Aikerim Bektemirova analysed 120 posts on the social media platform ‘Threads’, focusing on Kazakhstan’s March referendum. Her findings reveal that critical narratives spread further than supportive ones. Here, she argues that digital platforms amplify emotional and confrontational content, creating unbalanced online political debate
Aikerim is an early-career researcher from Kazakhstan specialising in policy discourse, governance, and institutional transitions.
Her work examines how policy reforms are interpreted and implemented through public discourse, with a particular focus on digital communication and post-Soviet contexts.
She received her PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge and was a visiting scholar at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University.
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