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Stop the Traffik Lithuania Campaign July 2019: Initial Evaluation Report

Stop the Traffik;Humankind Research (2019), 44 pp.

"The Lithuania (LT) campaign ran on Facebook (FB) and Instagram (IG) over the course of two weeks in July 2019, first in Lincolnshire, UK followed by Lithuania. The target audience was Lithuanians living in both Lithuania and Lincolnshire at risk of labour exploitation in the UK. The campaign was de ... more

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Russian Information Warfare in Central and Eastern Europe: Strategies, Impact, and Countermeasures

Michal Boksa

Washington, DC: German Marshall Fund of the United States (2019), 19 pp.

"The dynamism of Russia’s information warfare is best illustrated by the fact that over the last decade it underwent at least two strategic shifts—after the Russian-Georgian war in 2008 and in 2014 when Russia went from being risk-averse and stealthy to increasingly aggressive and risk-taking. E ... more

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Die ukrainische Medienlandschaft: Divers, aber politisiert

Natalja Rjabinska

Ukraine-Analysen, issue 215 (2019), pp. 2-9

"Laut ukrainischen Journalisten und Medienaktivisten hat sich die Lage der Medien in der Ukraine seit dem Euromaidan 2013/2014 in einigen Aspekten verbessert. Die Medien können freier berichten, die Regierung aktiver kontrollieren und sie fühlen sich vom Staat weniger unter Druck gesetzt. Gleichze ... more

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Security First, Technology Second: Putin Tightens his Grip on Russia's Internet, with China's Help

Andrej A. Soldatov

Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft für auswärtige Politik (DGAP) (2019), 5 pp.

"Over the past seven years, the Russian government has employed various methods from censorship and surveillance to the intimidation of internet companies to tighten its control over the internet. The Kremlin undoubtedly considers the costs of control insignificant compared to the costs of political ... more

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The Use of Twitter Bots in Russian Political Communication

Denis Stukal, Sergey Sanovich, Richard A. Bonneau, Joshua A. Tucker

Washington, DC: PONARS Eurasia (2019), 10 pp.

"Our analysis of millions of Russian tweets over 2014-2018 reveals that bots make up a large proportion of the Russian political Twittersphere. However, an important lesson from our region is that one cannot assume that simply because there are bots present in the Russian political Twittersphere tha ... more

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Close and Distant: Political Executive-Media Relations in Four Countries

Karl Magnus Johansson, Gunnar Nygren (eds.)

Gothenburg: Nordicom (2019), 264 pp.

"This book explores the interplay between government and media drawing on unique evidence from, and in-depth analysis of, four national cases: Finland, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. Based on the chapters dedicated to each country, five additional chapters address the following cross-national themes: ... more

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The Business of Misinformation: Slovakia. Snake Oil Spills Onto the Web

Jozef Michal Mintal, Alex Rusnák

Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 12 pp.

"The presented report looks at 49 major Slovak disinformation and misinformation websites and sketches out their ownership as well as financial background. The report succeeds in identifying the ownership or operational structure behind 35 websites. In terms of financial data, the report canvasses f ... more

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Fighting Words: Journalism Under Assault in Central and Eastern Europe

Meera Selva

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 30 pp.

"To understand the situation and examine what can be done to address it, we sent out a questionnaire to journalists in 16 countries in the region, asking them about the state of press freedom and the areas in which they felt their ability to work was being curtailed.We also asked them about sources ... more

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Changing Landscapes: The Past 5 Years of the Advertising Industry of Central and Eastern Europe

WeCAN Communications (2019), 177 pp.

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Trust in the Media

Ipsos (2019), 48 pp.

"People across 27 countries are divided on whether they trust traditional media (magazines and newspapers, TV and radio). These sources are equally trusted as they are distrusted. However, levels of trust in media sources vary greatly at the country level. Trust in traditional media is perceived to ... more

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The Business of Misinformation: Hungary. Pushing Politics, Picking Pockets

Judit Szakács

Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 20 pp.

"It is almost impossible to obtain information about who is behind Hungarian misinformation websites; financial information about them is even harder to come by; Hungarian misinformation websites fall on the spectrum from purely ideological sites to simple moneymaking machines; Facebook appears to b ... more

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The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities

Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Bernadette O'Rourke (eds.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 612 pp.

"This Handbook is an in-depth appraisal of the field of minority languages and communities today. It presents a wide-ranging, coherent picture of the main topics, with key contributions from international specialists in sociolinguistics, policy studies, sociology, anthropology and law. Individual ch ... 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.

"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

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The Interaction of Journalism and Public Relations in Russia: A Self-Perception

Greg Simons, Dmitry Strovsky

Global Media and Communication, volume 15, issue 1 (2019), pp. 3-25

"There is an increasing amount written on the decline of professional journalism around the world. One of the factors that are used to illustrate the decline of journalism is the interaction and collaboration between journalists and public relations (PR) practitioners in the production of mass media ... more

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Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent

Alan MacLeod (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2019), x, 171 pp.

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Media Capture in Europe

Marius Dragomir

Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2019), 25 pp.

"The collusion between the political class and media owners [in Central and Eastern Europe] has reached unprecedented levels, leading to a phenomenon known as media capture, a situation where most or all of the news media institutions are operating as part of a government-business cartel that contro ... more

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CANnual Report 2019: Changing Landscapes. The Past Five Years of the Advertising Industry of Central and Eastern Europe

Budapest: WeCAN Communications, 5th annual report (2019), 177 pp.

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Vergeben und vergessen? Erinnerungskultur

iz3w, issue 373 (2019), pp. 16-37

"In den 1980er Jahren verstärkte sich das Unbehagen an der Gedenkkultur mit ihren Heldenerzählungen und nationalen Beschränkungen. Mit der größeren Komplexität des Gedenkens und der Hinwendung zu den sozialen Kosten historischer Ereignisse prägte sich eine neue Erinnerungskultur aus. Diese is ... more

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Spiritual News: Reporting Religion Around the World
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Yoel Cohen (ed.)

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

"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

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Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World: Market Forces, State Actors, and Political Manipulation in the Informational Environment After Communism

Peter Rollberg, Marlene Laruelle (eds.)

Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (2018), 446 pp.

"This collection covers the major trends of the media environment of the post-Communist world and their recent development, with special focus on Russia and the post-Soviet space. The term ‘media environment’ covers not just traditional print and electronic media, but new media as well, and rang ... more

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