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Russian Media in the Balkans. Case Study: How Moscow‘s Propaganda Influences Serbia

Thomas Brey
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 27 pp.
"The influence of Russian state-run foreign media (RT, Sputnik et al.) on public opinion in Western democracies is now common knowledge - regardless of its political qualification. Well-documented analyses are available, e.g., from the USA, France and Germany. The German government has also repeated ... more
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Investigativ-Medien in Rumänien

Karin Finkenzeller
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Medienprogramm Südosteuropa (2022), 5 pp.
"Als Fazit ist festzuhalten, dass Investigativ-Journalisten in Rumänien mit großem Elan und Engagement bei der Arbeit sind. Sie erzählten in den Gesprächen immer wieder, dass sie die beste und sinnvollste Arbeit ihres Lebens machten. Es besteht ein großes Bedürfnis, die Dinge zum Besseren zu w ... more
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Mapping Disinformation in the Serbian Media

Jelena Kleut et al.
Beograd: CRTA (2022), 98 pp.
"Our main findings show that, numerically, disinformation overpowers the news. More precisely, this study identified 559 different types of disinformation cases in 494 news items disseminated in 14 (out of 15 analysed) Serbian news media. Our study found that false, misleading and manipulative infor ... more
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Independent Media Under Pressure: Evidence from Russia

Tom Paskhalis, Bryn Rosenfeld, Katerina Tertytchnaya
Post-Soviet Affairs, volume 38, issue 3 (2022), pp. 155-174
"Existing literature recognizes growing threats to press freedom around the world and documents changes in the tools used to stifle the independent press. However, few studies investigate how independent media respond to state pressure in an autocracy, documenting the impact of tactics that stop sho ... more
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Russia's Vigilante YouTube Stars: Digital Entrepreneurship and Heroic Masculinity in the Service of Flexible Authoritarianism

Anna Schwenck
Europe-Asia Studies, volume 74, issue 7 (2022), pp. 1166-1189
"Combating illegal parking and drinking in public is the raison d’être of Russia’s best-known law-and-order youth initiatives, StopKham and Lev Protiv. These initiatives enforce and promote neotraditional morals amongst young people by challenging alleged offenders on camera and uploading the e ... more
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Disinformation studies: Perspectives from an emerging field

João Carlos Correia, Pedro Jerónimo, Inês Amaral (eds.)
Covilhã: Universidade da Beira Interior; LabCom (2022), 299 pp.
"It all started at the ECREA 2021 Post Conference “Disinformation Studies: Perspectives to An Emerging Research Field”, which took place online, on September 10, 2021. The debate there quickly widened and was joined by other colleagues. The book that we bring you here is the result of part of th ... more
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The State of Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability Across the Ukraine Response. Second Edition. 30 September 2022

London: CDAC Network, 2nd ed. (2022), 22 pp.
"This report is published quarterly and gives an overview of key communication, community engagement and accountability (CCEA) barriers and gaps across the Ukraine response, as well as recommendations for practitioners and responders to improve the use of CCEA for those affected by the crisis. Despi ... more
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Journalists’ Views and Perceptions of Judicial Transparency. A Comparative Study in Three Western Balkans Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Serbia

Snezana Trpevska
Free Press Unlimited (2022), 67 pp.
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Open-Source Journalism in a Wired World: Spurred by Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Open-Source Investigations Are Being Integrated Into Standard Newsroom Practice

Maxim Edwards
Nieman Reports, December 7 (2022)
"More than nine months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the online methods for tracking this war are many and proliferating, including the most obvious source of all — social media networks. A 2019 law designed to keep its military from posting on social media has not deterred Russian service ... more
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Radio at the Edges: Perspectives on Alternative, Community and Pirate Radio

Matt Mollgaard (ed.)
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2022), xiii, 210 pp.
"This collection engages with alternatives to mainstream radio systems, histories and concepts. It addresses the impacts and challenges that alternative, community and pirate radio represent." (Publisher description)
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The Informational Dictator's Dilemma: Citizen Responses to Media Censorship and Control in Russia and Belarus

Samuel A. Greene
PONARS Eurasia (2022), 9 pp.
"The findings described in this memo strongly suggest that "softer" strategies of media cooptation are more effective than harsher, more coercive approaches to media control. In Russia, where the Kremlin has-until very recently-used a combination of commercial pressure and political influence to pus ... more
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Tracking the Propaganda and Disinformation About Foreign Influence in Serbia. Case Study: Serbian Media on the Ukraine War

Beograd: CRTA (2022), 15 pp.
"The topic of the war in Ukraine dominated the media during the first three months of the war and completely marginalized all other topics. The most foreign actor reported on most in the media was Russia, while the countries of the West, the US, the EU, and NATO were far less noticeable. Although th ... more
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Safety of Women Journalists in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Perceptions, Experience and Understanding of Safety and Gendered Safety Risks

Free Press Unlimited (2022), 19 pp.
"This report summarised the findings of the focus group discussions, held in November-December 2021, which were organised in Free Press Unlimited in cooperation with BH Novinari. Through these focus group discussions, Free Press Unlimited got a good understanding of the following: The participants' ... more
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Qualitative study on priority audiences for public service media

Andres Jõesaar
Baltic Centre for Media Excellence (BCME); Tallinn University Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (2022), 30 slides
"The topic of the research: the role and importance of professional media and in particular public service media in the life of Russian-speaking population of Estonia. Study Objective: to understand how audiences shape the meaning and quality of media; the role of media and journalism in the society ... more
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Choosing Propaganda: Media Selection and Politics in Putin's Russia

Ashley Katrine Blum
Los Angeles: University of California, Doctoral Thesis (2022), xiv, 160 pp.
"The results of this dissertation suggest that most Russians are aware, at least to some degree, of the biases of state media. Nonetheless, they still consider these sources to provide valuable information. This, in part, stems from beliefs about the access these news outlets have to information and ... more
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Rivalry in the Information Sphere: Russian Conceptions of Information Confrontation

Michelle Grisé, Alyssa Demus, Yuliya Shokh, Marta Kepe, Jonathan William Welburn, Christina Golins'ka
Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation (2022), xvi, 138 pp.
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming? Russia’s Growing Presence in Africa and its Implication for European Policy

Guido Lanfranchi, Kars de Bruijne
The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' (2022), 46 pp.
"The growth of Russia’s presence across Africa over the last decade has generated significant international concern, further exacerbated after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s engagement can affect the interests and policies of the European Union (EU) and its member states (MS) in Africa ... more
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The Role of Religions and Conspiracy Theories in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes

Oliver Hidalgo, Alexander Yendell (eds.)
Politics and Governance, volume 10, issue 4 (2022), pp. 132-242
"This thematic issue asks about the role of religions and religious actors and conspiracy theories/theorists in democratic and authoritarian regimes in general. Special attention is given to the current Covid]19 pandemic, since the relevant state of emergency obviously endorses the persuasiveness ... more
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Handbook of Digital Inequality

Eszter Hargittai (ed.)
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2022), xii, 386 pp.
"International contributors assess a variety of key contexts that impact access to digital technologies, including contextual variations related to geography and infrastructure, as well as individual differences related to age, income, health and disability status. Chapters explore how variations em ... more
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Digitalisation and Civic Space: Chances and Challenges

Kai Schächtele, Ingo Dachwitz, Felix Zimmermann, Chris Köver, Christine Meissler, Martina Hahn, Sven Hilbig
Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2022), 58 pp.
"Multifaceted, uncensored, promoting democracy - that is the internet, many people had long hoped. But from today's perspective, this is not true - or only partially. Because the big digital platforms and the world wide web are both: media of freedom and control. In many places, they support civil s ... more