Nothing Is True? The Credibility of News and Conflicting Narratives during “Information War” in Ukraine

Szostek, Joanna

doi:10.1177/1940161217743258

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“…Зв'язок з регулярними відвідуваннями РФ, належність до УПЦ МП, спілкування з друзями та родичами в Росії набагато слабше корелюються з належністю до «русского мира». У іншій статті [9] Й.Шостек описано результати фокус-груп, які спонукали розповідати про своє ставлення до новин упродовж двох тижнів 2016 року, і з'ясувалося, що «проукраїнська» група уникає перегляду російських новин, хоча і до вітчизняних ставиться з певною мірою скептицизму. Натомість більшість проросійських респондентів декларують, що дивляться обидва джерела і «роблять власні висновки».…”

Section: найвідоміші дослідження і дослідникиunclassified

Ukrainian Media as the Research Object in Peer-Reviewed Journals Indexed in the Top Scientometric Bases: Review

Zakharchenko

2018

Aktual. pitannâ masovoï komun.

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After the Revolution of Dignity, the world scholars pay much attention to Ukrainian media and communications system. However, Ukrainian media researchers have relatively few publications in the world scientific journals. Therefore, the study is aimed to overview the domestic media by the eyes of Western scholars who are studying this topic and are looking for previous publications. In this way, we will be able to acquaint Ukrainian scientists with the articles published in scientific journals, which have been appeared since the beginning of 2014 with Ukrainian traditional and social media as a subject of research. The automated search was conducted based on the New York University articles and publications database, which includes all journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, as well as other prominent scientific journals. As a result, 35 such publications were found. This review was carried out using the content analysis and author’s methodology for the PR-messages analysis. It was defined that Ukrainian research material is interesting for the Western media scientists as well as for the scientific journals reviewed in the world’s scientometric bases. Unique social phenomena – the “horizontal” revolution, more or less successful resistance to Russian aggression, the new traditions of activism – make this experience valuable for the researchers of communication science, sociology, political science, philology, gender studies, etc. At the same time, Russian scientists are also paying a great attention to Ukrainian research material. This attention often leads to the publishing of the articles containing the “Russian strategic narrative” in Western scientific journals. These articles describe the national media, political and social realities in such a way that the reader get a false vision of the situation. The indicators of this narrative were found in 5 out of 35 publications. Ukrainian scholars can completely set right this situation by submitting more articles dedicated to current scientific issues to leading journals. But for this purpose, it is desirable to expand the range of methods used to study the Ukrainian media environment.

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Ukrainian Media as the Research Object in Peer-Reviewed Journals Indexed in the Top Scientometric Bases: Review

Zakharchenko

2018

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“…While previous research has focused on how malign information influence and narratives are spread (Till 2020;Watanabe 2017;Breuer and Johnston 2019), there is a need for more analysis of how narratives are constructed to be able to assess their harmful capacity. Research has developed knowledge on how individual states are subjected to malign information influence (Bjola and Papadakis 2020;Szostek 2018;Colliver et al 2018), albeit comparative studies that put the narratives and otherings of individual countries into a larger perspective is still lacking (for exceptions, see Ramsay and Robertshaw 2019;Thornton and Karagiannis 2016).…”

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“…This uncertain and conflict-ridden communication environment is especially threatening to states within Russia's sphere of influence, as defined by the Kremlin. However, fears of destabilising effects are even more widespread (Szostek 2018;Galeotti 2017). A variety of antagonistic measures are directed at the Nordic countries, including organised pro-Russian street protests (Pomerantsev 2015), forged telegrams and letters (Thurfjell 2015) and fake news or troll armies targeting journalists and experts (Jensen, Valeriano, and Maness 2019).…”

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Destruct, direct and suppress: Sputnik narratives on the Nordic countries

Deverell

Wagnsson

Olsson

2020

The Journal of International Communication

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Projection of strategic narratives to gain competitive advantages is a central feature in the global competition for status and power. This article presents a comparative narrative analysis of how the Russian state sponsored news platform Sputnik narrates Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden 2014-2019. The objectives are to uncover what negative work strategic narratives can perform and to decipher how adverse narratives are constructed. The findings suggest that Sputnik uses a mix of standard strategies and tailor-made narratives, working to destruct, direct and suppress the Nordics. The analysis exposed distinct differences as Sputnik narrated Sweden and Denmark more negatively than Norway and Finland. The narratives can serve to divide and weaken the Nordics and the EU, and undermine international reputations of each state. The strategy of division through narratives is particularly problematic as polarization challenges Western democracies and the EU. The article furthers narrative research by testing a recently crafted analytical framework and by presenting findings that indicate a need for a broadened research agenda. Whereas previous research has primarily centred on how malign information influence can harm democracy, our results indicate that narratives can cause a broader variety of harms.

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“…It would raise expectations within more pro-European sections of Ukrainian society that would have to be met. At the same time, the EU would have to recognize that even pro-EU Ukrainians largely reject any complete severing of ties from Russia [Szostek, 2018] and that a Recovery Programmeboosted Ukraine would still be open to cultural and familial people-to-people ties with Russia. It would have to avoid deepening any binary antagonism between the EU and Russia, West and East.…”

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An EU recovery programme for Ukraine? Towards a new narrative for EU—Ukraine relations?

O’Loughlin

2018

Cognition, Communication, Discourse

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In 1947, the United States of America launched the European Recovery Programme to support the post-war reconstruction of Europe. The Marshall Plan, as it became known after U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, was one of the major success stories of US foreign policy in the twentieth century. The notion of an EU Recovery Programme for Ukraine provoked interest – and division in Ukraine. The enlargement of the EU in 2004 and 2007 demonstrated the EU’s capacity to mount grand economic and political projects. However, since then, the EU has faced difficulties exerting influence and constructing a coherent narrative of its role in the European neighbourhood and the wider world. Would a more transformative aid and development programme for its Ukrainian neighbour offer an opportunity for the EU as well as Ukraine? In this article we use a series of elite interviews conducted across Ukraine in 2016-17 to explore how such a notion is understood. We find that Ukrainian elites have mixed feelings about existing EU aid programmes; many respondents resented the conditions the EU imposes, but nor do they want or expect aid to be given unconditionally. Whilst many aspire for Ukraine to reach EU standards of law and prosperity, Ukrainian elites favour self-help in their efforts to forge a stable sovereign state. Both the EU and Russia are understood as metonymies – as standing for two sets of values and geopolitical futures – and neither quite fit what Ukrainians seek. We conclude that whilst a Marshall Plan-style action could have benefits, it is not desired as a basis for a shared narrative and basis of cooperation and development.

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Nothing Is True? The Credibility of News and Conflicting Narratives during “Information War” in Ukraine

Cited by 61 publications

References 65 publications

Ukrainian Media as the Research Object in Peer-Reviewed Journals Indexed in the Top Scientometric Bases: Review

Ukrainian Media as the Research Object in Peer-Reviewed Journals Indexed in the Top Scientometric Bases: Review

Destruct, direct and suppress: Sputnik narratives on the Nordic countries

An EU recovery programme for Ukraine? Towards a new narrative for EU—Ukraine relations?

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