Julia Kling

Since April 2021

• Research Assistant and Doctoral Student at the Chair of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region within the ERC Consolidator Grant Research Group: The Consequences of the Internet for Russia's Informational Influence Abroad (RUSINFORM) with Prof. Dr. Florian Töpfl at the University of Passau

October 2019 to January 2020

• Academic Assistant at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Potsdam

2017 to 2020

• Master's studies in Eastern European Culture Studies at the University of Potsdam. Degree: Master of Arts. Master's thesis The ´90s - A collective Trauma? Change in the cultural memory of the 1990s in Russia using the example of Russian national film characters (in German)
  • Summer School POLIN Meeting Point 2018 with the project 'The global meaning of the year 1968' at the POLIN Museum in Warsaw, Poland.

2012 to 2015

• Bachelor's studies in Psychology at the University of Groningen. Degree: Bachelor of Science. Bachelor's thesis: Eating Disorders - The Influence of Education on Self-esteem and Body-esteem
  • Marco Polo Fund for Semester Abroad at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

May 2020 to March 2021

• Data Analyst at Klarna Bank AB in Berlin

November 2018 to April 2020

• Working Student Data Analyst at Wayfair DE and Klarna Bank AB in Berlin

April 2017 to May 2018

• Sales Representative at Relias Learning in Berlin

August 2015 to March 2017

• Sales Representative at Veeam Software in Saint Petersburg, Russia and Bucharest, Romania

2022

• Kling, J., Toepfl, F., Thurman, N., & Fletcher, R. (2022). Mapping the website and mobile app audiences of Russia’s foreign communication outlets, RT and Sputnik, across 21 countries. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 3(6). https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-110

• Kling, J. (2022). Mapping the Global Audiences of Russia’s Domestic News: How Social Networks Function as Transmitters of Authoritarian News to Foreign Audiences. International Journal of Communication, 16, 23. 
  https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1907

Kling, J. (April 2024). Russia’s News Ecosystem on Facebook since Russia's Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine. Presentation at the Uppsala Forum workshop "Media, War and (National) Identity: The Changing Notions of the National Self in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus, and Eurasia" at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES), Department of Media and Communication, 11th of April 2024, Uppsala, Sweden.

2024

• Beseler, A., Kravets, D., Toepfl, F., & Kling, J. (2024). Where Debunkers, Putin Sympathizers, and Anti-Vaxxers Meet – An Analysis of Highly-Active Commenters on RT German’s Facebook Page. Presentation at the 6th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM). 02-04 September 2024, Münster.
• Kling, J. & Poliakoff, S. (July 2024). Propaganda Amplification on Social Networking Sites: How Content Moderation Influenced Russia’s News Ecosystem on Facebook since Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine. Presentation at the International Conference on Social Media & Society 2024, July 16-18, London, United Kingdom.
• Kling, J. & Poliakoff, S. (April 2024). Propaganda Amplification on Social Networking Sites: How Russia's News Ecosystem Changed on Facebook since Russia's Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine. Presentation at the 19th Annual Doctoral Conference 2024 (Re)searching Power Emerging approaches across Disciplines" at the Central European University (CEU), 19th of April 2024, Vienna, Austria.

2023

• Kling, J. (2023). How Russia's Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine Changed the Distribution of Russia’s Domestic News Content on Facebook. Presentation at the ZOiS Annual Conference, PechaKucha Night at ZOiS, 16 November 2023, Berlin, Germany.
• Kling, J. (2023). Propaganda in the Guise of Entertainment: How Non-News Accounts Disseminate Kremlin Propaganda to Mass Audiences on Russia’s Social Network VKontakte. Presentation at the Aleksanteri Conference 2023 "Decolonizing Space in the Global East", 25-27 October 2023, Helsinki, Finland.
• Kling, J., Toepfl, F., & Jürgens, P. (2023). How Non-news Accounts Disseminate Kremlin Propaganda on Russia‘s Social Network Vkontakte. Presentation at the International Communication Association (ICA), 25- 29 of May, Toronto, Canada.
• Kling, J., Toepfl, F., & Jürgens, P. (2023). Escaping the News but not the Kremlin‘s Propaganda on Russia‘s Social Network Vkontakte. Presentation at the International Communication Association (ICA), 25- 29 of May, Toronto, Canada.
• Kling, J. (Feb. 2023). The Kremlin-Controlled Social Network VKontakte as a Resource of Informational Influence: Mapping the Audiences of Russia’s Political Information at Home and Abroad. Presentation at the 2023 Digital Media Research Centre’s Summer School, 7-10 of February 2023, Brisbane, Australia.
• Kling, J. (Feb. 2023). The Vkontakte Audiences of Russia’s News Abroad: How State-owned Social Networks Function as Transmission Channels of Authoritarian News to Foreign Audiences. Presentation at the Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies (AACaPS), 2-3 of February 2023, Sydney, Australia.

2022

• Kling, J. (Nov. 2022). The Online Audiences of Russia’s Domestic News Outlets Abroad: How Social Networks Function as Transmission Channels of Authoritarian News to Foreign Audiences. Presentation at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Dublin, Ireland, 2-5 November 2022.
• Kling, J. (July 2022). Mapping the Global Audiences of Russia’s Domestic News: How Social Networks Function as Transmitters of Authoritarian News to Foreign Audiences. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), 11th to 15th of July, Beijing.