Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1621191
G. 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 justifications for the field of linguistic ecology, particularly definitional issues, the systematization of various concepts and terms, and specifications for the range of research techniques. The article argues that Skovorodnikov attempts to rectify these issues that lead toward the legitimization of linguistic ecology as an autonomous cross-disciplinary field of Russian linguistic research, and his conceptions and theories contribute a strong voice toward the international language ecology conversation.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1622196
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 The army, which was considered a completely corrupt and outdated institution before 2014, turned into one of the country’s most trusted political actors.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 the reasons for this shift. All of these factors, together with the ongoing low-grade war in Ukraine, explain the heightened interest in how the army communicates with the rest of the country. This research is aimed at looking more deeply at the narratives which underlie official military communication in Ukraine and to identify changes, if any, occurring throughout the period from 2014 to 2017. This study focuses on the gap in understanding how the military institution regards the war in Donbas and through which narratives it communicates the war to its audience.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1608846
T. 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 war. Indicators of possible editorial synchronisation were observed not only between RT and the Russian government, but also between Voice of America and the US government. This potentially indicates a media type phenomenon common to external services generally, rather than an editorial approach peculiar to RT specifically. Alternatively, it might simply be a case of indexing, a phenomenon previously observed in state-independent media. The results aid in a broadened understanding of how external services function and lays the groundwork for further inquiry into this specialised class of news agencies.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1620976
Michael R. Finch, Marta Natalia Lukacovic, S. 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 birthday with some quality international travel time, an appropriate rite of passage for the daughter of a woman who had traversed the globe on numerous occasions. Maureen was passionate about travel, but really, she was passionate about people. Well, people, family, Nixon, and sports perhaps! In 1965, Maureen was born to Dean and Marcia Montgomery in Chicago, IL. She had two siblings, Pete and Michelle. The other thing that was birthed in Chicago was Maureen’s enduring affinity for the Chicago Cubs. If you knew Maureen very long, you knew she was a Cubs fan and knew she loved sports. Maureen and her father found a common passion in sports. She later moved to Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, where she eventually graduated high-school in 1983. Maureen said, “He was mad when we moved from Chicago to PA in 1976 and had to PAY for CABLE TELIVISION [to watch the cubs]!” to a friend on Facebook. After the passing of her father in 2015 she would often reminisce about watching and attending Cubs games and other sporting events with her father, and made a point to go to Cubs games “with him”, though he was only present as a photograph and in her heart. While Maureen developed a love for sports that carried into her life in Pennsylvania where she became an avid Penn State fan, she also continually excelled academically. Starting at the Harrisburg Area Community College, she attained an associate’s degree in Liberal Arts. She then attended the University of Pittsburg where she studied Communication for a B.A. which she received in 1987, and where her fascination with presidential rhetoric began. While many were likely working on Theses about “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, Maureen was working with thesis advisor Dr Michael Weiler on “The Rhetoric of Ronald Reagan about El Salvador from 1981-1983.” She moved from Pitt to Penn State for her M.A. where she worked with Dr Richard B. Gregg on her thesis, “The Rhetorical Visions of Reagan and Bush in Selected Speeches.”
来自五大洲的人们在Facebook上留言悼念莫林·莫·米涅利医生的英年早逝。这些信息说明了一个人可以对世界产生的影响。莫林于2月25日在睡梦中去世，当时她在立陶宛克莱佩达教了一个学期的书。一周前，她刚从伦敦回来，在那里她正在为女儿劳伦(Lauren)庆祝16岁生日，并享受了一些高质量的国际旅行时间，对于一个曾多次环游世界的女人的女儿来说，这是一种合适的成人仪式。莫林对旅行充满热情，但实际上，她对人充满热情。嗯，人，家庭，尼克松，也许还有运动!1965年，莫琳在伊利诺伊州芝加哥出生，母亲是迪恩和玛西娅·蒙哥马利。她有两个兄弟姐妹，皮特和米歇尔。在芝加哥诞生的另一件事是莫林对芝加哥小熊队的持久喜爱。如果你认识莫琳很久，你就知道她是小熊队的球迷，也知道她喜欢运动。莫琳和她的父亲对运动有着共同的热情。后来，她搬到了宾夕法尼亚州的坎普希尔，并于1983年高中毕业。莫林说:“1976年我们从芝加哥搬到宾州，不得不花钱买有线电视(看小熊队比赛)时，他气坏了!在Facebook上对一个朋友说。2015年父亲去世后，她经常回忆起和父亲一起观看和参加小熊队的比赛和其他体育赛事，并强调要“和他”一起去看小熊队的比赛，尽管他只以照片的形式出现在她的心里。虽然莫琳对体育的热爱一直延续到她在宾夕法尼亚州的生活中，她成为了宾夕法尼亚州立大学的狂热粉丝，但她在学业上也一直很出色。从哈里斯堡地区社区学院开始，她获得了文科副学士学位。随后，她进入匹兹堡大学(University of pittsburgh)学习传播学，并于1987年获得文学学士学位。在那里，她开始对总统辞令着迷。当许多人可能在写关于“费里斯·布勒的休息日”的论文时，莫林正在和论文导师迈克尔·韦勒博士一起写“1981-1983年罗纳德·里根关于萨尔瓦多的言论”。她从皮特搬到宾夕法尼亚州立大学攻读硕士学位，在那里她与理查德·b·格雷格博士一起完成了她的论文，“里根和布什在演讲选集中的修辞愿景”。
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1621192
Galina Miazhevich
ABSTRACT The paper adopts a ‘communicative ecologies’ framework and problematizes it further by exploring a collective protest campaign in post-Soviet Belarus. This study explains how mediated civic protest communication is embedded in the socio-economic, political and cultural structures of a society. It focuses on a recent case involving civic resistance towards the construction of a so-called ‘Chinese industrial park’ near the capital of Belarus. The 5-year timespan (2012–2017) from the conception of this controversial project to its actual implementation is particularly suitable for exploring the complex interdependencies between traditional and new media in the framing of grassroots protest within semi-authoritarian post-Soviet settings.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-23DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1608624
A. Kozin
{"title":"Soobshchenie i Zabytie [Messaging and Forgetting]","authors":"A. Kozin","doi":"10.1080/19409419.2019.1608624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19409419.2019.1608624","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53456,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Communication","volume":"164 1","pages":"184 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80341146","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 : 2019-01-03DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2018.1555772
Prisca Ngondo, A. 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 Russian social marketing campaign to promote road safety neglected to follow the recommended pattern of fear appeal message construction. The road safety campaign had the potential to induce fear, but the campaign messages may not have been sufficient to make the audience feel able to prevent or avoid harm by complying with the road safety rules. The results suggested that future campaign designers should give more attention to efficacy messages, particularly response efficacy messages that contain a clear call for actions and recommendations on how to prevent injury and death.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1572532
O. 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 is grounded on an analytical review of secondary sources, which is supported by 14 in-depth interviews with media professionals from 5 regions in Russia. The results reveal that Russia's regional media outlets operate both as commercial actors and public service actors. This duality is rooted in several multidirectional and controversial changes in the nation's economic and political systems, as well as in a journalist culture which causes media outlets to have a vague understanding of their places and functions in society.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1567378
Katja Lehtisaari, Galina Miazhevich
ABSTRACT This special issue provides a timely reflection on the Russian media system, which is currently at a crossroads. In this introduction, we provide a brief overview of previous theorisations of the post-Soviet Russian media and suggest that they seemingly go in waves. The first wave, to our mind, is linked to the analysis of the perestroika’s ‘Glasnost’ and the dramatic shifts following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. This wave is followed by an attempt to reflect on the nationwide processes of media around the mid-2000s. The third wave coincides with the regulatory changes in 2010s and is informed by the pronounced technological changes affecting media industries and growing Internet penetration in the country. This special issue potentially feeds into a new wave of conceptualisation, as it revisits previous assertions of the inherent duality of the Russian media system. The five articles contributing to this special issue in one way or another argue that this dualism constitute the characteristic enduring nature of the Russia media. The authors reflect on the applicability of existing media theories to Russian context as well as offer an up-to-date account of diverse journalist practices, regional differences and converging media sub-systems in Russia.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2019.1587828
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 media studies. As in the previous years, the conference was organized with support from the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. During opening ceremony, Dean of the Faculty of Journalism Professor Elena Vartanova mentioned that the conference has proved to be an efficient platform for establishing not only academic, but also friendly relations between media researchers from all over the world. She also presented an Award of Excellence to Professor Paolo Mancini (University of Perugia, Italy) as a sign of respect for his great academic achievements and as a sign of gratitude for more than 10 years of fruitful cooperation between the Faculty of Journalism, MSU and University of Perugia. The framework of the conference was outlined by the keynote speakers during two plenary sessions. A constellation of respected scholars included Professor Elena Vartanova (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia), Professor Paolo Mancini (University of Perugia, Italy), Professor Hannu Nieminen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Professor Philip Seib (University of Southern California, U.S.A.), Professor Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen, Germany), Professor Pal Tamas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) and Dr Massimo Ragnedda (Northumbria University, Great Britain). In their keynote addresses, speakers covered crucial issues of modern media studies like digital divide, informational rights, ‘echo chambers’ and informational ‘bubbles’ in the Internet, mediatization and robotization of social processes, etc. Professor Andreas Hepp focused in his speech on the phenomenon of deep mediatization as a social meta-process, which means that it is structured by humans and should be analyzed as such. Professor Hannu Nieminen mentioned that media today are central to democracy; but at the same time, they are part of the process of normalization of inequality. In the media, the growing gap between the haves and the have-nots is thus becoming a ‘new normal’. Professor Paolo Mancini argued in his presentation that the recent emergence of the so called ‘echo chamber’ phenomenon represents something new for the U.S.A., while many European democracies have witnessed for many years a sort of news media ‘affiliation consumption’ (selective exposure), very similar to the ‘echo-chamber’
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