Mikhail Belov

Mikhail Belov

Graduate Student

Biography

Mikhail’s research centers on the role of language across diverse contexts, examining both spoken and written forms to understand how communication shapes social and political interactions. His work spans multiple fields, including political communication and conversation analysis. Mikhail’s methodological approach is both interdisciplinary and data-driven, bridging qualitative insights with quantitative techniques to reveal deeper patterns in language use and its influence on human behavior.

Research

Conversation analysis; political cvommunication; multimodality; text-as-data analysis; linguistic anthropology

Selected Publications

Erofeeva et al. (Under Review). Leveraging VR Tools for Inclusive Education: Implications from Sign Language Learning in VRChat. IEEE.

Zhuchkova et al. (Under Review). Texts of court verdicts as a source of data for empirical research on law in Russia. Monitoring of Public Opinion.

Belov M. D., Kazun A. P. (2024). Beware of His Car: Why Are Men More Dangerous than Women Behind the Wheel? Sociology of Power, 36(2), pp. 142-163.

Belov, M., Novikov, I. (2024). Fairytale Sociologists and Tangible Fiction. Logos 34(4), pp. 1-5.

Belov, M. (2024). BoJack Horseman: Horse or a Man? Logos 34(4), pp. 100-111.

Belov M. D. (2024). Whose Calculations? Which Rationalities?: Rationality of Governmentality and Irrationality of Risks in the Concept of Michel Foucault. Sociology of Power, 36(1), pp. 29-43.

Belov, M.D. (2023). Animal Communication: from human to monkey, from insect to systematics. Sociology of Power, 35(2), pp. 121-140.

Adonyeva et al. (2023). Forum: Linguistic Anthropology. Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 58. pp. 12-189.

Belov M.D., & Erofeeva, M.A. (2022) Epistemics Strikes Back: Situationality and Interaction Orders in Conversation Analysis. Sociology of Power, 34(3-4), pp. 50-71.