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Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova
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Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova is an Associate Professor at the Department of Journalism of Zaporizhzhia National University, Ukraine. Currently, she is a doctoral student at the School of Journalism and Advertising of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA.
She holds a Candidate of Science degree in Social Communications from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Master’s degrees with Honors in International Journalism and English Philology from Zaporizhzhia National University.
Sirinyok-Dolgaryova has experience working as a journalist in Ukraine and the United States. She has participated in several international research and study programs including at the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia of University of Michigan as a Scholar at Risk Program fellow; Southern Illinois University as a Fulbright Visiting Researcher; Utah State University with IREX University Administration Support Program; Graceland University as part of the UGRAD Program; European University Viadrina with U-LEAD; and in the UK, Sweden, and Poland as an Erasmus+ Fellow.
She focuses on disinformation and propaganda, media and information literacy (MIL), global journalism and social media, media education, and quality assurance. She is an expert in accrediting study programs (certified by NAQA, Ukraine and QAA, UK). She has experience in teaching and researching such MIL topics as debunking fakes; tackling misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and propaganda; verification techniques; and fact-checking. Her research interests are global media and journalism, new media, media and information literacy, disinformation, and political communication.
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journalism, media literacy, disinformation and propaganda, international media, European studies, online media, online journalism, journalism education