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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Public Communication Campaigns and their Implications for Strategic Competition with Russia
RAND Corporation (2021), 19 pp.
"The most effective campaigns are face-to-face, repeated campaigns. Such campaigns generally have a larger average impact on persuasion, knowledge, and behavior than remote campaigns (such as ones conducted through television or the internet). Negative and positive messages appear to be almost equal
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Media Environment Before and After 2021 Elections: Threats and Supportive Instruments
Tbilisi: Media and Communication Educational and Research Center (MCERC) (2021), 65 pp.
"The study revealed the macro and micro media threats that come to light in the digital and physical media environments prior to and following elections. The media environment observed during the 2021 self-government elections was representative of the reality seen through the eyes of media workers,
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Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media
Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press (2021), xiv, 408 pp.
"This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are
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Digital trends in the Commonwealth of Independent States region 2021: Information and communication technology trends and developments in the CIS region, 2017-2020
Geneva: ITU (2021), vi, 47 pp.
"This report provides an overview of trends and developments in information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, access and use in the CIS region, which includes 9 Member States and is home to a population of 240 million people. The report highlights changes in ICT adoption since the l
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On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History
New York; Oxford: Berghahn; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2021), 104 pp.
"Straddling the boundary between historical inquiry and personal reflection, this extraordinary text unfolds as a series of encounters with eponymic Holocaust photographs. Although only a small number of photographs are reproduced here, Fresco provides evocative descriptions of many well-known image
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The Sputnik V vaccine: An international success for Russia? An analysis of the way Russian state-owned media RT and Sputnik/SNA present information and use methods of disinformation in the examples of Germany, France, Great Britain, Serbia, Slovakia and Kazakhstan
Berlin: The Greens-EFA in the European Parliament (2021), 41 pp.
"This analysis examines the methods of disinformation being used to prove Russia's scientific lead, while portraying Western compet-itors in a very negative light. Sputnik V is an instrument of "soft power" through which Russia is trying to gain influence worldwide. In order to evaluate how successf
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Schöne Grüße aus Moskau
Medium Magazin, issue 5 (2021), pp. 32-35
"Keine TV-Lizenz, kein Youtube-Kanal: Wie der russische Staatssender RT DE trotzdem versucht, in Deutschland weiter Fuß zu fassen. Ein Redaktionsbesuch in Berlin." (Seite 33)
Cyber Capabilities and National Power: A Net Assessment
London et al.: International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) (2021), 174 pp.
"This report sets out a new methodology for assessing cyber power, and then applies it to 15 states: Four members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance – the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; Three cyber-capable allies of the Five Eyes states – France, Israel and Japan; F
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Evolution of Interactive Elements in Socio-Political Talk Shows in Post-Soviet Russia
Global Media and Communication, volume 17, issue 1 (2021), pp. 25-43
"The article studies the place and degree of interactivity of interactive elements in socio-political talk shows on Russian television during the period of the presidency and premiership of Vladimir Putin (2000–2017), and comprises unique material that allows us to analyse the interactive elements
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Handbook of Global Media Ethics
Cham: Springer (2021), xxxii, 1460 pp.
"The first handbook on global media ethics; provides a valuable resource for teaching media ethics in a global era; addresses all major approaches to global media ethics; contains contributions by leading, internationally recognized authors in the field of media ethics." (Publisher description)
Information at War: Journalism, Disinformation, and Modern Warfare
Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2021), x, 226 pp.
"In this book, Philip Seib, one of the world's leading experts on media and war, offers a probing analysis of the role of information in warfare from the Second World War to the present day and beyond. He focuses on some of the thorniest issues on the contemporary agenda: When untruthful and inflamm
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Media, Development and Democracy
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2021), xviii, 141 pp.
"[...] this book explores the complex construction of democratic public dialogue in developing countries. Case studies examine national environments defined not only by state censorship and commercial pressure, but also language differences, international influence, social divisions, and distinct va
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Tweeting Out Surveys to Pro-Ukraine Influencers: Exploring the Potential for Enlisting Support in the Information Fight Against Russia
RAND Corporation (2021), 23 pp.
"This study used Twitter advertisements to solicit survey participation from the most-influential members of pro-Ukraine and pro-Russia communities of Twitter users identified in an analysis of 25 million Russian language tweets emanating from Eastern Europe. Survey results suggest that pro-Ukraine
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Ethnic Journalism in the Global South
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xiii, 319 pp.
"This book focuses on ethnic journalism in the Global South, approaching it from two angles: as a professional area and as a social mission. The book discusses journalistic practices and ethnic media in the Global South, managerial and editorial strategies of ethnic media outlets, their content spec
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Post-Mortem: Russian and Chinese Covid-19 Information Operations
Washington, DC: Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) (2021), 72 pp.
"Russia recycled previous narratives and exacerbated tensions in Western society while attempting some propaganda about Russian scientific prowess. Russia’s approach evolved little; it recycled previous narratives, spreading a broad range of COVID-19 disinformation. Evidence supports the theory th
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Tackling Kremlin's Media Capture in Southeast Europe: Shared Patterns, Specific Vulnerabilities and Responses to Russian Disinformation
Deep Insights
Sofia: Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) (2021), 124 pp.
"The current report illuminates the scope, means, and reach of Russia’s sharp power influence through the phenomenon of media capture. It traces the regime’s malign impact on good governance and democratic development in eight Southeast European countries (EU members: Bulgaria and Croatia, as we
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Digital Authoritarianism and Nonviolent Action: Challenging the Digital Counterrevolution
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2021), 23 pp.
"This report examines how use of newer and emergent technologies affects nonviolent action campaigns. It identifies two significant related challenges and presents evidence of these dynamics at work in two digital autocracies, China and Russia." (About the report)
The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiv, 612 pp.
"This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the 'digital' is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in
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Vibrant Information Barometer: Europe & Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2021), 219 pp.
"The 2021 Europe & Eurasia Vibrant Information Barometer (VIBE) publication stands on the shoulders of IREX’s almost 20 years of the Media Sustainability Index (MSI), which was last published in 2019. Through VIBE, IREX aims to capture a modern era where many people around the world are simultaneo
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It is about their story: How China, Turkey and Russia influence the media in Africa
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2021), 130 pp.
"Looking at media involvement in Africa, one can only state that the continent is more important than ever. Next to traditional actors like the BBC or Radio France International, and to a smaller extent of Deutsche Welle or Radio Swiss International, there are new players. They do not seem to have t
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