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Fake News Addicts: How Disinformation and its Mongers Strive in Ukraine 2020

Andriy Yurichko

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2020), 10 pp.

"As we can see, disinformation can be spread by ordinary responsible individuals with good intentions as well as by, dare I say, entire bot nations consisting of millions of active bot accounts that reach all possible audiences of any age, gender, and interests. And for any audiences that haven't be ... more

Who influences Ukrainian youth on social media?

Washington, DC: IREX (2020), 6 pp.

"Top influencers are Ulana Suprun, Yanina Sokolova, and Serhiy Prytula. Most influential nonprofit organizations are the educational platforms Osvita.ua and Promotheus. Individual personalities are more influential than organizations. National platforms are more influential than regional platforms. ... more

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Media Policy in a Pandemic: Lessons from Moldova, Ukraine and Latvia

Anastasia Nani, Lolita Buka, Gina Lentine

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 8 pp.

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What is Media Assistance and (why) Does it Matter? The Case of Polish Foreign Aid to the Media in Belarus and Ukraine

Aleksandra Galus

Central European Journal of Communication, volume 13, issue 3 (2020), pp. 390-408

"The paper offers an analysis of media assistance, as a specific form of foreign aid, that Poland offers to strengthen media development in Belarus and Ukraine. It shows if Poland tailors media assistance according to the local context and existing challenges for democratic changes of recipient coun ... more

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Media Activist Research Ethics: Global Approaches to Negotiating Power in Social Justice Research

Sandra Jeppesen, Paola Sartoretto (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxiii, 276 pp.

"This book maps complex ethical dilemmas in social justice research practices in media and communication. Contributors critically analyse power dynamics that arise when building equitable research relations with media activists, social movements, and cultural producers, considering issues of access, ... more

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How to lose the information war: Russia, fake news, and the future of conflict

Nina Jankowicz

London: Tauris (2020), xxvii, 259 pp.

"Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it? Central and Eastern European states, however, have be ... more

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Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis

Natalia Knoblock (ed.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2020), x, 279 pp.

"Exploring the ways in which language and conflict are intertwined and interrelated, this book examines the changes that have taken place in the public discourse of the Ukraine and Russia since 2014 and the beginning of the 'Ukrainian Crisis.' Through analysis of the narratives constructed by differ ... more

Road to 2030: Access to Information in the Driver’s Seat

Deutsche Welle DW Akademie;Free Press Unlimited;Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2019), 68 pp.

"Spotlight report on the state of public access to information in Canada, Indonesia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Ukraine prepared for the 2019 cycle of the Voluntary National Reviews and the 2019 UN High Level Political Forum." (Subtitle)

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Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media

Samuel C. Woolley, Philip N. Howard (eds.)

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vi, 263 pp.

"Computational propaganda is an emergent form of political manipulation that occurs over the Internet. The term describes the assemblage of social media platforms, autonomous agents, algorithms, and big data tasked with the manipulation of public opinion. Our research shows that this new mode of int ... more

#journodefender: Turning Trolling Against Journalists on its Head

Marika Griehsel, Christer L. Pettersson et al.

Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2019), 83 pp.

"This report describes and analyses how online propaganda against journalists across the world - through hate, harassment, threats and fabricated news – undermines independent reporting, sows doubt among the public and makes journalists, in particular female journalists, open for online attacks an ... more

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Media Sustainability Index 2019: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia

Linda Trail (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2019), xxi, 308 pp.

"The 2019 Europe and Eurasia Media Sustainability Index (MSI) saw another improvement in the combined average score for the 21 countries studied: In 2018, the combined average score was 1.84, and in 2019 this increased to 1.86. In comparison with the previous year’s study, there were modest gains ... more

Die ukrainische Medienlandschaft: Divers, aber politisiert

Natalja Rjabinska

Ukraine-Analysen, issue 215 (2019), pp. 2-9

"Laut ukrainischen Journalisten und Medienaktivisten hat sich die Lage der Medien in der Ukraine seit dem Euromaidan 2013/2014 in einigen Aspekten verbessert. Die Medien können freier berichten, die Regierung aktiver kontrollieren und sie fühlen sich vom Staat weniger unter Druck gesetzt. Gleichze ... more

The Use of Twitter Bots in Russian Political Communication

Denis Stukal, Sergey Sanovich, Richard A. Bonneau, Joshua A. Tucker

Washington, DC: PONARS Eurasia (2019), 10 pp.

"Our analysis of millions of Russian tweets over 2014-2018 reveals that bots make up a large proportion of the Russian political Twittersphere. However, an important lesson from our region is that one cannot assume that simply because there are bots present in the Russian political Twittersphere tha ... more

Boosting immunity to disinformation: Ukrainian students better detect false information after teachers integrate media literacy into standard subjects

Mehri Druckman, Katya Vogt

Washington, DC: IREX (2019), 23 slides

"Students who received Learn to Discern (L2D) lessons performed better on all assessment tasks: identifying facts and opinions, false stories, hate speech, and demonstrated deeper knowledge of the news media sector. L2D students reported healthier media consumption habits and behavior and viewed cri ... more

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Viability of Alternative Online News Media Organizations in Developing and Transformation Countries

Christoph Schmidt (ed.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos;Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2019), 209 pp.

"The main aim of the present study is to assess the status quo and the influencing factors of media viability in developing countries and economies in transition. Accordingly, three general research questions have been formulated: 1. Which factors determine the viability of alternative online news m ... more

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CANnual Report 2019: Changing Landscapes. The Past Five Years of the Advertising Industry of Central and Eastern Europe

Budapest: WeCAN Communications, 5th annual report (2019), 177 pp.

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Online Violence Against Women in Politics in Ukraine: An IFES Assessment

Otito Greg-Obi, Iryna Lylyk, Gennadiy Korzhov, Olena Buchunska

International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) (2019), 31 pp.

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Global Information Society Watch 2019. Artificial Intelligence: Human Rights, Social Justice and Development
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Article 19;Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2019), 87 pp.

"Artificial intelligence (AI) is now receiving unprecedented global attention as it finds widespread practical application in multiple spheres of activity. But what are the human rights, social justice and development implications of AI when used in areas such as health, education and social service ... more

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Disinformation Resilience in Central and Eastern Europe

Kyiv: Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism” (Prismua);Eurasian States in Transition Research Center (EAST Center) (2018), 335 pp.

"This research is aimed at assessing national vulnerabilities and preparedness to counteract foreign-led disinformation in 14 countries of Eastern and Central Europe. The Visegrad states (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia), Eastern Partnership countries (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia ... more