Alzhanova Aigerim Bolatkhanovna is a Candidate of Philological Sciences and a researcher in media and communication studies. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University with a Bachelor’s degree in 1999, a Master’s degree in 2001, and completed her postgraduate studies in 2005. In 2012–2013 and 2023–2024, she was a research fellow at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, where she studied media transformation in post-Soviet countries and the development of public communication in a globalized context. In 2001–2002, she worked as Executive Secretary of the newspaper “RAS” at Kazakh National Technical University named after K. Satpayev. From 2002 to 2005, she served as Managing Editor of the Media Monitoring Department at the Center for Communication Technologies “Reputation.” From 2005 to 2021, she worked as a media analyst at the Kazakhstan Press Club Information Center. Between 2010 and 2023, she served as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Journalism of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. Since 2024, she has been Head of the Department of Print and Electronic Media. From February 10, 2026, to February 9, 2031, she serves as an international accreditation expert for the Central Asian Association for Accreditation of Education. Her research interests include media and communication studies, as well as Central Asian and Eurasian discourse studies and narratives in Western, European, and Russian publications during the colonial and postcolonial periods.