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Roman Horbyk is known for his work in media, language, politics, and modern history. He worked as postdoctoral researcher at Södertörn University and Umeå University after defending two dissertations, on illustrated press in the 1920s Weimar Republic and Soviet Ukraine (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, 2015) and on media power in representations of Europe in Ukraine, Russia and Poland during Euromaidan (Södertörn University, 2017); the latter was shortlisted for the best Swedish dissertation in media studies award. He has also been a Senior Lecturer at Örebro University and an URIS Fellow at the University of Basel, among other academic affiliations he has held in recent years.
Dr Horbyk’s studies are interdisciplinary and focus on various aspects of postcolonial and mediatization theories, sociolinguistics, history of representations and ideas. Roman has also extensively worked as journalist, publishing articles in Ukraine, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Brazil. He is active as playwright and screenwriter whose most notable credits include Pryputni (2017). Recent notable contributions by Dr Horbyk include works on fake news and viral disinformation as a genre, the history and techniques of Soviet and Russian propaganda and disinformation, public diplomacy and nation branding during the Russo-Ukrainian War, and military communication. One of his most important projects focused on the use of mobile phones by Ukrainian soldiers and civilians in war. A study based on it received the Top Paper award at International Communication Association’s annual conference in Paris, 2022.
| 2020-2021 | Train the Trainer (1, 2, 3) programme for teachers of journalism, Deutsche Welle Akademie (Bonn/online) |
| 2017 | PhD in Media and Communication Studies (Södertörn University) |
| 2016 | Ekran+ filmmaking programme, Wajda Film School (Warsaw) |
| 2015 | Candidate of Sciences in History of Journalism (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University) |
| 2012 | Journalisten International exchange (Internationales Journalisten-Kolleg, Freie Universität Berlin) |
| 2012 | MA in Journalism and Media within Globalisation (Aarhus University/University of Hamburg; programme also included University of Amsterdam and UC Berkeley) |
| 2008 | MA in Journalism (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University) |
| 2006 | BA in Journalism (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University) |
| 2024-present | Research Lecturer (University of Zurich) |
| Spring 2024 | URIS Fellow (University of Basel) |
| 2022-2023 | Senior Lecturer [vikarierande universitetslektor] (Örebro University) |
| 2020-2022 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Södertörn University, Stockholm) |
| 2020-present | Trainer (Journalism Teachers’ Academy by Deutsche Welle Akademie/Ukrainian Media and Communication Institute) |
| 2018-2020 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Umeå University, Umeå) |
| 2018-2020 | Senior Lecturer [visstidsanställd lektor] (Södertörn University, Stockholm) |
| 2017 | Junior Lecturer [visstidsanställd adjunkt] (Södertörn University, Stockholm) |
| 2012-2017 | PhD student/project researcher in "Narratives of Europe" project (Södertörn University, Stockholm) |
| 2011-2012 | Analyst, Institute of World Policy (Kyiv) |
| 2012 | Intern, autorenwerk TV production (Berlin) |
| 2011 | Intern, Deutsche Welle (Bonn) |
| 2008-2009 | Foreign reporter, National Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (Kyiv) |
| 2008-2009 | Teaching assistant, Institute of Journalism (Kyiv) |
| 2007-2008 | Coordinator, World Movement for Democracy (Washington DC/Kyiv) |
| 2007 | Arts reporter, Gazeta.24 daily newspaper (Kyiv) |
| 2005-2007 | Analyst, NGO Europe XXI (Kyiv) |
| 2004-2007 | Journalist, Telekritika.ua (Kyiv) |
| 2003 | Intern, RFE/RL (Kyiv) |
Horbyk, R. (2017). Mediated Europes: Discourse and Power in Ukraine, Russia and Poland During Euromaidan. Huddinge: Södertörn University (Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations 149).
Horbyk, R. (2015). Little Patriotic War: Nationalist Narratives in the Russian Media Coverage of the Ukraine‐Russia Crisis. Asian Politics & Policy, 7(3), 505-511.
| Conference/Location | Paper title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Years of Occupation of Crimea: Consequences (Université de Lausanne) |
Strategic narratives and historical contexts of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea | 2024 |
| 55th Annual ASEEES Convention (Philadelphia) | Between Infrastructural Solidarity and Algorithmic Imperialism: Ukraine and the 'Big Tech' Empires | 2023 |
| 55th Annual ASEEES Convention (Philadelphia) | Resistance beyond the Frontlines: Reflections on Decolonization of Ukrainian Scholarly, Literary, and Media Discourse (roundtable member) | 2023 |
| CBEES Annual Conference (Stockholm) | Towards the Concept of Swarm Communication in Post-Invasion Ukrainian Mediascape (co-authored with Kateryna Boyko) | 2023 |
| Aleksanteri Conference "Decolonizing space in the Global East: Legal Choices, Political Transformations, Carceral Practices" (Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki University) | Between Algorithmic Imperialism and Forced Countermediatization: Ukrainian Resistance from the Technological Perspective |
2023 |
| 7th Annual Conference of International Place Branding Association (IPBA): "Place Branding in Times of Crisis and Uncertainty" (Lund University, Campus Helsingborg) | From meme brand to storyline warfare: The "Russian Warship" and Ukraine’s weaponized nation branding | 2023 |
| Digital Wars: Media and Technologies during the War in Ukraine (Europa-Universität Flensburg) |
Swarm in Flux: The Limits of Smartphone-Mediated Participatory Warfare in Ukraine Keynote |
2023 |
| NordMedia 2023: Technological Takeover? Social and Cultural Implications – Promises and Pitfalls (Bergen) | The Unexpected Weapon: Hybridization of Civilian and Military Mobile Phone Use in the Russo-Ukrainian War | 2023 |
| NordMedia 2023: Technological Takeover? Social and Cultural Implications – Promises and Pitfalls (Bergen) | Storyline Warfare in Nation Branding: The Case of the Russian Warship (co-authored with Kateryna Boyko) | 2023 |
| ICA Annual Conference (Toronto) | The Scopic Regimes of the Russo-Ukrainian War: From Infrastructural Affordances to Strategic Narratives | 2023 |
| ICA Annual Conference (Toronto) | Mediatized Battlefield versus Forced Counter-Mediatization: Towards the New Doctrine of Mobile Communication Warfare | 2023 |
| ASN Annual Convention (Columbia University) | Ukraine's Mediatized Battlefield and the New Doctrine of Mobile Communication Warfare | 2023 |
| The International Multidisciplinary Conference "Main Challenges and Issues of University Education in War Conditions: Ukraine – 2022" (University of Manitoba/Zoom) |
Time to Redraw the Map: Ukrainian Scholarship and "Post-Sovietology" After 2022 Keynote |
2023 |
| BASEES Annual Conference (Glasgow University) | Visual Regimes of the Russo-Ukrainian War: From "The Soldiering Self" to Arrested War, and Beyond | 2023 |
| CBEES Annual Conference (Södertörn University) | Roundtable "Being a scholar of "area studies" in the (Western) academia: Challenges, hopes and visions for the future" | 2022 |
| CBEES Annual Conference (Södertörn University) | The charms of hyperreality: Simulating Ukraine in Russia and the West | 2022 |
| 9th ECREA European Communication Conference: "Rethink Impact" (Aarhus University) | Weaponized media vs. mediatized weapons: mobile communication on the frontline in eastern Ukraine | 2022 |
| Danyliw Research seminar on contemporary Ukraine: "Ukraine at War" (University of Ottawa) | The Unexpected Weapon: Hybridisation of Civilian and Military Mobile Phone Use in the Russo-Ukrainian War | 2022 |
| IAMCR Annual Conference "Communication Research in the Era of Neo-Globalisation: Reorientations, Challenges and Changing Contexts" (Zoom/Beijing) | The Unexpected Weapon: Hybridization of Civilian and Military Mobile Phone Use in the Russo-Ukrainian War | 2022 |
| ICA Annual Conference (Paris) | Hybrid War, Hybrid Peace: Mobile Communication at the East Ukrainian Frontline (awarded Top Paper in Mobile Communication division) | 2022 |
| Resistance: a panel in a webinar series (Zoom/University of Melbourne) | The Territory Resists the Map | 2022 |
| BASEES Annual Conference (Cambridge University) | The Kalashnikovs of the Information War: Mobile Phones and Communication Rules of the Eastern Ukrainian Frontline | 2022 |
| Media Breakdown and Recovery: An International Symposium (Lund University) | "Fake News" as a Genre and Meta-Mimesis: The Breakdown of Modernist Journalism | 2022 |
| ASEEES 53rd Annual Convention (Zoom/News Orleans) | Home and War in the Pocket: The Use of Mobile Communication Technology on the Frontline in Eastern Ukraine | 2021 |
| Academic Forum "Revolution of Dignity: Towards History. New Media and Revolutions of the New Type in Ukraine and Around the World" (Zoom/National Euromaidan Museum) |
Maidan as a Hybrid Agora: New Social Movements and the Curse of Space Keynote |
2021 |
| 8th ECREA European Communication Conference: "Communication and trust: building safe, sustainable and promising futures" (Zoom) | Connecting soldiers: Mediatization of warfare, media ecologies and media materialities on the East Ukrainian frontline | 2021 |
| NordMedia 2021: Crisis and Resilience: Nordic Media Research on the Frontline (Zoom/Reykjavik) | Mobile lives and deaths: Communication on the mediatized frontline in Eastern Ukraine | 2021 |
| ICCEES X World Congress (Zoom/Montreal) | Connecting Soldiers: Technical Infrastructures and Media Use at the Frontline in Eastern Ukraine | 2021 |
| "Human Rights In The Digital Dimension: The Pandemic, Electoral and Judicial Processes, National Security, and Freedom of Speech on the Internet" (Zoom (American Bar Association, with partners)) | How the Development of Artificial Intelligence Affects National (Informational) Security and Human Rights (roundtable speaker) | 2021 |
|
Soviet 'I' and Soviet 'We' Between Ideology and Reality (Zoom (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Historians.in.ua)) |
The Earth Will Stand Still: Madness as Political Discourse in the Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s | 2021 |
| European Values in Ukrainian Education: Challenges and Perspectives (Zoom (Zaporizhzhia National University)) | A Queen of Hearts: Towards the Conceptual History of "Europe" in Ukraine, 1591—2014 | 2021 |
| Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday (Zoom (Utrecht University)) | Saving sergeant Markiv: Information war and mediated self-mobilization of Ukrainian diasporas | 2021 |
| ICA Annual Conference (Zoom) | Digital networks against "fake news": Fact-checking in Ukraine as media practice | 2020 |
| ASEEES Annual Conference (Zoom) | In Search of Paradise Lost: Mediated Representations of History in Poland and Belarus | 2020 |
| ASEEES Annual Conference (San Francisco) | From viral lore to Trojan media: Narrative structures in "fake news" around Russo-Ukrainian war | 2019 |
| "Fake News Cultures: The Contexts of Viral Disinformation Across East and West" (Umeå University) | The true story of fake news: A morphological approach to false news stories and their narratives | 2019 |
| "Ukrainian Revolution and the Long 1920s: The Making and Unmaking of Modern Ukraine, 1917–1930" (Sördertörn University) | Did Ukrainisation really happen? Reassessing the scope of "affirmative action" | 2019 |
| ICA Annual Conference (Washington, DC) | Disinformation by another name? Fake news as a concept for our time | 2019 |
Ca. 4,900 hours (2013-2024)
Swedish Media and Communication Studies Association (FSMK) best doctoral dissertation in Media and Communication Studies award (shortlisted, 2019)
Screenwriter: "Pryputni" ("Strayed", 2017, Ukraine), prizes at festivals in Ukraine and Bulgaria; 11 nominations at Golden Dziga 2018 (Ukrainian national film prize), best supporting actress win
Playwright: "Tsentr" ("Centre", 2014, New Ukrainian Theatre, Kyiv), prizes at festivals in Kyiv and Lviv