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China and the Ukraine war: Global Times’ strategic narratives
Global Media and Communication, volume 21, issue 1 (2025), pp. 65-89
"The study examines Global Times’ strategic narratives on the Russia-Ukraine War (2022–2024) by analysing 301 articles through issue, identity and systemic frameworks. It reveals China’s framing of the conflict as a US-Russia proxy war, positioning itself as a neutral mediator advocating multi
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‘So, we have occupied TikTok’: Ukrainian women in #ParticipativeWar
Media, War & Conflict (2025), 18 pp.
"This study discusses the use of TikTok during the war that began with the Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022. TikTok has been the fastest growing social media channel and is known for its young user base. Although associated with lifestyle and light entertainment, it also become an importan
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Digital occupation: Pro-Russian bot networks target Ukraine’s occupied territories on Telegram
Atlantic Council, July 16 (2025)
"This joint report from OpenMinds and the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) analyzes the activity of a network of 3,634 automated accounts that posted pro-Russian comments on Telegram channels between January 2024 and April 2025 targeting Ukrainian populations inside Russian-occupied territorie
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African Media Reporting on the Russia Ukraine War
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2025), 38 pp.
Russian Collective Identity Construction in State Media During Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 14, issue 1 (2024), 20 pp.
"In the evolving landscape of communication technology, the interplay between media and collective identity becomes crucial due to its ability to shape the socio-political dynamics of nations. This article aims to address the role of collective identity construction in Russian state media, arguing t
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Russian Media in the Balkans and their Role in the Aggression against Ukraine. Case Study: RT Balkan
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2024), 37 pp.
"The study presented here [...] is not limited to generalised theses and descriptions of the Balkan media scene under Russian influence that only scratch the surface. Rather, the focus is on documenting the effectiveness of Russian state media in the region with a focus on Serbia, which also has an
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Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine in den deutschen Medien: Kritik des Maßstabs „ausgewogene Bewertung“ in Inhaltsanalysen
Publizistik, volume 69 (2024), pp. 455-493
"Inhaltsanalysen über die Darstellung von Konflikten in den Medien werden häufig durchgeführt, um den Vorwurf der Einseitigkeit empirisch zu überprüfen. Dies wirft die normative Frage auf, wie die Forderung nach einer ausgewogenen Bewertung, d. h. einer Gleichverteilung positiver und negativer
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Les étudiants face à la guerre russe en Ukraine : Perception et interprétation des informations
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 136 pp.
"Carole Grimaud propose une plongée au cour de la complexité des processus de réception médiatique dans un contexte où la perception et l'interprétation des informations sont soumises à une incertitude palpable. À travers une approche interdisciplinaire, cet ouvrage explore les dynamiques so
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Vibrant Information Barometer: Europe & Eurasia
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Washington, DC: IREX; USAID (2024), 357 pp.
"The 2024 Europe and Eurasia Vibrant Information Barometer (VIBE) covers 18 countries throughout Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia. With VIBE, IREX strives to capture a modern and evolving media space where people are simultaneously producers, transmitters, consumers, and actors in the information t
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A fragile narrative: Transformations and consistency in the Russian representation of the war in Ukraine
Media, War & Conflict (2024), 17 pp.
"In February 2022, Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The relevant narrative articulated by Vladimir Putin presented it as a short-term mission of military professionals. However, as the war continued, the situation at the front required complicated decisions that the initial narrative w
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Narratives of conflict: Russian media’s evolving treatment of Ukraine (2013–2022)
Media, War & Conflict (2024), 23 pp.
"This article scrutinizes Russian state-run TV narratives over critical junctures – before the 2013 Euromaidan protests, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and the periods leading up to and following the 2022 invasion – to illuminate how political agendas, historical narratives, and public percep
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Smartphone resilience: ICT in Ukrainian civic response to the Russian full-scale invasion
Media, War & Conflict (2024), 20 pp.
"In modern warfare, digitalization has blurred the line where civilian ends and military begins. Embedded in the participative warfare theoretical paradigm, this article looks into how the information and communication technologies (ICT) enable civic resilience under the conditions of the foreign ar
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“She Played All the Pregnant Women!”: Russian Disinformation, Symbolic Annihilation, and the Mariupol Hospital Attack
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3730-3751
"On March 9, 2022, the maternity and children’s hospital number 3 in Mariupol, Ukraine, was bombed as part of Russia’s full-scale war efforts in Ukraine. However, Russian statealigned media promoted a different narrative: namely, that the bombing itself, as well as the victims on site, were fake
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Im Krieg: Zwei illustrierte Tagebücher aus Kiew und St. Petersburg
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2024), 127 pp.
"Welche Auswirkungen hat der Angriffskrieg, den Russland seit Februar 2022 gegen die gesamte Ukraine führt, auf den Alltag und das Leben Einzelner? Dieser Frage ging die deutsch-amerikanische Illustratorin Nora Krug im Laufe einer einjährigen Korrespondenz mit einer ukrainischen Journalistin und e
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No relief from war: The use of humour in memes by the government of Ukraine and the limitation of laughter
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 20, issue 1 (2024), pp. 3-26
"The article is interested in the role of humour employed in memes on X by the government of Ukraine in the war following the invasion by Russia in 2022. It brings insights from cultural and humour studies as well as psychology into politics and shows how and what kind of humour the government aroun
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Journalists in the midst of full-scale war: Report on Ukraine
Human Rights Platform; Solidarity Fund PL (2024), 80 pp.
“Voices from the Island”: Informational annexation of Crimea and transformations of journalistic practices
Journalism, volume 25, issue 3 (2024), pp. 528–546
"After the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014, the peninsula experienced a progressive transition of telecommunication and broadcasting infrastructure under Russian influence, followed by a wave of repression of Ukrainian media. Between 2014 and 2015, dozens of Ukrainian media organization
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Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop it
New York: Columbia University Press (2024), xii, 357 pp.
"Misinformation is one of the twenty-first century’s greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public health. Yet we lack a clear understanding of what makes misinformation so potent and why it can spread so rapidly. In Falsehoods Fly, a leading cognitive scientist and philoso
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Two Years On: An Analysis of Russian State and Pro-Kremlin Information Warfare in the Context of the Invasion of Ukraine
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2024), 25 pp.
"This report provides an overview of how Russian state and pro-Kremlin propaganda undermining international support for Ukraine has evolved over the two years since the beginning of the full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022. It outlines a range of semi-covert tactics through which Russian state an
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Russia’s Rising Military and Communication Power: From Chechnya to Crimea
Media, War & Conflict, volume 16, issue 2 (2023), pp. 135-152
"Most scholars working on Russia’s use of strategic narratives recognize the importance of the Russian state. Nevertheless, the authors argue that much of the attention on strategic narratives has given insufficient appreciation for how Russia has developed its military and media policies in a coo
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