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Independent media under pressure: evidence from Russia
Post-Soviet affairs, volume 38, issue 3 (2022), pp. 155-174
"Existing literature recognizes growing threats to press freedom around the world and documents changes in the tools used to stifle the independent press. However, few studies investigate how independent media respond to state pressure in an autocracy, documenting the impact of tactics that stop sh...
Russia's vigilante YouTube stars: digital entrepreneurship and heroic masculinity in the service of flexible authoritarianism
Europe-Asia studies, volume 74, issue 7 (2022), pp. 1166-1189
"Combating illegal parking and drinking in public is the raison d’être of Russia’s best-known law-and-order youth initiatives, StopKham and Lev Protiv. These initiatives enforce and promote neotraditional morals amongst young people by challenging alleged offenders on camera and uploading the e...
The unfreedom monitor: Russia country report
Advox
(2022), 28 pp., bibliogr. p.26-28
"The internet gained centrality as a space of public opinion and political activity that became important for the Russian state to co-opt and control as part of the broader push for control of political elites and public perceptions as Putin and his ruling party pushed to eliminate any functioning o...
The unfreedom monitor: Turkey country report
Advox
(2022), 27 pp., bibliogr. p.22-27
"Since its ascent to power twenty years ago, the ruling AKP has tightened the screws on all forms of freedom of expression, both online and offline. It has introduced draconian laws, imposed internet restrictions, blocked content, and has arrested and intimidated critics on an unprecedented level. I...
The unfreedom monitor: Sudan country report
Advox
(2022), 25 pp.
"There is a clear digital divide in Sudan as the number of internet users is a very low part of the population. Despite the high contribution of the telecommunication field to the GDP, the Sudanese authorities are not using this contribution to enhance and develop the ICT field to fill the gap of di...
Media assistance in Burma’s reform decade
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 35 pp.
"Using the coup as a vantage point, interviewees for this report were asked to reflect on three main questions: What have we learned about past media reform efforts? With hindsight, what are the legacies, best practices, and lessons learned? With a view to the future, what does the media’s respons...
Russian information warfare
Russian analytical digest, volume , issue 282 (2022), 23 pp.
"Over the past decade, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has employed unorthodox foreign policy tools with increasing frequency, intensity, and success. Perhaps the most effective of these tactics has been the use of information warfare designed to affect decision-making in countries Russia considers to be ...
The unfreedom monitor: Zimbabwe country report
Advox
(2022), 28 pp.
"The government of Zimbabwe and the ruling ZANU PF party are bent on ensuring that the status quo is preserved at all costs. As evidenced by findings in the Civic Media Observatory, the digital sphere has been identified as a threat to the country’s national security, insofar as deposing the curre...
The great firewall of China: how to build and control an alternative version of the internet
London:
Zed Books
(2021), xv, 423 pp., bibliogr. p.407-411, index
ISBN 978-1-350-26531-8 (pbk); 978-1-350-25791-7 (hbk); 978-1-350-25793-1 (ebook)
Other Editions: hardback ed. 2019
"China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. Update...
The digital Silk Road: China's quest to wire the world and win the future
New York, NY:
Harper Business
(2021), xiv, 351 pp., index
ISBN 978-0-06-304628-3 (hbk); 978-0-06-304629-0 (online)
Other Editions: London: Profile Books, 2022; German ed.: Kulmbach: Plassen Verlag, 2022
"China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, rewriting the global order. As things stand, the rest of the world still has a choice. But the battle for tomorrow will require America and its allies to take daring risks in uncertain political terrain. Unchecked, China will reshape global flows of data...
The public sphere in Russia between authoritarianism and liberation
Javnost: the public, volume 27, issue 1 (2020), pp. 2-96
Communication, development and social participation in China
Javnost: the public, volume 27, issue 2 (2020), pp. 97-209
Conveying truth: independent media in Putin’s Russia
Politics and Public Policy Shorenstein Center on Media
(2020), 39 pp.
"This study examines the evolution of independent Russian media, from the glasnost era to the pandemic. It describes some of the pandemic coverage and identifies several of the newsrooms that gave Russians reliable, accountability journalism throughout the early months of the crisis. It may seem obv...
The instrumentalisation of mass media in electoral authoritarian regimes: evidence from Russia's presidential election campaigns of 2000 and 2008
Stuttgart:
ibidem-Verlag
(2017), viii, 283 pp.
ISBN 978-3-8382-1013-1
Other Editions: Universität Bremen, Doctoral Thesis, 2016: Effect of media manipulation strategies on news content in electoral authoritarian regimes: the case of Russia
"Which instruments and approaches do incumbent elites employ to skew media coverage in favour of their preferred candidate in a presidential election? What effects do these strategies have on news content? Based on two case studies of the presidential election campaigns in Russia in 2000 and in 2008...
Cultural revolution in Iran: contemporary popular culture in the Islamic Republic
London; New York:
Tauris
(2017) new paperback ed., xiv, 287 pp., illustr., index
ISBN 978-1-78453-513-1
Other Editions: 1st ed. 2013
"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive...
