mit Web-Tracking Daten. DGPuk 2025. January 22-24. Bamberg, Germany.

Keller, F., Adam, S., Valli, C., Rohrbach, T., Makhortykh, M., & Baghumyan, A. (2025). Who in Switzerland believes in what kind of conspiracy theories? Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association. January 9-10. Geneva, Switzerland.

Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., Baghumyan, A., Vziatysheva, V. & Kuznetsova, E. (2025). Very (un)stable truths: How LLM-based chatbots reiterate and counter Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine. Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association. January 9-10. Geneva, Switzerland.

Vziatysheva, V., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., & Jumle, V. (2025). Many shades of bias? How search engines personalize politics-related web searches in Switzerland. Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association. January 9-10. Geneva, Switzerland.

Jumle, V., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., & Vziatysheva, V. (2025). Advancing digital nationalism: An audit of search engines for political bias. Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association. January 9-10. Geneva, Switzerland.

Makhortykh, M. (2024). Between the power play and consensus-building: Writing the history of Ukrainian and Russian (para)military armed groups on Wikipedia. Expanding Perspectives on (Para-)Military Violence in Post-Soviet Spaces: Agency, Narratives, and Power. December 10. Frankfurt-am-Oder, Germany.

Kozlovski, A. & Makhortykh, M. (2024). Dybbuks and golems – from interactive to generative testimonies. International eConference on Holocaust Studies. International e-conference on Holocaust Studies. December 14-15 (online event).

Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M. & Vziatysheva, V. (2024). The past is another model? How text-generative AIs (fail to) deal with information about the Holocaust in Ukraine. International e-conference on Holocaust Studies. December 14-15 (online event).

Makhortykh, M. & Vziatysheva, V. (2024). Instrumentalisation of the Past in the Age of Android Historians. How AI (Re)writes the History of the Holocaust. Infoclio conference “Erinnerung im Wandel”. 22 November. Bern, Switzerland.

Bareikytė, M. & Makhortykh, M. (2024). AI War Imaginaries: How Image-Generative AI  Models Represent Russia’s War against Ukraine. International workshop "Ukrainian Un/Certainties: Mobilities, Memories and Representations in Times of War". 14-15 November. Berlin, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. (2024). Problematising empirical assessments of disruptive communication in the field of algorithm audits. International workshop "Contextualizing Misinformation Research: Theoretical, Empirical, and Legal Frameworks". Weinzenbaum Institute. November 7-8. Berlin, Germany.

 Makhortykh, M. (2024). Fifty shades of filters: Dealing with the sensitivities of online behavior tracking data. Managing sensitive personal data in research workshop. November 4. Bern, Switzerland.

 Makhortykh, M. & Bareikytė, M. (2024). AI war imaginaries: How image-generative AI models (mis)represent Russia’s war against Ukraine. International conference "AI and warfare: Investigating the technological and political domains of current conflicts". October 16-18. Berlin, Germany.

 Makhortykh, M. (2024). Constructing the Infrastructural (In)security: The Evolving Role of Internet Infrastructures in Cybersecurity Discourse in Ukraine Throughout the Russian-Ukrainian War. International workshop "Reassembling the Computer Networks of Eastern and Central Europe: From the Collapse of Soviet Bloc to the Russia-Ukraine War". October 3-4. Lviv, Ukraine.

Makhortykh, M., Kuznetsova, E. & Sydorova, M. (2024). Troubles in Algorithmic information environments: Cross-country audit of Russian Propaganda on Search Engines. ECREA 2024. September 24-27. Ljubliana, Slovenia.

Vziatysheva, V., Sydorova, M., Makhortykh, M. & Jumle, V. (2024). Google, how should I vote? How Swiss citizens use search engines to find political information in the context of popular votes. ECREA 2024. September 24-27. Ljubliana, Slovenia.

Sydorova, M., Makhortykh, M. & Vziatysheva, V. (2024). Modelling the past: How text-generative AI deals with information about the Holocaust in Ukraine and its instrumentalization. ECREA 2024. September 24-27. Ljubliana, Slovenia.

 De León, E., Kristensen, J., Makhortykh, M., Mayerhöffer, E. (2024). Networked exposure: What bridging aggregate and individual network data can tell us about hyperpartisan, alternative, and conspiracy media. ECREA 2024. September 24-27. Ljubliana, Slovenia.

Adam, S., Rohrbach, T., Makhortykh, M., Keller, F., Valli, C., Baghumyan, A., de Leon, E. (2024). Exposure or Predisposition? Tracking the Development of Conspiracy Beliefs Online. 120th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition. September 5-8. Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., Vziatysheva, V. & Jumle, V. (2024). Finders, keepers: A systematic investigation of algorithmic bias in politics-related web searches in Switzerland. Democracy and Digital Citizenship Conference. September 3-4. Odense, Denmark

Vziatysheva, V., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., & Jumle, V. (2024). Vote for or against? How Swiss users formulate search queries to find political information on search engines. Democracy and Digital Citizenship Conference. September 3-4. Odense, Denmark

Rohrbach, T., Makhortykh, M. & Sydorova, M. (2024). National elections through the lens of Google: Large-scale audit of gender bias in image search results during the 2023 parliamentary elections in Switzerland. ECPR. August 12-15. Dublin, Ireland.

Kuznetsova, E., Makhortykh, M. & Stolze, M., Vziatysheva, V., Sydorova, M. (2024).  Algorithmic Curation of Russian Propaganda: A Comparative Analysis of Online Information Environments. ECPR. August 12-15. Dublin, Ireland.

Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., Baghumyan, A., Vziatysheva, V. & Kuznetsova, E. (2024). The randomness factor: How LLM-based chatbots reiterate and counter Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine. ECPR. August 12-15. Dublin, Ireland.

Kuznetsova, E., Makhortykh, M. & Vitulano, I. (2024). Tackling Falsehoods with Generative AI: A Systematic Cross-Topic Examination of Chatbot Capacity to Detect Veracity of Political Information. ECPR. August 12-15. Dublin, Ireland.

 Bareikyte, M. & Makhortykh, M. (2024). Inconspicuous digital witnessing during Russia's war against Ukraine. EAAST-4S conference. July 16-19. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

 Jumle, V. & Makhortykh, M. (2024). Holocaust on Twitter: Describing common history across cultures. EAAST-4S conference. July 16-19. Amsterdam, Netherlands.     

 Makhortykh, M. & Bareikyte, M. (2024). AI imaginaries and Russia's war against Ukraine: the case of Midjourney and Kandinsky. EAAST-4S conference. July 16-19. Amsterdam, Netherlands.  

Vziatysheva, V., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M. & Jumle, V. (2024). Auditing political transformation: how Swiss citizens use AI to find information about federal-level popular votes. EAAST-4S conference. July 16-19. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Baghumyan, A., Rohrbach., T., Adam., S., Valli., C, Keller F., Makhortykh, M. (2024). You Can’t Play with Us: Conspiracy Theories and Ostracism. ISPP. July 4-6. Santiago, Chile.

A marriage of exposure and predispositions? A field study combining panel and webtracking data to understand the emergence of Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs. MCID Annual Event 2024. July 4 2024. Bern, Swizerland. Adam, Rohrbach, Makhortykh, Keller, Valli, Baghumyan, de Leon.

Kuznetsova, E., Makhortykh, M., Vziatysheva, V., Stolze, M., Baghumyan, A. & Urman, A. (2024). In Generative AI We Trust: Can Chatbots Effectively Verify Political Information? ICA 2024. June 20-24. Gold Coast, Australia.

Makhortykh, M., Rohrbach, T., Sydorova, M. & Baghumyan, A. (2024). What Is the Face of the New Parliament? Auditing Gender Bias in Image Search Results During the 2023 Parliamentary Elections in Switzerland. ICA 2024. June 20-24. Gold Coast, Australia.

Rohrbach, T., Makhortykh, M., & Sydorova, M. Searching the White Male? The Prevalence and Consequences of Algorithmic Gender and Race Bias in Political Google Searches. ICA 2024. June 20-24. Gold Coast, Australia.

Makhortykh, M. (2024). Lest AI forgets: How foundation models remember the Holocaust and why it is important. Re:Publica. 27-29 May. Berlin, Germany.

 Bareikyte, M. & Makhortykh, M. (2024). War from within: Witnessing Russia’s War against Ukraine through Online Platforms. (Para-)Military Violence, War Crimes in Post-Soviet Conflicts and Narratives of the Russo-Ukrainian War. May 21-23. Berlin, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. (2024). Can AI memory be  conspiratorial? Auditing how image-generative AI represents the history of Ukraine. Conspiratorial Memory workshop. April 25-27 2024. Smolenice, Slovakia.

Urman, A. & Makhortykh, M. (2024). The Silence of the LLMs: Cross-Lingual Analysis of Political Bias in LLM-powered Chatbots. SACM/SKGM annual conference Sustainability and Resilience in Communication and the Media. April 17-19. Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Vziatysheva, V., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M. & Jumle, V. (2024). How Swiss Citizens Use Search Engines to Find Information about Federal-Level Popular Votes. Survey on the Algorithm-Driven Information-Seeking Political Behavior. SACM/SKGM annual conference Sustainability and Resilience in Communication and the Media. April 17-19. Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Makhortykh, M., Rorhbach, T., Sydorova, M., & Baghumyan, A. (2024). Searching for the New Parliament? Auditing Gender Bias in Image Search Results during the 2023 Parliamentary Elections in Switzerland. SACM/SKGM annual conference Sustainability and Resilience in Communication and the Media. April 17-19. Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Rorhbach, T., Makhortykh, M., & Sydorova, M. (2024). Finding the White Male? The Prevalence and Consequences of Algorithmic Gender Bias in Political Google Searches. SACM/SKGM annual conference Sustainability and Resilience in Communication and the Media. April 17-19. Neuchatel, Switzerland.

 Makhortykh, M. (2024). Talking (in)security through history: How memory has been used for contesting Ukrainian sovereignty through the Russian-Ukrainian war. Narratives of Adhesion vs. Separation workshop. March 25-26 2024. Bonn, Germany.

 Bareikyte, M. & Makhortykh, M. (2024). War bias: Auditing how Western and Russian image-generative Al models represent the war in Ukraine. ICA Regional Conference Human-Tech Transition: Crises in Mediatized Politics, Society & Economy. March 13-15. Warsaw, Poland.

 Bareikyte, M. & Makhortykh, M. (2024). From arrested to digitally witnessable war: How Russia's war in Ukraine is documented, narrated, and critiqued on Telegram. ICA Regional Conference Human-Tech Transition: Crises in Mediatized Politics, Society & Economy. March 13-15. Warsaw, Poland.

Makhortykh, M. (2023). Double-edged sword of interdisciplinarity: How to work across disciplines and (not to) ruin your academic career. Behind the Veil of Success: Learning from (Academic) Failures and Mistakes workshop. December 8. Bern, Switzerland.

Makhortykh, M., Adam, S., Sydorova, M., Keller, F., & Urman, A. (2023). Between COVID Dictatorships and Gas Chamber Lies: How Google and YouTube Deal with Information about Historical and Recent Conspiracies in Switzerland. Information pollution on the web – sources, algorithms and the recipients workshop. October 18. Bern, Switzerland.

Urman, A. & Makhortykh, M. (2023). The Silence of the LLMs: Cross-Lingual Analysis of Political Bias and False Information Prevalence in ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Bing Chat. Information pollution on the web – sources, algorithms and the recipients workshop. October 18. Bern, Switzerland.

 Bareikyte, M. (2023). Pereklychka or Propaganda? Unfolding of Telegram Communication in the Context of the Russian War in Ukraine. Digital Wars: Media and Technologies during the War in Ukraine. October 11-12 2023. Flensburg, Germany.

Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M., Baghumyan, A. & Vziatysheva, V. (2023). Can AI See the End of the War? Auditing the Representation of Russia's war in Ukraine by Bing AI. Digital Wars: Media and Technologies during the War in Ukraine. October 11-12 2023. Flensburg, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. (2023). Challenges, opportunities, and  threats in using AI for remembering historical and present mass atrocities. Bridging AI scholarship and Memory Studies workshop. September 27 2023 (virtual workshop).

Makhortykh, M. (2023). AI-driven Information Systems and Russia’s War in Ukraine. International roundtable “How the conflict in Ukraine could transform global information, communication, and security”. September 26 2023. Oxford, UK.

Makhortykh, M., Vziatysheva, V., & Sydorova, M. (2023). Memory Warriors or Memory Peacemakers? How Generative AIs Deal with Memories about the Holocaust in Ukraine. Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition conference. September 20-23 2023. Tallinn, Estonia.

Kuznetsova, E., Makhortykh, M., Baghumyan, A., & Urman, A. (2023). In ChatGPT we trust? Auditing how generative AIs understand and detect online political misinformation. ECPR 2023. September 4-8 2023. Prague, Czech Republic. 

Makhortykh, M., Adam, S., Keller, F., Sydorova, M., & Urman, A. (2023). Auditing the effect of search personalisation on the visibility of COVID- and Holocaust-related misinformation on Google in Switzerland. ECPR 2023. September 4-8 2023. Prague, Czech Republic. 

Makhortykh, M. (2024). Is suffering in the eye of the (artificial) beholder? Auditing the representation of the Holocaust through the prism of AI. Machine Discovery & Creation workshop. August 3-4. Leibniz University Hannover (online).

Makhortykh, M., Adam, S., Sydorova, M., Keller, F., & Urman, A. (2023). Auditing YouTube algorithms in relation to Holocaust and COVID misinformation. IC2S2 2023. July 17-20 2023. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Ulloa, R., Sydorova, M., Kulshrestha, J. (2023). Does it get better with time? Web search consistency and relevance in the visual representation of the Holocaust. IC2S2 2023. July 17-20 2023. Copenhagen, Denmark.

 Urman, A., & Makhortykh, M. (2023). Engagement with pro- and anti-regime framing of the war in Ukraine on Russian social media. IC2S2 2023. July 17-20 2023. Copenhagen, Denmark.

 Urman, A., Makhortykh, M. & Katz, S. (2023). Channels of war: Exploring Ukrainian and Russian Telegram spheres during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. IC2S2 2023. July 17-20 2023. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Ulloa, R. & Sydorova, M. (2023). We are not the same: How web search engines shape memory about Holocaust perpetrators and survivors. MSA 2023. July 3-7 2023. Newcastle, UK.

 Sydorova, M., Makhortykh, M. & Urman, A. (2023). Seen It All Before: Instrumentalisation of Holocaust memory in Russian Twittersphere. MSA 2023. July 3-7 2023. Newcastle, UK.

Makhortykh, M. (2023). Auditing AI-driven information retrieval systems: the case of the Holocaust. Weizenbaum Conference. June 19-20. Berlin, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. (2023). Algorithms of history: How AI-driven systems (mis)interpret the past. Geschichte in der digitalen Gegenwart – Geschichtsverständnisse zwischen »Postfaktizität« und neuen Evidenzen. June 14-16. Marburg, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. (2023). Examining the Role of Professional Values in the Context of Information System Design for Cultural Heritage Institutions. ICA 2023. May 25-29. Toronto, Canada.

Kuznetsova, E., Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M. & Urman, A. (2023). Disinformation and Algorithms: How Search Engines Manage False Claims about “Biolabs” in Ukraine. ICA 2023. May 25-29. Toronto, Canada.

de León, E., Makhortykh, M. Urman, A., & Ulloa, R. (2023). Googling the “Big Lie”: Search Engines, News Media, and the U.S. 2020 Election Conspiracy. ICA 2023. May 25-29. Toronto, Canada.

Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M. & Urman, A. (2023). AI-driven information inequalities in Switzerland in the context of popular votes.  AI-driven information inequalities in Switzerland in the context of popular votes. May 16. Bern, Switzerland.

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Ulloa, R. & Sydorova, M. (2023). Auditing what the algorithm pays attention to at the time of war: How image search framed the Russian-Ukrainian war before and after the 2022 invasion. SGKM annual conference. April 19-31 2023. Luzern, Switzerland.

Makhortykh, M. (2023). Challenges of using algorithm- and AI-driven systems for addressing Holocaust denial and distortion. MC4 Webinar - Addressing Holocaust Denial and Distortion Online. UNESCO (online). March 29.

Makhortykh, Mykola, Sydorova, M. & Urman, A. (2022). Using Machine and Deep Learning To Study Holocaust-Related Content On Twitter. Lessons & Legacies XVI conference. November 12-15. Ottawa, Canada.

Makhortykh, M., Sydorova, M. & Urman, A. (2022). Remembering to forget: Longitudinal analysis of Holocaust-related content in Twittersphere. #History on Social Media - Sources, Methods, Ethics. November 9-10 2022 (virtual conference).

Urman, A. & Makhortykh, M. (2022). Searching for (and finding) neocolonial fantasies: Sexualization of women from the Global South and the Global East in Google's text search results. 2022 Association of Internet Researchers Conference. November 2-5 2022. Dublin, Ireland.

Sen, I., Ulloa, R., Urman, A., Makhortykh, M. & Kacperski, C. (2022). Refugee Or Expat, Hero Or Threat: Migrant Queries In Google News Search Results. 2022 Association of Internet Researchers Conference. November 2-5 2022. Dublin, Ireland.

Makhortykh, M. (2022). Between the online archive and the propaganda factory: The shifting role of social media platforms in Russia’s war in Ukraine. Osteuropa-Kongress. Berlin, 6-7 October 2022.

Christner, C., Makhortykh, M., & Gil-Lopez, T. (2022). Who encounters disinformation online? Combining survey and web tracking data to investigate predictors of disinformation exposure. ECPR 2022. August 22-26 2022. Innsbruck, Austria.

de León, E., Makhortykh, M. & Adam, S. (2022). A Portrait of Alternative COVID-19 News Users – Who They Are, What They Read and How They Access It. ECPR 2022. August 22-26 2022. Innsbruck, Austria.

Makhortykh, M., de León, E., Christner, C., Sydorova, M., Urman, A., Adam, S., Maier, M., & Gil-Lopez, T. (2022). Is a single model enough? Lessons learned from systematically comparing automated classifications of populist radical right content in German. ECPR 2022. August 22-26 2022. Innsbruck, Austria.

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A. & Ulloa, R. (2022). Hey Google, what was the Holocaust about? Auditing How Search Engine Algorithms Structure Memories About Mass Atrocities. Communicating Memory Matters. June 29-July 1 2022. Salzburg, Austria.

de León, E., Makhortykh, M.,  Urman, A. & Ulloa, R. (2022) Googling the ‘Big Lie’: How search engine algorithms determined exposure of the US 2020 presidential conspiracy. Computational Communication Research in Central and Eastern Europe. June 27-29 2022. Helsinki, Finland.

Kuznetsova, E., Makhortykh, M., Urman, A. & Ulloa, R. (2022). Why not just give it a shot? How the Russian COVID-19 vaccines are framed by web search engines. Computational Communication Research in Central and Eastern Europe. June 27-29 2022. Helsinki, Finland.

Adam, S., Keller, F., Eugster, B., Valli, C., Makhortykh, M., de Leon, E., & Baghumyan, A. (2022). Preparing for the next pandemic - when does mainstream media content foster belief in conspiracy theories? MCID Bern Opening Event. June 9-10 2022. Bern, Switzerland.

Makhortykh, M. (2022). Remembering conspiracies or conspiring memories? Conspiratorial memory and the securitisation of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Conspiratorial Memory workshop. Amsterdam, 9-10 June 2022.

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Ulloa, R. & Kulshrestha, J. (2022). Comparative algorithm audit of representation of mass atrocities on web search engines. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

Kuznetsova, E., Makhortykh, M., Urman, A. & Ulloa, R. (2022). Media representations and bias in search engines: Framing of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

Wijermars, M., Urman, A., & Makhortykh, M. (2022). To comply, or not to comply: Search engine censorship and the 2021 parliamentary elections in Russia. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

de León, E., Makhortykh, M., & Adam, S. (2022). Walking roads to hyperpartisan news: Online intermediaries to COVID-19 news during the outbreak of the pandemic. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

Gil-Lopez, T., de León, E., Christner, C., Urman, A., & Makhortykh, M. (2022). Do (not!) track me: Relationship between willingness to participate and sample composition in online information behavior tracking research. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

Maier, M., Adam, S., Gil-Lopez, T., Makhortykh, M., Bromme, L., Christner, C., de León, E. & Urman, A. (2022). Populist radical-right attitudes and selective information exposure: Studying who tunes out and who prefers attitude-consonant information. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

Makhortykh, M., de León, E., Urman, A., Gil-Lopez, T.,  Christner, C., Adam, S., & Maier, M. (2022). Panning for gold: Lessons learned from automated classification of political and populist radical right content for German textual content. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

Adam, S., Maier, M., Aigenseer, V., Makhortykh, M., Ulloa, R., Urman, A., Christner, C. & Gil-Lopez, T. (2022). One does not simply analyze tracking data: Challenges of utilizing large-scale tracking collections for communication research. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A. & Wijermars, M. (2022). Authoritarian news personalisation and the 2021 Russian parliamentary elections. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

Urman, A., Makhortykh, M., Ulloa, R., & Kulshrestha, J. (2022). Where the Earth is flat and 9/11 is an inside job: A comparative algorithm audit of conspiratorial information in web search results. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

González Aguilar, J. M. & Makhortykh M. (2022). This isn't even my final form: Anne Frank memes and mediatization of Holocaust memory. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

Urman, A. & Makhortykh, M. (2022). You are how (and where) you search? Comparative analysis of web search behaviour using web tracking data. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

Ulloa, R., Makhortykh, M. & Urman, A. (2022). Algorithm auditing at a large-scale: Insights from search engine audits. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

Ulloa, R., Richter, A., Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., & Kacperski, C. (2022). Representativeness and face-ism: Gender bias in image search. ICA 2022. May 26-30 2022. Paris, France.

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Ulloa, R., & Kulshrestha, J. (2022). Can an algorithm remember the Holocaust? Comparative algorithmic audit of Holocaust-related information on search engines. Connected Histories 2022. Vienna, 23-24 May 2022.

Walden, G. V. & Makhortykh, M.  (2022). #Hashtag memory: Public engagement with genocide commemoration events during COVID-19 lockdowns. 23-24 May 2022. Connected Histories 2022. Vienna, Austria.

Makhortykh, M. (2022). Web search as a form of algorithmic governance. Algorithms, Art & Politics workshop. May 20-21 2022. Tromso, Norway.

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., & Ulloa, R. (2022). Memory, Counter-Memory, and Denialism: How Search Algorithms Select Information About the Holodomor. 3rd Annual Taras Shevchenko Conference. March 25-27 2022. Bloomington, US.

Makhortykh, M. (2022). Memory snacking the Ukrainian way: Tiktok as the participatory archive of the first post-Soviet decade in Ukraine. Independence. Archive. Prognosis. Ukraine in 1991-2021 and Beyond. 3-5 February, 2022, Melbourn, Australia.

Makhortykh, M. (2022). "We always cry when we hear this song": Imagining the first post-Soviet decade in Ukraine on TikTok. Imagining the 90s: The First Post-Soviet Decade and its Narratives in Literature and Culture. January 19-22, Basel, Switzerland.

Urman, A. & Makhortykh, M. (2021). New platforms, old trolls: How political trolling in Russia adapts to new platform affordances. ASEEES 2021. 2-3 December 2021 (online conference).

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., & Wijermars, M. (2021). Authoritarian news personalisation on Yandex.Zen during the 2021 Russian parliamentary elections. Electoral Integrity and Malpractice in Russia and Beyond: New Challenges and Responses. 25-26 October 2021, Helsinki, Finland.

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Münch, F., Heldt, A., Dreyer, S., & Kettemann, M. (2021). Never send a human to do a machine's job? A cross-platform analysis of policies, mechanisms, and practices of automated agent governance. 4S 2021. 6-9 October 2021 (online conference).

Makhortykh, M. (2021). Historia ex machina: Algorithms as agents of public history. Poletayev Readings X. 30 September - 1 October 2021 (online conference).

Makhortykh, M. (2021). Data bias and algorithmic fairness. Big Data, AI & Machine Learning. 24 September 2021 (online conference). 

Makhortykh, M. (2021). The grammar of security never changes? Historical memory and de-securitization during the Soviet and the US withdrawals from Afghanistan. EISA 2021. 13-17 September 2021 (online conference). 

Makhortykh, M., Maier, M., Adam, S., Aigenseer, V., Ulloa, R., Urman, A., Christner, C., and Gil-Lopez, T. (2021). Tell me what you browse: Using browser tracking to study (political) information behaviour. ECREA 2021. 6-9 September 2021 (online conference).

Merten, L., Metoui, N., Makhortykh, M., Trilling, D. and Möller, J. (2021). News won't find me? Exploring inequalities in social media news use with tracking data. ECREA 2021. 6-9 September 2021 (online conference).

Gil-Lopez, T., Makhortykh, M. and Urman, A. (2021). Do (not!) track me: Relationship between willingness to participate and representativeness of online information behavior tracking research. ECREA 2021. 6-9 September 2021 (online conference).

Makhortykh, M. (2021). Life before the war: Mediating nostalgia and trauma in Eastern Ukrainian city communities. MSA 2021. July 5-9 2021 (online conference).

Makhortykh, M. (2021). War never changes? Examining the perceived relationship between computer games and transgenerational war Trauma on Steam. MSA 2021. July 5-9 2021 (online conference).

Kuznetsova, E. & Makhortykh, M. (2021). The art of disruption: RT’s social media strategies. Fifth Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies. 6-8 June 2021 (online conference).

Christner, C. & Makhortykh, M. (2021). Who encounters disinformation online and why? Investigating predictors of exposure to disinformation. ICA 2021. 27-31 May 2021 (online conference).

de Leon, E., Makhortykh, M., Gil-Lopez, T. & Silke, A. (2021 ). Rally `round what flag? The role of media consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic for the development of political trust in Switzerland. ICA 2021. 27-31 May 2021 (online conference).

de Leon, E., Makhortykh, M., & Urman, A. (2021 ). Where did you come from, where did you go? Pathways to news in Germany and Switzerland. ICA 2021. 27-31 May 2021 (online conference).

Dovbysh, O., Makhortykh, M., & Wijermars, M. (2021). How to reach Nirvana: Yandex, news personalisation and the future of Russian journalistic media. ICA 2021. 27-31 May 2021 (online conference).

González, J. and Makhortykh, M. (2021 ). Us vs. Them: Internet memes and construction of (counter)protest identities in Ukraine and Venezuela. ICA 2021. 27-31 May 2021 (online conference).

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., & Ulloa, R. (2021 ). Auditing algorithmic content curation on search engines using virtual agents. ICA 2021. 27-31 May 2021 (online conference).

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., & Ulloa, R. (2021 ). Hey, Google, is it what the Holocaust really looked like? Auditing biases in visual representation of the Holocaust on web search engines. ICA 2021. 27-31 May 2021 (online conference).

Urman, A., Makhortykh, M., & Ulloa, R. (2021). Visual representation of migrants in Web search results. ICA 2021. 27-31 May 2021 (online conference).

Urman, A. & Makhortykh, M. (2021). Do women "sell" better than men? Auditing gender and ethnic biases in Google search results. ICA 2021. 27-31 May 2021 (online conference).

Dovbysh, O., Wijermars, M., & Makhortykh, M. (2021). How to reach Nirvana: Yandex, news personalisation and the future of Russian journalistic media. CMSTW 2021. 20-21 April 2021 (online conference).

Urman, A., Makhortykh, M., & Ulloa, R. (2021). Auditing source diversity bias in video search results using virtual agents. Third Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics and Society on the Web (FATES on the Web 2021). 12 April 2021 (online workshop).

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., & Ulloa, R. (2021). Hey, Google, tell me what the Holocaust looked like: Visual framing of mass atrocities by search engines. DACH 21: Kommunikation #(R)Evolution. 7-9 April  2021 (online conference).

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A. & Ulloa, R. (2021). Scaling virtual agent-based testing for cross-platform analysis of algorithmic content curation. DACH 21: Kommunikation #(R)Evolution. 7-9 April  2021 (online conference).

Makhortykh, M., Adam, S., Maier, M., Urman, A., Gil-Lopez, T., Christner, C. (2021). News at the time of crisis: Comparing desktop- and mobile-based browsing behaviour during COVID-19 pandemic. DACH 21: Kommunikation #(R)Evolution. 7-9 April  2021 (online conference).

Adam, S., Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Christner, C., Gil-Lopez, T., & Maier, M. (2021). Media consumption and conspiracy beliefs in COVID-19 times – combing tracking and survey research. DACH 21: Kommunikation #(R)Evolution. 7-9 April  2021 (online conference).

Kuznetsova, L. & Makhortykh, M. (2021). Blame it on the algorithm? Russian media and curation of news on Facebook. 6th HSE International Conference “Digital Media for the Future”. April 6-9 2021 (online conference).

Dobvysh, O., Wijermars, M., & Makhortykh, M. (2021). How to reach Nirvana: Yandex, news personalisation and the future of Russian journalistic media. 6th HSE International Conference “Digital Media for the Future”. April 6-9 2021 (online conference). 

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., & Ulloa, R. (2021). Detecting race and gender bias in visual representation of AI on web search engines. Second International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (Bias 2021). 1 April 2021 (online workshop).

Kuznetsova, E. & Makhortykh, M. (2020). The Art of Disruption: RT’s Social Media Strategies. ASEEES 2020. 14-15 November 2020 (online conference).

Urman, A., Makhortykh, M., & Ulloa, R. (2020). Algorithmic auditing of search engines: The 2020 US presidential election campaign. Digital Democracy Workshop. 5-6 November 2020 (online workshop)..

Makhortykh, M. & Urman, A. (2020). The great randomizer: Using virtual agents for auditing the effects of YouTube algorithm on ideologically-charged news content distribution. AoIR 2020. 26-31 October 2020 (online conference).

Urman, A., Makhortykh, M., & Ulloa, R. (2020). Auditing search engines: The case of the 2020 US presidential election campaign. SocInfo 2020. 6-9 October 2020 (online conference).

González, J. & Makhortykh, M. (2020). #VenezuelaLibre vs. #RussiaWithUs: Protest identities construction in Ukraine and Venezuela through Internet memes. 26th International Congress of the SEP: Journalism for Social Transformation. 18-19 September 2020 (online conference).

Urman, A. & Makhortykh, M. (2020). Do bots and trolls speak the same language? Actor-based analysis of computational propaganda in a multilingual setting. ECPR 2020. 24-28 August 2020 (online conference).

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A. & Ulloa, R. (2020). This is what pandemic looks like: Visual framing of COVID-19 on search engines. ECPR 2020. 24-28 August 2020 (online conference).

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A. & Ulloa, R. (2020). The more knowledge, the more grief: Auditing how search engine algorithms structure memories about mass atrocities. Digital Humanities Benelux 2020. 3-5 June 2020 (online conference).

Zarouali, B., Makhortykh, M., Bastian, M. & Araujo, T. (2020). Investigating the impact of chatbot news content containing opposing views on agreement and credibility. ICA 2020. 20-26 May 2020 (online conference).

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Gil-Lopez, T. & Ulloa, R. (2020). To track or not to track: Examining perceptions of online tracking in the context of information behaviour research. ICA 2020. 20-26 May 2020 (online conference).

Merten, L., Metoui, N., Makhortykh, M., Trilling, D. & Moeller, J. (2020). News won't find me? Exploring inequalities in social media news use with tracking data. ICA 2020. 20-26 May 2020 (online conference).

Makhortykh, M. & Hönke, J. (2020). Infrastructure controversies in South-South relations: Automated controversy detection meets STS controversy/issue mapping. South-South Relations, Situational Publics and Digital Methods Workshop. 29 April 2020. Bayreuth, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. & Bastian, M. (2020). Algorithmic personalization, human rights and individual/collective digital memory legislation. Critical Thinking on Memory and Human Rights Second Annual Workshop. 20-21 February 2020. Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. (2019). Conceptualising visuality in digital trauma studies: Audiovisual tributes to the Holocaust on YouTube. Interdisciplinary workshop “Historicity of the Visuality and Image History: New Forms of Digital and Visual History/Humanities”. 14-15 November 2019. Lviv, Ukraine.

Makhortykh, M., Urman, A. Christner, C. & Gil-Lopez, T. (2019). Veritas ex machina: A critical review of automated approaches for detecting political disinformation online. Digikomm 2019: Automating Communication in the Networked Society: Contexts, Consequences, Critique. 6-8 November 2019. Berlin, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. (2019). We were hungry, but we also were free: (Counter)narratives of the Russia’s first post-Soviet decade on Instagram. 9th Genealogies of Memory Conference "Myths, Memories and Economies: Post-Socialist Transformations in Comparison". 28-30 October, 2019. Warsaw, Poland.

Urman, A. & Makhortykh, M. (2019). Trolls, bots and everyone else: Online disinformation campaigns and 2019 presidential elections in Ukraine. Aleksanteri Conference 2019 "Technology, Culture, and Society in Eurasian Space". 23-25 October, 2019. Helsinki, Finland.

González, J. & Makhortykh, M. (2019). Re-mixing memories, re-shaping protests: Historical internet memes as a means of framing protest campaigns in Ukraine and Venezuela. Aleksanteri Conference 2019 “Technology, Culture, and Society in Eurasian Space”. 23-25 October, 2019. Helsinki, Finland.

Urman, A. & Makhortykh, M. (2019). Webs of deception: Detecting and measuring the diffusion of online disinformation during the elections in Ukraine. Digital Societies 2019. 25-27 September 2019. Konstanz, Germany.

Harambam, J., Bountouridis, D.,  Makhortykh, M. & van Hoboken, J. (2019).  Power to the people! A qualitative evaluation of user control in recommendation systems. RecSys 2019. 16-20 September 2019. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Bastian, M. & Makhortykh, M. (2019). The same but different? Constructing the history of the Holocaust on Wikipedia. Digital Humanities Benelux 2019 Conference. 11-13 September 2019. Liège, Belgium.

Makhortykh, M. & Metoui, N. (2019). Protecting the bytes of the past: Information security and digital-born cultural heritage. Digital Humanities Benelux 2019 Conference. 11-13 September 2019. Liège, Belgium.

González, J. & Makhortykh, M. (2019). Re-mixing histories, re-shaping protests: Internet memes as a form of (counter)resistance in Ukraine and Venezuela. ECREA Communication History Section Workshop "Jeopardizing Democracy throughout History: Media as Accomplice, Adversary or Amplifier of Populist and Radical Politics". 11-13 September 2019. Vienna, Austria.

Bastian, M. & Makhortykh, M. (2019). Algorithms as a peacekeeping force? Automated systems of news distribution and peace journalism. SciCar 2019. 9-11 September 2019. Dortmund, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. (2019). Remembering war, forgetting peace: Historical memory and securitisation of the Russian intervention in Syria. ECPR General Conference. 4-7 September 2019. Wrocław, Poland.

Makhortykh, M. & Urman, A. (2019). Trolls, bots and everyone else: Online disinformation campaigns and 2019 presidential elections in Ukraine. 3rd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science. 2-4 September 2019. Zurich, Switzerland.

Soldner, F., Ho, J.C., Makhortykh, M., van der Vegt, I., Mozes, M. & Kleinberg, B. (2019). Uphill from here: Sentiment patterns in videos from left- and right-wing YouTube news channels. 3rd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science. 2-4 September 2019. Zurich, Switzerland.

Bountouridis, D., Makhortykh, M., Sullivan, E., Harambam, J., Tintarev, N. & Hauff, C. (2019). Annotating credibility: Identifying and mitigating bias in credibility datasets. SIGIR Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation Exposure (ROME 2019). 25 July 2019. Paris, France.

Aigenseer, V., Adam, S., Maier, M., Urman, A., Christner, C., Makhortykh, M. & Gil-Lopez, T. (2019). WebTrack – tracking users’ online information behavior while screen-scraping content. IC2S2 2019. 17-20 July 2019. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M., de Vreese, C., Helberger, N., Harambam, J. & Bountouridis, D. (2019). We are what we click: Understanding time- and content-based habits of online news readers. IC2S2 2019. 17-20 July 2019. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Merten, L., Metoui, N., Makhortykh, M., Trilling, D. & Moeller, J. (2019). News won’t find me? Exploring potential digital inequalities in social media news use. IC2S2 2019. 17-20 July 2019. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Bastian, M., Makhortykh, M. & Dobber, T. (2019). News personalization for peace: How algorithmic content distribution can impact conflict coverage. IAMCR 2019. 7-11 July 2019. Madrid, Spain.

Bastian, M. & Makhortykh, M. (2019). The neutral point of view and the black hole of Auschwitz: Crowdsourcing the history of the Holocaust on Wikipedia. International conference “Holocaust Studies in the Digital Age”. 2 July 2019. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Sydorova, M. & Makhortykh, M. (2019). Animating the subjugated past: E-cards as a form of counter-memory. 3rd Annual Memory Studies Association Conference. 25-28 June 2019. Madrid, Spain.

Makhortykh, M. & Bastian, M. (2019). Customizing the past: Algorithmic news recommenders as agents of collective remembrance. 3rd Annual Memory Studies Association Conference. 25-28 June 2019. Madrid, Spain.

Metoui, N. & Makhortykh, M. (2019). Protecting past and future choices: Identifying and evaluating functional vulnerabilities in recommender systems. Connected Life 2019. 24-25 June 2019. Oxford and London, UK. 

Sullivan, E., Bountouridis, D., Harambam, J., Najafian, S., Loecherbach, F., Makhortykh, M., Kelen, D., Wilkinson, D., Graus, D., & Tintarev, N. (2019). Reading news with a purpose: Explaining user profiles for self-actualization. UMAP International Workshop on Transparent Personalization Methods based on Heterogeneous Personal Data. 9-12 June 2019. Larnaca, Cyprus

Soldner, F., Ho, J.C., Makhortykh, M., van der Vegt, I., Mozes, M. & Kleinberg, B. (2019). Uphill from here: Sentiment patterns in videos from left- and right-wing YouTube news channels. NLP+CSS workshop (NAACL 2019). 6 June 2019. Minneapolis, United States.

Makhortykh, M. & Metoui, N. (2019). When digital manuscripts burn: Information security and digital heritage in Eastern Europe. International workshop "Politics of e-heritage: Production and regulation of digital memory in Eastern Europe and Russia". 3-4 June 2019. Marburg, Germany.

Urman, A. & Makhortykh, M. (2019). East is East, and West is West: Ideological segregation and online news communities in Ukraine. ICA 2019. 24-28 May 2019. Washington, United States.

Wijermars, M. & Makhortykh, M. (2019). Can echo chambers protect information freedom? Algorithmic news recommenders and public sphere in Eastern Europe. ICA 2019. Washington, United States.

Makhortykh, M. (2019). East is East and West is West? Negotiating divided memories on Wikipedia. International conference “Narratives of Europe’s Shared Past: Between Singularity of the Holocaust and Totalitarian Paradigm”. 16-17 May 2019. Brussels, Belgium.

Harambam, J. & Makhortykh, M. (2019). News for one and all: Algorithmic personalization as the future imaginary of the news industry. International workshop “Realities and Fantasies”. 10-12 April. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

Bountouridis, D., Harambam, J. & Makhortykh, M. (2019). FairNews: News in a Big Data era. VWData symposium. 18 March 2019. Amersfoort, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M., Harambam, J. & Bountouridis, D. (2019). FairNews: Realizing fairness in news personalization. 1st Dutch-Belgian Personalization Network workshop. 11 February 2019. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

Makhortykh, M., Bastian, M. & Dobber, T. (2019). News personalization for peace: How algorithmic content distribution can impact conflict coverage. Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap 2019. 7-8 February 2019. Nijmegen, Netherlands. 

Bountouridis, D., Harambam, J., Makhortykh, M., Marrero, M., Tintarev, N. & Hauff, C. (2019). SIREN: A simulation framework for understanding the effects of recommender systems in online news environments. ACM FAT*. 29-31 January 2019. Atlanta, US.

Makhortykh, M. & Urman, A. (2018). There can be only one truth: Ideological segregation and online news communities in Ukraine. European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science. 5-7 December 2018. Cologne, Germany.

Bastian, M., Makhortykh, M. & Dobber, T. (2018). Algorithms for peace: How news recommender systems can facilitate constructive conflict reporting. European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science. 5-7 December 2018. Cologne, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. (2018). Yura, we are sorry: Internet memes as a means of remediating post-Soviet nostalgia. International conference “Communicative forms and practices of nostalgia: Conceptual, critical and historical perspectives”. 8-9 November 2018. Stockholm, Sweden.

Harambam, J., Bountouridis, D. & Makhortykh, M. (2018). FairNews: Fairness in news personalization. 1st VWData research meeting. 7 November 2018. Utrecht, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. & Bastian, M. (2018). Recommended memories: Collective remembrance and algorithmic news personalization. ECREA preconference “Towards a polyphony of memory? Media, communication and memory in the digital age”. 31 October 2018. Lugano, Switzerland.

Bastian, M., Harambam, J. & Makhortykh, M. (2018). Personalizing the news: How media outlets communicate their algorithmic recommendation practices online. Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2018. 5-8 October 2018. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Bastian, M. & Makhortykh, M. (2018). Personalized conflict coverage as a major challenge for a democratic public sphere: The case of the war in Eastern Ukraine. AMIRetreat 2018. 27-29 September 2018. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Harambam, J., Bountouridis, D. & Makhortykh, M. (2018). Wizard, be my algorithm today! Democratizing recommender systems with algorithmic personae. Small Big Data Congress 2018. 27 September 2018. Hague, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M., Bastian, M. & Möller, J. (2018). Hi, I am your bot: The role of chatbots in a changing news environment. SciCar 2018. 24-26 September 2018. Dortmund, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. (2018). Historical memory and securitisation of the Russian intervention in Syria. 12th Pan-European conference on International Relations. 12-15 September 2018. Prague, Czech Republic.

Makhortykh, M. & Sydorova, M. (2018). Daemon ex Machina: Arcane algorithmization as a narrative device and immersion technique. GFF 2018. 5-8 September 2018. Freiburg, Switzerland.

Lyebyedyev, E., & Makhortykh, M. (2018). #Euromaidan: Quantitative analysis of multilingual framing 2013–2014 Ukrainian protests on Twitter. Second International Conference on Data Stream Mining and Processing. 21-25 August 2018. Lviv, Ukraine.

Makhortykh, M. & Harambam, J. (2018). Who controls the algorithm? Conceptualizing agenda-setting in the context of a personalized news media ecosystem. ECPR General Conference. 22-25 August 2018. Hamburg, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. (2018). Charting the conflicted borders: Narrating the conflict in Eastern Ukraine through digital maps. International conference “The Power of Borderland(s): In Media's Res”. 28-29 June 2018. Greifswald, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. & Bastian, M. (2018). Personalising the conflict: Perspectives for the adoption of algorithms in media coverage of the war in Eastern Ukraine. International workshop “Media Systems under Pressure: Recent Developments in Media Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe”. 18 May 2018. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Harambam J. & Makhortykh M. (2018). All the news you want to read: Personalization as the future imaginary of the news industry. International workshop “We are on a mission. Exploring the role of future imaginaries”. 27 April 2018. Berlin, Germany.

Makhortykh, M. (2017). Digital media as a transnational memory agency: Remembering MH17 in Wikipedia. MSA 2017. 14-16 December 2017. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Makhortykh, M. (2017). Digital commemoration practices in the Book of Deceased for Ukraine. International conference “Anthropology of the victim: From archaic roots to contemporary contexts”. 12-14 October 2017. Samara, Russia. 

Makhortykh, M. & Sydorova, M. (2017). Crimson Sand: Memories and fantasies of the Soviet-Afghan war. GFF 2017. 20-24 September 2017. Vienna, Austria. 

Makhortykh, M. (2017). Digital patriotism: Affective involvement in political blogs on Russian social media. International workshop “Political feelings in participatory media”. 6 July 2017. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. & Sydorova, M. (2017). Victory gif(t)s: Second World War memory and animated E-cards. International conference “Animation and Memory”. 22-23 June 2017. Nijmingen, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2017). #Euromaidan: Framing the Ukrainian protests of 2013-2014 on Twitter. International symposium “Public lives/private platform: The politics of Twitter”. 23-24 May 2017. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2017). Encyclopedizing the  Holocaust: Memory about the Babi Yar massacres in Wikipedia. International workshop “Trauma studies in the digital age”. 10-12 May 2017. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2017). Digital tombstones: Post-mortem profiles of Ukrainian/Russian combatants on VKontakte. Digital Emotions research group meeting. 7 April 2017. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2016). Tweeting (in)security: Social media, historical memory, and securitisation in the Ukraine crisis. International workshop “Memory and media in the crisis around Ukraine”. 21 March 2016. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2015). Immortal regiment, forgotten soldiers: Digital memory practices and the Victory Day in Ukraine and Russia. Slavistenmiddag workshop. 26 November 2015. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. & Kaprans, M. (2015).Memory wars and memory truce: Transnational framing of UPA and Latvian Legion on Wikipedia. International workshop “Formulas for betrayal: Traitors, deserters and collaborators in European politics of memory”. 23-24 June 2015. Lund, Sweden. 

Makhortykh, M. (2015). Social media and visual framing of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. International  conference “Platform Ukraine”. 6-7 June  2015. London, United Kingdom.

Makhortykh, M. & Sydorova, M. (2015). Metrics for memory: Measuring and predicting consumption of past on YouTube. Webdatanet 2015. 26-28 May 2015. Salamanca, Spain.

Makhortykh, M. (2015). The Great Patriotic War revisited: Ukrainian media and securitisation of the Ukrainian crisis. BASEES Annual Conference. 28-30 March 2015. Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Makhortykh, M. (2015). #stopfascism: Web wars in post-Euromaidan Ukraine. Vlaams-Nederlandse Slavistendagen 2014. 14-15 November 2014. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2014). The propaganda will be tweeted: Social media and protests in Eastern Ukraine. International  conference “Contemporary forms of protest in the Euro-Asian space”. 23-24 October 2014. Hamburg, Germany.  

Makhortykh, M. (2014). War memories and online encyclopedias: Framing 30 June in Wikipedia. International  conference “School vs. Memory”. 10-11 October 2014. Prague, Czech Republic.

Makhortykh, M. and Sydorova, M. (2014). The past is a foreign platform? Exploring World-War-II memory on Twitter. Digital Humanities Summer School 2014. 8-10 September 2014. Leuven, Belgium.

Makhortykh, M. (2014). World-War-II memory and securitisation in the Ukrainian Crisis 2013-2014. International workshop “Memory and security(zation) in contemporary Europe”. June 26-27 2014. Rostov-na-Donu, Russia.

Makhortykh, M. (2014). From material to digital: Remediating World-War-II Memory through Twitter. International conference “Things to remember”. June 4-6 2014. Nijmingen, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2014). Identity, memory and new media: Inventing the history of Ukraine in Wikipedia. International symposium “Ukrainian identities: A transdisciplinary perspective”. 7 May 2014. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2013). We need to talk (more) about digital humanities. ASEEES 2013. 23 November 2013. Boston, United States.

Makhortykh, M. (2013). Digital, transnational...cosmopolitan? World-War-II Memory in post-analog age. International conference “Competing memories”. 30 October 2013. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2013). Conflict, remembrance and big data: Twitter and World-War-II memory. International conference “Digital testimonies on war and trauma”. 12-14 June 2013. Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2013). Between #BOB and #Weltkrieg: Twitter and WWII memory. Workshop “Heritage and memory of conflict”. 7 May 2013. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2013). Transnational memory and Ukrainian social media. Workshop “CULTUURgeschiedenis versus cultuurGESCHIEDENIS”. 3 April 2013. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2013). Different shades of neutrality: World-War-II memories in Wikipedia. Workshop “Digitization and (trans-)national memory”. 17 March 2013. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2013). Memory dynamics in Wikipedia: Quantitative study of World War II representations. Digital Methods Winter School 2013. 23 January 2013. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2012). From myths to memes: Transnational memory and Ukrainian social media. Vlaams-Nederlandse Slavistendagen 2012. 25 October 2012. Groningen, Netherlands.

Makhortykh, M. (2012). Transnational memory as a subject of historical research. International conference “Innovational approaches to science in XXI century”. 27 April 2012. Kirovograd, Ukraine.

Makhortykh, M. (2012). Historical memory about liberation of Kyiv from the German occupation in a structure of global memory space. All-Ukrainian conference “Kyiv and its people in socio-cultural space of XIX-XXI centuries: National and European context”. 12 April 2012. Kyiv, Ukraine.

Makhortykh, M. (2011). Cultural memory and historical memory as tools of interdisciplinary research. 3rd International conference of Young Scientists “Humanities and social sciences”. 24-26 November 2011. Lviv, Ukraine. 

Makhortykh, M. (2011). Lieux de memoire: Pierre Nora and places of memory. International conference “Contemporary studies of modernity”. 30 August 2011. Kyiv, Ukraine. 

Makhortykh, M. (2011). Memory as a culture: Jan Assmann and cultural memory. 7th International conference “Modern science of the XXI century”. 16-18 June 2011. Kyiv, Ukraine.

Makhortykh, M. (2011). How societies remember: Maurice Halbwachs and collective memory. International conference “Academic studies of modernity”. 31 May 2011. Kyiv, Ukraine. 

Makhortykh, M. (2011). Common European heritage: Challenges of memory. International conference “Science. Development. Progress”. 24 January 2011. Kyiv, Ukraine. 

Makhortykh, M. (2010). Perspectives and challenges of cultural memory in Ukraine. 2nd International conference of Young Scientists “Humanities and social sciences”. 25-27 November 2010. Lviv, Ukraine.