Personal Website: https://aidar-zinnatullin.github.io/

• December 2023 - currently - Research Assistant (post-doc) at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
• 2022 - 2024 - Research Fellow at Computational Social Science Center, University of Bologna
• 2019 - 2024 - PhD program in Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna
• 2014 - 2017 - graduate school in Political Science, Kazan Federal University
• 2014 - degree in Political Science, Kazan Federal University

Research stays

• 2023 (6 months) - Chair of Digital Governance, Technical University of Munich
• 2016 - 2017 (6 months) - Erasmus internship, School of Political Science at Forli campus, University of Bologna

ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9465-044X

Articles

• Kogel, M.J., & Zinnatullin A. “What Drives Affective Polarization? A Systematic Literature Review.” European Political Science, 2026, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1682098326100642.
• Zinnatullin, A. (2026). Grievance forums in autocracies: Surrogates for protest or instruments of control? The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481261447631 
• Zinnatullin, A., & Barkela, B. (2026). News under pressure? Politicization of scientific expertise in German mainstream news during COVID-19. Political Research Exchange, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2026.2682400 
• Zinnatullin, A., Fock, L., & Barkela, B. (2026). Evidence in the service of dissent: strategic communication of science by German corona-protest movements. Journal of Science Communication, 25(1), https://doi.org/10.22323/225220251221034603
• Zinnatullin, A. (2024). Authoritarian responsiveness online: Social media strategy of Russian regional governance centers. Policy Studies, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2024.2376082
• Zinnatullin, A. (2023). Political discussions in online oppositional communities in the non-democratic context. Computational Communication Research, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2023.1.7.ZINN
• Zinnatullin, A. (2023). Navalny’s direct-casting: Affective attunement and polarization in the online community of the most vocal Russian opposition politician. First Monday. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i10.12882
• Marchesi, A., Zinnatullin, A., & Nanni, R. (2022). #iononmiinginocchio: Sports politicisation in the Italian Twitter space. Text data analysis of the Italian public opinion. Comunicazione politica, 23(2), 185–206. https://doi.org/10.3270/104848

Datasets

• Valeriani, A., Ceccobelli, D., Zinnatullin, A., Mechkova, V., Pemstein, D., Seim, B., & Wilson, S. (2025). Italy 2022 Candidate Dataset. Digital Society Project. https://digitalsocietyproject.org/candidate-data/
• Albertini, M., Giacomello, G., & Zinnatullin, A. (2025). Russian Military Bloggers: Corpus and Dataset of Collected Posts, 2022-2023. Data in Brief, 112015, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2025.112015  

Conferences

Academic Conferences

• Zinnatullin A., Valeriani A. (2026, April 23–25). How polarisation content circulates in Italian media: Evidence from print and online editions [Conference presentation]. 8th Annual COMPTEXT Conference, University of Birmingham.
• Zinnatullin, A., Barkela, B., & Maier, M. (2025, April 24–26). News under pressure? Politicization of German mainstream media in times of crisis and uncertainty [Conference presentation]. 7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference, University of Vienna.
• Zinnatullin, A. (2025, April 24–26). Voices and responses: A large-scale text classification of citizens' complaints under authoritarian regime [Conference presentation]. 7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference, University of Vienna.
• Zinnatullin, A., Barkela, B., Fock, L., & Maier, M. (2024, August). From skepticism to motivated reasoning: How do corona protesters strategically use scientific uncertainty? The case of COVID-19 protests in Germany [Conference presentation]. ECPR General Conference.
• Zinnatullin, A., Barkela, B., & Maier, M. (2024, September). Communication in crisis and uncertainty: When and to what extent do mainstream media become politicized? The case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 [Conference presentation]. 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS), co-located with the KONVENS Conference.
• Zinnatullin, A. (2024, May 2–4). Dissecting disagreements in Russian pro-war Telegram channels: Unraveling the dynamics of authoritarian regime consolidation [Conference presentation]. 6th Annual COMPTEXT Conference, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
• Zinnatullin, A. (2024, February). Struggling for the narrative: Digital media and affective polarization in the non-democratic context (the case of Russia) [Conference presentation]. I-POLHYS, Bologna, Italy.

Public Presentations

• Zinnatullin, A. (2025, May 17). Wissenschaftlich bewiesen. Oder doch nicht? Was hinter der wissenschaftlichen Expertise in den deutschen Medien während COVID steckte. PropaWeek. Woche des kritischen Denkens in Berlin [in Russian]. https://lab-wir.de/stimmenvielfalt/propaweek/de#rec981803521

• Political Communication
• Digital Media
• Contentious Politics
• Computational and Quantitative Methods