Media and the Ukraine Crisis

This book offers unique insights into how news media today make disasters culturally meaningful and politically important, drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work and recent examples. It looks at how globalization is affecting the meanings of disaster but also considers the continued relevance of nations and their citizens as interpretive frameworks.

How are media and communications transforming armed conflicts? How are conflicts made visible in the media in different national and transnational settings? How does the media serve as a means by which various actors manage and communicate conflict? These are some of the questions addressed in this book. Using a variety of disciplinary perspectives and analytical approaches, contributors discuss the complex, multi-level Ukraine conflict as it is imagined and enacted in and through various media. Covering a wide range of media forms and content, including television news, newspapers, PR campaigns, and social media content, they offer new, empirically grounded insight into the ways in which traditional mass media and new media forms are involved in narrating and shaping conflict. This book is suitable for students of conflict and media courses in journalism, media and communication, politics, security, and Russian and Eastern European studies.

Autorentext

Mervi Pantti is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Helsinki. She is the co-author of Disasters and the Media (Peter Lang, 2012) and co-editor of Amateur Images and Global News (2011).

Zusammenfassung
«Media and the Ukraine Crisis, edited by Mervi Pantti of the University of Helsinki, brings together a variety of different viewpoints on the role of media in the conflict.»
(Ray Niekamp, Electronic News Vol. 11(2) 2017)

«As a Russian interdisciplinary scholar, whose work resonates with the content of the volume, I applaud to the attempt of the editor to give space and voice to different research traditions and to provoke further exploration of the mediatized warfare, hybrid media, and their mutual influence. At the height of the new Cold War, this book and the discussion it launched are very valuable and urgent.»
(Olga Lazitski, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 1-3/2018)

Inhalt

Simon Cottle: Foreword - Mervi Pantti: The Ukraine Conflict and the Media: An Introduction - Part One: Hybrid Media War - Göran Bolin/Paul Jordan/Per Stahlberg: From Nation Branding to Information Warfare: The Management of Information in the Ukraine-Russia Conflict - Matt Sienkiewicz: Open Source Warfare: The Role of User-Generated Content in the Ukrainian Conflict Media Strategy - Rune Saugmann Andersen: Citizens' Right to Look: Repurposing Amateur Images in the Ukraine Conflict - Mikhail Suslov: The Rhetoric of (Un)Laughter in the Russian-Language Geopolitical Debates on the Ukrainian Crisis - Olga Baysha: European Integration as Imagined by Ukrainian Pravda's Bloggers - Part Two: Media Narratives of the Ukraine Conflict - Flemming Splidsboel Hansen: Mediatised Warfare in Russia: Framing the Annexation of Crimea - Andreas Widholm: Global Online News from a Russian Viewpoint: RT and the Conflict in Ukraine - Irina Khaldarova: Strategic Narratives of the Ukraine Conflict Projected for Domestic and International Audiences by Russian TV Channels - Markus Ojala/Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus: Popular Geopolitics in the Shadow of Russia: The Ukraine Conflict in Finnish and Estonian Newspaper Editorials - Patrycja Szostok/Dagmara Gluszek-Szafraniec/Damian Guzek: Media Diplomacy and the Coverage of the Ukrainian Conflict in German, Polish and Russian Magazines - Dennis Lichtenstein/Katharina Esau: Crisis Talks: The Framing of the Ukraine Crisis on German Talk Show Debates - Contributors