Rolf Fredheim
Curriculum Vitae
CONTACT
DETAILS
Centre for Research in the Arts,
Social Sciences and Humanities
Alison Richard Building
University of Cambridge
7 West Road
CB3 9DT
ref38@cam.ac.uk
EMPLOYMENT
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre
for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, University
of Cambridge. Project: Conspiracy and Democracy, a five-year Leverhulme funded interdisciplinary
research project at the University of Cambridge http://www.conspiracyanddemocracy.org/, 2014-2017.
PUBLICATIONS
UNDER REVIEW
Rolf
Fredheim, Alfred Moore, John Naughton: 'Less Conflict, More Cats: Online Commenting
After Anonymity'.
PEER
REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Filtering foreign Media Content: How Russian
News Agencies Repurpose Western News Reporting’, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics
and Society, 1, 2015. Preprint.
‘The Memory of Katyń in Polish Political Discourse:
a Quantitative Study’, Europe-Asia
Studies, 2014; 66: 1165 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09668136.2014.934135
‘Scraping the Monumental: Stepan Bandera through the
Lens of Quantitative Memory Studies’ (co-authored
with Gernot Howanitz and Mykola Makhortykh), Digital Icons: Studies in Russian Eurasian, and Central European New
Media, 12, 2014 http://www.digitalicons.org/issue12/fredheim-howanitz-makhortykh/
‘Quantifying Polarisation in Media Coverage of the
2011-12 Protests in Russia’, Digital
Icons: Studies in Russian Eurasian, and Central European New Media, 9,
2013. http://www.digitalicons.org/issue09/rolf-fredheim/
BOOK
CHAPTERS
'August 1991 and the
Memory of Communism in Russia', in Hajek, Lohmeier, and Pentzold, Social
Memory in a Mediated World: Remembering Troubled Times. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Preprint.
Hugo
Drochon and Rolf Fredheim: 'Complete losers? Conspiracy Ideation and Suspicion
of Elites in Great Britain, forthcoming.
Rolf
Fredheim and Andrew McKenzie McHarg: '"Conspiracy" and
"Conspiracy Theory" – A Relationship of Inverse Proportions?',
forthcoming.
OTHER
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Rolf
Fredheim, Alfred Moore, John Naughton: Anonymity and Online Commenting: an
Empirical Study, 2015. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2591299
‘Detecting Memory Events’, East European Memory Studies, 14, May 2013, pp 9-14 http://www.memoryatwar.org/enewsletter-May-2013.pdf
BOOK
REVIEWS
Michael
S. Gorham, Ingunn Lunde, and Martin Paulsen (eds.): 'Digital Russia', Zeitschrift
für Slavische Philologie, 70, 2014. Preprint.
SELECTED
CONFERENCE PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS
Rolf
Fredheim, Alfred Moore, and John Naughton: 'Anonymity and Online Commenting:
The Broken Windows Effect and the End of Drive-by Commenting', ACM Web Science
2015, 28 June - 1 July 2015, University
of Oxford. Preprint.
Hugo
Drochon and Rolf Fredheim: 'Complete losers? Conspiracy Ideation and Suspicion
of Elites in Great Britain, Conspiracy Theory Conference', 12-14 March 2015,
University of Miami, Florida. Download here.
Rolf
Fredheim and Andrew McKenzie McHarg: '"Conspiracy" and
"Conspiracy Theory" – A Relationship of Inverse Proportions?',
Conspiracy Theory Conference, 12-14 March 2015, University of Miami, Florida. Download here.
‘Disappearance of Opinion in Izvestiia’s coverage of the Beslan Hostage Crisis. Old Rules & New
Traditions: Generational Divides in Central and Eastern Europe’. 13th
International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe, School of
Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 19-21 February
2014.
‘Geo-spatial Positioning of Russian Literary
Culture’. Cambridge Slavonic Studies Graduate Research
Forum, 1 May 2014
‘Life
Without a Pulse: Scraping the Russian Blogosphere’. Workshop in online data
collection held at the Spring School in Digital Mnemonics, University of
Passau, 23-30 May 2013.
‘Polarisation and
Mobilisation in the Russian Blogosphere’. Arab Spring and Russian Winter:
Digital Humanities, Protest Movements and Memory Studies, Cambridge University,
20 June 2012
TEACHING
2015: Digital Data Collection for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Lecturer).
Social Sciences Research Methods Centre (SSRMC), Cambridge University, February
– March 2015. Design and content similar to the 2014 Web Scraping Course.
Description
here
Slides
and materials here.
2014:
Web Scraping for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Lecturer). Social Sciences Research Methods Centre (SSRMC), Cambridge
University, February – March 2014.
An eight hour course for postgraduate students on
using programming to collect and process text and data from YouTube, Wikipedia,
and news media.
Sole responsibility for designing, coordinating,
delivering, and applying for a grant to run the course.
The course combines lectures with hands on
methodological and technical training.
2014:
Presenting Quantitative Research Findings (Teaching
Assistant), SSRMC Cambridge University, October-November 2013.
An eight hour course training course for
postgraduate research students on presenting quantitative data using SPSS,
Excel, and R.
Hands on training in statistical methods, as well as
principles of design and presentation.
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
in Slavonic Studies, 2014
Core member of the Memory at War Project, a major
international interdisciplinary collaborative research project involving five European
partners. http://www.memoryatwar.org/
Thesis: Playing for Time: The Past in
Russian Media Coverage (2003-13). Download
here
MPhil
First Class (Hons), 2011
Russian and Eastern European Studies
St Antony’s College, University of
Oxford
Dissertation: When
and for what Reason are Historical Events Invoked in Political Discourse: the
Example of Katyń
B.A.
First Class (Hons) in Russian and History, 2009
Trinity College Dublin
Dissertation:
Richard Pipes as a Figure of Authority in
the Russian Press
AFFILIATIONS
Member of Conspiracy and Democracy
Member of Memory
at War
Member of Cambridge
Big Data
Member of Cambridge
Digital Humanities Network
SOFTWARE ETC I USE REGULARLY
R (Statistics package), Python, javascript, java
(limited)
d3, GEPHI
SQL, NoSQL, Solr, other databases
Unix command line, web servers, Apache 2
HTML, CSS, Jython
XML, JSON, unstructured data
MALLET, SVM, Random Forest, KNN
KWIC, TF-IDF
STATA, SPSS, Excel
LANGUAGES
Reading
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Speaking
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Writing
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Norwegian
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native
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Native
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native
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Russian
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fluent
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fluent
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fluent
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Polish
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fluent
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fluent
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German
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fluent
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fluent
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excellent
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Hungarian
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good
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limited
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limited
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AWARDS
AND PRIZES
Memory
at War Project scholarship for Ph.D. research (three years), 2011.
Arts and Humanities Research Council Research
Preparation Master’s studentship (two years), 2009.
Awarded
Gold medal for B.A. in Russian and history, Trinity College Dublin, 2009.
Julian
A. Kamensky Prize for highest level of spoken Russian in final examination,
2009.
C.B.
Roberts Memorial Prize for highest assessment in an option in Comparative
Slavonic or Russian Linguistics, or in the History of the Russian Language,
2009.
Henry
Hutchinson Stewart Literary Scholarship (€4,444, twice renewed), 2008.
C.B.
Roberts Memorial Prize for highest assessment in an option in Comparative
Slavonic or Russian Linguistics, or in the History of the Russian Language,
2008.
Elected
scholar of Trinity College Dublin; received 5 years tuition, fees,
accommodation, dining rights and a stipend, 2007.
Browne
Prize for best Junior Freshman History examination score, 2006.
Russian
language composition prize, 2006.