CV
Nikolay Ternov
Summary
Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU), Astana, Kazakhstan. Works in computational social science, digital media, political communication, urban sociology, and post-Soviet studies.
Education
- Political Science2025L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University
Work Experience
- Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science2024 -Teaching and research in sociology and political science, with a focus on computational social science, digital media, political communication, and post-Soviet/Central Asian studies.
Skills
Computational methods
- NLP / embeddings
- Spatial econometrics
- Survival analysis
- Interrupted time-series analysis
- Web scraping
Publications
- Personal Legitimacy in the Structure of Public Perception of Power Among VK Users2026Changing Societies & PersonalitiesInvestigates how VK users perceive political legitimacy and authority in digital environments.
- Digital delegitimization: Biden representations in the astroturfing discourse of the RuNet2025Media, War & ConflictAnalyzes strategies of digital delegitimization in Russian-language online discourse, focusing on representations of Joe Biden in coordinated astroturfing environments.
- The sociopolitical January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan’s Telegram channels: Agenda interception)2024Global PerspectivesExamines Telegram channels and political communication during the January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan.
- Legitimacies Conflict: The Evolution of Perceived Legitimacy in Modern Russia2023Russian PoliticsExplores the evolution of legitimacy narratives in modern Russia and conflicts between institutional and public perceptions of political legitimacy.
- Emigration to the internet: "Samizdat" and the genesis of contemporary Russian nationalism2023Internet HistoriesAnalyzes the historical and ideological role of online samizdat communities in shaping contemporary Russian nationalist discourse.
- Nationalism and Siberian archeology of the 19th century2022Journal of Eurasian StudiesExamines the relationship between nationalism, regional identity formation, and archeological discourse in 19th-century Siberia.
- TODO: exact title of the Nova Science monograph2024