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 …
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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 …
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Russian MediaLab at BASEES!
Russian MediaLab is attending the BASEES 2017 Annual Conference (31 March – 2 April 2017, Cambridge, UK) with a panel “Fields, Forums and Freedom of Speech in Russia and Moldova.” The panel will take place Saturday 1 April at 16:00-17:30. Presenters: Saara Ratilainen (University of Helsinki) ‘Russian Urban Online Magazines and New Platforms for Civic …
Seminar “Active Media Spaces: Dialogues on Russian Media, Culture and Institutions” in St. Petersburg 19.-20.1.2017
The seminar’s panels concentrated on the current developments of Russian media landscape, addressing both institutional and grassroots tendencies. One of the seminar’s highlights was the roundtable “Media Literacy and Media Education in Russia Today,” which introduced the viewpoint of St. Petersburg-based journalists and media professionals to the research community. Yana Prussakova (Fontanka.fi), Valery Nechay (Ekho …
Seminar: Active Media Spaces: Dialogues on Russian Media, Culture and Institutions, St. Petersburg 19-20 January 2017
The seminar discussions concentrate on the existing as well as new emerging fields and forums for freedom of expression from new generation online platforms to hybridized cultural and media institutions to semi-legal or sub-cultural media practices such as hacking. What kind of media agency and authority is promoted though these fields and forums and how …
Political Capital and Room for Manoeuvre in Todayʼs Russia
Jussi Lassila Oct 18 2016 Russiaʼs political situation does not provide much hope for the countryʼs democratic development in the near future. As the Ukraine crisis evolved into a serious international crisis since 2014, the Kremlinʼs hardened stance towards dissent voices became tangible. Indeed, from the viewpoint of Russian domestic politics, the annexation of Crimea …
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Seminar: Russian Media Today, 2 May 2016
Side Event of the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day at the University of Helsinki Main Building, Auditorium XIV, Unioninkatu 34 The seminar focuses on freedom of expression and its limitations in Russian media from the perspectives of academic research and journalistic practices. Special attention is paid to the existing practices and new forms and modes …
Hankkeen kick off -tilaisuus 25.1.2016
Russian Media Lab -hankkeen kick off -seminaari järjestetään Aleksanteri-instituutissa 25. tammikuuta 2016 klo 10-17. Tilaisuus on avoin hankkeen partneriverkostolle.
Project Kick-Off Seminar, 25th January 2016
Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki Read Anna Litvinenko’s report on the Mediating (Semi-) Authoritarianism. The Power of the Internet in the Post-Soviet World project website And Saara Ratilainen’s report in Aleksanteri News 1/2016