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Wijermars, Mariëlle; Lehtisaari, Katja

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“…Russia provides an optimal study context to explore the uncertainty and risk associated with COPE. Since a wave of social media protests in 2011, the Russian government has created legislation and regulations that erode the freedom of online speech and substantially increase the risks of contentious online expression (Freedom House, 2021; Lonkila et al, 2019; Nisbet et al, 2017; Van der Vet, 2019). These legal changes have led to a nearly 40% increase in the number of criminal cases or threats of charges being brought due to online expression or activity from 2016 to 2017 (Freedom House, 2018).…”

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Signaling silence: Affective and cognitive responses to risks of online activism about corruption in an authoritarian context

Dal

Nisbet²,

Kamenchuk

2022

New Media & Society

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Networked authoritarian governments’ use of digital repression creates uncertainty and amplifies risk signals for ordinary citizens using social media for political expression. Employing theoretical frameworks from the risk and decision-making literature, we experimentally examine how citizens perceive and respond to the risks of low-effort forms of online activism in an authoritarian context. Our online field experiment demonstrates that emotional responses to the regime’s risk signals about online activism drive decision-making about contentious online political expression as compared with cognitive appraisal of risk. Moreover, the relationship between anticipatory emotions and contentious online political expression varies significantly depending on individuals’ involvement with the controversial topic of expression. We discuss the importance of emotions and citizen risk judgments for understanding online activism within networked authoritarian contexts.

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Signaling silence: Affective and cognitive responses to risks of online activism about corruption in an authoritarian context

Dal

Nisbet²,

Kamenchuk

2022

New Media & Society

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“…From the perspective of "popular geopolitics", the central newspapers have a role in distributing, mediating and empowering certain narratives of the political establishment to the audience. The traditional media in Russia is increasingly state-controlled and faces both political and economic constraints, (Wijermars and Lehtisaari, 2020) which affects the ways it contributes in molding the security discourse. In our collection, we expected Rossiiskaya gazeta to reproduce the government's narratives, but tried to remain sensitive to possible alternative interpretations when analysing the texts.…”

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“Foreign Agent” as an internal representative of the West in Russia’s geopolitical discourses

Laine¹,

Silvan²

2021

Remapping Security on Europe’s Northern Borders

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“…This began on a large scale in 2000 with the rise to power of Vladimir Putin, who issued the Information Security Doctrine. It regulates traditional media and also indirectly places the internet at the centre of national security policy (Wijermars and Lehtisaari, 2020). Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Russian state ‘has increased its efforts to shape Runet into an instrument of propaganda and counter-propaganda, aimed at users both in Russia and abroad’ (Zvereva, 2020: 258).…”

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War on frames: Text mining of conflict in Russian and Ukrainian news agency coverage on Telegram during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022

Ptaszek¹,

Yuskiv

Khomych

2023

Media, War & Conflict

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This article discusses the results of verbal framing analysis of the conflict in news published on Telegram channels by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti (RIAN) and the Ukrainian news agency (UNIAN) during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The analysis, using the text mining method, shows differences between how a more authoritarian and more competitive regime uses social media to construct strategic narratives. RIAN benefits from a technical frame that has not changed throughout the war although the reality on the ground has been evolving dramatically. It focuses on military issues and international rivalry (e.g. sanctions) because the Kremlin focuses on it. UNIAN, on the other hand, uses the moralizing frame of conflict which is more flexible and has been developed in response to changes on the ground – from discussions about the possibility of the invasion to humanitarian tragedy to war crimes, and to creating a more essentialized image of the enemy (‘rashists’).

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Signaling silence: Affective and cognitive responses to risks of online activism about corruption in an authoritarian context

Signaling silence: Affective and cognitive responses to risks of online activism about corruption in an authoritarian context

“Foreign Agent” as an internal representative of the West in Russia’s geopolitical discourses

War on frames: Text mining of conflict in Russian and Ukrainian news agency coverage on Telegram during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022

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