About
Mila Oiva is a cultural historian enthusiastic about identifying patterns of transnational circulation of knowledge and ideas in a long temporal perspective. Detecting the gaps, overflows, as well as geographical and social differences between the circulating information and perceptions reveal global interconnectednesses and differences. Mila explores circulation of knowledge through case studies focusing on circulation of pseudohistorical contents in Russian language internet in the 2000s and circulation of ideas and footage in Soviet newsreels after World War II. In her research, she analyses text, audio-visual and metadata using computational text, image and network analysis methods in interdisciplinary collaboration with other scholars.
Background
Mila received her PhD in Cultural History in 2017 from the University of Turku, Finland. She was a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES) at UC Berkeley in 2014-2015, and participated in the Culture Analytics long program at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA in spring 2016.
Field
DigitalHistory with a focus on thesoviet era.CulturalAnalytics
Interests/projects/skills
- Soviet news and newsreels
- Cold War era cultural diplomacy
- Polish marketing practices in the Soviet Union
- Interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge in Digital Humanities