Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2020.1727361
D. 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 Chekhov belonged and which he sought to reshape. I start my discussion with a few general notes on biocritique, a branch of pragmatist hermeneutics that provides a theoretical framework for this project. After this, I move on to Chekhov’s childhood and the socio-cultural context that shaped his corporeal agency. Next, I bring into focus Chekhov’s life as an artistic, intellectual, and personal project, focusing on the way he bodied forth his discourse and validated his principles in action. Finally, I identify the junctures where the semiotic chain of Chekhov’s existence showed strains, where his affect, ideas, and actions worked at cross-purpose.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2020.1714473
Alexei D. Palkin
ABSTRACT 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. The data of association experiments are juxtaposed to demonstrate the change that occurred in Russians’ worldview in the course of transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. The most striking difference between two Russian samplings consisted in the willingness of some twenty-first-century Russian respondents to comment on shame negatively, while 1990s Russian respondents did not comprehend shame as a negative phenomenon. All findings make it possible to assert that while the cultural core of Russians’ worldview remained unchanged, political perturbations triggered alterations in Russians’ perception of shame.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2020.1729456
V. 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, which is also reflected in a system of scientific classifiers. Today it is difficult to establish media studies as a consolidated academic field in modern Russia. The paper attempts to analyze the position of media studies in the scientific classification system in Russia and in fundamental academic institutions. The authors raise questions about the scientific status of media studies in the general field of humanities. The paper employs the frequency analysis method in the context of terms, concepts and designations from the National Electronic Library, as well as the systematization and classification of data from documents of Russian scientific organizations obtained from open sources.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1662258
O. Sergeyeva, E. 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’ and the habit of being ‘under surveillance’. The authors analyze new trends in family control and introduce the research ideas about social effects of children's mobility that is controlled with the help of special gadgets.
{"title":"Smart media technologies controlling child's mobility (a case-study of Russian families)","authors":"O. Sergeyeva, E. Laktyukhina","doi":"10.1080/19409419.2019.1662258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19409419.2019.1662258","url":null,"abstract":"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’ and the habit of being ‘under surveillance’. The authors analyze new trends in family control and introduce the research ideas about social effects of children's mobility that is controlled with the help of special gadgets.","PeriodicalId":53456,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Communication","volume":"8 4 1","pages":"204 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78126608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1679663
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 opposed to the victim-blaming discourse. The strategies of legitimization that the participants used to justify their opinions and the provocative style of the campaign were investigated based on Reyes’ classification. Visual network analysis and text analysis were facilitated by Netlytic.
{"title":"Discursive activism in the Russian feminist hashtag campaign: the #ItIsNotAReasonToKill case","authors":"Elena Arbatskaya","doi":"10.1080/19409419.2019.1679663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19409419.2019.1679663","url":null,"abstract":"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 opposed to the victim-blaming discourse. The strategies of legitimization that the participants used to justify their opinions and the provocative style of the campaign were investigated based on Reyes’ classification. Visual network analysis and text analysis were facilitated by Netlytic.","PeriodicalId":53456,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Communication","volume":"83 1","pages":"253 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76073666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1673203
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 overviews of Russian political discourses on Europe and analysis of more recent discourses in Russian television, frames for analysis are proposed and compared with actual headlines collected in real from Yandex news concerning Estonia, Latvia, and Russia.
{"title":"A parallel yet divided information space: testing the overlap of Yandex Russian language news media discourses in Estonia, Latvia, and Russia","authors":"Heidi Erbsen","doi":"10.1080/19409419.2019.1673203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19409419.2019.1673203","url":null,"abstract":"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 overviews of Russian political discourses on Europe and analysis of more recent discourses in Russian television, frames for analysis are proposed and compared with actual headlines collected in real from Yandex news concerning Estonia, Latvia, and Russia.","PeriodicalId":53456,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Communication","volume":"35 1","pages":"217 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90050701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1678348
Eleni Galata Bickell
ABSTRACT Despite the rapid adoption of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in agriculture, countries like Russia, have developed restrictive procedures for their approval (i.e. mandatory labeling). The country, which recently banned GMOs, had a relatively approving regulation up until 2010. In order to provide context to the 2016 GMOs ban, this paper examines whether there was a media-framing effect, before and after the 2010 regulation shift. The findings suggest that before 2010, the tone was more positive, and it became more negative during the years leading to the 2016 ban. Additionally, the frames describing GMOs also changed from emphasizing Science and Business to focusing on Concerns. Since only the changes in Frames were significant, our work suggests that media-related factors, and other economic and political factors may have influenced the major policy shift in 2016 – from being more accessible in 2010 to becoming more restrictive in 2016. Our findings add to the literature of the inter-relationship of the mass media coverage and the regulation around GMOs.
{"title":"The framing effect of the media in the regulation of GMOs: a case study of Russia","authors":"Eleni Galata Bickell","doi":"10.1080/19409419.2019.1678348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19409419.2019.1678348","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite the rapid adoption of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in agriculture, countries like Russia, have developed restrictive procedures for their approval (i.e. mandatory labeling). The country, which recently banned GMOs, had a relatively approving regulation up until 2010. In order to provide context to the 2016 GMOs ban, this paper examines whether there was a media-framing effect, before and after the 2010 regulation shift. The findings suggest that before 2010, the tone was more positive, and it became more negative during the years leading to the 2016 ban. Additionally, the frames describing GMOs also changed from emphasizing Science and Business to focusing on Concerns. Since only the changes in Frames were significant, our work suggests that media-related factors, and other economic and political factors may have influenced the major policy shift in 2016 – from being more accessible in 2010 to becoming more restrictive in 2016. Our findings add to the literature of the inter-relationship of the mass media coverage and the regulation around GMOs.","PeriodicalId":53456,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Communication","volume":"23 11 1","pages":"240 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80164495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1669521
Alyssa DeBlasio
{"title":"A philosophy of the possible: modalities in thought and culture","authors":"Alyssa DeBlasio","doi":"10.1080/19409419.2019.1669521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19409419.2019.1669521","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53456,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Communication","volume":"29 1","pages":"274 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89508831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-08-29DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1656545
Peter Broeder, A. V. 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 camera in a Facebook context. The product recommendations in the advertisements differed in tie strength, that is, the amount and type of recommendations by close Facebook friends (strong ties) and other Facebook friends (weak ties). The results showed that the Dutch group had higher purchase intentions than the Russian group. Both groups are more influenced by strong tie online friends, than by weak tie online friends. The tie strength effect was stronger for the Dutch group. Meanwhile, compared to the Dutch group, the Russian group had a higher level of uncertainty avoidance, and also reported that they valued less the recommendations of other people, than those from their online friends. In addition, they were more willing to give the GoPro camera as a present to their close Facebook friends, than to other Facebook friends.
{"title":"When friends recommend: online purchasing behavior of Russian and Dutch people when prompted by recommendations from Facebook friends","authors":"Peter Broeder, A. V. Hout","doi":"10.1080/19409419.2019.1656545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19409419.2019.1656545","url":null,"abstract":"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 camera in a Facebook context. The product recommendations in the advertisements differed in tie strength, that is, the amount and type of recommendations by close Facebook friends (strong ties) and other Facebook friends (weak ties). The results showed that the Dutch group had higher purchase intentions than the Russian group. Both groups are more influenced by strong tie online friends, than by weak tie online friends. The tie strength effect was stronger for the Dutch group. Meanwhile, compared to the Dutch group, the Russian group had a higher level of uncertainty avoidance, and also reported that they valued less the recommendations of other people, than those from their online friends. In addition, they were more willing to give the GoPro camera as a present to their close Facebook friends, than to other Facebook friends.","PeriodicalId":53456,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Communication","volume":"35 1","pages":"191 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85102155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1622198
N. 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 of the issue. The present article is a qualitative study that analyzes the contents of four issues of the newspaper. The article uses thematic analysis and discourse analysis to identify and interpret the main matters of concern raised in the Nasreddin in Russia newspaper.
俄罗斯报纸《Nasreddin in Russia》是俄罗斯圣彼得堡外来务工人员与一群当地艺术家共同发起的一项倡议的一部分。它是另一种平台，可以让经常在传统媒体中沉默的移徙工人发出声音。大多数关于俄罗斯移民工人的研究都集中在这个问题的法律和政治方面。本文是一项定性研究，分析了四期报纸的内容。本文运用主题分析和话语分析对俄罗斯报纸《纳斯雷丁》中提出的主要问题进行了识别和解读。
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