The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals

by Beumers; Birgit

• ISBN13: 9780415419017
• ISBN10: 0415419018
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-08
• Publisher: Routledge

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.Complementing and building upon its companion volume, Television in Putin's Russia , this book: surveys the key developments in Russian media since 1991, including the printed press, television and new media investigates the contradictions of the post-Soviet media market that have affected the development of the media sector in recent years analyzes the impact of the Putin presidency, including the ways in which the media have constructed Putin's image in order to consolidate his power and their role in securing his election victories in 2000 and 2004 considers the status and function of journalism in post-Soviet Russia, discussing the conflict between market needs and those ofcensorship, the gulf that has arisen separating journalists from their audiences, but also the pioneering and popular role of Russian investigative journalism examines the relationship between television and politics and also the role of television as entertainment appraises the increasingly important role of new media and the internet.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. xi
List of contributors	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Media, politics and state	p. 27
Free to get rich and fool around	p. 29
Where did it all go wrong? Russian television in the Putin era	p. 42
Shifting media and the failure of political communication in Russia	p. 56
The end of independent television? Elite conflict and the reconstruction of the Russian television landscape	p. 71
The language of the media	p. 87
Putin and the tradition of the interview in Russian discourse	p. 89
What's in a foreign word? Negotiating linguistic culture on Russian radio programmes about language	p. 105
The media and memory	p. 123
The conundrum of memory: young people and their recollection of Soviet television	p. 125
Commemorating the past/performing the present: television coverage of the Second World War victory celebrations and the (de)construction of Russian nationhood	p. 137
Culture, state and empire in television serials	p. 157
The serialisation of culture, or the culture of serialisation	p. 159
The State Face: the empire's televisual imagination	p. 178
New media, censorship and identity	p. 189
New media, new Russians, new abroad: the evolution of minority Russian identity in cyberspace	p. 191
Russia's Internet media policies: open space and ideological closure	p. 208
Glossary	p. 223
Bibliography	p. 227
Index	p. 241
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