Research & Publications 

Refereed Publications

Pavliuc, A. (2025). Gender and narrative in digital political communication during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Media, War & Conflict. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506352241309225

Pavliuc, A. (in press). Decoding gendered political communication on Facebook and X/Twitter before and during Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Digital War, 6(1). 

Kriel, C., & Pavliuc, A. (2019). Reverse engineering Russian Internet Research Agency tactics through network analysis. NATO Defense Strategic Communications, 6(1), 199–227. https://doi.org/10.30966/2018.RIGA.6.6.

Journals

Pavliuc, A., George, A., Spezzano, F., Giachanou, A., Spaiser, V., & Bright, J. (2023). Multidisciplinary Approaches to Mis-and Disinformation Studies. Social Media+ Society, 9(1), 20563051221150405.

Bright, J., Giachanou, A., Spaiser, V., Spezzano, F., George, A., & Pavliuc, A. (Eds.). (2021). Disinformation in Open Online Media: Third Multidisciplinary International Symposium, MISDOOM 2021, Virtual Event, September 21–22, 2021, Proceedings (Vol. 12887). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87031-7

Book Chapters

Pavliuc, A. (2025, forthcoming). Resisting Russian Propaganda: Ukrainian Institutional and Counter-Brand Strategies and the Role of Diverse Voices. In Goode, P. (Eds.) Autocracy, Influence, War: Russian Propaganda Today. University of Michigan Press.

Pavliuc, A. (2024). Social Media as a Conflict Driver and a Tool of Participatory Conflict Communication. In Connaughton, S. & Pukallus, S. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication. Routledge. 

Policy Papers

Jankowicz, N., Hunchak, J., Pavliuc, A., Davies, C., Pierson, S., Kaufmann, Z. (2021). Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies are Weaponized Against Women Online. The Wilson Center.

Pavliuc, A. (2021). State-backed Information Manipulation: The French Node. Institut Montaigne. 

Selected Conference Paper Presentations

Pavliuc, A. (2024). “Unpacking how gender impacts strategic narrative use in digital diplomatic efforts between Ukraine and the West during Russia’s full-scale invasion”. Presented at the Oxford Internet Institute Research Forum on the Implications of the Russian war in Ukraine for Global Information, Communication, and Cybersecurity, January 26, Oxford, UK.

Pavliuc, A. (2023). “The Do’s and Don’ts of writing code with ChatGPT: A case study of digital diplomacy efforts on Twitter during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine”. Presented at the Seventh Annual DataFest Conference, November 9-11, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Pavliuc, A. (2023). “Decoding Gendered Political Communication around the 2022 Russian Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine with Structural Topic Modelling”. Presented at the NLP for Social Data Science Conference, June 28-29, Oxford, UK.

Pavliuc, A. (2023). “Wartime, Gender, and Social Media: Political Communication before and during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine”. Presented at the International Communication Association Media, War & Conflict Pre-Conference, May 25, Toronto, Canada.

Pavliuc, A. (2022). “Political Communication before and during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine”. Presented at the Sixth Annual DataFest Conference, November 17-19, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Pavliuc, A. (2022). “Unpacking Political Communication before and during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine”. Presented at the 118th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 15–28, Montréal, Canada.

Herasimenka, A., George, A., Lawson, A., Pavliuc, A., Wang, X., Howard, P. (2023). “Responding To Digital Misinformation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Effective Countermeasures”. Presented at the Political Communication Division of the 73nd Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, May 26-30, Toronto, Canada.

Pavliuc, A. (2023). “Quantifying ‘Twiplomacy’ during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine”. Presented at the Communication & Technology Division of the 73nd Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, May 26-30, Toronto, Canada.

Pavliuc, A. (2022). “Online Identity-based Toxicity Towards Canadian Politicians: Understanding Vectors of Vitriol”. Presented at the Communication & Technology Division of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, May 26-30, Paris, France.

Schliebs, M., Elswah, M., George, A., Herasimenka, A., Joynes-Burgess, K., Knuutila, A., Pavliuc, A., Bright, J., Howard, P. (2022). “Winning Hearts and Minds During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Vaccination Coverage in Chinese and Russian State-Controlled Media”. Presented at the Communication & Technology Division of the 72nd Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, May 26-30, Paris, France.

Horz-Ishak, C., Jackson, L., Davis, C., Phillips, R., Pavliuc, A. (2021). Public Media for Good: Learning to be Led by Generation Z. Paper presented at the International Association of Public Media Researchers annual conference, September 27-28, Geneva, Switzerland.

Pavliuc, A. (2021). “Gendered Disinformation as a threat to democracy: Research Avenues and Barriers”. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Terrorism Research Network, September 2, Wiesbaden, Germany.

Pavliuc, A. (2021). “He said what?! Semantic network analysis of gendered and sexualized disinformation across mainstream and fringe social media”. Presented at the NetSci 2021 Conference, July 5-10, Bloomington, Indiana.

Pavliuc, A. (2020). “Understanding the Evolution of State-Backed Disinformation Operations on Twitter through Network Analysis”. Presented at the Second Annual Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation and Open Online Media (MISDOOM), October 26-27, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Pavliuc, A, Dykes, J. (2020). “Designing Effective Network Visualization Representations of Disinformation Operations – Improving DisInfoVis”. Presented at the Eurographics & EuroVis Conference, May 25-29, Norrköping, Sweden.

Pavliuc, A. (2020). “Ethical AI Strides in Canada”. Presented at the City STEM Student Think Tank Showcase, March 11, London, UK.

Hutchinson, M., Pavliuc, A, Zeller, F., Harris Smith, D. (2017). “Of Influencers and Influences – Traditional and Social Media in Human-Robot Interaction”. Presented at the Annual Canadian Communication Association Conference, May 25-29, Toronto, Canada.