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Routledge handbook of environmental journalism

David B. Sachsman; JoAnn Myer Valenti (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 421 pp., illustrations, index

ISBN 978-1-138-47850-3 (hbk); 978-1-351-06840-6 (online)

"An increasing number of media platforms - from newspapers and television to Internet social media networks - are the major providers of indispensable information about the natural world and environmental risk. Despite the dramatic changes in the news industry that have tended to reduce the number o... more

Transnational media: concepts and cases

Suman Mishra; Rebecca Kern-Stone (eds.)

Newark: Wiley & Sons (2019), ix, 246 pp.

ISBN 978-1-119-39460-0

"Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journa... more

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Computational propaganda: political parties, politicians, and political manipulation on social media

Samuel C. Woolley; Philip N. Howard (eds.)

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vi, 263 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-19-093141-4 (pbk)

"Computational propaganda is an emergent form of political manipulation that occurs over the Internet. The term describes the assemblage of social media platforms, autonomous agents, algorithms, and big data tasked with the manipulation of public opinion. Our research shows that this new mode of int... more

Spiritual news: reporting religion around the world

Yoel Cohen (ed.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), vii, 418 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-4331-2862-2

"The media's coverage of religion is an important question, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments. The book examines it in different countries. After an introductory section looking at trends in religion news in print, on-... more

Online supplement to working paper 2018.1. Challenging truth and trust: a global inventory of organized social media manipulation

Samantha Bradshaw; Philip N. Howard

Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford; Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.

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"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s... more

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Anti-Western propaganda

Tamar Kintsurashvili

Media Development Foundation (MDF); UN Association of Georgia; USAID (2018), 38 pp., 16 figures

ISBN 978-9941-8-0064-1

"As many as 1,967 anti-Western comments were detected in the 17 monitored media outlets in 2017. In contrast to 2016 and 2015, when negative messages targeted human identity and rights, in 2017, a dominant topic was the foreign policy with the messages aimed at increasing the polarization on the for... more

The instrumentalisation of mass media in electoral authoritarian regimes: evidence from Russia's presidential election campaigns of 2000 and 2008

Nozima Akhrarkhodjaeva

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... more

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Countering Russian propaganda

per concordiam: Journal of European security and defense issues, volume , issue special issue (2016), 38 pp.

"In this issue we discuss some of the arguments and debates related to the highly charged and topical issue of Russia’s strategic narrative and how it is disseminated. Propaganda, in numerous forms, creates a barrier to more constructive engagement and dialogue. This issue’s contributors find th... more

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Assessing Russia’s influence in its periphery

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2016), 40 slides

"Russian speakers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania rank Kremlin-backed media as the least trustworthy among international, Russian Federation and domestic news sources, according to research presented by the Broadcasting Board of Governors. In addition, only those survey respondents who considered R... more

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Fake news: the narrative battle over the Ukrainian conflict

irina Khaldarova; Mervi Pantti

Journalism practice, volume 10, issue 7 (2016), pp. 891-901

"The crisis in Ukraine has accentuated the position of Russian television as the government’s strongest asset in its information warfare. The internet, however, allows other players to challenge the Kremlin’s narrative by providing counter-narratives and debunking distorted information and fake ... more

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The handbook of international crisis communication research

Andreas Schwarz; Matthew W. Seeger; Claudia Auer (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xix, 525 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-118-51676-8

"The Handbook of International Crisis Communication Research articulates a broader understanding of crisis communication, discussing the theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of domestic and transnational crises, featuring the work of global scholars from a range of sub-disciplines... more

Journalism in change: journalistic culture in Poland, Russia and Sweden

Gunnar Nygren; Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska (eds.)

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2015), 333 pp.

ISBN 978-3-631-64921-3 (hbk); 978-3-653-03989-4 (pdf)

"How is professionalization influenced by the constant growth of a network society and social media? How are commercialization and political influences in the media relating to each other? These are some of the issues discussed in this study. It is based on the research project Journalism in Change ... more

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Contemporary media use in Russia

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 40 slides

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Contemporary media use in Russia

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 2 pp.

"Russians are keen news consumers. Most (79.0%) access some type of news at least daily, and nearly all (95.4%) do this at least weekly. Nearly all Russians (95.5%) are turning to television – which continues to dominate the media market in 2013 – for their news each week. However, as more Russi... more

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Bits and atoms: information and communication technology in areas of limited statehood

Steven Livingston; Gregor Walter-Drop (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), xi, 195 pp., bibliogr. p.173-185, index

ISBN 978-0-19-994161-2

"Contributors to the volume explore various questions concerning the opportunities and constraints for governance associated with the startling growth in digital technologies in the Global South. In areas of limited statehood, places where the reach of the state is limited and weak, can mobile phone... more

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TV's Betty goes global: from telenovela to international brand

Janet McCabe; Kim Akass (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2013), xv, 259 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-780762678

"Premiering in 2006, Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous but kind-hearted Betty Suarez (America Ferrera),is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela,Yo soy Betty, la fea, back in 1999. The tale of the ugly duckling has since... more

New media and intercultural communication: identity, community and politics

Pauline Hope Cheong; Judith N. Martin; Leah P. Macfadyen (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2012), xx, 337 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-433-11365-9

"Chapters explore what happens in praxis when digital media are implemented across cultures and are contested and negotiated within complex local and political conditions. The book showcases interpretative and critical research from voices with diverse backgrounds, from locations around the world." ... more