Mykola Makhortykh

Mykola Makhortykh is an Alfred Landecker lecturer and a principal investigator for the project “Algorithmic turn in Holocaust memory transmission: Challenges, opportunities, threats”.  In his research, Mykola examines politics- and history-centred information behaviour in online environments and how it is affected by the information retrieval systems, such as search engines and recommender systems. To achieve this goal, he combines traditional social science methods (e.g., content analysis and focus groups) with novel computational approaches (e.g., deep learning and agent-based testing). His other research interests include artificial intelligence, trauma and memory studies, in particular digital Holocaust remembrance, armed conflict reporting, cybersecurity and critical security studies, and bias in information retrieval systems.