Dr. Vassily Kucherenko has been working in the field of media and communication for about 30 years. Having started in 1990 as a professional journalist and political columnist, he worked later as a media and public relations consultant (including electioneering and political PR), local government official, communication applied researcher, and, finally, transitioned later into academia in 2009. 

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Since then Vassily has worked as a researcher at the European University Institute and Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, Italy (2009 -2015), taught courses at Shanghai International Studies University and Honors College, China (2015 – 2020), University of Social Sciences & Humanities, Vietnam National University – HCM (2021-2022). His main research interests comprise attitudinal and behavioral effects of media misinformation and disinformation, digital literacy and critical media literacy, mass communication theories, political communication, and behavior.

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Vassily holds a Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences (2015) from the European University Institute, Italy.; a Master of Research (2010) degree from the same institution; a Master of Science degree in Technical Communication (2007) from Colorado State University, USA; and a Specialist (Master of Arts) degree in Journalism (1993) from Kyiv Shevchenko National University;