Disinformation and the media: the case of Russia and Ukraine

Mejías, Ulises Ali; Vokuev, Nikolai E

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“…However, the journalists became similarly (emotionally) embroiled in other conflicts-mainly the Russian occupation of Crimea and the "hybrid" war in eastern Ukraine (Mejias and Vokuev 2017; see also Rutten et al 2013 James' Czech colleagues were also worried about the attempts of fake news outlets to discredit their work. James recalled a Pulitzer Prizewinning series of New York Times reports (Russia's Dark Arts 2016) on Russia's covert projection of power that he had read some time ago.…”

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The Emotional Experience of Crisis Reporters: The Journey

Kotišová

2019

Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology

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Ten-minute vacuum of gaining altitude. In his thoughts, James returned to San Lorenzo for a while. The last news he had got was the growing number of the dead. In one of the pictures, he saw a dreamlike, once civilized but now decaying square. Since the catastrophe had burst out, many hours before the picture was taken, polished surfaces turned dingy, bright paints faded, and healthy plants went black and dusty. There was no life. Everything looked broken, like 30-year-old forgotten scenery from a lowbudget Western film. Never had James seen such a fast downfall. The square was full of petrified-frozen corpses in a line.Yet, he still knew little about the nature of the catastrophe. Will it resemble a war zone, a natural disaster, an attack? He recalled a very strange week, during which there was a terror attack in Saint Petersburg; Syrian troops launched a chemical attack killing dozens of civilians including children; the US president then "sent a message" to the Assad regime by bombarding a Syrian air base; on the same day, a terrorist hijacked a truck and drove it into a Stockholm department store; on Sunday, the Daesh bombed two Egyptian Coptic churches with, again, tens of victims.And this happened only in "his world"-Europe, the US, the Middle East. There were also all the thousands who were dying due to draught and much more severe conflicts or bursts of violence in South Sudan,

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Section: Waging Diffused Warsmentioning

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The Emotional Experience of Crisis Reporters: The Journey

Kotišová

2019

Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology

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“…This ultimately creates a more chaotic environment where information can be reproduced and shared by anyone with access to these tools, thus increasing the possibility of fake news spreading -extremely common in the context of the MH17 incident, as we will see later. In the case of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, this can be seen as a case where the Internet has increased the power of the actors involved to produce disinformation (Mejias andVokuev, 2017, p.1027).…”

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“…On the other hand, the literature on this subject has focused, as previously mentioned, on the impact of Russian narratives during the armed conflict in Ukraine (Khaldarova and Pantii, 2016;Mejias and Vokuev, 2017;Szostek, 2017;Szostek, 2018). One of the shortcomings this article intends to fill is precisely to explain the EU's role in this process, and to understand how the European narrative has evolved over the last few years.…”

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“…In the case of Ukraine and the conflict that started in 2014, one of the existing arguments is that "the use of social media has weakened the power of civil society by allowing the rampant diffusion of disinformation" (Mejias andVokuev, 2017, p. .1028). Associated with what is considered to be a "breach of trust in democratic press and political institutions" (Bennett and Livingston, 2018, p.127), the sheer amount of information sources in today's communication landscape makes disinformation an increasingly viable tool.…”

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European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)

Ramos¹,

Vieira²

2019

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the Catholic University of Leuven. She received scholarships and research grants from the Chair Inbev-Baillet Latour; Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung; Haniel-Stiftung; Compania di San Paulo, Riksbanken Jubileumsfond and Volkswagen-Stiftung foundations, as well as from the Foundation for Science and Technology. Her book 'Russland, Belarus und die EU-Osterweiterung' was published by Ibidem-Verlag, and her articles were published in the Europe-Asia Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs,EIOP Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and International Spectator journals, among others. Alena Vieira has also published several briefing papers and reports for EU institutions and think-tanks (orcid: 0000-0002-5643-0398). AbstractThe armed conflict that has erupted in Ukraine in 2014 has been affecting the way the states involved interact and how they seek to implement certain narratives in a new regional political context. While Russia has taken a more assertive stance in its neighbourhood through a narrative that seeks to contradict Western values promoted by the European Union (EU), the latter has shown some difficulty in presenting a coherent narrative in the face of developments over the past five years. In this sense, this article proposes to analyse the EU-Russia interaction, using as a case study the incident involving the crash of the Malaysia Airlines civil aircraft MH17. The analytical perspective combines elements of Role Theory -which here focuses on the interaction of states on the basis of certain expectations regarding their internal (national) and external (regional/international) roles -and Strategic Narratives. The differences between issue narratives (including regarding the Bellingcat Investigation Team narrative), system narratives and identity narratives are explored. The argument presented here is that the externalization of the EU issue narrative has emerged in two distinct ways -one more moderate in its official stance as an institution; another more assertive from the point of view of the work done by the East Stratcom Task Force (EATF). This ends up creating some dissonance in the way the European Union designs its narrative, and misalignment with the EU's narrative identity as a role state.

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“…Análisis de redes sociales han revelado el uso masivo de "ejércitos de trolls", por parte del Gobierno ruso, para difundir mensajes desinformativos tanto en Rusia como en otros países (Mejias y Vokuev, 2017;Nimmo, 2015;Woolley, 2016). El uso de bots políticos en campañas electorales ha sido verificado en Rusia, México, Venezuela, Australia, Corea del Sur, Inglaterra, España y Estados Unidos.…”

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Bots políticos en Twitter en la campaña presidencial #Ecuador2017

Puyosa

2017

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Resumen. Estudiamos el comportamiento de las etiquetas de campaña en Twitter en la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales Ecuador 2017. En el estudio se analizan 10 etiquetas de ataque a los adversarios que fueron trending topics. Los datos fueron capturados y analizados con NodeXL, aplicación para análisis de redes sociales. El análisis verifica el rol central en el posicionamiento de las etiquetas que tuvieron las cuentas automatizadas o botnets. Se registra mayor eficacia en la campaña contra el binomio opositor, que combinó cuentas reales de activistas del partido de gobierno con botnets, frente a la campaña menos coordinada de la oposición contra el candidato Lenín Moreno. También se verifica el uso de botnets localizados, principalmente en Argentina y Venezuela. Palabras clave: / guerra informativa / bots políticos / análisis de redes sociales / elecciones presidenciales / Ecuador Political Bots on Twitter in #Ecuador2017 Presidential CampaignsAbstract. We studied the behavior of campaign hashtags on Twitter in the second round of Ecuador 2017 presidential elections. The study analyzed 10 trending hashtags attacking opponents. The data was captured and analyzed with NodeXL, an application used to analyze social network. The analysis verifies the central role of automated accounts or botnets in the creation of hashtags. The campaign against the opposing binomial, which combined real accounts of government party activists with botnets, was more effective versus the less coordinated opposition campaign against candidate Lenin Moreno. It also verifies the use of localized botnets, mainly in Argentina and Venezuela. Keywords: information warfare / political botnets / social network analysis / presidential elections / Ecuador

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Disinformation and the media: the case of Russia and Ukraine

Cited by 124 publications

References 17 publications

The Emotional Experience of Crisis Reporters: The Journey

The Emotional Experience of Crisis Reporters: The Journey

European Union, Russia and the MH17 case: strategic narratives’ analysis (2014-2019)

Bots políticos en Twitter en la campaña presidencial #Ecuador2017

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