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Entertainment interspersed with propaganda: How nonlegacy-news accounts deliver explicitly political content to mass audiences on Russia’s most popular social network VK
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 18 pp.
"Previous research on political communication on Russia’s most popular social network VK has concluded that most users avoid news by not following legacy-news accounts. In this study, we expand the universe of scrutinized accounts with the mostfollowed non-legacy-news accounts (>100,000 followers)
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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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As USAID dies, many of Georgia's "vibrant" CSOs face extinction
GEOpolitics, issue 16 (2025), 6 pp.
"For decades, Georgia has been one of the largest per capita recipients of U.S. assistance. In 2012-2023, the years in which the Georgian Dream has been in power, total U.S. overseas development assistance (ODA) stands at USD 1 billion 920 mil lion, according to official data. Of course, the lion’
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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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El periodismo nicaragüense está vivo
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), FES Comunicación (2025), 73 pp.
"En este libro, 12 periodistas nicaragüenses exiliados relatan sus historias y su pasión por el periodismo. A pesar del dolor, el desarraigo y la separación familiar continúan su labor informativa, denuncian las agresiones contra la prensa y los abusos a los derechos humanos. Además, presenta u
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Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem
Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.
"Over the past decade, China has gradually begun to take a more proactive approach to digital development, passing a range of policies that aim to restructure how data is treated within its national economic system. These policies reflect the construction of a new data ecology in which data is gradu
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Jiangshanjiao, Do You Get Your Period? Understanding Feminist Expressions Against State Propaganda in China
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3711-3729
"In February 2020, the Communist Youth League introduced two virtual idols, Jiangshanjiao and Hongqiman, on Weibo to gain political solidarity during COVID-19. However, the move sparked massive criticism for using an animated female idol while ignoring the needs of female medical workers in the pand
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The emergence of China's smart state
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2024), ix, 250 pp.
"China’s emergence as a technology leader has become a major factor in geopolitics, transforming global political and economic relationships. In its bid to achieve digital great power status, China’s government has reformed laws and policies, drastically increased investment, and become more ass
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42 razones contra la ley antisocial: Argumentario contra la Ley de Fiscalización, Regularización, Actuación y Financiamiento de las Organizaciones no Gubernamentales y Afines
Caracas: Acceso a la Justicia (2024), 2 pp.
"En nuestro argumentario recopilamos 42 razones contra la Ley de Fiscalización, Regularización, Actuación y Financiamiento de las Organizaciones No Gubernamentales y Afine (Ley Antisociedad), cuya aprobación anulará el derecho de asociación en Venezuela y cerrará aún más el espacio cívico.
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Visible and Invisible Bars: Political Imprisonment, Civil Death, and the Consequences of Democratic Erosion
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2024), 32 pp.
Digital authoritarianism: A systematic literature review
Information Technology for Developpment (2024), 25 pp.
"Authoritarianism is in the ascendancy across the globe, with digital technologies being used by both governments and non-state actors to repress rights and freedoms. Competing terms have emerged to conceptualize such use of digital technologies, including the term digital authoritarianism and a ran
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Dialogue with the Dictator: Authoritarian Legitimation and Information Management in Putin's Russia
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2024), xvi, 253 pp.
"Dialogue with the Dictator illuminates the ways in which authoritarian regimes structure interaction between citizens and leaders to simultaneously manage information dilemmas and build regime legitimacy. In doing so, it demonstrates the conditions under which managed participation can reinforce or
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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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Russia's Information Warfare in the Middle East
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2024), 36 pp.
"This policy paper provides an overview of Russian information warfare in the Middle East. It includes a brief overview of Russian information warfare methods and Russian foreign policy in the Middle East. It then delves into Russian information warfare in the Middle East, evaluates its effectivenes
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“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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Mapping Chinese Digital Nationalism: A Literature Review
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1891-1912
"A growing empirical scholarship examines the rise of Chinese digital nationalism. This scholarship remains scattered across disciplinary and area studies journals, making it difficult to systematize findings and identify knowledge gaps. We review N = 71 peerreviewed articles and book chapters (1990
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Image-Text Congruency in Legacy Press Coverage of Iran's 2019 Bloody November: A Shift Away From the Protest Paradigm?
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5269-5295
"This article reports on one salient case where the departure from the protest paradigm was partially met, resulting in incongruent multimodal news content. The case involves the nationwide anti-government protests across Iran in November 2019 because of the drastic hike in petroleum prices. This st
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