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Soft power, sharp power? Exploring RT’s dual role in Russia’s diplomatic toolkit

Sofya Glazunova, Axel Bruns, Edward Hurcombe, Silvia Ximena Montaña-Niño, Souleymane Coulibaly, Abdul Karim Obeid
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 16 (2023), pp. 3292-3317
"This article examines the multilingual audiences of Russian outlet RT on Facebook. RT is a state media outlet known for spreading strategic Kremlin narratives and disinformation in support of Russia’s domestic and foreign policy objectives to large and multilingual global audiences. RT serves as ... more
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Media Capture in Russia: An Expensive Venture. A Financial Analysis of Key Russian Media Companies

Anastasiia Vorozhtsova
London: Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC) (2023), 26 pp.
"Russia’s three media giants, Gazprom Media Holding, National Media Group, and VGTRK, are interconnected through an ownership structure where the state remains the primary beneficiary. Shareholding links and the Kremlin’s personal ties demonstrate how the Russian media landscape is captured thro ... more
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What Role Does Media Entertainment Play in Emerging Adults’ Political Identity and Engagement Across Cultures?

Frank M Schneider, Katharina Knop-Huelss, Jinhee Kim, Larisa Buhin et al.
International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 1445-1465
"In light of the controversial relationship and blurred lines between information and entertainment media, the current study’s goal aimed at qualitatively exploring media entertainment’s role in emerging adults’ political identity formation and engagement. By analyzing 55 semistructured interv ... more
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Towards a model that measures the impact of disinformation on elections

Jonáš Syrovátka, Nikola Horejš, Sarah Komasová
European View, volume 22, issue 1 (2023), pp. 119-130
"Disinformation represents a danger to the integrity and legitimacy of the electoral process. From our research based on the 2021 Czech parliamentary elections, we introduce a model for measuring the resilience of citizens to disinformation. This model is then used to draw conclusions about the impa ... more
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One Year Later: Online Discourse in Moldova About Ukrainian Refugees

Internews (2023), 24 pp.
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Social Media 4 Peace: Local Lessons for Global Practices

Adeline Hulin, João Brant
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 69 pp.
"The three countries [Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Kenya] provide evidence of online hate speech and disinformation affecting human rights offline. The evidence is not comprehensive yet clear enough to raise serious concerns. Online gender-based violence is also reported as critical in the ... more
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Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to Covid-19

Nils Ringe, Lucio Renno (eds.)
London; New York, NY: Routledge (2023), xx, 299 pp.
"Populists and the Pandemic examines the responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to the Covid-19 pandemic, in terms of their attitudes, rhetoric, mobilization repertoires, and policy proposals. The responses of some populist leaders have received much publ ... more
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Nielsen BookScan Internacional - Informe trimestral, T5 2022

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2023), 27 pp.
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Digital Warfare and Peace: Learning from Ukraine’s Response to the Russian Invasion

Anna Romandash
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2023), 15 pp.
"Before launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Russia had maintained a low-scale war with Ukraine since early 2014. That conflict, which culminated in the annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the ongoing Donbas war, received less international attention than the 2022 ful ... more
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The Key Player in Russia's Cybersphere: What the West Needs to Know About VK Company

Philipp Dietrich
Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP) (2023), 20 pp.
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Regional E-Waste Monitor for the Western Balkans

Giulia Iattoni, Innocent Chidi Nnorom, Daesha Toppenberg, Ruediger Kuehr, Cornelis Peter Baldé
ITU; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR); (2023), 177 pp.
"The amount of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) Placed on Market (POM) in the Western Balkans region increased from 0.16 Mt (9 kg/inhabitant) in 2010 to 0.21 Mt (13 kg/inhabitant) in 2021. Likewise, the regional e-waste generated nearly doubled from 0.09 Mt (5.3 kg/inhabitant) in 2010 to 0. ... more
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Ein Jahr russischer Angriffskrieg: Die Rolle von Desinformation in Deutschland

Pia Lamberty, Lea Frühwirth
Berlin: CeMAS Center für Monitoring, Analyse und Strategie (2023), 26 pp.
"Desinformation begleitet den russischen Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine und erreicht auch ein deutsches Publikum. Sie dient der Stärkung russischer Propaganda und ist geeignet, die deutsche und europäische Entscheidungs- und Handlungsfähigkeit in Bezug auf den Krieg zu stören und negativ zu beein ... more
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How Public Service Media Disinformation Shapes Hungarian Public Discourse

Ágnes Urbán, Gábor Polyák, Kata Horváth
Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 4 (2023), pp. 62-72
"The Russian war against Ukraine illustrates how the disinformation ecosystem works in Hungary, and it also reveals its devastating impact on democratic public discourse. Public service media play a prominent role in spreading disinformation. We were able to identify several false narratives in the ... more
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Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century

Bedross Der Matossian (ed.)
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2023), xvi, 400 pp.
"Throughout the twenty-first century, genocide denial has evolved and adapted with new strategies to augment and complement established modes of denial. In addition to outright negation, denial of genocide encompasses a range of techniques, including disputes over numbers, contestation of legal defi ... more
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Donor Strategies in a time of Paradigm Shift: Mapping of the Donors Active in the Western Balkans

Miroslav Tomic, Mihailo Gajic, Ardiana Gashi
Open Society Foundations, 3rd ed. (2023), 43 pp.
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Women in Ukraine: What Key Issues Are They Facing?

Sally Gowland, Katherine Michie
London: BBC Media Action (2023), 10 pp.
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Shielding Democracy: Civil Society Adaptations to Kremlin Disinformation About Ukraine

Adam Fivensen, Galyna Petrenko, Veronika Víchová, Andrej Polešcuk
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (2023), 30 pp.
"This report highlights adaptations and innovations by Ukrainians in their struggle against Moscow’s disinformation machine. As part of the project, the International Forum on Democratic Studies conducted more than fifty expert interviews and hosted a series of convenings with experts from Ukraine ... more
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Imagining AI
Deep Insights

Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal (eds.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2023), xvii, 423 pp.
"Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines is the first volume showcasing research into how different cultures around the globe envision life with artificial intelligence. AI is now a global phenomenon. Yet Hollywood narratives dominate perceptions of AI in the English-speaking West and ... more
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Defunding Disinformation in the Balkans: How International Brands Support Russia’s Agenda

Brussels: Balkan Free Media Initiative (BFMI); CRTA (2023), 39 pp.
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A Media Repertoires Approach to Selective Exposure: News Consumption and Political Polarization in Eastern Europe

Fani Toth, Sabina Mihelj, Stetka Vaclav, Katherine Kondor
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 28, issue 4 (2023), pp. 884-908
"In recent years, links between selective news exposure and political polarisation have attracted considerable attention among communication scholars. However, while the existence of selective exposure has been documented in both offline and online environments, the evidence of its extent and its im ... more