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Rosyjska ingerencja w wybory prezydenckie w USA w 2016 r.
No full textThis article addresses the role of Russian Federation involvement in the 2016 US presidential election. The article focuses on both the analysis of Russian influence strategy and methods of operation against US voting blocs and political institutions during the 2016 US presidential campaign. The research problem of the following article is to demonstrate through which information operations and IT technology tools Russian services sought to interfere in the electoral process and undermine democracy in the United States. The following article is based, among other things, on scientific literature, reports prepared for the U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence, articles from prestigious journals and portals available on the Internet.Niniejszy artykuł podejmuje tematykę roli zaangażowania Federacji Rosyjskiej w amerykańskie wybory prezydenckie w 2016 r. Artykuł skupia się zarówno na analizie rosyjskiej strategii oddziaływania jak i metodach działania wobec amerykańskich bloków wyborczych i instytucji politycznych w trakcie kampanii prezydenckiej w USA w 2016 r. Problemem badawczym poniższego artykułu jest wykazanie, dzięki jakim operacjom informacyjnym oraz narzędziom techniki IT rosyjskie służby dążyły do ingerencji w proces wyborczy oraz osłabienia demokracji w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Poniższy artykuł został opracowany m.in. na podstawie literatury naukowej, raportów przygotowanych dla Komisji ds. Wywiadu Senatu Stanów Zjednoczonych, artykułów z prestiżowych czasopism oraz portali dostępnych w internecie
Infodemic – “Epidemic of Rumours”: The Characteristic Features of the Phenomenon on the Example of the Infodemic Accompanying COVID-19 in 2020
No full textThe purpose of the analysis described in the text was to identify the characteristic features of the infodemic as a phenomenon on the example of the infodemic accompanying the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020. The author began with the definition developed by the World Health Organization in 2018, and traced the earliest scientific studies describing the phenomenon. Then, based on results of the examination of the studies and experts’ comments relating to the COVID-19 infodemic, the author described the main features of infodemic and their indicators. As a result of the investigation, the author decided to add four additional features to the initial infodemic characteristics. This is a new approach to the topic: the scientific literature on the does not contain such detailed characteristics of infodemic and focuses rather on selected phenomena associated with it
Government of Georgia’s Public Rhetoric: Minuscule Model of Russian Propaganda
No full textRussian propaganda exploits the idea of freedom of information to promote disinformation. It aims to sow confusion using conspiracy theories and ensure there is not a single issue for society to consolidate. As a well-tested approach, this malicious practice of “brainwashing” can be applied in across countries or circumstances. Observation of statements made by Georgian authorities leads to the hypothesis that methods of Russian propaganda have been embedded in Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party’s rhetoric. Therefore, the focus of this paper is to study features of the Georgian government’s public communication through the prism of propaganda and test whether its rhetoric is analogous to Russia’s propaganda toolkit. The study shows apparent parallels between these two phenomena. The Georgian government’s rhetoric implies vociferous accusations against people being critical of the authorities, cultivating groundless fears among the population and shaping a negative agenda
Media Capture Theory: A Paradigm Shift?
No full textThis paper consists of three parts. First, it suggests that a paradigm shift has taken place in political communication, as the advent of social media allows political elites to assert and frame their agendas in more efficient and economical ways than the capture of legacy media. In consequence, a paradigm shift is taking place in media studies as well: because traditional media capture theory does no longer fully account for contemporary media/politics interactions, media systems scholars now study the effects of disintermediation on media and political landscapes. Then this paper returns to traditional media capture theory and discusses some definitional issues. Finally, it recalls how party colonization of the media, a version of media capture theory, accounted for the deficit of media freedom in the former communist countries a decade ago
The Capture Effect: How Media Capture Affects Journalists, Markets and Audiences
No full textAs the literature aimed at defining and explaining media capture has grown in recent years so has the interest in documenting the impact of capture in greater depth. There is still a relatively wide gap between the literature focused on defining and describing the concept, which is rich and increasingly sophisticated, and the body of research aimed at measuring the impact of capture, which now consists of a collection of disparate analytical papers primarily focused on case studies. This paper aims to contribute to this second body of knowledge: building on existing research, it looks to identify the changes that media capture leads to in three key areas: journalism (with a focus on the impact of capture on professional standards and the performance of journalists), market (with a focus on the effects of capture on free competition, market health and viability of investments), and audience (analysing the content limitations that audiences are faced with in environments where propaganda media is dominant)
Broadcasting a Nuclear Accident: Chernobyl on the Hungarian Radio
No full textOn April 26, 1986 a major nuclear accident occurred in the Soviet Union: Reactor No. 4 of the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant exploded and harmful radioactive fall-out effused. The disaster threatened most of the population of Europe who, however, could not access timely and appropriate information about the health risks, as most of the media outlets were under close authoritarian political control in throughout the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Based on an analysis of archival radio news and of political communiques, this paper describes how the Hungarian party leadership managed the communication of this crisis domestically and discusses what information, and when, was aired on Hungarian Radio (HR). Using mixed research methods, the paper reveals the impacts of loosening political control over a Soviet-type media system in the last decade of the 20th century. The paper also provides an insight into daily practices of political and editorial decision making in a communist regime in times of crisis, which is a currently understudied research field
Digital, Hybrid and Traditional Media Consumption and Religious Reflection
No full textWhen a person incorporates a diverse selection of digital, hybrid, and print news into their media diet, scholars can analyze these sources as indicators of the user’s reflexivity on the religious content. This study broadens our understanding of the relationship between the diversity of Catholic believers’ news feeds and their capacity to conduct more critical reflection. We explore the relationship between different media diets and their related 30 in-depth interviews collected among traditional Catholic and post-Vatican II media users. Our results point to two patterns emerging between reflexivity and media consumption. The more diverse the repertoire of a given Catholic media user’s consumption, the more likely they are to engage in reflection about the content of this media. At the same time, traditionalist Catholic media consumers, consuming counterpublic, homogenous digital content, are still able to engage in deep reflection
Imaginings of the Future of Conflict and Communication Technologies: A Map of Four Anxiety and Two Hope Driven Scenarios
No full textThe article presents an analysis of the construction of future scenarios in relation to conflict and communication technologies (CTs), on the basic of Delphi+ workshops and essay-writing sessions. Grounded in a theoretical reflection on the various forms of conflict—distinguishing between armed, grey zone and democratic conflict—in combination with theoretical reflections on the role of CTs in conflict, and the future imaginings of (communication) technologies, the analysis discusses six future imaginaries. Four of these future scenarios are negative as in a power take-over, the intensification of both an armed conflict, and of democratic conflict, and the harm inflicted on the environment and society in general. The two positive scenarios are the protective role of supranational organizations and cultural change. Together, these six scenarios form a map of how European experts are concerned about media/technology and military/technology assemblages, and how they place their hope in supranational political institutions and cultural change
Ainārs Dimants (1966 – 2024)
No full textIn memoriam of Professor Ainārs Dimants - distiguished Latvian media scholar and journalis
