1st Edition
Media, Dissidence and the War in Ukraine
Preface
Cees Hamelink
Introduction: The war in Ukraine and foreign news reporting
Tabe Bergman and Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
Part 1: Traditional and social media
Chapter 1: Shifting the burden of proof? A comparative analysis of evidential standards in Israeli media coverage of Ukraine and Gaza
Yigal Godler and Shai Parnes
Chapter 2: The Russia-Ukraine war on Czech screens: Television coverage and audience responses
Tomáš Holešovský, Věra Bartalosová and Jakub Ketman
Chapter 3: Secondary source reporting as the norm: Ghanaian media coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war
Liesbeth Tjon A Meeuw and Philomina Mintah
Chapter 4: Unraveling diverse Chinese discourses on the Russo-Ukrainian war: A comparative analysis of official and individual accounts on Weibo
Dechun Zhang and Jian Shi
Chapter 5: The moderated war in Ukraine: Twitter, Elon Musk, and the role of private platforms in war coverage
Jessica Yarin Robinson
Part 2: Media and dissidence
Chapter 6: Silencing alternative voices in times of war in Ukraine and Russia
Olga Baysha and Kamilla Chukasheva
Chapter 7: Silencing the scholars: Academia, managing dissent, and the war in Ukraine
Tim Hayward and Piers Robinson
Chapter 8: Who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines in a Dutch newspaper? De Volkskrant versus Seymour Hersh
Tabe Bergman
Chapter 9: Representing diverse perspectives on complex crises: Interactive documentary and the online media coverage of the Ukraine conflict
John Hondros
Chapter 10: Big Tech platforms vs RT: Dissidence as the first casualty?
Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
Biography
Tabe Bergman is Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong- Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. He was a journalist with the Associated Press before he became an academic. He completed his PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. His research interests are in global journalism, specifically the coverage of foreign affairs by the Western media.
Jesse Owen Hearns- Branaman is Associate Professor of International Journalism and the Head of the Department of Communication at Beijing Normal University- Hong Kong Baptist University United International College. His research interests include post- structuralism, ideology, critical linguistics, political economy of news, comparative journalism, tourism, and epistemological theory.
