Just appeared on @BBCWiltshire to discuss how the Ukraine crisis is being portrayed in Russian media, and why suggestions to @Ofcom to ban RT might not work in our favour, from 16:20 @OUPolitics@OU_FASS
https://t.co/2tG8QmWm1P
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! Please inform your students and rising experts with advanced Russian language skills of the sixth Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia (MSSR), which will be held in person, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. (1/6)
🆕@MediaLSE blog post: Performing #disinformation#VeraTolz & #StephenHutchings@UoMSALC reflect on the history of the term 'disinformation' & what initiatives to counter disinformation today can learn from the term's usage & implications over the years: https://t.co/UsbPBJsKFh
#Russia goes to the polls this weekend and international media have already reported dodgy dealing. RT has a ready-made playbook to push back against these reports, as @ilya_yablokov and I write for @ConversationUK#Russianelections#dumaelections
https://t.co/6MYFlIwZjo
.@pabischoff explores how disinformation is spread on social media in this @Comparitech report. “Inside a Facebook bot farm that pumps out 200k+ political posts per month”.
https://t.co/WcIJxoT1Td
💥New publication💥
⚽ How did Russia represent the 2018 FIFA World Cup to international audiences?
🗯️ How did these audiences respond?
@MarieBGillespie, @VitalyKaz, @undercertainty, & I explore these questions in @BritJPIR 👇
https://t.co/lUta61nTkm
'How can we assess the prospective reputational damage to the country from which these attacks appear to originate, and which, moreover, has been at the centre of a related doping affair?' asks @VitalyKaz in today's RUSI commentary.
https://t.co/i6DARRb9Xr
‘The threat of Russian interference was a continual source of anxiety in the early stages of this year’s campaign. But the focus should have been on sources of right-wing misinformation in the US itself.’
Vera Tolz on the troll farms:
https://t.co/Sn1qEKy0Z6
Vera Tolz observes that #misinformation networks don’t respect state borders or distinctions between political systems and reflects on the role of Russian actors in misinformation circulation in this new @lrb article
https://t.co/zbQ44wfrUG
In a new #ReframingRussia report, Vera Tolz and @vitalykaz explore problematic coverage of #USelections by RT and other Russian media, calling for a better appreciation of #misinformation circulation in the global mediasystem
https://t.co/8y4xVCRqFo
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨
Out today, my latest article with @rhyscrilley in @GloblSociety explores how humour on RT works to legitimise Russian foreign policy actions, and how audiences react to that.
https://t.co/mC29Dymjds
Finally, @PreciousChatD’s talk “Question more? Russiagate, conspiracies and democracy” is on 25 November, 16:00 GMT via https://t.co/j0wJC2XTRa
Not to be missed!
There are some exciting talks coming up at REES @uomsalc in the coming weeks. First, @KinoAddy’s lecture “Ethnicity, identity and the provinces in contemporary Russian cinema” is on 21 October, 17:00 BST via https://t.co/02x79MCttk
On 11 November, 16:00 GMT, @UiTromso’s Prof Andrei Rogatchevski will speak on “When Songs Go to War: The Recent Russo-Ukrainian Relations Through the Prism of Popular Music”. You can tune into the lecture and discussion via https://t.co/vfn8HBLxcG