Little Patriotic War: Nationalist Narratives in the Russian Media Coverage of the <scp>U</scp>kraine‐<scp>R</scp>ussia Crisis

Horbyk, Roman

doi:10.1111/aspp.12193

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“…Despite the vagueness of the conflict definition, all the authors stress the crucial role of an informational component in this type of war. Scholars point out to notable changes in the routine work of the Russian media system with the beginning of Euromaidan – a protest movement in Ukraine against President Yanukovich (Horbyk, 2015). One of the changes is a considerable intensification of Ukrainian conflict coverage in Russian media, up to predomination over domestic news (Horbyk, 2015).…”

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“…Scholars point out to notable changes in the routine work of the Russian media system with the beginning of Euromaidan – a protest movement in Ukraine against President Yanukovich (Horbyk, 2015). One of the changes is a considerable intensification of Ukrainian conflict coverage in Russian media, up to predomination over domestic news (Horbyk, 2015). In addition, the content of prominent media itself obtained obvious ideological coloring (Lavalle, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…TV has remained the leading medium with 74.3% daily reach (91.l% weekly reach). 1 Notably, the consolidation of state control over the Russian media sphere had been happening immediately before and during the Euromaidan events and the subsequent Ukraine–Russia crisis (Horbyk, 2015). In such a political situation, the use of media as a strategic governmental instrument is almost unavoidable: ‘The Kremlin’s idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside of its walls’ (Pomerantsev, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Ukrainian crisis through the lens of Russian media: Construction of ideological discourse

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2017

Discourse & Communication

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The Ukrainian–Russian conflict of 2013–2017 is characterized as ‘hybrid’ warfare, with a crucial role of informational component. Using ideological discourse analytic tools, this article demonstrates how two prominent Russian TV channels shaped the persuasive message, creating strong unity and mobilizing a high level of support among the national audience. Based on legitimation and de-legitimation patterns, Channel One and Russia-1 built ideologically polarized opposition between ‘Our’ and ‘Their’ sides of the conflict. The wide range of editorializing tools, socio-cultural and historical Soviet-time constructs, and references to gay culture served to promote one group and to debase the opposition. Close institutional ties between government and media in Russia sustain multiplicity and intertextuality of ‘general line’, thus eliminating discordant interpretations. The article shows strong evidence that the analyzed TV news programs present a typical illustration of ideological discourse, exploited by the Russian government in order to achieve its political goals.

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Section: Russian Media As Participants In Russian–ukrainian Conflictmentioning

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Ukrainian crisis through the lens of Russian media: Construction of ideological discourse

Pasitselska

2017

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“…The uses of communication around the conflict, such as fake news and propaganda, have already garnered attention in academic literature (e.g., Horbyk 2015 ; Khaldarova and Pantti 2016 ; Bolin et al 2016 ). Yet there is virtually no inquiry into how actual combatants communicate on the ground.…”

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“The war phone”: mobile communication on the frontline in Eastern Ukraine

Horbyk

2022

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One of the problems in the growing subfield of mediatization of war is evidence on how exactly civilian communication devices become integrated with warfare. In this article, I focus on patterns of use of mobile phones on the frontline in Eastern Ukraine. Based on qualitative in-depth interviews with Ukrainian servicemen and women, this article presents a typology for the frontline use of mobiles in the spirit of actor–network theory. The omnipresence of mobiles on the battlefield creates a set of unique participatory media practices. A variety of personal purposes, such as private communication and entertainment, are combined in the same device with wiretapping, fire targeting, minefield mapping and combat communication. Mobiles supplant old or unavailable equipment and fill gaps in military infrastructure, becoming weaponized and contributing to the hybridization of the military and the intimate, and of war and peace. These results imply the role of mobiles as a mediated extension of battlefield and question the very definition of what constitutes weapon as tool of combat.

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“…But China was not so unique in this. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aspp.12194/full (Berglund, ) and http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aspp.12193/full (Horbyk, ) as well waged what one of our contributors calls “little patriotic wars” using media.…”

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Media, Politics and the Internet the APP Way

Baviera¹

2016

Asian Politics and Policy

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Little Patriotic War: Nationalist Narratives in the Russian Media Coverage of the Ukraine‐Russia Crisis

Cited by 5 publications

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Ukrainian crisis through the lens of Russian media: Construction of ideological discourse

Ukrainian crisis through the lens of Russian media: Construction of ideological discourse

“The war phone”: mobile communication on the frontline in Eastern Ukraine

Media, Politics and the Internet the APP Way

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