Natalya Ryabinska

Natalya Ryabinska is Associate Professor at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. She published on media systems, media transformations, political and international communication in post-Communist Europe and Eurasia, with a particular focus on Ukraine. Her latest publications include Ukraine’s post-communist mass media: between capture and commercialization (ibidem-Verlag 2017), Transformation of media in ‘in-between’ post-communist societies: An interdisciplinary approach. [in:] Eva Polonska, Charlie Beckett (eds.) Public service broadcasting and media systems in troubled European democracies (Palgrave Macmillan 2019), and Politics as a Joke: The Case of Volodymyr Zelensky’s Comedy Show in Ukraine at the Problems of Post-Communism (2020). Her current research deals with political humor in Ukraine and its impact on the audience’s attitudes towards politics. She received her Ph.D. at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, the Polish Academy of Sciences.