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Digital News Report 2016

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 109 pp.

"This year we have evidence of the growth of distributed (offsite) news consumption, a sharpening move to mobile and we can reveal the full extent of ad-blocking worldwide. These three trends in combination are putting further severe pressure on the business models of both traditional publishers and ... more

Overcoming Barriers: Media in Covering Conflict-Sensitive Issues

Maryna Bezkorovaina, Daria Orlova, Roman Shutov, Yevhen Zaslavskyi

Kyiv: OSCE;Detector Media (2016), 45 pp.

Interpretive Communities and Opinion Leaders of Active Catholics: Formation of Attitudes to Church and Social Developments in Engaged Young Catholics in Slovakia

Terézia Roncáková

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"The paper presents results of the research focused on opinion leaders and interpretive communities of young active Catholics in Slovakia in connection with contemporary ecclesial-societal issues. The author pays a special attention to the Church opinion leaders and the sources of the opinion leader ... more

Disputed Memory: Emotions and Memory Politics in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

Tea Sindbæk Andersen, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (eds.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2016), vi, 383 pp.

"The world wars, genocides and extremist ideologies of the 20th century are remembered very differently across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, resulting sometimes in fierce memory disputes. This book investigates the complexity and contention of the layers of memory of the troubled 20th ce ... more

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Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell

Zala Volcic, Mark Andrejevic (eds.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), x, 202 pp.

"Commercial Nationalism intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses. The book's uniq ... more

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Pulverfass Kaukasus: Nationale Konflikte und islamistische Gefahren am Rande Europas

Manfred Quiring

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2016), 219 pp.

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Medien im Krieg - Krieg in den Medien

Jörg Becker

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), ix, 404 pp.

"Das Thema Medien und Krieg wird in diesem Buch aus einer vierfachen Perspektive heraus behandelt. Es geht zum einen um die Frage nach der Berichterstattung über Kriege, zum zweiten um die Rolle von Medien im Krieg, drittens geht es darum, welche strukturellen Bedingungen von Krieg und Gesellschaft ... more

Countering Russian Propaganda

Per Concordiam: Journal of European Security and Defense Issues, 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

Resisting Foreign State Propaganda in the New Information Environment: The Case of the EU, Russia, and the Eastern Partnership Countries

Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) (2016), 293 pp.

"With well-organised and far-reaching weapons of information Russia has succeeded in sowing doubt about the need for democratic values and is therefore also undermining faith in democratic countries, weakening it. Russia government uses lies, concealment, and the manipulation of anything that can se ... more

In the Beginning Was the Image: The Omnipresence of Pictures. Time, Truth, Tradition

András Benedek, Ágnes Veszelszki (eds.)

Frankfurt am Main; New York: Peter Lang (2016), 190 pp.

"The authors outline the topic of visuality in the 21st century in a trans- and interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy. As some scholars of visual communication state, there is a significant link between the downgrading ... more

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Winning the Information War: Techniques and Counter-Strategies to Russian Propaganda in Central and Eastern Europe

Edward Lucas, Peter Pomeranzev

Washington, DC: Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) (2016), 64 pp.

"Currently, no dedicated agency or systematic effort analyzes the effect of Russian (or any other) disinformation. Who really watches Russia Today? Where? For how long? And why? Nor do we have the means to systematically track the content: How does the Kremlin’s message in Germany differ from the ... more

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Media Regulation in Russia: A Landscape Analysis of Laws and Trends

Thomson Reuters Foundation (2016), 49 pp.

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Ukrainian Media After the EuroMaidan: In Search of Independence and Professional Identity

Dariya Orlova

Publizistik, volume 61, issue 4 (2016), pp. 441-461

"The EuroMaidan protests that shook Ukraine in late 2013 to early 2014 triggered a chain of events that brought numerous changes and challenges for the Ukrainian society. The Ukrainian media landscape has also been affected by the new challenges and impetus for democratization. The post-Maidan perio ... more

Distract, Deceive, Destroy: Putin at War in Syria

Maksymilian Czuperski, John Herbst, Eliot Higgins, Frederic Hof, Ben Nimmo

Washington, DC: Atlantic Council (2016), 24 pp.

"This paper sets out how Russia built up its disinformation campaign, by analyzing what was said and comparing it with what was done. Using open source and social media intelligence (OSSMINT), it exposes the false claims that Russia targeted ISIS or defeated international terrorism. It reveals that, ... more

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Auf Linie gebracht: Polens öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk unter PiS-Kuratel

Agnieszka Kublik

Osteuropa, volume 66, issue 1-2 (2016), pp. 153-159

"Die Partei Recht und Gerechtigkeit (PiS) änderte nach ihrem Sieg bei den polnischen Parlamentswahlen im Herbst 2015 innerhalb weniger Wochen das Mediengesetz und besetzte die Spitzenpositionen im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk neu. Neues Personal gibt es auch bei den Nachrichtensendungen, die be ... more

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Wie Staaten schwach werden: Fragilität von Staaten als internationale Herausforderung

Kai Hirschmann

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2016), 264 pp.

"Der Zerfall von Staaten ist eine wesentliche Bedrohung für die Bürger der betroffenen Länder und für die internationale Sicherheit. Wenn ein Staat seine essenziellen Aufgaben nicht mehr erfüllen kann, versuchen andere Akteure diese Lücken zu schließen. Aber wie kommt es dazu, dass Nationalst ... more

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Journalists in Estonia

Haliki Harro-Loit, Epp Lauk

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 7 pp.

"Four “classic” roles: to report things as they are, to be a detached observer, to educate the audience and provide news that attracts the largest audience are fairly unanimously seen as the most important among Estonian journalists, as the relatively low standard deviations suggest. Especially ... 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.

"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

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