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Leaders of public opinion: political communication with youth in Russia during 2018–2019 Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Karina Armenovna Badalyan, Sergey Nazipovich Gavrov
ABSTRACT The article analyzes the role of the representatives of the mass culture and opinion leaders of the age group 18–25 years in the life of the youth of Russia and the formation of their political views, culture and actions by the influence of the Internet on the example of 2018 elections and summer protests. Subject of research: the role of the youth's opinion leaders in the political decision-making
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Public agenda fragmentation beyond established democracies: the case of Russian online publics in 2017 Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Sergei Pashakhin
ABSTRACT New media introduce mechanics in the news consumption and deliberation of public agenda capable of disrupting the democratic process's normative assumptions (echo chambers, filter bubbles). However, most research has been concerned with cases from Western Europe and the US. In this paper, we examine the fragmentation of the Russian public sphere online. We build on previous works with evidence
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Hashtag activism in Russia: theory and practice Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Anna Gureeva, Elina Samorodova
ABSTRACT The mediatization of social practices has brought new trends and forms of activism to life in society. This paper seeks to explain the theoretical basis for and provide conceptual insight into the Russian practice of hashtag activism – a phenomenon that has become an integral part of contemporary media activism and is of burgeoning interest to both Russian and foreign researchers. Moreover
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Social semiotics: communicative and socio-cultural practices. The Russian-speaking contribution to the development of social semiotics in 1970–2000s Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-09-02 G. L. Tulchinskii
ABSTRACT The intensive transformation of literally all spheres of life in modern society stimulates the search for an adequate conceptual apparatus in order to understand these processes. The purpose of this work is to show the possibilities of applying semiotic analysis to social-cultural phenomena and processes, which involves going beyond the traditional limitation of semiotics with linguistic phenomena
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Prejudice toward Asians and migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and Kyrgyzstan Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-07-31 Stephen Michael Croucher, Tatiana Permyakova, Elira Turdubaeva
ABSTRACT As of July 2021, more than 153 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 globally. Russia has 5.5 million cases with more than 135,000 deaths; while Kyrgyzstan has nearly 132,000 cases and 2000 deaths. While the virus hit the two nations at different times and with different severities, the two nations, as with so many others, both experienced cases of prejudice toward minority groups
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Persuasive colours for trust in E-commerce: Dutch blue or Russian red? Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Peter Broeder, Lisanne van Doremalen
ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate the effects of web store colours (blue or red) on e-commerce. Specifically, a comparison is made between consumers from two cultures: Dutch and Russian. They participated in an experimental survey and expressed their trust in a web store and their intention to purchase a low-involvement product (a laptop sleeve). The results showed that initial trust and cultural
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Bodies’ voices: bodily capitalization in Russian and British music video Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-07-07 A. M. Pivovarov, D. V. Tkachuk
ABSTRACT The article presents the results of a comparative visual analysis of popular Russian and British music videos. The sample was based on the most viewed music videos on YouTube in 2019. The authors used the modern interpretation of Bourdieu's theory of capital as a theoretical framework for analysis. Bodily capital is considered as an independent type of capital that has physical, erotic, gender
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In the city of the eccentrics: Glumov, Mr West and Oktiabrina Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Alfonso Puyal
ABSTRACT In its cinematographic dimension, Soviet Constructivism turns the city into a stage upon which amazing deeds, burlesque situations and acrobatics are performed. The circus, music-hall and variety shows are the new genres that are incorporated first into the theatre, advocated by the Left Front of the Arts (LEF), and shortly afterwards into the cinema. At the same time, the urban space becomes
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Russian philosophy in the twenty-first century: an anthology Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-06-14 Anastasia V. Mitrofanova
(2021). Russian philosophy in the twenty-first century: an anthology. Russian Journal of Communication: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 302-304.
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Introduction: universality and specificity of emotions, with a focus on Russian Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Maria Yelenevskaya, Ekaterina Protassova
ABSTRACT An inseparable part of human life, emotions were neglected in the academic discourse in the West for a long time, because scholars juxtaposed them with thought and reason. Yet educational research reveals that emotions are manifestations of high order intelligence and stimulate goal achievement, memory, and motivation in knowledge acquisition. Emotions are culturally and individually shaped
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Social media users in search of ‘facts’: the Trade Union House fire case Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Vera Zvereva
ABSTRACT What factors influence users to believe the stories they find in social media, and what role do emotions play for users in concluding that a particular fact is ‘true’? This article examines one aspect of emotionalized communication in social networks in an information war context, namely, how social network users make decisions about the reliability of the information they receive. We employ
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Multimodal Russian Corpus and its use in emotional studies Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Svetlana Savchuk, Alexandra Makhova
ABSTRACT The paper introduces the Multimodal Russian Corpus (MURCO) as a part of the Russian National Corpus (RNC). MURCO provides users with a great amount of linguistic information related to Russian. Moreover, the deeply annotated part of the MURCO contains data concerning Russian gesticulation, speech act system, types of vocal gestures and interjections in Russian, and so on. It should be noted
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Odessan courtyard as a symbol of humor and nostalgia on Russian television Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Inna Kabanen
ABSTRACT Odessa as a place of contradictions, the mythological ‘cradle of Revolution’ and the capital city of humor, is an essential part of Soviet and post-Soviet culture. Recently, there seems to be an increased longing for simple values and genuine interpersonal relationships that could be found in places of communal living, such as the (in)famous Odessan courtyards. Television and film industry
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Emotions and the representation of funeral rites in Sergei Tretiakov’s Georgian screenplays, 1928–1931 Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Sasha Razor
ABSTRACT After the October Revolution and the Civil War, funerals became a distinct element of daily Soviet life. As a response to the traumatic moral situations, the filming of funerals fulfilled a documentary and didactic function as it formalized changes that were occurring within society, demonstrated appropriate ways to mourn, and performed a commemorative function. This article contributes to
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Emotional development in the educational preschool programs of Soviet and Post-Soviet Times Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Ekaterina Protassova
ABSTRACT Emotions are a sensitive theme in all languages, and researchers seek to understand and describe them cross-linguistically and according to the national traditions. The ‘emotional turn’ in the human sciences has touched on the educational sphere in an interesting way, where the traditional Soviet-Russian approach was replaced by the westernized terms of emotional intelligence. While applying
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Speech etiquette of professional online communities Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Viktoria Vasileva, Liubov Ivanova
ABSTRACT Networking within online communities is recognized as a new way of social interaction. The authors study Russian Internet communities that unite members of the same profession – professional social networks. In such communities, speech etiquette is formed under the influence of communicative values that are, in turn, formed under the influence of values that are determined by a particular
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Visual images as affective anchors: strategic narratives in Russia’s Channel One coverage of the Syrian and Ukrainian conflicts Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Irina Grigor (Khaldarova), Mervi Pantti
ABSTRACT This article explores and compares the visual images used by Channel One (Ch1), Russia’s biggest state-aligned television broadcaster, to justify Russia’s intervention in two major geopolitical conflicts in recent history: the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine and Syria’s civil war. The data reveal that while Ch1’s projection of Ukrainian conflict is anchored in compassion to the Eastern Ukraine
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Fear on the small screen Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Lyubov Bugaeva
ABSTRACT Art has always been connected with human emotions, and fear is one of them. What kinds of narrative patterns are used to depict emotions onscreen, for instance fear? This paper explores the emotion of fear, which predominates in a number of recent Russian TV series, by examining the language of fear onscreen in the intricate interaction of real-life schemata and fantasy, as well as the place
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The soft power of the Russian language pluricentricity, politics and policies Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-01-05 Artyom Kosmarski
(2021). The soft power of the Russian language pluricentricity, politics and policies. Russian Journal of Communication: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 199-202.
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The International Conference Emotsional’naya sfera cheloveka v yazyke i kommunikatsii – 2020 (The Human Emotional Domain in Language and Communication) Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-12-08 Pavel Dronov
(2021). The International Conference Emotsional’naya sfera cheloveka v yazyke i kommunikatsii – 2020 (The Human Emotional Domain in Language and Communication). Russian Journal of Communication: Vol. 13, The Emotional side of Russian Communication, pp. 114-116.
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Language and emotion: Discourse-pragmatic perspectives Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Manuel Padilla Cruz
(2021). Language and emotion: Discourse-pragmatic perspectives. Russian Journal of Communication: Vol. 13, The Emotional side of Russian Communication, pp. 110-113.
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Теория Медиа: отечественный дискурс Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Sergei Gavrov, Igor Molodtsov
(2020). Теория Медиа: отечественный дискурс. Russian Journal of Communication: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 323-326.
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The dynamics of public discourse during the coronavirus pandemic: a request for responsibility Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Grigorii L. Tulchinskii
ABSTRACT The coronavirus epidemic caused not only an explosion of attention in Russian public communication, but the media discourse content also transformed radically during the first months of the 2020 epidemic: from distrust and panic to responsible balanced content. An analysis of this phenomenon allows for a deeper understanding of the evolution of the value-normative characteristics of modern
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The migration crisis in Europe: a case study of framing by RT and First Channel Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Olga Smirnova
ABSTRACT This article compares the output and functions of Russian national and international television broadcasts through a case study of this media coverage of the European Union and the migration crisis in European countries. The channels chosen for the study are RT, which has projected Russia's view of the world internationally, and the First Channel (FC) which is the most widely available TV
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Digital spaces of network aggression: Muscovites ‘ perception of migrants Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Maria Pilgun, Nailia Gabdrakhmanova
ABSTRACT The paper presents the analysis of speech perception and of the specific nature of communication between migrants and residents of Moscow, as reflected in the digital environment. The main focus is on conflictogenic digital zones, as well as methods for predicting and preventing conflicts. The development of algorithms to make predictions about users’ possible actions, the occurrence and prevention
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Keeping channels open or screening out? The digital practices of Baltic Russian-speakers during the Russia-Ukraine conflict Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Jānis Juzefovičs, Triin Vihalemm
ABSTRACT Inspired by Couldry’s conceptualisation of media-related practices, the authors investigate the ways Baltic Russian-speakers manage their digital information-seeking (sources of news) practices and interaction (communication partners). Amidst the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the ensuing tensions between Russia and the West, we consider how these digital practices lead to ideological heterogeneity
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Exotic beauty, mail-order bride, secret agent: the stereotyped experiences of Russian women immigrating to the United States Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Maria E. Shpeer, William T. Howe
ABSTRACT The researchers interviewed 16 women about their experiences immigrating from the Russian Federation to the United States. An interpretive analysis of these women's stories revealed three strategies employed during the immigration process. This analysis also revealed how these women perceived agency and how perceptions varied depending on the available communication and social affordances
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Russian political jokes as a basis for research into changes in how Vladimir Putin is perceived by society Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Olga Nadskakuła-Kaczmarczyk
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to analyse jokes about Vladimir Putin and show how people’s perception of his actions and behaviour changed between 2014 and 2018. The annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014 marks the starting point of this analysis, and it ends in December 2018, at the end of the year in which Putin was elected President of Russia for the fourth time. More than 350 jokes from
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Homo Scriptor. A collection of papers and materials for M. Epstein’s 70th birthday Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Boris Gubman,Carina Anufrieva
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Yazykovye Kartiny Bytija [Linguistic Images of Existence] Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Olga Leontovich
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The new reality: Crimean and Sevastopol television after 2014 Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Karine V. Chobanyan, Galina G. Shchepilova, Dmitriy V. Zhukov
ABSTRACT Almost six years ago the Crimean Peninsula became part of Russia. The article examines television as part of the information field of Crimea and Sevastopol and compares its power during three periods – Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian. Our main attention is given to the current state of television and its transformations within the Russian media system. We argue that the changes that Crimean
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The Iranian nuclear challenge as reflected in the Russian media Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Dmitry Strovsky, Ron Schleifer
ABSTRACT The Middle East is one of the ‘unreliable links’ in the international security system. This became apparent once Iran began developing its nuclear program decades ago, and in recent years, the program has reinforced the challenges to international security. The steps taken by the UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as well as US sanctions have not yet achieved positive results
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Framing the image of Russia in the British media during the World Cup 2018 Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Nadezhda Ozornina, Alexander Mannin
ABSTRACT The research is focused on the problem of the ambiguity in the perception of Russia in the British media during the 2018 FIFA World Cup and based on the competing frames theory by J. Druckman. The content analysis of 751 articles about Russia from the British broadsheets and tabloids was conducted to highlight five frames: ‘Russia as the enemy of Great Britain,’ ‘Russia as the potential partner
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Dividing social networks: Facebook unfriending, unfollowing, and blocking in turbulent political times Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Olga Baysha
ABSTRACT It has been argued that by allowing users to unfriend, unfollow, and block political and cultural ‘others,’ Facebook facilitates the discouragement of dialog between those holding different views on political issues. Using a case study of a civil confrontation in Ukraine, the paper analyzes the reasons for unfriending political ‘others’ reported by 699 respondents of a qualitative survey.
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Russian news media as a public service actor: exploring the coverage of nonprofit organizations Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Asya Cooley
ABSTRACT News media can serve as a public service actor by bringing attention to issues, topics, and areas that are bettering societies, such as providing coverage for a nonprofit sector. Driven by the agenda-setting and framing communication theories, this research project assesses how Russian nonprofits are presented in news media. More broadly, this study adds to the literature on the social role
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Foreign ministry’s spokesperson in public diplomacy: a case of Russia Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Olga Krasnyak
ABSTRACT This article discusses the role of spokesperson in Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). A spokesperson’s official role in frontline diplomacy is viewed and analyzed through the lens of public diplomacy to promote a nation-state’s foreign policy when engaging with foreign audiences and influencing public opinion. This article first investigates the history and approaches for Soviet-acting
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Russian intelligentsia in the age of counterperestroika Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Alexei D. Palkin
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Media studies in Russia: determination of scientific status Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Vartanova Elena, Anikina Maria, Dunas Denis, Gureeva Anna
ABSTRACT Journalism theory in Russia, in the era of the traditional mass media of print press and analogue broadcasts, was the main conceptual framework for media studies. The digital transformation of mass media indicates journalism theory cannot be applied to the new phenomena. The diversity of designations of media science in Russia shows the evident lack of consensus among academia on this issue
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Chekhov, intelligentsia, and the ethics of small deeds: a biocritical essay Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Dmitri Shalin
ABSTRACT This is an inquiry into Anton Chekhov’s embodied existence and the interfaces between his biography and intellectual pursuits. Chekhov’s art serves here as a clue to his affective life and performative contradictions rather than as a self-contained aesthetic output. I argue that Chekhov’s life offers a window onto Russian society and the intelligentsia, a peculiar intellectual stratum to which
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Public narratives in modern Russian cinematography Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Sergei Gerasimov, Pavel Tereshchenko
ABSTRACT This article investigates the narratives and presents analytical profiles of the Russian movies made over a period of three years (2016–2018). The article analyzes, systematizes, and visualizes the dynamics of the main trends and shifts of the narratives in modern Russian cinematography. The analysis demonstrates how the narratives are influenced by support from the government and independent
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Environmental issues in Russian cities: towards the understanding of regional and national mass media discourse Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Ermolaeva Polina, Ermolaeva Yulia, Kuznetsova Irina, Basheva Olga, Korunova Valeriya
ABSTRACT Based on the media discourse analysis of twelve national and six regional Russian online mass media, the study provides critical reflections on the environmental media coverage across two Russian cities following environmental themes including air and water pollution, waste, sustainable transport, energy, environmental civic engagement, and organic food. The findings suggest that the commonalities
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Association probe into the notion of shame in modern Russian culture: from post-perestroika freedom to modern authoritarianism Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Alexei D. Palkin
This article provides an analysis of the notion of shame in the language consciousness of Russians during two periods of Russia’s development – the early 1990s and the early twenty-first century. T...
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The eleventh international media readings in Moscow ‘Mass Media and Communications – 2019’ Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-12-13 Anna Gladkova
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A philosophy of the possible: modalities in thought and culture Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Alyssa DeBlasio
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The framing effect of the media in the regulation of GMOs: a case study of Russia Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Eleni Galata Bickell
ABSTRACTDespite the rapid adoption of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in agriculture, countries like Russia, have developed restrictive procedures for their approval (i.e. mandatory labeling)...
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Discursive activism in the Russian feminist hashtag campaign: the #ItIsNotAReasonToKill case Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Elena Arbatskaya
ABSTRACT This paper describes a study of the feminist hashtag campaign against blaming victims #этонеповодубить (it is not a reason to kill), which was launched in the Russian social media in 2018. This article considers #этонеповодубить as a case of discursive activism and combines techniques of discourse analysis with network analysis to reveal how the participants in the temporary community were
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A parallel yet divided information space: testing the overlap of Yandex Russian language news media discourses in Estonia, Latvia, and Russia Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Heidi Erbsen
ABSTRACT In recent years, academics, politicians, and international news media have speculated about the influence Russia is capable of wielding, particularly among Russian speaking populations in the near abroad. This paper aims to reassess the unity or division of a common Russian language information space through an analysis of the top daily headlines presented in Yandex. Based on previous historical
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Smart media technologies controlling child's mobility (a case-study of Russian families) Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Olga Sergeyeva, Elena Laktyukhina
ABSTRACT This article presents the results of a case-study of children's smart-mobility which appears with the spread of smart wearables. The authors consider the formation of a socio-technical system that regulates behavior of a child in a city. Drawing on the data from three Russian families the authors consider the problems of strengthening the ethics of technological control in relations ‘child–parent’
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When friends recommend: online purchasing behavior of Russian and Dutch people when prompted by recommendations from Facebook friends Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-08-29 Peter Broeder, Alies van Hout
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between product recommendations in a Facebook advertisement and the behavioral intentions of consumers, and to what extend this relationship is influenced by cultural differences in the tendency to avoid uncertain situations. In an online experiment 142 Dutch and 92 Russian people (average age 24 years) were presented with two advertisements of a GoPro
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Reflection on passing of Maureen Minielli Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Michael R. Finch, Marta N. Lukacovic, Sergei A. Samoilenko
Notes from five continents filled Facebook feeds in reaction to the untimely passing of Dr Maureen “Mo” Minielli. The messages illustrated the impact one individual can have upon the world. Maureen passed away in her sleep on 25 February in Klaipeda, Lithuania where she was teaching for a semester. She had just returned a week earlier from London where she was celebrating her daughter Lauren’s sixteenth
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Who is Ukraine’s enemy: narratives in the military communication regarding the war in Donbas Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Daria Taradai
ABSTRACT The war in Donbas has caused significant changes in the attitudes and values of Ukrainians. The army, which was considered a completely corrupt and outdated institution before 2014, turned into one of the country’s most trusted political actors. The significant stream of volunteers who joined the army, and the subsequent high level of financial support provided by Ukrainian people, are among
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How RT frames conflict: a comparative analysis Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Toby S. Nelson
ABSTRACT This study sought to determine whether RT employed frames in its reporting on international conflict that would be likely to produce frame effects supportive of Russian foreign policy. Galtung's concept of peace journalism was used as an analytical lens for a frame analysis involving RT and, by way of comparison, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America, during two recent periods of international
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‘The right not to have anything’: the ‘Nasreddin in Russia’ newspaper Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Narmina Abdulaev
ABSTRACT The Nasreddin in Russia newspaper is part of an initiative undertaken by migrant workers along with a group of local artists in St. Petersburg, Russia. It serves as an alternative platform from which the voices of the migrant workers, often silenced in the traditional media, may be heard. Most of the research dealing with migrant workers in Russia focuses on the legal and political aspects
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A.P. Skovorodnikov’s binary conception of linguistic ecology: definitional and disciplinary justifications Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Galina A. Kopnina, Oksana V. Magirovskaya
ABSTRACT The following article considers the conception of linguistic ecology developed by Russian scholar Aleksandr Petrovich Skovorodnikov, as a binary process based on his observations of positive and negative factors influencing language development that retard the creation of language methods to improve oral communication. Past scholarship concerns center on conflicting descriptions of and cross-disciplinary
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Soobshchenie i Zabytie [Messaging and Forgetting] Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-04-23 Alexander Kozin
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Fear appeals in road safety advertising: an analysis of a controversial social marketing campaign in Russia Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-01-03 Prisca S. Ngondo, Anna Klyueva
ABSTRACT This study reports the results of a content analysis that used the Extended Parallel Processing Model (EPPM) to measure the levels of threat and self-efficacy messages in a series of controversial public service announcements (PSAs) that promoted road safety in Russia in 2008. The analysis showed that threat messages overwhelmingly outnumbered efficacy messages. The results suggest that the
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The Tenth International Media Readings in Moscow: ‘Mass Media and Communications – 2018’ Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Anna Gladkova
On 25 October 2018 the Faculty of Journalism, MSU held the 10th International Moscow Readings conference ‘Mass Media and Communications – 2018’. The overarching theme of the conference this year was ‘Digital Transformations of Mass Media: Regional, National and Global Aspects’. The conference was attended by 200 scholars from 30 countries around the world, who presented a fascinating variety of contemporary
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Russian newsrooms in digital era: challenges and prospects Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Andrei V. Vyrkovsky, Marina Yu. Galkina, Alexander V. Kolesnichenko, Anastasia Yu. Obraztsova, Sergei A. Vartanov
ABSTRACT The ongoing digitalisation of mass media changes the environment within the newsroom and the media product through the implementation of new work routines driven by technologies and multimedia elements in the final media texts. This article is based on the results of a survey of newsroom correspondents and editors’ working for the Russian news media, both in print and online. The survey results
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New and old institutions within the Russian media system Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Ilya Kiriya
ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose an alternative approach to analysing the current duality of the Russian media system, which for a long time was regarded as transitional. We propose to interpret the current Russian media system in terms of institutional conflict between norms, which were artificially implemented and the grounded informal rules embodied in everyday practices both from market agents
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Commercial or public service actors? Controversies in the nature of Russia's regional mass media Russian Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Olga Dovbysh
ABSTRACT Traditionally, regional mass media has been the least-studied component of the Russian media system; however, beginning from the 2000s, transformations in the nation's political and economic spheres have influenced the position of local media. This paper provides a deeper investigation of the processes and patterns underlying the development of regional mass media in modern Russia. The research