The Post-soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals

by Beumers, Birgit; Hutchings, Stephen; Rulyova, Natalia

• ISBN13: 9780203886625
• ISBN10: 0203886623
• Copyright: 2008-11-26
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Presenting original research from a number of well-known international specialists, this book is a detailed investigation of the development of mass media in Russia since the end of Communism and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Media, Politics and State

Free to get rich and fool around

Where did it all go wrong? Russian television in the Putin era

Shifting media and the failure of political communication in Russia

The end of independent television? Elite conflict and the reconstructing the Russian television landscape

The Language of the Media

Putin and the tradition of the interview in Russian discourse

WhatÆs in a foreign word: Negotiating linguistic culture on Russian radio programmes about language

The Media and Memory

The conundrum of memory: Young people and their recollections of Soviet television

Commemorating the past/performing the present: Television coverage of WWII victory celebrations and the (de)construction of Russian nationhood

Culture, State and Empire in Television Serials

The culture of serialization, or the serialization of culture

The State Face: The empireÆs televisual imagination

New Media, Censorship and Identity

New media, new Russians, new abroad: Towards a non-nationalist paradigm

RussiaÆs internet media policies: Open space and ideological closure

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