Implicit language in the Russian Kommersant Telegram posts – the survival of liberal media in an authoritarian regime

The study “ Reading ‘between the lines’: How implicit language helps liberal media survive in authoritarian regimes” by Alexey Tymbay from Technical University of Liberec demonstrated identification, explicitation, and validation of the implicatures found in the Kommersant (Russia) Telegram channel posts. After the the full scale phase of the Russia-Ukraine war that was known in … Continued

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Published: 20 Apr 2024

How RT and Sputnik seek to repair Russia’s image during the Ukraine war

The study “When the media goes to war: How Russian news media defend the country’s image during the conflict with Ukraine.” by Nhung Nguyen from University of Kansas, Pamela Peters from Western Illinois University, Hechen Ding, and Hong Tien Vu from University of Kansas looked at opinion columns in Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik and … Continued

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Published: 6 Apr 2024

Comparing the coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in the Indian Business Today and the US New York Times

The study “The Russia-Ukraine conflict as a discursive continuum: A comparative study of Business Today and New York Times using an extended corpus-based discourse-historical approach” by Yanting Sun from Shanghai International Studies University used an extended corpus-based discourse-historical approach incorporating tools from critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to compare the coverage and framing of … Continued

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Published: 23 Dec 2023

How Russians used credibility heuristics

The study “Harnessing Distrust: News, Credibility Heuristics, and War in an Authoritarian Regime” by Maxim Alyukov from King’s College London looked at how Russian citizens used credibility heuristics to assess regime propaganda during the conflict in Ukraine in 2016-2017. Addressing the current, escalated conflict starting in 2022, the author notes the worrying trend noted by … Continued

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Published: 8 May 2023

News framing of Yandex-presented Russian news in three countries

The study “Is all Russian news the same? Framing in Russian news media generated by the Yandex news algorithm for the United States, Estonia, and Russia.” by Heidi Erbsen and Siim Põldre from University of Tartu was a study on news framing comparing how Yandex news algorithm displayed Russian news in United States, Estonia, and … Continued

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Published: 16 May 2022

East Ukrainian media audiences and discussion modes

The article “Logics of Exclusion: How Ukrainian Audiences Renegotiate Propagandistic Narratives in Times of Conflict” by Olga Pasitselska from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was a discourse and conversational analysis of shared meanings among media audiences in Eastern Ukraine, and their interaction modes. The context of the study was the pre-invasion Russian-Ukrainian conflict in Eastern … Continued

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Published: 23 Apr 2022
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Pre-established ideas shape journalists’ news selection and framing practices

The article “Maintenance of News Frames: How US, British and Russian News Made Sense of Unfolding Events in the Syrian Chemical Weapons Crisis” by Christian Baden of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Katsiaryna Stalpouskaya of LMU Munich compares framing of the Syrian chemical weapons crisis in newspapers from three countries.  The study defines frames according … Continued

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Published: 4 Jan 2021
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ARTICLE: Russia frames itself as a stabilizing force in the world

How does Russia’s state-controlled and state-affiliated media frame the country’s role in the world? Robert S. Hinck, of Monmouth College, with Randolph Kluver and Skye Cooley, both of Oklahoma State University, analysed hundreds of Russian television and online news stories related to a number of international topics. Sometimes the coverage presents contradictory details, but the … Continued

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Published: 26 Jan 2018
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ARTICLE: Millenials’ definition of “news” is becoming broader

The so-called Millenial generation considers as “news” a wider selection of information than what journalists and scholars usually do. This finding is reported by Natalia Rulyova, of University of Birmingham, and Hannah Westley, of The American University of Paris. The authors analysed the media diaries of 189 university students from Russia, France, United Kingdom, and … Continued

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Published: 1 Sep 2017
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ARTICLE: Being a liberal journalist in contemporary Russia

It is problematic to apply Western-centric media system theories to contemporary neo-authoritarian Russia, in light of mechanisms used by the state to control the media and the country’s overall development, a new study finds. Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, of the University of Chester, studied the conditions of liberal journalists in the country. The author conducted a semi-ethnographic … Continued

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Published: 14 Jun 2017