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Independent media under pressure: evidence from Russia

Tom Paskhalis; Bryn Rosenfeld; Katerina Tertytchnaya

Post-Soviet affairs, volume 38, issue 3 (2022), pp. 155-174

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"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... more

Russia's vigilante YouTube stars: digital entrepreneurship and heroic masculinity in the service of flexible authoritarianism

Anna Schwenck

Europe-Asia studies, volume 74, issue 7 (2022), pp. 1166-1189

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"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... more

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Photographing Central Asia: from the periphery of the Russian empire to global presence
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Svetlana Gorshenina; Sergei Abashin; Bruno De Cordier; Tatiana Saburova

Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2022), viii, 431 pp., figures, tables, index

ISBN 978-3-11-075442-1 (print); 978-3-11-075446-9 (pdf) CC BY-NC-ND

"The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific tool that reifies reality, subjectively frames it, and fits it into various political, ideological, commercial, scientific, and artistic contexts. Without reducing the entire argument to the binary of ‘photography and power’, the ... more

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Understanding RT’s audiences: exposure not endorsement for Twitter followers of Russian state-sponsored media

The international journal of press/politics, volume 27, issue 1 (2022), pp. 220-242

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"The Russian state-funded international broadcaster RT (formerly Russia Today) has attracted much attention as a purveyor of Russian propaganda. To date, most studies of RT have focused on its broadcast, website, and social media content, with little research on its audiences. Through a data-driven ... more

Mediensysteme in Deutschland und Russland: Handbuch

Alla G. Bespalova; Horst Pöttker (eds.)

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2022), 361 pp., diagr., tables, bibliogr. p.322-344

ISBN 978-3-86962-263-7 (print); 978-3-86962-264-4 (pdf)

"Das Buch besteht aus zwei Teilen. Der erste enthält Stichwortartikel zu den Themenbereichen Presse, Radio, Fernsehen, Online-Medien, Agenturen und Medien im Allgemeinen. Im zweiten Teil werden Datentabellen und Grafiken präsentiert, die sich vor allem auf das Jahr 2015 beziehen. Dabei werden sowo... more

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The unfreedom monitor: Russia country report

Advox (2022), 28 pp., bibliogr. p.26-28

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"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... more

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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 ... more

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The global handbook of media accountability

Susanne Fengler; Tobias Eberwein; Matthias Karmasin (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xviii, 614 pp., illustr., index

ISBN 978-0-367-34628-7 (hbk); 978-1-03-215615-6 (pbk); 978-0-429-32694-3 (pdf)

"The Global Handbook of Media Accountability brings together leading scholars to 'de-Westernize' the academic debate on media accountability and discuss different models of media self-regulation and newsroom transparency around the globe. With examination of the status quo of media accountability in... more

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Media, development and democracy

Heloisa Pait; Juliana Laet (eds.)

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2022), xviii, 141 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-80043-492-9; 978-1-80043-494-3 (e-book); 978-1-80043-493-6 (print)

" ... this book explores the complex construction of democratic public dialogue in developing countries. Case studies examine national environments defined not only by state censorship and commercial pressure, but also language differences, international influence, social divisions, and distinct val... more

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TV-Talkshows als Propagandainstrument Russlands im Ukrainekonflikt (2014)

Magdalena Kaltseis

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2022), xix, 478 pp., bibliogr. p.449-474, index

ISBN 978-3-11-077837-3 (pdf); 978-3-11-077806-9 (print)

Other Editions: Dissertation u.d.T: Unterhaltung oder Meinungsmanipulation? Eine Analyse von Propagandastrategien in russischen TV-Talkshows während des Konflikts in der Ukraine (2014). Universität Klagenfurt, 2021

"Wie wird Propaganda im Medium Fernsehen im 21. Jahrhundert gemacht und welche Strategien werden dafür verwendet? Diesen Fragen geht die vorliegende Studie nach, indem sie die mediale Berichterstattung in Russland über den Konflikt in der Ukraine im Jahr 2014 untersucht. Im Fokus stehen russische ... more

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Wie die Redefreiheit in Russland abhanden kommen konnte

Aachener Zeitung, volume , issue May 3 (2022)

"Wiktor Chrul ist Anfang März aus Russland geflohen, ein potentieller Job hat ihn auch für einige Tage nach Aachen geführt. Der Universitätsprofessor und Journalist sieht die Gefahr, dass er in seiner Heimat hart bestraft wird – weil er die Wahrheit sagt. Wo Wiktor Chrul in den nächsten Tagen... more

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The performance of participation in Russian alternative media: discourse, materiality and affect in grassroots media production in contemporary Russia

Kirill Filimonov

Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet (2021), 200 pp.

ISBN 978-91-513-1091-6

"This doctoral dissertation analyzes participation in alternative media, taking the reader to the Russia of the late 2010s. Bringing together discourse theory, media and communication studies and political theory, it approaches participation in media production through the lens of performativity. Th...e conceptualization of participation as a performance helps explore the material, embodied and spatial enactments of discourses that sustain the fragile and unstable process of production. The data of this study comprise several months of participant observations, interviews with media producers, and textual analysis of media content. The research employs a case-study method and focuses on media that explicitly delegate their participants the right to co-decide on matters of content production and internal organizing process. The three cases under study are Russia’s oldest anarchist medium Avtonom, the student medium DOXA, and the web-based zine Discours. Data analysis integrates qualitative content analysis and a discourse-theoretical approach, informed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse theory alongside its subsequent developments within the Essex School. The study looks into the distribution of power in alternative media amidst an internal diversity, material constraints, and an antagonistic relationship with the state. The analysis constructs a model of participation, which shows its embeddedness into multiple and partially overlapping communities. A vibrant sociality and the potential for a further expansion of the media communities emerge as two of the key conditions of the participatory process. Furthermore, participation is supported by an ongoing performance of a multiplicity of identities, in which the more elitist articulations of journalism are intertwined with some empowering and counterhegemonic notions of media production, media producers, and the audience. Retaining a critical-explanatory focus, the dissertation explores the limits of power-sharing, such as the persistence of journalistic professionalism, the scarce resources of the media and vulnerability inflicted by the state. The static representation of the state as the major confronting force reveals the paradoxical nature of social antagonism: while mobilizing the limited resources, it also reduces participatory intensities and triggers a politics of trust that restricts access to media production. This dissertation offers a number of theoretical and empirical contributions to several fields. Some of its key insights relate to participation beyond institutional politics, the hybridity of mainstream and alternative media, the interconnection of discourse, materiality and affect, and an empirical applicability of discourse theory." (Abstract) more

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The Palgrave handbook of digital Russia studies

Daria Gritsenko; Mariëlle Wijermars; Michail Vjaceslavovic Kopotev (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiv, 612 pp., illustr., diagr., index

ISBN 978-3-030-42855-6 (pdf); 978-3-030-42854-9 (print) CC BY

"This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the 'digital' is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in ... more

Information at war: journalism, disinformation, and modern warfare

Philip Seib

Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2021), x, 226 pp., bibliogr. p.212-214, index

ISBN 978-1-5095-4857-6 (pbk); 978-1-5095-4856-9 (hbk); 978-1-5095-4858-3 (online

"In this book, Philip Seib, one of the world's leading experts on media and war, offers a probing analysis of the role of information in warfare from the Second World War to the present day and beyond. He focuses on some of the thorniest issues on the contemporary agenda: When untruthful and inflamm... more

Taking control? Internet censorship and surveillance in Russia: Update

Ulrike Gruska

Berlin: Reporters Without Borders (2021), 53 pp.

Other Editions: also published in German and Russian

"This update to the RSF report “Taking Control? Internet Censorship and Surveillance in Russia” (published in November 2019) focuses on the period between the 2019 elections and the parliamentary elections in September 2021. It describes how the Kremlin has severely restricted press freedom and ... more

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Beyond journalistic norms: role performance and news in comparative perspective

Claudia Mellado (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2021), xix, 299 pp., figures, tables, index

ISBN 978-1-138-38849-9 (hbk); 978-0-429-42550-9 (online)

"The book brings together scholars from Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia, reporting findings based on data collected from democratic, transitional, and non-democratic contexts to produce thematic chapters that address how journalistic cultures vary around the globe,... more

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Language of conflict: discourses of the Ukrainian crisis

Natalia Knoblock (ed.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2020), x, 279 pp., illustr., index

ISBN 97814411779959 (pbk); 9781350098565 (hbk); 9781441148599 (pdf)

"Exploring the ways in which language and conflict are intertwined and interrelated, this book examines the changes that have taken place in the public discourse of the Ukraine and Russia since 2014 and the beginning of the 'Ukrainian Crisis.' Through analysis of the narratives constructed by differ... more

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The public sphere in Russia between authoritarianism and liberation

Tatiana Weiser; Greg Yudin (eds.)

Javnost: the public, volume 27, issue 1 (2020), pp. 2-96

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Book industry: special issue [on children's literature]

Moscow: Book Industry (LLC) (2020), 71 pp.

"The Russian book industry is actively preparing for the Bologna Book Fair and the 37th IBBY International Children’s Book Congress, which Moscow will host for the first time this year. How is children’s book publishing developing in Russia? What support does it need from the government?" (p.2)

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Conveying truth: independent media in Putin’s Russia

Ann Cooper

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... more

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Photographing Central Asia: from the periphery of the Russian empire to global presence
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