This article contributes to the scholarly discussions about the self-responsibilization, defined as a configuration of understandings and action strategies oriented to compensate the (perceived) dysfunctionality of the media system, of audience members in East European societies. The authors argue that audience members’ sceptical and self-reliant stance towards political news, which were planted in Soviet times, continue today in the context of mediated geopolitical conflicts. Based on a mixed methods study of Baltic Russian-speaking audiences’ behaviour in the context of the Russia–Ukraine conflict, the authors explore audience members’ media repertoires aimed to “fish out” reliable information from the political news by searching for unspoken clues or identifying ideologically biased messages. The authors introduce six political news repertoires based on the varied degrees of plurality of information channels and conditional trust. Then, they characterize audience groups exercising these repertoires and explain how audience members rationalize the chosen repertoires as a part of their agency in the context of geopolitical turbulence. They suggest that media audiences’ self-responsibilization is a worthwhile object for further study and call for a shift in East European media research away from a structuralist approach and towards an agency-centred one.

本文为有关自我责任制的学术讨论做出了贡献，自我责任制是指旨在补偿东欧社会受众成员的（感知的）媒体系统功能失调的理解和行动策略的配置。作者认为，在苏联时期植入的听众成员对政治新闻的怀疑和自力更生的立场，在今天的地缘政治冲突中仍然存在。基于对俄罗斯与乌克兰冲突背景下波罗的海语俄语听众的行为进行的混合方法研究，作者探索了听众成员的媒体库，旨在通过寻找不为人知的线索或手段从政治新闻中“搜集”出可靠的信息。识别思想上有偏见的信息。作者根据多种信息渠道和条件信任的不同程度介绍了六个政治新闻节目表。然后，他们描述了行使这些曲目的受众群体的特征，并解释了受众成员如何在地缘政治动荡的背景下合理化所选曲目，作为其代理机构的一部分。他们认为，媒体受众的自我责任感是值得进一步研究的目标，并呼吁东欧媒体研究从结构主义方法转向以代理为中心的方法。他们描述了行使这些曲目的受众群体的特征，并解释了受众成员如何在地缘政治动荡的背景下合理化所选曲目作为其代理机构的一部分。他们认为，媒体受众的自我责任感是值得进一步研究的目标，并呼吁东欧媒体研究从结构主义方法转向以代理为中心的方法。他们描述了行使这些曲目的受众群体的特征，并解释了受众成员如何在地缘政治动荡的背景下合理化所选曲目作为其代理机构的一部分。他们认为，媒体受众的自我责任感是值得进一步研究的目标，并呼吁东欧媒体研究从结构主义方法转向以代理为中心的方法。