Seminar “Media, Capital, and Culture: Institutional Spaces in Between”, May 19th, Helsinki

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON RUSSIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Media, Capital, and Culture: Institutional Spaces in Between May 19th 2017, 10:15-17:30 @University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2nd floor (Unioninkatu 33) Please pre-register by Monday, May 15th at https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/79920/lomake.html This workshop calls attention to the cultural and economic policies which condition and govern, directly and indirectly, individual and collective entrepreneurship and …

Interview with Galina Miazhevich

by Roosa Rytkönen Galina Miazhevich is a Lecturer in Media and Communication in the University of Leicester, UK. She was a visiting fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute in March–April 2017. Could you tell a bit about your work relating to Russia and media? I’ve been working on post-Soviet media for a number of years and …

Upcoming presentations by Mariëlle Wijermars

Mariëlle Wijermars, post-doctoral researcher in the Russian MediaLab project, will be presenting the following papers at two upcoming conferences: ‘Website Blocking as a Means of Silencing Non-Systemic Opposition: The Russian Internet ‘Blacklist Law’ – Five Years On’ Workshop ‘Telecommunication Politics in Authoritarian Contexts’, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 9-10 May 2017 ‘New Media and the …