1st Edition

Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism The Past as Future

Edited By Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova Copyright 2009
176 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the fate of post-Soviet press freedom and media culture in the context of the growing impact of globalisation. To understand the complicated situation that has arisen with respect to these issues in post-Soviet space is impossible without collaboration between political scientists, sociologists, cultural analysts, media studies researchers and media practitioners. The book is... Read more
  1. Symposium Editors’ Introduction  Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova
  2. The Struggle for Press Freedom in Russia: Reflections of a Russian Journalist  Nadezhda Azhgikhina
  3. The Next General Elections in Russia: What Role for the Media?  Daphne Skillen
  4. The Neo-Soviet Model of the Media  Sarah Oates
  5. Mass Media and the Information Climate in Russia  Hedwig de Smaele
  6. The Local and the International in Russian Business Journalism: Structures and Practices  Katja Koikkalainen
  7. Official Media Discourse and the Self-Representation of Entrepreneurs in Belarus  Galina Miazhevich
  8. The Image of the Terrorist Threat in the Official Russian Press: the Moscow Theatre Crisis (2002) and the Beslan Hostage Crisis (2004)  Aglaya Snetkov
  9. Domesticating the Western Format on Russian TV: Subversive Glocalisation in the Game Show Pole Chudes (The Field of Miracles)  Natalia Rulyova
  10. Drinking to the Nation: Russian Television Advertising and Cultural Differentiation  Jeremy Morris

Biography

Birgit Beumers is Reader in Russian at the University of Bristol. She specialises on contemporary Russian culture, especially cinema and theatre. She is editor of KinoKultura (online) and of Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. She is currently working on a Leverhulme-funded project that investigates Russian animation.

Stephen Hutchings has a Chair in Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, having previously been Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Surrey, UK, and Associate Professor of Russian at the University of Rochester, New York.

Natalia Rulyova is a lecturer in Russian at the University of Birmingham, having previously worked as temporary Lecturer and Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded project Post-Soviet Television Culture led by Professor Hutchings at the University of Surrey, UK.