Russian Media Lab Network in collaboration with Tampere Research Center for Russian and Chinese Media continue their joint initiative of Online talks on Russian Media in the third academic season.

Read more about Talks here. As usual, we meet every second Tuesday of a month in Zoom between 12:00 and 13:30 (Helsinki time).

Schedule: 

September, 13: Vera Zvereva, Tatiana Romashko and Rasa Žakevičiūtė, University of Jyväskylä, “‘Russian World’ Next Door: Discourses of the Russian Political Communication and Cultural Diplomacy in Finland”. Read about this Online talk here.

October, 11: Svetlana Pasti, Tampere University, “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine through the prism of TV news around the world”

November, 8: Roman Horbyk, Örebro University, “Towards the Mobile Phone Doctrine(s): Hybridization of Civilian and Military Uses of Mobile Communication in the Russo-Ukrainian War“

December, 13: Mika Perkiömäki, University of Helsinki, “Mediating climate change and energy business in Yandex Novosti and Russian-language Google News before and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine”

February, 14: Varvara Preter, Ben Gurion University of the Negev “Pumpkin latte” controversy among Russian-language immigrants in Israel and beyond”

March, 14: Olga Solovyeva, Open University Business School (UK) “Digital authoritarianism and IT business in Russia: the case of Yandex”

April, 11: Sofya Glazunova, Queensland University of Technology, “Deplatforming RT and Sputnik during the 2022 war on Ukraine: A policy implementation audit in 10 countries”

May, 9: Daria Gritsenko, University of Helsinki, tba

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In May, Svetlana Chuikina from Karlstad University in Sweden will present her research “Transmedia audiences and construction of protest movements in Russia: between activism and mundanity“, where she studies civil engagement and politicization of people in Russia, mainly young people, who became the largest representative group of the mass protests which visibly intensified in the years following 2017.

Online talk will be organized in Zoom May, 10 from 12:00 to 13:30 (Helsinki time). If you want to participate, please leave your contact information here until May, 9 noon: registration form. If you registered for Online talks or RMLN email list before, no need to register again, we’ll send you the information.

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On April 12, Olga Logunova and Pavel Lebedev will present their research “Digital celebrities and platform curation in the current Russian context“. Recently, Russian celebrities have lost access to popular global social media platforms. Additionally, some platforms have switched off all monetisation instruments for Russian content-makers. From today we can’t state the result of this transformation, as it is not finished yet. However we will discuss, how these changes affect celebrities and opinion leaders.

Online talk will be organized in Zoom April, 12 from 12:00 to 13:30 (Helsinki time). If you want to participate and get emails about the next online talks, please leave your contact information here until April, 11 noon: registration form. If you registered for Online talks or RMLN email list before, no need to register again, we’ll send you the information.

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On March 8, Online talk will discuss Russian independent media and crisis. The panel will discuss the following topics: How are the Russian independent media and journalists working in times of Russia’s invasion in Ukraine? What are their roles and possibilities for reporting in the period of information war? How does e.g. the law on foreign agents and other restrictions affect their work? How does the future for independent media look?

The participants of a panel discussion will be:

• Veera Laine, postdoctoral fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs; 
• Ekaterina Abashina, lawer, Roskomsvoboda, Russian NGO focusing on digital rights of journalists and internet users;
• Aleksander Amzin, independent media expert.

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In January, Mika Perkiömäki and Olga Dovbysh from the University of Helsinki will present their research “How is politicization of environmental agenda affecting practices of media professionals in Russia?“, where they discuss the impact of political and media regimes on environmnental journalism in Russia.

Online talk will be organized in Zoom January, 11 from 12:00 to 13:30 (Helsinki time). If you want to participate and get emails about the next online talks, please leave your contact information here until January, 10 noon: registration form. If you registered for Online talks or RMLN email list before, no need to register again, we’ll send you the information.   Continue reading “Online talk on Russian media in January: Politicization of environmental agenda and practices of media professionals in Russia”

In December, Johanne Kalsaas from the University of Bergen will present her research “Hackers, trolls and the discourse of derailment: Subverting accusations of cyber aggression on the Russian-language internet” on how cyber attacks interplay with the verbal subversive practices in the Russian digital communication space.

Online talk will be organized in Zoom December, 14 from 12:00 to 13:30 (Helsinki time). If you want to participate and get emails about the next online talks, please leave your contact information here until December, 13 noon: registration form. If you registered for Online talks or RMLN email list before, no need to register again, we’ll send you the information.

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