Journalistic Cultures: New Times, New Gaps?

Bodrunova, Svetlana S.; Nigmatullina, Kamilla

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“…There are also other factors that foster multi-dimensional development of journalistic deontology in Russia. First, due to the country’s past, the journalistic norms comprise both post-Soviet and Western-oriented value sets (Anikina et al, 2013; Bodrunova and Nigmatullina, 2020), paradoxically combining instrumentalisation of and dependence on the current wishes of the powerful with direct orientation towards commercial viability despite the interests of society at large (cf., e.g. Hungary in Hanitzsch et al, 2019).…”

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Who is the censor? Self-censorship of Russian journalists in professional routines and social networking

2020

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Today’s communicative environment, including the rise of social media, makes journalists perform publicly as both professionals and private citizens. In these circumstances, practices of self-limitation and self-censorship may extend to online behaviour. In this article, we analyse what makes journalists in public affairs media limit themselves in expression, both in editorial production and in online posting. We ask whether their self-censoring is related to personal, editorial, or external factors; whether political threats triumph over personal self-branding and professional/commercial reasons and whether these factors work differently in editorial and online behaviour; and whether journalists behave differently on different social networks. To formulate the answers, we use the results of a survey of 95 journalists from 51 Russian regions and seven in-depth interviews. Our results show that, in an organisationally weak journalistic community that operates in a restrictive environment, understanding of self-censorship differs significantly from that in Western democracies. It includes both self-limiting under pressures and personal-level ethical decisions that substitute professional codes of conduct. Moreover, for online posting and editorial work, there are different dominant ‘perceived censors’. Political threats remain the most significant of all external pressures both online and offline, but personal motives lead the decision-making in posting on social networks. Russia is characterised by platform-wide echo-chambering and high differentiation between users of Facebook and the Russia-based VK.com (formerly Vkontakte). We observe this difference in journalists’ descriptions of self-limitation on these networks.

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Who is the censor? Self-censorship of Russian journalists in professional routines and social networking

2020

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Platform Adaptation of Russian News Media Content

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Savchuk

2024

Springer Geography

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Importance of Media Literacy for Political Communication in Russia

Bykov

Medvedeva

2021

Journal of Political Research

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The article analyses the role and importance of media literacy for political communication in Russia using the example of student life. The purpose of this article is to develop and test a new model of political communication with an emphasis on media literacy as a factor in the dissemination of political information in society. This approach opens up new perspectives for the study of political communication by the public. The authors have developed a four-component model of political communication, which includes the following components: socio-demographic data, media literacy, media effects and political behavior. This model was tested in an online survey on student media literacy in Russia and its impact on political communication (N = 632). The article also uses data from open sources and databases. Using the Chi-square test, it was found that media literacy, as a factor in political communication, plays a more important role than socio-demographic characteristics. In other words, media literacy is much better at explaining media effects and political behavior than the socio-demographic profile of the respondents. This conclusion, of course, applies only to student youth in Russia and needs further empirical verification.

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Journalistic Cultures: New Times, New Gaps?

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Who is the censor? Self-censorship of Russian journalists in professional routines and social networking

Who is the censor? Self-censorship of Russian journalists in professional routines and social networking

Platform Adaptation of Russian News Media Content

Importance of Media Literacy for Political Communication in Russia

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