A brief history of news making in Russia

Yablokov, Ilya; Schimpfössl, Elisabeth

doi:10.1177/1464884920941951

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“…While other studies allude either directly (Yablokov and Schimpfössl, 2020) or indirectly (Dergacheva and Tous-Rovirosa, 2021) to the increasing state influence on Yandex news, previous research comparing Yandex and Google claim this influence is not exclusive to the Yandex algorithm since algorithms generally favor regime loyal sources (Zavadski and Toepfl, 2019). The findings in the current study that there are in fact structural and ideological differences in the representations and framing of content and that these differences vary in each case, support that the algorithm does play a role in the information individuals see across borders.…”

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Is all Russian news the same? Framing in Russian news media generated by the Yandex news algorithm for the United States, Estonia, and Russia

Erbsen

Põldre

2022

Journalism

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In light of the growing concern about the potential for Russian state sponsored media to be used as a propaganda tool, this study uses the Yandex News algorithm to show the differences in Russian news generated for the United States, Estonia, and Russia. The authors apply and build on the traditional studies of news framing in order to (1) identify cases where headlines and articles are framed differently, (2) determine the relationship between the topic and frame used, (3) compare these findings across three countries, and (4) generate discussion surrounding the reasons for similarities and differences in each case. The use of the Yandex news algorithm, which has been a subject of speculation when it comes to Russian news media, sheds light on how the tool displays information in different country contexts and shows that there is a statistical difference in the issues that appear in the algorithm-generated headlines for each country.

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Is all Russian news the same? Framing in Russian news media generated by the Yandex news algorithm for the United States, Estonia, and Russia

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Põldre

2022

Journalism

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“…Journalism culture in those illiberal democratic countries of Russia and Turkey has been shaped in line with their growing authoritarian-nationalist political-economic context. Indeed, various reports (FH, 2022; RSF, 2022) and academic literature on Russia (Kovalev, 2021; Nygren et al, 2018; Slavtcheva-Petkova, 2019; Yablokov and Schimpfössl, 2021) and Turkey (İşeri and Ersoy, 2021; Över, 2021; Yıldırım et al, 2021) have documented the nexus of authoritarian domestic context and journalistic practices (e.g., self-censorship, a decline of pluralism). In this light, those media/journalists critical of the government have been frequently assaulted/harassed/threatened/jailed both in Russia (RSF 12.09.2022) and Turkey (RSF 12.08.2022).…”

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Mediated public diplomacy and peace journalism: International public news agencies on the Syrian crisis

Ersoy

İşeri

2023

International Communication Gazette

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As the liberal international order has been falling, the heteropolar order coupled with politics of uncertainty has been rising. In this context, illiberal regimes of status-seeking powers have realized the value of public diplomacy to promulgate their versions of the “reality.” Those illiberal regimes’ adoption of public diplomacy tools (incl. international public news agencies) has generated discussions on theoretical and practical approaches to the field at the intersection of political science/international relations, media, and communication studies. Against this backdrop, this paper aims to contribute to the emerging literature on public diplomacy of non-Western illiberal democracies. With the assumption that those regimes' illiberal democratic characteristics will be reflected in their public agencies' coverage styles (e.g., monologic, conflictive, and unbalanced), the article raises the following question: How do illiberal democracies utilize international public agencies as public diplomacy channels? To answer this question, it compares framing strategies (peace/war journalism) of the Russian TASS and the Turkish Anatolian Agency public agencies during the Syrian crisis. The findings reveal that those illiberal regimes’ public agencies have reported the crisis as a state-centric monolog in conflict with the West by distrupting the global public good (i.e., peace).

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The nation and the citizens: exploring Russian people’s perception of the socio-political-economic transition from the USSR to the Russian federation and their commitment to the new nation

Yao

2022

European Politics and Society

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A brief history of news making in Russia

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Is all Russian news the same? Framing in Russian news media generated by the Yandex news algorithm for the United States, Estonia, and Russia

Is all Russian news the same? Framing in Russian news media generated by the Yandex news algorithm for the United States, Estonia, and Russia

Mediated public diplomacy and peace journalism: International public news agencies on the Syrian crisis

The nation and the citizens: exploring Russian people’s perception of the socio-political-economic transition from the USSR to the Russian federation and their commitment to the new nation

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